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POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jan 28, 2010 @ 3:02pm neoform

CNN -- The political furor escalated over President Obama's high-profile rebuke of a recent Supreme Court ruling on campaign advertising... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Oct 15, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized overnight for what appeared to be an adverse reaction to medication, but was released Thursday, a court spokeswoman said in a statement... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Oct 5, 2009 @ 3:01pm neoform

CNN -- Driving along a pockmarked road amid rocks and Joshua trees in a lonely southern California desert, religious controversy might be the last thing you'd expect to encounter... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Sep 25, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Thursday after falling ill in her chambers, the court confirmed... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Aug 8, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Sonia Sotomayor, will make history Saturday when she is sworn in as the nation's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jul 28, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, faces her next hurdle Tuesday morning as the Senate Judiciary Committee votes whether or not to confirm her... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jul 24, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Two key Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee announced their opposition to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Friday, a further sign the party's conservative base is uniting against President Obama's first high court pick... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Thu Jul 16, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- A Republican senator told Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor today that some of her speeches "bugged the hell out of me" but conceded most of her rulings were "generally in the mainstream. ... Your record as a judge has not been radical by any means," Sen. Lindsey Graham said... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jul 15, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor avoided direct answers to questions about her personal views on abortion and gun control, saying she needed specifics before responding. Republican Sen. Tom Coburn pushed Sotomayor to say whether certain abortions would be legal and whether a person has a fundamental right to possess firearms... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jul 14, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Given the chance to explain her "wise Latina" remark, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor told her Senate confirmation hearing that her word choice was bad. "I want to state up front, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any ethnic, racial or gender group has an advantage in sound judging," Sotomayor said... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jul 14, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Judge Sonia Sotomayor is all but certain to be confirmed as an associate justice on the Supreme Court. It is close to unimaginable that the Republicans will peel off enough Democratic votes to stop Senate confirmation... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jul 13, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Sonia Sotomayor opened with strong praise from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy. But Sen. Jeff Sessions, the panel's ranking Republican, said Sotomayor is the kind of activist judge that threatens the legal system... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jun 29, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The U.S. Supreme Court sided Monday with white firefighters in their workplace discrimination lawsuit, a divisive case over the role race should place in job advancement... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Jun 1, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Leading Senate Republicans indicated Sunday that a filibuster on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely, though they also promised not to shy away from what they characterized as a troubling judicial record... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jul 7, 2007 @ 12:15am neoform

CNN -- If there is one thing Supreme Court justices -- and perhaps every federal judge -- will agree on, it is that they are not being paid enough. The subject of judicial salaries has been a lonely cause for years among the 875 or so members of the U.S. benc.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Washington Post -- The Supreme Court yesterday substantially weakened restrictions on the kinds of television ads that corporations and unions can finance in the days before an election, providing special interest groups with the opportunity for a far more expansive role in.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 3:10pm neoform

CNN -- President Bush responded Monday to a Supreme Court ruling by ordering federal agencies to find a way to begin regulating vehicle emissions by the time he leaves office. In a Rose Garden announcement, Bush said he wanted to move ahead, pending any separ.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Wed Feb 21, 2007 @ 2:23pm mrmdc

New York Times -- The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday overturning a nearly $80 million punitive damage award against Philip Morris is a win for corporate wrongdoers. It stretches the Constitution’s guarantee of due process in a way that will make it easier for compa.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Dec 8, 2006 @ 2:28am neoform

New York Times -- On the Supreme Court’s color-coded master calendar, which was distributed months before the term began on the first Monday in October, Dec. 6 is marked in red to signify a day when the justices are scheduled to be on the bench, hearing arguments... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jan 23, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Abortion rights supporters and opponents prepared to hit the streets of the nation's capital Friday to mark the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling establishing a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy... Read More