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Perhaps the biggest reason Republicans love Neil Gorsuch’s selection as President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee — apart from his age — is the fact that he’s a demonstrated originalist. Among conservatives, that’s basically code for “not an activist judge.” ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has chosen his first nominee, but it remains Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Supreme Court. The question is how much longer he wants it. Kennedy, 80 and celebrating his 29th year on the court this month, will ...

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WASHINGTON – The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted 11-9 to advance the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as attorney general. He is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate by the end of the week. Republicans, who ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump nominated Colorado federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, opting in the most important decision of his young presidency for a highly credentialed favorite of the conservative legal establishment to ...

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Acting attorney general Sally Quillian Yates, a longtime prosecutor from Atlanta, began her tenure as an Obama appointee two years ago by saying that pursuing justice was more important to her than bringing federal cases in court. “We’re not the ...

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President Donald Trump said Monday morning that he will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court at 8 p.m. Tuesday. While others may remain under consideration, three appeals court judges from Alabama, Pennsylvania and Colorado are considered to have the ...

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Thomas Michael Hardiman, a federal appeals court judge in Pittsburgh for the past 10 years, has not followed the typical path to the Supreme Court. He was the first in his family to graduate college, did not attend an Ivy ...

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William Pryor Jr., an Alabama-based judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, would be the only member of the Supreme Court who did a stint as a politician, and it was during that time that ...

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Ann M. Donnelly waited half a year for her chance to convince the Senate that she’d make a good federal judge. When the day finally came, she packed as many relatives as she could into the benches. In her opening ...

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President Donald Trump plans to announce his nominee for the Supreme Court in prime time Tuesday, he said Monday morning via Twitter. “I have made my decision on who I will nominate for The United States Supreme Court,” he said. ...

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In July, 2013, Homeland Security investigators raided a popular Las Vegas Korean supper club, detaining its employees for intense hours-long interrogations. According to a lawsuit, they were acting under orders of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent, who portrayed ...

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When Jared Winegarden, of Clarksville, Tenn., bought the Hatchimal for his youngest daughter, he felt like “Super Dad,” he wrote in a review on Amazon. “I don’t want to mention how much I spent for this thing – it’s embarrassing,” ...

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