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WASHINGTON — The Senate battle over Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee is off to a fiery start — even before the president makes his choice. Republican and Democratic leaders traded accusations and barbed comments Thursday on the new vacancy, abortion ...
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US judge gives leniency to Islamic State cooperator
NEW YORK — A New York City man who joined the Islamic State group in Syria before fleeing home and giving the FBI timely intelligence about terror threats was sentenced Thursday to 10 years of supervised release after U.S. authorities ...
Read More »Justice Kennedy announces retirement
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday, giving President Donald Trump the chance to cement conservative control of the high court. The 81-year-old Kennedy said in a statement he is stepping down after more than 30 ...
Read More »Supreme Court rules against mandatory union fees
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers no longer have to contribute to their union representation and collective bargaining endeavors if they are not members of the union. Janus v. the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ...
Read More »Penfield feud triggers lawsuit
A Penfield woman is being sued for allegedly harassing her neighbors for years. According to a six-page complaint filed in state Supreme Court on Tuesday, Davina Domenico, of 6 Pond Valley Circle, has tormented her neighbors, the Tannous family. Domenico ...
Read More »Lack of summation leads to new trial
The state’s highest court has granted a new trial to a man because the judge refused to let his lawyer give a summation at the end of his trial. In June 2013, at the end of a bench trial on ...
Read More »Experts: Travel ruling could boost other immigration suits
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban may have a silver lining for people fighting other administration immigration policies after the 5-4 majority ruled that the president’s prior comments about Muslims were not ...
Read More »DOJ says Congress must fix immigration after judge’s order
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday said a judge’s order to reunite families separated at the border “makes it even more imperative” that Congress pass legislation that would enable it “to simultaneously enforce the law and keep families together.” ...
Read More »Judge finds Manafort prosecution ‘distasteful,’ but allows case to proceed
A federal judge in Virginia concluded Tuesday that special counsels are given too much latitude and that the current one is prosecuting Paul Manafort only so he will offer evidence against President Donald Trump. But those thoughts do little for ...
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Read More »How the Supreme Court struck down a WWII-era travesty when it upheld Trump’s travel ban
Long ago, Fred Korematsu was arrested in San Leandro, California, his home town, for defying an executive order that led to the expulsion or imprisonment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. He later went to ...
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Read More »Travel ban ruling stirs dismay among immigrants, advocates
DETROIT (AP) — Maryam Bahramipanah is torn between staying with her husband, who came to Michigan from their native Iran, and returning home to see her mother, who suffered a stroke. With the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to uphold ...
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Read More »Bail decision reversed by new information
Monroe County Court Judge Christopher Ciaccio has rescinded his decision to order electronic home monitoring for a man charged with tampering with evidence in connection with the drug overdose death of his girlfriend. On Friday, Ciaccio heard an application to ...
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