Recent Updates
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Top Ga. court considers voter ID law
Legal News Feed 09/07/2010Georgia's top court is considering the legality of the state's oft-challenged law that requires voters to show photo identification before they cast their ballots.The Georgia Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday on a new type of legal chall...
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Ginsburg talks about television and the high court
Legal News Feed 08/30/2010Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says television has profoundly changed confirmation hearings but declined to say whether she'd oppose televising arguments.Ginsburg told a Colorado judicial conference Friday that TV has made Supreme Court co...
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Ruling overturning Prop 8 shaped for higher courts?
Legal News Feed 08/23/2010When U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker struck down California's Proposition 8—the 2008 ballot initiative to outlaw gay marriage—he said the motivation for the majority of voters was clear."The evidence shows conclusively that moral and religious view...
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Calif. Supreme Court OKs Schwarzenegger furloughs
Legal News Feed 08/19/2010The California Supreme Court says furloughs of state workers can resume while it reviews whether governors have the authority to mandate unpaid days off.The announcement Wednesday was a victory for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has sought to save t...
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Founding member of terrorist group pleads guilty
Legal News Feed 07/30/2010A founding member of a terrorist group has pleaded guilty in the kidnapping of 16 people, including four Americans, at a Philippine resort 15 years ago.During an appearance in federal court Wednesday, Madhatta Haipe admitted that he and several armed...
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GOP Sen. Snowe to support Kagan for Supreme Court
Legal News Feed 07/29/2010Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says she plans to vote to confirm Elena Kagan as a Supreme Court justice.The Maine lawmaker's announcement makes her the fourth Republican to break with her party to back President Barack Obama's high court nominee.In a ...
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Pa. senator, sister to be tried on ethics charges
Legal News Feed 07/22/2010A western Pennsylvania lawmaker and one of her sisters will stand trial on charges they used the state senator's taxpayer-funded staff for campaign work for herself and another sister, a state Supreme Court justice, a judge ruled Wednesday. State Sen...
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Man with neo-Nazi ties leading patrols in AZ
Legal News Feed 07/19/2010Minutemen groups, a surge in Border Patrol agents, and a tough new immigration law aren't enough for a reputed neo-Nazi who's now leading a militia in the Arizona desert. Jason "J.T." Ready is taking matters into his own hands, declaring war on "narc...
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Obama: Fix 'a broken immigration system'
Legal News Feed 07/01/2010President Obama today called for a "practical, common sense" immigration system that will help the U.S. economy and maintain the steady flow of immigrants who have always enriched the United States."Such an approach demands accountability from everyb...
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Obama, lawmakers to discuss energy, immigration
Legal News Feed 06/29/2010President Barack Obama is turning his attention to energy and immigration legislation Tuesday.He'll meet with a bipartisan group of senators to discuss passing comprehensive energy and climate legislation this year.The president also will meet with m...
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Fellow law clerks endorse Kagan for court
Legal News Feed 06/23/2010A broad group of former law clerks who worked with Elena Kagan at the Supreme Court some 20 years ago are calling her exceptionally well-qualified to be a justice. Twenty-nine people who were fellow clerks from 1987 to 1988, when Kagan worked for for...
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Kagan's e-mails to go public as hearings approach
Legal News Feed 06/18/2010Ever wish you could rifle through a public figure's e-mail? Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's e-mails are about to go public as part of the Senate Judiciary Committee's preparations for her confirmation hearings in a little more than a week.The Wil...