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Millions of poor Americans remain uninsured thanks to a badly reasoned Supreme Court decision. The Affordable Care Act was designed to cover all poor Americans with either an expanded Medicaid or federally subsidized insurance.
The decision could clear the way for faster parole hearings for prisoners who were convicted of murder when they were teens. Federal Judge Mark Goldsmith says it was unconstitutional for lawmakers to retroactively cut off good behavior or discipline credits for juvenile lifers in homicides that occurred before 1999.
After a year on the Supreme Court as President Trump's first nominee, Justice Neil Gorsuch has largely fulfilled conservatives' hopes and justified liberals' fears by refusing to take a back seat. Instead, he has ably replaced the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the bench and in the public arena.
The Latest on the Kansas Legislature's debate on increasing school funding to meet a court mandate : A conservative Kansas lawmaker is suggesting that problems facing public schools aren't a matter of money but a shift away from God in recent decades.
This undated photo shows Willie Francis holding a calendar with the date of May 9 circled. After a botched execution attempt on May 3, 1946, in Louisiana, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyer's appeal and ruled the state could try again. Francis was put to death on May 9, 1947. (AP file photo)
A legal team has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its claim that Louisiana prosecutors withheld evidence for a murder trial that ended in a guilty verdict against an intellectually disabled teenager accused of killing a pizza deliveryman. Corey Williams was 16 years old when police arrested him in the shooting death of Jarvis Griffin two decades ago in Caddo Parish, where prosecutors have been widely criticized for their aggressive approach to seeking the death penalty.
President Donald Trump's latest Twitter punching bag has been the online retailer Amazon, which he accused of paying "little or no taxes to state & local governments." The accusations were misleading, but they sparked a national discussion over online sales taxes.
It's no surprise that both Republican and Democratic operatives are lining up to re-gerrymander in 2021 unless we do something about this. OPED: Protect constitutional right to self govern It's no surprise that both Republican and Democratic operatives are lining up to re-gerrymander in 2021 unless we do something about this.
Visitors attending Supreme Court arguments surrender their electronics on entering the courtroom. So if something rings, chimes or buzzes, it's likely the device's owner is dressed in a black robe.
President Donald Trump is trying to put in place the policies that got him elected - it's creating backlash among supporters. A woman is suing the LDS Church, alleging that the then-MTC president raped her.
Attorneys in Baltimore are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that struck down as unconstitutional an ordinance requiring pregnancy centers notify patients if they don't offer abortion or birth control services. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in January that the ordinance unconstitutionally compelled speech by Christian-based Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns Inc., which opposes abortion.
"Why'd you shoot me?" Amy Hughes, screaming and bleeding, asked Officer Andrew Kisela after he fired four rounds at her through a chain link fence. Thanks to the Supreme Court, a jury will not get a chance to consider that question.
In a year when they'll have the added burden of running under the banner of President Donald Trump, Oregon's vastly outnumbered Republicans have to pick their spots. A few of the names emerging in recent months in state election filings: "No Supermajorities PAC," "Yes, Keep Our Groceries Tax Free" and "More Housing Now."
Attorneys for a Nebraska death row inmate whose case inspired the 1999 movie "Boys Don't Cry" say he should be ruled ineligible for execution because he has the intellect of a young child. John Lotter was sentenced to death for his role in the 1993 killings of Brandon Teena, a 21-year-old transgender man, and two witnesses, Lisa Lambert and Philip DeVine, at a rural farmhouse in Humboldt, about 75 miles south of Omaha.
Microsoft has backed the Justice Department's request that the U.S. Supreme Court dismiss a case pitting the two against each other over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed a law that resolved the dispute. The justices heard arguments in the high-profile case on Feb. 27, but President Donald Trump on March 22 signed legislation that makes clear that U.S. judges can issue warrants for such data while giving companies a way to object if the request conflicts with foreign law.
In this Oct. 10, 2017 photo, the Supreme Court in Washington is seen at sunset. The Supreme Court is being asked to take a case about whether eye drops are too big.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday resorted to the words of a French author to express her displeasure with the high court's repeated refusal to take up death penalty cases from Florida. "Toutes choses sont dites dA jA ; mais comme personne n'A coute, il faut toujours recommencer," she wrote in a footnote in her dissent from the in Cozzie v.
Last year, Justice Anthony Kennedy traveled to the White House, robes and all, and found himself in a familiar spot: the center of attention. The assembled audience was there for the swearing in of Justice Neil Gorsuch, but many eyes were trained on Kennedy, who like no other justice in recent history controls the outcome of the highest profile cases before the court.