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Supreme Court Rejects Quick Review of Health Care Law

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court rejected a call Monday from Virginia's attorney general to depart from its usual practice and put review of the health care law on a fast track. Instead, judicial review of President Barack Obama's signature legislation will continue in federal appeals courts. The justices turned down a...

Opinion: The Top 10 News Absurdities of 2010

(Dec. 10) -- Please be advised: the Top Ten Comedic News Stories of 2010 are not to be confused with the Top Ten Legitimate News Stories of 2010. They are as different as lasagna and asphalt. Earwax and linoleum. A lunch wagon sink trap and nuclear lab clean rooms. Toe shoes and track cleats. Christian Science ministers...

Supreme Court Lets 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Stand

(Nov. 12) -- The Supreme Court ruled that the United States can continue to enforce the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that requires gays in the military to keep their sexual orientation private. The court denied a request from a gay rights group, the Log Cabin Republicans, that asked the court to intervene in the law's...

Kagan's First Vote Not Enough to Stop Execution

(Oct. 27)--Welcome to the U.S. Supreme Court, where decisions are final. Elena Kagan cast her first vote Tuesday night as the newest member of the court. Unfortunately for convicted killer Jeffrey Landrigan, Kagan cast her vote with the minority of justices, who failed to stay Landrigan's execution by lethal injection....

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Supreme Court Decides On Deportation, Takes Up Wiretapping

With five weeks remaining in its term, the Supreme Court on Monday morning chipped away at its 20-plus cases yet to be decided by issuing a flurry of opinions concerning deportation, translation and in vitro fertilization.

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Women Supreme Court Justices Celebrate 30 Years Since Court's First Female

The only four women to serve as Supreme Court justices gathered Wednesday night to celebrate Sandra Day O'Connor's pathbreaking arrival on the bench three decades ago.

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05/21/12 Supreme Court Decides On Deportation, Takes Up... Source: The Huffington Post With five weeks remaining in its term, the Supreme Court on Monday morning chipped away at its 20-plus cases yet to be decided by issuing a flurry of opinions concerning deportation, translation and in vitro fertilization.
05/14/12 Citizens United: The Untold Story Source: Law Blog - The Wall Street Journal Jeffrey Toobin, the New Yorker's Supreme Court chronicler, takes on Citizens United v.
05/09/12 Documenting detainees' legal woes Source: scotusblog In January 2011, the Supreme Court chose to pass up the first of a stack of then-new challenges by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to their detention.
04/26/12 Chelsea Rudman: Breitbart "Exclusive": Kagan's Notes... Source: County Fair Last month, the Breitbart team tried -- and failed -- to gin up outrage over a 1991 video showing then-law student Barack Obama embracing the late Harvard professor Derrick Bell. Breitbart editor-in-chief Joel Pollak went to great pains to cast Bell and the critical race theory that he espoused as radical, even pushing his spin in an appearance on CNN (where host Soledad O'Brien took apart his argument).
04/18/12 Kagan: My Job Is Little Different from When I Was the... Source: Patterico`s Pontifications This is a video clip from an interview with Elena Kagan, with an interesting quote that reveals something about her partisan mindset on the court.