Sixty feet and the U.S-Mexico border separated the unarmed, 15-year-old Mexican boy and the U.S. Border Patrol agent who killed him with a gunshot to the head early on a June evening in 2010. U.S. officials chose not to prosecute ...
Read More »Justices uphold Katrina fraud verdict against State Farm
A unanimous Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a jury verdict that State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. committed fraud against the federal government after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. The justices on Tuesday rejected claims by State Farm that the whistleblower case ...
Read More »Kennedy vote seems key to Supreme Court redistricting cases
Justice Anthony Kennedy appears to hold the decisive vote in two Supreme Court cases involving challenges from African-American voters to electoral districts in North Carolina and Virginia. The court’s liberal and conservative justices seemed otherwise divided after arguments Monday about ...
Read More »Justice Thomas calls conservatives to continue Scalia’s work
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says conservatives should make the work of the late Justice Antonin Scalia a “prologue” in the effort to limit the power of the courts and other branches of government. The Supreme Court has too often ...
Read More »9 Trump Supreme Court prospects at conservative legal parley
Two Supreme Court justices and nine judges on President-elect Donald Trump’s list of potential high court picks are among more than 1,000 people expected at a gathering of conservative lawyers that has suddenly turned into an impromptu job fair for ...
Read More »Thomas criticizes broken confirmation process for high court
Justice Clarence Thomas said Wednesday that the Supreme Court confirmation process is an example of how the nation’s capital is “broken in some ways.” Thomas reflected on his 25 years as a justice while speaking at the Heritage Foundation, the ...
Read More »Ginsburg: Sorry for criticizing Kaepernick anthem protest
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg apologized Friday for characterizing as “dumb and disrespectful” the national anthem protests by San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other athletes. The 83-year-old Ginsburg said her remarks about Kaepernick and others who have ...
Read More »Supreme Court will hear Ashcroft appeal to kill lawsuit
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear appeals from former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former FBI Director Robert Mueller and other former federal officials seeking to shut down lawsuits filed by Muslim and Arab men who were detained in the ...
Read More »Parents of 2 killed in Benghazi attacks sue Hillary Clinton
The parents of two Americans killed in attacks in Benghazi, Libya, say in a lawsuit that Hillary Clinton is responsible for the deaths of their children. A Clinton campaign spokesman rejected the accusations. The wrongful death lawsuit against Clinton, filed ...
Read More »Ginsburg reflects on big cases, Scalia’s death
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says the Supreme Court shut down tactics used by opponents of abortion and affirmative action in higher education in two major cases the justices decided at the end of their just-concluded term. Ginsburg said in an ...
Read More »Supreme Court will review unusual citizenship law
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee a dispute about an odd piece of U.S. citizenship law that treats men and women differently. The justices said they will hear a case about a law that applies only to children ...
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