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After Stevens, Who Will Lead Court Liberals?

By Andrea StoneApr 5th 2010 – 7:23PM
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WASHINGTON (April 5) -- Who will be the next liberal leader of the U.S. Supreme Court? As Justice John Paul Stevens strongly hinted in interviews this week that he would step down soon after more than 34 years on the high court, the question is more than merely rhetorical. Stevens turns 90 on April 20. While he could go...

Which Justice Loves Egg McMuffins?

By David KnowlesMar 11th 2010 – 6:27PM
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(March 11) -- Apparently, sitting on the nation's highest court doesn't mean you give up cravings for fast food. Author Bill Geerhart reveals the guilty culinary pleasures of America's Supreme Court justices in a satirical new book titled "Little Billy's Letters." Posing as a 10-year-old boy, Geerhart wrote letters to...

Speculation Begins to Build About an Obama Court

By Paul WachterFeb 5th 2010 – 3:02PM
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(Feb. 5) – With so much else going on, there's been little time during the first year of the Obama administration to ask a perennial question of presidential politics: What's likely to happen to the Supreme Court? ABC News weighed in Thursday with speculation that two liberal Supreme Court justices – John...

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Supreme Court Likely to Decide Arizona Immigration Law Case by Late June

By Living Latino In Arizona May 27th 2012 - 06:01PM

The Supreme Court will likely hand down a decision regarding Arizona's controversial immigration law, SB 1070, in late June, according to the Associated Press.

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Supreme Court Decides On Deportation, Takes Up Wiretapping

May 21st 2012 - 01:07PM

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

By Mike Sacks Apr 11th 2012 - 10:17PM

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.

RuthBaderGinsburg News From the Web

  • 05/31/12 Supreme Court Summer Plans 05-31-12 Source: The Daily Record - Omaha NE One never knows when the Supreme Court will hand down its last, often biggest, opinions of the term.
  • 05/22/12 High Court says state laws determine whether children... Source: Daily Report - Atlanta GA In a case at the intersection of law and modern reproductive technology, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that state inheritance laws will determine whether children conceived after their fathers death are eligible for Social Security survivors benefits.
  • 05/21/12 Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Surveillance Case Source: The New York Times - New York NY SURVEILLANCE The justices agreed to decide whether a challenge may proceed to a 2008 federal law that broadened the government's power to monitor international communications.
  • 05/21/12 Friendly Ump: Japanese Ballplayer Wins at Supreme Court Source: Law Blog - The Wall Street Journal The legal team of former Japanese professional baseball player Kouichi Taniguchi hit a home run at the U.S. Supreme Court, as a dictionary-wielding Justice Samuel Alito ruled for a 6-3 majority that Mr. Taniguchis interpretation of the word interpreter was correct.
  • 05/21/12 Supreme Court decides on benefits for children... Source: WORLD Magazine WASHINGTON—On Monday the Supreme Court unanimously decided that children conceived through in vitro fertilization after their father's death could not count as his children for the purpose of receiving his Social Security benefits.

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