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Chief justice remembers Scalia’s ‘irrepressible spirit’

WASHINGTON – Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday remembered the late Justice Antonin Scalia as a friend and colleague of “irrepressible spirit” as the Supreme Court resumed work for the fir...

DATE: Feb 22, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Some want to limit justices to 18 years on Supreme Court

WASHINGTON – Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden death a month before his 80th birthday and the potential impasse over replacing him is giving new impetus to an old idea: limiting the service of...

DATE: Feb 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Scalia’s death means loss of key vote in divided cases

WASHINGTON – Justice Antonin Scalia’s death deprives conservatives of a key vote that could change the outcome in some major Supreme Court cases, including one in which labor unions appeared...

DATE: Feb 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

In victory or dissent, Scalia was a man of strong opinions

Popular Supreme Court justice died Saturday at 79

DATE: Feb 13, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S. Supreme Court Justices extend bar on automatic life terms for teenagers

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that people serving life terms for murders they committed as teenagers must have a chance to seek their freedom, a decision that could affect more...

DATE: Jan 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court to hear Obama immigration case

Decision will come during election year

DATE: Jan 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Justices take up meaning of ‘one person, one vote’

WASHINGTON – The growing political influence of Latinos could be slowed by a Supreme Court case over the constitutional requirement to make electoral districts roughly equal in population. ...

DATE: Dec 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Obama seeks justices’ OK on immigration plan

26 states suing to stop policy blocking deportations

DATE: Nov 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court to hear fourth case

Religious groups challenge rules on contraceptives

DATE: Nov 6, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Divisive social issues fill Supreme Court’s agenda

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s new term began Monday with no cross words between the justices, although a steady stream of divisive social issues awaits them in the coming months. ...

DATE: Oct 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Supreme Court addresses capital punishment

Justices speak out about death penalty, but executions go on

DATE: Aug 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Supreme Court extends gay marriage nationwide

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court declared Friday that same-sex couples have a right to marry anywhere in the United States, a historic culmination of decades of litigation over gay marriage an...

DATE: Jun 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World