During last week’s Supreme Court arguments about crisis pregnancy centers, Justice Sonia Sotomayor introduced a long line of questions by saying she had recently visited the website of one of the clinics that is a party to the suit. Eventually, ...

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WASHINGTON – Before we get too far away from the event, let’s reflect on the fact that – once again – folks had to sleep on the sidewalk for days to see or hear the Supreme Court at work. Some ...

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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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WASHINGTON – Five protesters who disrupted a session of the U.S. Supreme Court by shouting disapproval of its rulings on campaign finance law were sentenced to one or two weekends in prison Monday after losing a bid to overturn a ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says the Trump administration can strictly enforce its ban on refugees, but at the same time is leaving in place a weakened travel ban that includes grandparents among relatives who can help visitors from six ...

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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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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled for same-sex couples who complained an Arkansas birth certificate law discriminated against them. The justices on Monday issued an unsigned opinion reversing an Arkansas high court ruling that upheld the law. Under ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the government’s ability to strip U.S. citizenship from immigrants for lying during the naturalization process. The justices ruled unanimously in favor of an ethnic Serb from Bosnia who lied about her ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says Muslim men detained after the Sept. 11 attacks can’t sue top U.S. law enforcement officials.The justices by a 4-2 vote on Monday ended a long-running lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former ...

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WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote Monday that the court is developing a “disturbing trend” of siding with police officers accused of excessive force at the expense of their alleged victims, a notion disputed by two of her ...

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Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions — particularly two last month — have Sen. Ted Cruz leading a charge to change how the high court functions. The Texas Republican, a former solicitor general who once clerked for former Chief Justice William ...

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An intellectual property case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court has important implications for employment cases (Hana Financial, Inc. v. Hana Bank, 135 S. Ct. 907, decided Jan. 21). The issue in Hana was whether a consumer’s understanding of the ...

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