Recent Updates
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New York court rejects congressional maps drawn by Democrats
U.S. Supreme Court 04/27/2022New York’s highest court on Wednesday rejected new congressional maps that had widely been seen as favoring Democrats, largely agreeing with Republican voters who argued the district boundaries were unconstitutionally gerrymandered.The decision...
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9 apply for open West Virginia Supreme Court seat
U.S. Supreme Court 03/19/2022Nine people have applied for an open West Virginia Supreme Court seat.Gov. Jim Justice’s office says the applicants are C. Haley Bunn; Nicole A. Cofer; Robert J. Frank; Gregory Howard Jr.; Charles O. Lorensen; Kristina D. Raynes; James J. Rowe;...
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Schumer recommending 2 voting rights lawyers to be judges
U.S. Supreme Court 06/07/2021The Senate’s top Democrat is recommending President Joe Biden nominate two prominent voting rights attorneys to serve as judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and on the federal bench in Manhattan. Sen. Chuck Schumer has recommended t...
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Despite rhetoric, GOP has supported packing state courts
U.S. Supreme Court 10/20/2020Republican claims that Democrats would expand the U.S. Supreme Court to undercut the conservative majority if they win the presidency and control of Congress has a familiar ring. It's a tactic the GOP already has employed in recent years with state s...
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Ginsburg makes history at Capitol amid replacement turmoil
U.S. Supreme Court 09/25/2020Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lay in state Friday at the U.S. Capitol as the first woman ever so honored, making history again as she had throughout her extraordinary life while an intensifying election-year battle swirled over her ...
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Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg released from hospital
U.S. Supreme Court 07/31/2020Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been discharged from a hospital in New York City and has returned home, the Supreme Court said Friday.The court said Ginsburg, 87, is doing well, two days after undergoing a minimally invasive procedure on Wednesday to...
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US courts rule for border walls both public and private
U.S. Supreme Court 01/13/2020Crews could start building a private border wall in South Texas within the coming days following a federal judge’s ruling Thursday that lifted a restraining order against the project.U.S. District Judge Randy Crane’s order was the second ...
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Supreme Court rejects Trump plea to enforce asylum ban
U.S. Supreme Court 12/22/2018A divided Supreme Court won’t let the Trump administration begin enforcing a ban on asylum for any immigrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Chief Justice John Roberts joined his four more liberal colleagues Friday in ruling agains...
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Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall
U.S. Supreme Court 11/08/2018Eighty-five-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs in a fall in her office at the court and is in the hospital, the court said Thursday.The court’s oldest justice fell Wednesday evening, the court said. She call...
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Missouri court lets redistricting initiative go to voters
U.S. Supreme Court 09/22/2018A Missouri appeals court panel cleared the way Friday for voters to decide a November ballot initiative that could shake up of the state Legislature by requiring districts to be drawn to achieve "partisan fairness" and imposing new lobbying limits.Th...
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Trump closes in on Supreme Court pick; 3 judges top list
U.S. Supreme Court 07/05/2018President Donald Trump is closing in on his next Supreme Court nominee, with three federal judges leading the competition to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.Trump's top contenders for the vacancy at this time are federal appeals judges Amy C...
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Court halts execution of Alabama inmate with dementia
U.S. Supreme Court 01/27/2018The U.S. Supreme Court has halted the execution of an Alabama inmate whose attorneys argue that dementia has left the 67-year-old unable to remember killing a police officer three decades ago.Justices issued a stay Thursday night, the same evening th...