WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday he thinks rapidly advancing technology poses one of the biggest challenges for the high court. Speaking at an event at the Victoria University of Wellington in ...

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A Supreme Court mystery: Has Chief Justice John Roberts embraced the court’s same-sex marriage decision that he so passionately protested two years ago? The “does-he-doesn’t-he” question is prompted by a case the court decided without oral arguments at the end ...

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TROY — Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday that the Supreme Court has gone about its work in a “completely nonpartisan way” since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, but that the bitter political battle waged over confirming Scalia’s replacement ...

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WASHINGTON — The federal courts in general and the Supreme Court in particular were a focal point of the contentious 2016 election campaign, but Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. continued to steer well clear of controversy in his year-end report ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday in a debate over a decades-old strategy for fighting discrimination in housing. Chief Justice John Roberts expressed serious doubts during a one-hour argument that the 1968 Fair Housing Act can ...

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The next generation of case management and electronic case filing is being developed by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. In his 10th annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ...

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(Dolan Media Newswires) —  If Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. cares at all about being well known, we have good news and bad news for him.   The good news: he is the most well-known justice of the U.S. ...

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Several Democratic members of the Senate sent a letter to Chief Justice John G. Roberts urging him to release the Supreme Court’s ethics rules and confirm that the court’s justices follow the same ethics code that binds other federal judges. ...

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts used his annual year-end report to rebuff assertions by critics that some justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have flouted their ethical obligations by deciding not to recuse themselves from certain cases. “I have complete ...

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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts sometimes likes to have a little fun when he writes opinions. Now, his writing has earned him an award from the popular quarterly journal “The Green Bag.” As The BLT’s Tony Mauro ...

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WASHINGTON — The chief justice excuses himself for a mere hour and the U.S. Supreme Court starts sounding like a schoolyard. At a very good school, but still. It’s not every day that one lawyer arguing before the justices refers ...

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WASHINGTON — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg invoked Aaron Copland. The chief justice countered with Jimi Hendrix. The high court's generational divide was on display Wednesday as the justices heard arguments about whether Congress acted properly in extending U.S. copyright protection to millions of works ...

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