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A U.S. appeals court is affirming the conviction of a Pennsylvania man who posted violent rap lyrics on Facebook that took aim at his estranged wife, an elementary school and the FBI. The ruling comes after the U.S. Supreme Court said the jury should have weighed his intent and not just the lyrics.
Sen. Ted Cruz's suggestion of an indefinite Supreme Court vacancy under a President Hillary Clinton raises questions about the credibility and integrity of Republicans who have said the next president should get to the choose who fills the vacancy, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday. Earnest was asked during Thursday's White House press briefing about the Texas Republican's statement that there is a long historical precedent for a Supreme Court operating with fewer justices.
One day after being formally charged with criminal contempt of federal Judge G. Murray Snow in the civil rights case Melendres v. Arpaio , Sheriff Joe Arpaio's new Washington, DC-lawyers are asking Snow to recuse himself - get this - because Snow regularly communicates with the monitor he appointed to help ensure the sheriff's compliance with his orders.
In this Jan. 26, 2012 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. Thomas says the Supreme Court confirmation process is an example of how the nation's capital is "broken in some ways."
Justice Clarence Thomas speaks to Julian Bond for the University of Virginia Black Leadership Series. YouTube screen grab: Justice Clarence Thomas joined the U.S. Supreme Court 25 years ago this week, yet Thomas-derangement has not abated with time.
Halfway between the start of early voting and Election Day in Ohio, an emergency motion was filed Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court to change some of the state's election laws back to the way they were. The Ohio Democratic Party and a pair of groups representing the homeless asked Justice Elena Kagan to stop Secretary of State Jon Husted from carrying out a pair of 2014 statutes requiring Ohioans to accurately complete five fields of information - name, address, date of birth, signature and partial Social Security number - on requests for absentee or provisional ballots.
Newfoundland and Labrador judge Malcolm Rowe, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's nominee for the Supreme Court of Canada, says it's important the high court reflects voices from across the country. Rowe is at a question-and-answer session at the University of Ottawa, where MPs, senators and law school students are asking him about his experience and views before Trudeau finalizes his recommendation.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday said people need to elect Donald Trump as the next president and that he's concerned about issues like the U.S. Supreme Court and foreign policy. "I want to see this country change.
For the first time since the days of poll taxes and literacy tests a half-century ago, the Justice Department will be sharply restricted in how it can deploy some of its most powerful weapons to deter voter intimidation in the presidential election. Because of a Supreme Court ruling three years ago, the department will send special election observers inside polling places in parts of only four states on Election Day, a significant drop from 2012, when it sent observers to jurisdictions in 13 states.
For the first time since the days of poll taxes and literacy tests a half-century ago, the Justice Department will be sharply restricted in how it can deploy some of its most powerful weapons to deter voter intimidation in the presidential election. Because of a Supreme Court ruling three years ago, the department will send special election observers inside polling places in parts of only four states on Election Day, a significant drop from 2012, when it sent observers to jurisdictions in 13 states.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is President of the North Carolina NAACP, founder and president of Repairers of the Breach , and co-author of The Third Reconstruction As early voting opened in my home state of North Carolina last week, Donald Trump continued to dominate headlines, despite Hillary Clinton's six-point lead in a national poll . The third and final presidential debate covered several areas of substantive difference between the two candidates, and millions of Americans are already voting for the future they want.
Today is the 25th anniversary of Clarence Thomas being sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. From his beginnings in Pin Point, Georgia, where he lived in a shanty without indoor plumbing during the Jim Crow era, he has become the longest-serving black justice on the nation's highest court.
Last week the state Department of Natural Resources suffered another, and perhaps final, setback in its attempt to successfully prosecute an alleged west-central Minnesota deer poacher. On Monday, the Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's decision that the surreptitious placement by DNR conservation officers of an electronic tracking device on a pickup owned by Joshua Dwight Liebl of Dawson, Minn., violated Liebl's protection against unreasonable search guaranteed by the U.S. and Minnesota constitutions.
In this Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012 file photo, people pass the signs telling of the requirement for voters to show an acceptable photo ID to vote as they head into the the Penndot Drivers License Center in Butler, Pa.
A federal appeals court on Friday will hear arguments in the civil case against a U.S. Border Patrol agent who killed a Mexican teen in a cross-border shooting in Arizona. The hearing before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will focus on whether people on foreign soil harmed by U.S. authorities have the right to sue in the United States.
Moulton aims to retire the 25-year establishment incumbent Eleanor Holmes Norton. "Martin's background, common sense, and focus on creative solutions make him the ideal candidate to rise above the partisan divide and deliver results for all District for all residents," says Dick Heller.
Chris Wallace : Good evening from the Thomas and Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I'm Chris Wallace of Fox News and I welcome you to the third and final of the 2016 presidential debates between secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are striking a more sober tone Wednesday after two brutal debates, largely sticking to substance and keeping personal slights to a minimum during their final face-to-face showdown. The presidential debate in Las Vegas began on a frosty note as the candidates once again abandoned the tradition of shaking each other's hands at the outset.
A federal magistrate judge recommended this week that a transgender girl at the center of a lawsuit over restroom and locker room access be able to use the girls' locker room at her Illinois high school, writing that the Constitution doesn't protect students against having to share such facilities with their transgender peers. In an 82-page report, Magistrate Judge Jeffrey T. Gilbert sided against a group of students and parents who sought a preliminary injunction to force the girl to use the boys' locker room or a private bathroom while the court moves forward with the case.