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U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland waits for a meeting with Senator Brian Schatz on Capitol Hill on May 10, 2016, in Washington. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she wouldn't be bound by President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court and hinted she would look elsewhere if she takes office in January with the seat still unfilled.
The decision is viewed as a major gamble for GOP leaders. Republicans figure, if Clinton wins the White House and Democrats take the Senate, the chamber will be narrowly divided, forcing Clinton to consider a more moderate pick.
Leaked documents released by The Guardian US shed new light on the relationships between Walker and donors to the Wisconsin Club for Growth during the governor's 2012 recall election. The documents were part of a John Doe probe which the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered halted last year.
Jurist reports: A polygamous family on TLC's "Sister Wives" [media website] reality TV show filed a request [cert. petition, PDF] on Monday with the US Supreme Court in an attempt to legalize polygamy.
A polygamous family from TV's "Sister Wives" filed a request Monday for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case for legalizing polygamy. Kody Brown and his four wives want the high court to review an appeal court's decision that upheld a unique provision of Utah's polygamy law that bans cohabitation with other partners even if the man is legally married to just one woman.
Voting has begun in the 2016 election as North Carolina opened its early balloting by absentee on Friday. Voting is said to be heavy among the half of Donald Trump supporters who Hillary Clinton has categorized as being in a "basket of deplorables."
Now that the practical choice is between coughing Clinton and terrifying Trump, the Seamless Garment crowd is making new attempts to co-opt pro-life sentiment in favor of the vociferously pro-abortion candidate that is, Clinton. This New Pro-Life Movement is supposedly bolder, more sincere, more consistent, and especially more "prudent" than the old one.
GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence spoke to a convention of conservative Christians Saturday, drawing loud applause for his promises that he will work with Donald Trump to restrict abortion rights and appoint right-wing justices to the Supreme Court. "Let me be clear: People who know me well know I'm pro-life, and I don't apologize for it," said Pence, the Republican governor of Indiana, to the largely evangelical crowd at the Values Voters Summit in Washington, DC.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Attorney General Bill Schuette's appeal to restore a legislatively approved ban on straight ticket voting in Michigan this November. Yesterday was the drop-dead deadline for a decision on whether the single oval on the ballot that permits voters to vote for all the candidates of one party will appear on that ballot.
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The utility took two actions late Friday to block the effort by Arizona Corporation Commissioner Bob Burns to untangle how Arizona Public Service might have influenced the election. APS and its parent company, Pinnacle West Capital Corp., asked a judge to declare the subpoenas invalid, warning that it's willing to go to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday dropped corruption charges against former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife, bringing to a close a case that tarnished the once-rising star of the Republican Party. "After carefully considering the Supreme Court's recent decision and the principles of federal prosecution, we have made the decision not to pursue the case further," the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.
As President Barack Obama's second and final term winds down, commentators consider each decision, each foreign trip and each utterance, along with the unfolding presidential campaign, in terms of what it all means in terms of his legacy. The Senate Republican leadership's legacy, as the congressional session winds down, is already clear.
The case against former Republican Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife has been dropped by the Department of Justice. The Washington Post reports : Federal prosecutors will not attempt to retry former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, on corruption charges, ending a years-long saga that rocked the commonwealth's political class and cut short the rise of a Republican Party star.
Federal prosecutors dropped their corruption case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife on Thursday, more than two months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction. "After carefully considering the Supreme Court's recent decision and the principles of federal prosecution, we have made the decision not to pursue the case further," U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente's office said in a statement.
Federal prosecutors on Thursday revealed that they will drop the public corruption charges against former Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen. The decision ended a years long saga that rocked the Commonwealth's political class and cut short the rise of a Republican star.
The Florida Supreme Court is reducing the sentence of a death row inmate after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered it to reconsider his intellectual abilities. After Thursday's ruling, Freddie Lee Hall will be sentenced to life for the 1978 murder of a 21-year-old pregnant woman who was abducted while leaving a grocery store.
New York's attorney general says abortion rights provided by U.S. Supreme Court rulings can't be diminished by the state law against late-term abortions enacted before the court's landmark Roe v.