WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has left intact a federal rule that targets mercury pollution – giving the Environmental Protection Agency time to fix legal problems and come out with a revision by April. Twenty states wanted the court block ...

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sri Srinivasan, a federal appeals judge who was born in India and grew up in Kansas, would be the first foreign-born justice to serve on the Supreme Court in more than 50 years. The 49-year-old Srinivasan ...

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WASHINGTON  — The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday over Texas abortion clinic regulations in its biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter-century. In 90 minutes of intense arguments, the court’s liberals and conservatives signaled that there’s little common ground ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to rule that a Philadelphia district attorney-turned-state high court judge should not have taken part in the case of a prison inmate whose death-penalty prosecution he had personally approved nearly 30 ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from farm groups challenging a federal plan that limits pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. The justices on Monday let stand a lower court ruling that upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s restrictions ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is staying out of an interesting free speech debate about the power of school officials to discipline students for things they write or say away from school. The justices on Monday left in place the ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is refusing to disturb a ruling from New Jersey’s top court that sided with Gov. Chris Christie in a legal fight with public worker unions over pension funds. The justices did not comment Monday in ...

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WASHINGTON  — The Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law that has dramatically reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state is the justices’ most significant case on the hot-button issue in nearly a quarter-century. One of this election-year ...

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WASHINGTON  — Justice Clarence Thomas broke 10 years of courtroom silence Monday and posed questions during a Supreme Court oral argument, provoking gasps from the audience. And it wasn’t just one question; it was a string of them in an ...

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LAS VEGAS – Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday he is not interested in being considered for the U.S. Supreme Court at this time and has told the White House so. The Republican governor issued a statement following news that ...

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