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A federal appeals court said Wednesday that Texas' voter ID law, which critics consider to be one of the strictest in the nation, violates the Voting Rights Act. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New Orleans, sent the case back down to the lower court for consideration of the appropriate remedy consistent with the opinion.
Lawyers for eight death row inmates in Arkansas say their challenge of the state's execution procedures should warrant a U.S. Supreme Court review that would likely revisit the high court's ruling on an Oklahoma case. The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled against the prisoners last month, but the inmates' lawyers want the court to withhold a final order pending a possible U.S. Supreme Court review.
The two openly gay members of Virginia's legislature have introduced bills to repeal now-moot sections of the state constitution and state law that prohibit same-sex marriage.
In this Jan. 28, 2016 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. When Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon, is severely criticized by ideologically-sympathetic law professors, prominent legal ethicists, and the editorial boards of left-leaning newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post, it's reasonable to conclude that she's done something really inappropriate.
Republicans, Democrats and legal scholars were right to call foul last week when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lambasted the idea of a "faker" such as Donald Trump becoming president. While the gifted jurist created the same ire that her late friend and fellow justice, the equally outspoken Antonin Scalia, quite often provoked, critics' outrage is justified.
Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.
Though the Legislature passed a law last year prohibiting cities from banning political yard signs in the public right of way along roads, the city of Wichita is still banning them. That's because the city believes the law is unconstitutional, based on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year.
A photo provided by Dallas police shows open-carry activist Mark Hughes at a rally against excessive use of force by police, Thursday, July 7, 2016, in Dallas. Hughes told a television station that he was A defamedA by the Dallas Police Department, which tweeted the photo of him and described him as a suspect in the shootings of police officers.
Georgia has executed a man who beat a friend to death during an argument after a night of partying more than three decades ago. John Wayne Conner was executed at 12:29 a.m. Friday at the state prison in Jackson by an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital.
Fox News says it is suspending i... . FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2015 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington.
"I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in The New York Times this week. Trump responded in his usual unpresidential way, tweeting : "Justice Ginsburg has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me.
Fox News says it is suspending i... . FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2015 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington.
'Inexcusable use of excessive force': Family of Fresno teen killed by cops in traffic stop shooting that sparked 'White Lives Matter' protests say new bodycam footage proves his death was unlawful 'The only place racism doesn't exist is Fox News and the police department!': Comedian D.L. Hughley blasts network live on air during explosive row with Megyn Kelly Negative views of race relations reach an all-time high in the wake of police shootings and Black Lives Matter backlash Republican senator reveals how he has been hassled by police just because he is black and tells conservatives to wake up to the 'anguish' of racial profiling How did the Dallas sniper get honorably discharged from the army despite sexual harassment claims? Mystery surrounds how Micah Johnson left the armed forces NYPD captain caught on tape 'pressuring officer to stop and question more black men saying they are ... (more)
Next Tuesday marks 125 days since President Barack Obama nominated D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Merrick Garland, an eminently qualified judge, to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The Senate's inaction on the Garland nomination is the longest a Supreme Court nominee has ever waited for a hearing or confirmation.
Donald Trump didn't hold back when responding to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's decision to call him "a faker" in an interview. "For her to come out and to say the kind of things [she said], there's almost something wrong with her," Trump said in an interview on Fox News Wednesday.
The unusual and apparently unprecedented battle of words between a justice of the Supreme Court and a presumptive presidential nominee continued Tuesday. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made clear that her criticism of Republican Donald Trump was not the result of an unguarded moment.
The Gloucester County School Board is turning to the U.S. Supreme Court as it seeks a stay an injunction allowing a transgender student to use the boys restroom next school year.
The head of an Ohio-based conservative group who has been an outspoken foe of same-sex marriage and other gay rights issues plans to retire following the November elections. Phil Burress told The Columbus Dispatch he plans to spend time with his family after leaving his position as president of Citizens for Community Values, based in the Cincinnati suburb of Sharonville.
Doesn't everyone have an outspoken Jewish grandmother? That was my thought on reading the indignant commentary on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's unflattering assessment of Donald Trump in an interview with the New York Times. To put the point more seriously, there's nothing wrong with a sitting Supreme Court justice expressing her personal political views when they don't implicate any case that's currently before the court.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has strayed from the usual apolitical public stance of Supreme Court Justices to tell people just what she thinks of presidential hopeful Donald Trump . "I can't imagine what this place would be - I can't imagine what the country would be - with Donald Trump as our president," she told the New York Times .