Recent Updates
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Trump admin asks Supreme Court to restore travel ban
U.S. Supreme Court 07/30/2017The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to restore the ban on travel to the U.S. from citizens of six Muslim-majority countries.Per Reuters: "The administration filed two emergency applications with the nine Court justices seeking to blo...
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch: Rule of law 'a blessing'
U.S. Supreme Court 07/23/2017Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch acknowledged Friday that there is "a lot of skepticism about the rule of law" in the country but defended the United States judicial system as "a blessing" and "a remarkable gift" during a talk at Harvard University...
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Court to hear challenge to speed up California executions
U.S. Supreme Court 07/23/2017The California Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday over a ballot initiative designed to speed up executions that could fundamentally change the way the court handles death penalty appeals.Death penalty opponents are challenging a ballot measure...
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Alabama asks US Supreme Court to let execution proceed
U.S. Supreme Court 07/13/2017Alabama’s attorney general on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let an execution proceed this week, arguing that questions about a lethal injection drug have been settled by the courts.Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office asked t...
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Supreme Court says cities can sue banks under anti-bias law
U.S. Supreme Court 06/23/2017The Supreme Court ruled Monday that cities may sue banks under the federal anti-discrimination in housing law, but said those lawsuits must tie claims about predatory lending practices among minority customers directly to declines in property taxes.T...
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Supreme Court won't hear Ohio man's Amish hair-cutting case
U.S. Supreme Court 02/23/2017The U.S. Supreme Court won't review the case of the Ohio leader of a breakaway group that was accused in hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish. Defense lawyers challenged the constitutionality of the federal hate crimes law and how a kidnap...
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Supreme Court temporarily blocks new NC districts, elections
U.S. Supreme Court 01/13/2017The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that had directed North Carolina legislators to redraw state legislative districts by March 15 and hold special elections within the altered districts this fall. The court ord...
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Supreme Court brings gavel down on O'Connor workout class
U.S. Supreme Court 12/31/1969Years after she left the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor remained enthusiastic about the early morning exercise class she started at the highest court in the land — the basketball court that sits one floor above the courtroom where s...