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California Man Admits Trying To Kill Justice Kavanaugh, Faces Long Term
A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington,...
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6 days ago1 min read
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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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Jan 22 min read
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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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Dec 12, 20242 min read
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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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Dec 5, 20242 min read
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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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Nov 29, 20242 min read
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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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Nov 7, 20242 min read
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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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Nov 7, 20242 min read
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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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Oct 11, 20242 min read
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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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Oct 7, 20242 min read
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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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Sep 25, 20242 min read
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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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Sep 20, 20241 min read
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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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Sep 19, 20242 min read
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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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Sep 10, 20242 min read
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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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Aug 2, 20242 min read
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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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Jul 30, 20241 min read
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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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Jul 29, 20242 min read
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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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Jul 26, 20241 min read
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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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Jul 24, 20241 min read
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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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Jul 17, 20242 min read
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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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Jul 12, 20241 min read
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