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Jan 22 min read
Chief Justice Condemns Threats to Judicial Independence
In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and warned...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 12, 20242 min read
Prolific courtroom sketch artist William Hennessy, Jr. dies
William Hennessy, Jr., a classically trained artist who chronicled oral arguments for decades in places where cameras aren’t allowed --...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 5, 20242 min read
Justice Gorsuch Recuses From Environmental Case, Rumored Ethical Conflict
Justice Neil Gorsuch won’t sit for next week’s environmental showdown because he sees ethical conflicts in the review of a proposed Utah...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 29, 20242 min read
Notre Dame ‘a Pipeline’ for Supreme Court Clerks
Notre Dame law school now ranks fourth, behind the University of Chicago, Yale and Stanford, for clerkships at all levels of the federal...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 7, 20242 min read
Some Democrats Renew Calls for Sotomayor to Step Down Before Presidential Inauguration in January
Some prominent voices on the left called earlier this year for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire while Joe Biden was still...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 7, 20242 min read
Trump’s Second Term May Assure Conservative Supreme Court For Decades
Donald Trump has already appointed three Supreme Court justices. In his second term, he could well have a chance to name two more,...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 11, 20242 min read
Ethics Questions Prevail in New SCOTUS Term
Because of Justice Neil Gorsuch’s ties to oil billionaire Philip Anschutz, he is being called to recuse from an environmental case on the...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 7, 20242 min read
Will Supreme Court Play A Role In This Year's Elections?
When the Supreme Court convened Monday to open a new term, there will be 29 days until Election Day. Will the justices once again find...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 25, 20242 min read
Lawmakers Clash Over Presidential Immunity Ruling
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday met to examine for the first time a controversial Supreme Court ruling handing former President...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 20, 20241 min read
Alaskan Charged With Sending 465 Threats To U.S. Supreme Court
An Alaska man has been charged with threatening six Supreme Court justices and at least two members of their families. Panos Anastasiou,...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 19, 20242 min read
Some Supreme Court Justices Did Not See Role As Life's Ultimate Calling
Some past Supreme Court justices -- like James F. Byrnes, who was appointed in 1941 and left about a year later -- did not see the court...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 10, 20242 min read
Kagan Defends Idea Of Judge Panel To Enforce High Court Ethics Code
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Monday stuck by her suggestion of how to enforce the high court’s new ethics code. “It seems like a...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 2, 20242 min read
In 'No Kings Act,' Democrats Seek To Play Hardball With High Court
In the Supreme Court decision that former President Trump was allowed to commit crimes while he was in office, dissenting Justice Sonia...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 30, 20241 min read
Opinion: Biden's Supreme Court Reforms are 'Mostly Useless'
In a column published in Vox, senior Vox correspondent Ian Millhiser is critical of Biden’s three proposals to reform the Supreme Court:...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 29, 20242 min read
Biden Proposes Supreme Court Term Limits, Ethics Code
President Joe Biden has unveiled a proposal for changes at the U.S. Supreme Court, calling on Congress to establish term limits and an...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 26, 20241 min read
Justice Kagan: Need to Enforce New Supreme Court Ethics Code
Justice Elena Kagan publicly called for strengthening the new ethics code of the U.S. Supreme Court by adding a means of enforcement, The...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 24, 20241 min read
Jordan Demands Briefing On Supreme Court Justice Security
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday accused Democrats of using incendiary rhetoric toward the Supreme Court...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 17, 20242 min read
Biden Shifts Supreme Court Views, Will Back Term Limits, Ethics Code
President Biden is preparing to call for term limits and an enforceable ethics code for U.S. Supreme Court justices in what would be...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 12, 20241 min read
Fifth Circuit 'Happy to be Forum' for Those Who Want to Challenge Feds
The Supreme Court repudiated the Fifth Circuit in eight cases, more than any other court this term, but legal experts say the appeals...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 12, 20241 min read
Sotomayor Urges States to Address Debunked Forensic Evidence
“Is there a constitutional right not to be convicted based on junk science?” The Intercept asks, in a piece about an Alabama case based...
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