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Crime and Justice News
Jun 2, 20222 min read
Will Supreme Court Clerks Give Phone Records To Leak Probers?
Frustrations appear to be mounting at the Supreme Court four weeks after Politico published a leaked draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito...
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Crime and Justice News
May 24, 20221 min read
Supreme Court, 6-3, Limits Appeals Over Deficient Criminal Lawyers
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state prisoners have no constitutional right to present new evidence in federal court to support their...
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Crime and Justice News
May 20, 20221 min read
Pro-Choice Group Vows to Continue Protests At Justices' Homes
The pro-choice activist group leading protests outside the homes of Supreme Court justices vowed not to stop its “civil disobedience”...
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Crime and Justice News
May 13, 20222 min read
Should Demonstrators at Justices' Homes Be Prosecuted?
Protesters chanting loudly outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in Maryland said they wanted to impinge on his privacy with picket...
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Crime and Justice News
May 12, 20221 min read
GOP Govs: DOJ Must Enforce Law Barring Protests At Justices' Homes
Govs. Larry Hogan of Maryland and Glenn Youngkin of Virginia called on the Justice Department to “provide adequate resources” to protect...
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Crime and Justice News
May 10, 20221 min read
Senate Moves to Protect Justices' Families Amid Protests At Homes
The Senate passed a bill to expand police protections for Supreme Court justices to include their immediate family members after protests...
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Crime and Justice News
May 5, 20222 min read
Supreme Court Marshal Probes Leak That May Not Be Criminal
The Supreme Court marshal assigned to find out who leaked a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is a retired Army colonel with untested...
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Crime and Justice News
May 4, 20222 min read
High Court Issue: Should DOJ Join Abortion Draft Leak Probe?
Now that Chief Justice John Roberts has ordered an investigation into the breach of an initial draft majority opinion overturning Roe v....
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Crime and Justice News
May 4, 20221 min read
Brief Violence At L.A. Protest Over Supreme Court Leak on Roe v. Wade
A Los Angeles protest over the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that would throw out the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling briefly...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 27, 20221 min read
Justices Debate 'Remain in Mexico,' 'Facts Have ... Overtaken the Law'
The Supreme Court is considering the executive branch’s leeway over immigration policy, hearing the Biden administration’s appeal of...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 21, 20222 min read
Breadth of Famed Miranda Ruling At Issue Again In Supreme Court
If there is one constitutional protection known to anyone with a television set, it is the warning required by the Supreme Court’s 1966...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 5, 20222 min read
Supreme Court Broadens Reach of Malicious Prosecution Actions
A Brooklyn man who tried to sue police for malicious prosecution under a federal civil rights law won his case in the Supreme Court, the...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 28, 20221 min read
Are Texts from Justice Thomas's Wife 'Textbook Case' for Recusal?
Senate Judiciary Committee member Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) made the case for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's recusal from cases...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 22, 20222 min read
Why GOP Criticism of Jackson on Child Porn Terms is Misleading
Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Facing senators’ questions for the first time, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson forcefully...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 21, 20222 min read
Crime Will Be a Focus Of Jackson Confirmation Hearings
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and her supporters plan to highlight her legal experience and history of working with Republicans during her...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 15, 20221 min read
IACP Backs Ketanji Brown Jackson For Supreme Court Seat
The International Association of Chiefs of Police endorsed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s nominee to the Supreme Court,...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 7, 20221 min read
Supreme Court Voids Long Term Based on 10 Thefts In One Night
In one evening, William Dale Wooden of Georgia burglarized ten units in a single storage facility. He pleaded guilty to ten counts of...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 2, 20221 min read
Justices Turn to Grammar To Debate Drug-Prosecution Convictions
Medical doctors sentenced to decades in prison for writing hundreds of thousands of scripts for painkillers asked the Supreme Court to...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 1, 20222 min read
Justices Set For Arguments On Federal Officer Immunity
A Supreme Court case arising from a Border Patrol agent's conduct at an inn near the border of Washington state and Canada has the...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 28, 20222 min read
Parsing Jackson's 'Deep Roots' In Criminal Law
As potentially the first Supreme Court justice since Thurgood Marshall with criminal defense experience, nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson...
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