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Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will host special post-show conversations with notable guest panelists during the run of John Strand's critically-acclaimed political drama The Originalist , based on the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The play, which stars four-time Helen Hayes Award winner and acclaimed D.C. actor Edward Gero as Justice Scalia and is under the direction of Artistic Director Molly Smith, runs July 7-30, 2017 in the Kreeger Theater.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former officials from President George W. Bush's administration - including Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating President Trump's campaign - cannot be sued over the harsh treatment of undocumented immigrants after the 9/11 attacks. In a decision that could have major implications in the event of another major terror attack, the court ruled that the nationwide wave of fear after 9/11 substantiated severe treatment from law enforcement.
During President Trump's recent visit to Europe, much was made of the fact that in a speech before NATO leaders, he did not explicitly affirm America's commitment to NATO's Article V. This put much of European opinion on edge and was one of the things that prompted German Chancellor Merkel to brazenly hint that Europe might have to 'go it alone.' Everyone knows about Article V, right? It is repeated ad infinitum in press releases and news stories about NATO.
In this April 4 photo, the Supreme Court Building is seen in Washington. In an era of deep partisan division, the Supreme Court could soon decide whether the drawing of electoral districts can be too political.
This month, the Supreme Court struck down a law that treated unwed mothers and fathers differently when granting citizenship to their children born outside the United States - the requirements for fathers were stiffer. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, authoring a majority opinion joined by five other justices, wrote that the law was based on gender stereotypes that violated the notion of equal protection.
When then-Michigan State University student Gordon Freedman first got wind of the Watergate hearings in 1973, he didn't want to miss out. So the 21-year-old from Charlevoix left class one day, hopped into his orange Volkswagen bug and headed off to Washington, D.C., where he started off as a passionate observer, but then landed a job as a staffer with Sen. Herman Talmadge.
The case that started the power grab by the U.S. Supreme Court : Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. v. City of Chicago, 166 U.S. 226 , incorporated the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment into the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by requiring states to provide just compensation for seizing private property.
In 2007, a jury convicted Liberty City native Harrel Braddy of kidnapping a 5-year-old and leaving her to die on the side of Interstate 75, where she was eaten alive by alligators . It was an important holdout: The split decision means that ten years later, Braddy will be granted one more chance to avoid the death penalty.
President Trump visited the Supreme Court on Thursday for the first time as president while the justices prepare to answer Trump's request that they review the travel ban controversy. Trump visited the high court for the formal investiture ceremony of Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's pick to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
A panel of Missouri senators on Tuesday advanced legislation to create new abortion regulations - including annual inspections of clinics - requested by Republican Gov. Eric Greitens in his call for a special session focused solely on abortion laws. Members of the Senate Committee on Seniors, Families and Children voted 4-2 along party lines in favor of a package of proposals that would place new restrictions on abortion clinics.
It's game over for the Xbox 360 class action: the US Supreme Court has ruled 8-0 in favor of Microsoft, who was blamed for selling a poorly designed console with a disc system that could scratch games up . The decision seems to rest on the idea that scratches could happen for myriad reasons, including human error.
Immigrants pose with U.S citizenship certificates in front of a large U.S. flag after a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center in February. A Supreme Court decision Monday will put the foreign-born children of unmarried American fathers on equal footing with those of unwed American mothers.
Over the last four years, Republican legislators, fueled by veto-proof majorities in both houses, have refashioned the state's tax code, voting laws, and its policies on education, the environment and social issues. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that North Carolina's legislative districts are unconstitutional and Gov. Roy Cooper's called for a special redistricting session, it's natural to ask how state and legislative politics might have been different had Republicans drawn legal districts in 2011.
A second court upheld a Maryland judge's ruling that also blocked Trump's 90-day ban on travelers from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Photo: Reuters President Donald Trump suffered another legal setback on Monday as a second federal appeals court refused to revive his travel ban on people entering the United States from six Muslim-majority nations in a dispute headed to the US Supreme Court.
EDITOR'S NOTE: On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court was wrapping up the final orders for the term. Among the cases before them was that of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple who had been sentenced to a year in jail for violating Virginia's ban on marriage between people of different races.
Wisconsin fair elections advocates blasted legislative leaders and the attorney general for trying to stay a decision to implement new, constitutionally valid maps for legislative districts in Wisconsin, as lawyers for the citizen respondents filed a brief at the U.S. Supreme Court in opposition to the state's request for delay. "The federal trial court found that Wisconsin citizens' rights were violated and that the only solution was a new district maps in time for the 2018 election," said Sachin Chheda , director of the Fair Elections Project, which organized and launched the lawsuit.
That's an often-asked question as the nation's attention has focused on Portland as a hub of bigoted speech -- a community where Jeremy Christian ranted unfettered for months or even years before police say he fatally stabbed two good Samaritans in the neck and left another wounded May 26. Christian's Facebook posts refer to nihilism, Hitler, ovens and killing others, including those who trod on his free-speech rights. Several weeks before the attack on the MAX train, Christian shouted his death wish for Muslims and vitriol toward African Americans at a public march.