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High court voids overall contribution limits

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court struck down limits Wednesday in federal law on the overall campaign contributions the biggest individual donors may make to candidates, political parties and p...

DATE: Apr 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Kennedy may decide birth-control case

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court seemed divided Tuesday about whether employers’ religious beliefs can free them from a part of the new health-care law that requires that they provide coverage...

DATE: Mar 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court to look at EPA’s authority to regulate

Are its climate change rules out-of-bounds?

DATE: Feb 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court may look at cellphone privacy

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court could say as early as today whether it will resolve a new clash over privacy and technology in the digital age. The justices are considering two cas...

DATE: Jan 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court weighs president’s power in filling positions

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court is refereeing a politically charged dispute between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans over the president’s power to temporarily fill high-level pos...

DATE: Jan 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Latinos seek voting rights lawsuit in L.A.

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is aggressively pursuing lawsuits over minority voting rights in Texas and North Carolina, but the Justice Department has not moved on evidence that the...

DATE: Nov 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Supreme Court to take up dispute

Some companies don’t want to cover birth control

DATE: Nov 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Supreme Court weighs new health law dispute

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s health-care law is headed for a new Supreme Court showdown over companies’ religious objections to the law’s birth-control mandate. Amid the ...

DATE: Nov 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court wrestles with prayer in government

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with the appropriate role for religion in government in a case involving mainly Christian prayers at the start of a New York town’s council ...

DATE: Nov 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

High court to look at death row inmate with low IQ

WASHINGTON – Eleven years after the Supreme Court barred states from executing mentally disabled inmates, the justices said Monday they will take up a Florida case over how authorities deter...

DATE: Oct 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court takes up affirmative action

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court seemed prepared Tuesday to uphold a voter-approved ban on taking account of race in college admissions. The court heard arguments related to a 2006 ...

DATE: Oct 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Justices hear campaign finance law case

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to free big individual donors to give more money to political candidates in the court’s first major campaign-finance case since the just...

DATE: Oct 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Nation & World