Supreme Court News
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Clarence Thomas' wife's Tea Party ties are supremely disturbing
9:20 AM on 03/16/2010
OPINION - When you sleep next to someone who openly states they want to undermine the president's "hard left agenda" you can hardly call yourself impartial...
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Clarence Thomas' wife launches 'tea party' group
11:02 AM on 03/14/2010
As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the "tea party" movement is the tale of an average citizen in action...
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Supreme Court looks at reach of Second Amendment
12:37 PM on 03/02/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court appeared willing Tuesday to say that the Constitution's right to possess guns limits state and local regulation of firearms...
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Court to decide if firefighter suit moves forward
1:40 PM on 02/22/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court seems willing to let a group of African American applicants sue the city of Chicago for discrimination for using test scores to decide who would become a firefighter trainee...
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Supreme Court: No new trial in Texas police officer death
1:15 PM on 02/22/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday reversed a lower court decision that gave a new trial to a man convicted of killing a police officer in Texas...
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Justice Thomas: Some questioning of Supreme Court 'irresponsible'
4:25 PM on 02/04/2010
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Questioning the Supreme Court and other government branches needs to stay within the range of fair criticism or "run the risk in our society of undermining institutions that we need to preserve our liberties," Justice Clarence Thomas said Thursday...
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The new Obama is the old Obama
9:00 PM on 01/30/2010
OPINION - The president's oratorical performances this past week provided us with a refreshing glimpse of the new Barack Obama -- and the old one as well...
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The Supreme Court has sold out the American people
7:28 PM on 01/22/2010
OPINION - The 5-4 ruling on campaign financing was arguably the most un-American and destructive decision in recent US history...
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Supreme Court throws out ruling favorable to Mumia Abu-Jamal
5:51 PM on 01/19/2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a court ruling that invalidated the former Black Panther's death sentence for killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981...
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Supreme Court rejects death row inmate's appeal
10:24 AM on 11/30/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a California death row inmate who was convicted in the gruesome murders of four people in 1983...
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Black firefighters attempt to block promotions for white colleagues
11:54 AM on 11/19/2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) A group of black Connecticut firefighters hopes to block promotions for white firefighters who won a discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Maryland plaque reminds of historic Dred Scott case
9:37 AM on 11/18/2009
FREDERICK, Maryland (AP) - More than 150 years after the U.S. Supreme Court issued the notorious Dred Scott decision affirming slavery, a Maryland city unveiled...
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The Barbershop Buzz on juvenile sentencing
8:00 AM on 11/13/2009
VIDEO - This week on the Barbershop Buzz: Is it constitutional for juveniles to serve life sentences without parole for crimes that do not involve murder?
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Trying minors as adults is a major mistake
8:58 AM on 11/10/2009
OPINION - Juveniles should not be tried and treated as adults in the criminal justice system, no matter how "adult-like" the crime
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Supreme Court looks at life sentences for juveniles
5:45 PM on 11/09/2009
VIDEO - In the United States Supreme Court, arguments about the constitutionality of jailing juveniles for life without parole for crimes like rape and robbery...
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US Supreme Court refuses to stop D.C. sniper execution
4:44 PM on 11/09/2009
RICHMOND, Viriginia (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Tuesday's scheduled execution of sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad...
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Supreme Court to decide if local gun laws violate 2nd Amendment
4:49 PM on 09/30/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether strict local and state gun control laws violate the Second Amendment...
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US Supreme Court orders a new hearing for Troy Davis
3:12 PM on 08/17/2009
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court ordered on Monday a new hearing for death row inmate Troy Davis...
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Sotomayor becomes first Hispanic justice on Supreme Court
3:43 PM on 08/06/2009
The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the U.S.Supreme Court.The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve...
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Klansman might walk on charges of kidnap and murder
5:34 PM on 07/30/2009
The U.S. Supreme Court should decide whether a reputed Ku Klux Klansman should have been tried on a kidnapping charge 43 years after two black men were abducted and slain in rural Mississippi, a federal appeals court said Thursday.
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