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Today's birthdays: Actress Rose Marie is 93. Political activist Phyllis Schlafly is 92. Civil rights activist Vernon Jordan is 81. Actor Jim Dale is 81. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is 78. Author-journalist Linda Ellerbee is 72. Songwriter Jimmy Webb is 70. Actress Phyllis Smith is 67. Britain's Princess Anne is 66. Movie director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is 53. Philanthropist Melinda Gates is 52. Actor Ben Affleck is 44. Actress Natasha Henstridge is 42. Actress Nicole Paggi is 39. Christian rock musician Tim Foreman is 38. Figure skater Jennifer Kirk is 32. Latin pop singer Belinda is 27. Rock singer Joe Jonas is 27. Rap DJ Smoove da General is 26. In 1945, Japan's Emperor Hirohito announced that his country had accepted terms of surrender for ending World War II.
Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is a professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
It has been almost six months since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly, and almost five months since President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, the widely respected and centrist chief judge of the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., to succeed him. Because of obstructionism by Senate Republicans, however, the Senate is no closer to holding a hearing on Garland's nomination, much less voting on it.
Texas lawyer Jerry Guerinot said he no longer represents people accused of capital murder after four decades of posting a perfect record. Some opponents of capital punishment label him the worst lawyer in the U.S. Guerinot shrugs off the criticism, which he says comes from taking notorious cases.
A former Pennsylvania judge serving a 28-year prison term for a scandal that became known as "kids for cash" is trying to have some of his convictions overturned. Former Luzerne County Judge Mark Ciavarella Jr. says in Thursday's court filings that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision established a new rule that he wants to retroactively apply to a motion seeking to throw out his corruption conviction and sentence.
Canada's top judge is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to hurry up and fill the soon-to-be empty seat at the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin said it is taking too long to name a replacement for Justice Thomas Cromwell, who retires next month.
Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura says he plans to take his defamation fight against the estate of slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle to the U. S. Supreme Court. In June, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals tossed out a $1.8 million verdict awarded to Ventura against Kyle, the author of "American Sniper."
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Ted Strickland of Ohio is apologizing for remarks appearing to celebrate the death of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. In audio of an appearance Monday before the AFL-CIO in Cleveland, the former Ohio governor is heard saying he didn't "wish anyone ill" but Scalia's death "happened at a good time" for union workers.
Democratic senatorial candidate Conner Eldridge has issued a statement blasting Donald Trump' s comment yesterday suggesting a "Second Amendment " solution to avoiding Hillary Clinton appointees to the U.S. Supreme Court. "Donald Trump's reference yesterday to individuals taking violent action against Hillary Clinton is astounding.
Pressure from high-profile Republicans and rank-and-file voters is mounting to reject Donald Trump's candidacy amid fallout from him saying gun rights activists could stop Hillary Clinton nominating liberal US Supreme Court justices. Nearly one-fifth of 396 registered Republicans in a Reuters/Ipsos August 5-8 poll released on Wednesday want Trump to drop out of the race for the White House and another 10 per cent "don't know" whether the Republican nominee should or not.
Nearly one-fifth of registered Republicans want Donald Trump to drop out of the race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday, reflecting the turmoil his candidacy has sown within his party. The "drop out" response more than doubles to 44 percent when voters of all parties are included.
TRENTON - Donald Trump insisted Tuesday night he didn't suggest Second Amendment advocates could use violence against Hillary Clinton to stop her from nominating justices to the U.S. Supreme Court as president. Instead, the Republican presidential nominee stressed what he meant was that pro-gun supporters could use their "political power" to try and derail Clinton, his Democratic opponent.
The SC has permitted Lodha Committee not only to change the constitution and rules of the BCCI, but also to impose punishment. It is true that there are some defects in the BCCI, just as there are some defects in the judiciary, the media, bollywood, the medical profession, etc.
Weeks after one of his advisers begged for Hillary Clinton to be shot, Donald Trump told 'the Second Amendment people' that they could take action against President Clinton. Donald Trump just suggested that "Second Amendment" diehards might be the only ones who can stop Hillary Clinton, if she makes it to the White House.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said at a rally that if Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton "gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people maybe there is, I don't know."
A lawyer for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says now that a judge has declined to lighten Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence, he may again appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Defense attorney Leonard Goodman said Tuesday the decision of whether to appeal will be up to Blagojevich, adding "I don't see why he wouldn't."
Donald Trump on Tuesday seemed to imply that people with guns could stop Hillary Clinton as president from appointing anti-gun judges.. Trump, who was speaking at a rally in Wilmington, N.C., on Tuesday, warned that Clinton opposes the Second Amendment and would appoint Supreme Court justices who would block gun rights..
U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman on Monday said he's comfortable allowing Donald Trump to fill U.S. Supreme Court vacancies, but said voters will have to decide whether the Republican presidential nominee can be trusted to handle the nation's nuclear arsenal.