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On March 16, President Obama announced his pick for the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia: Merrick Garland, chief judge of the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
Barack Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday he would nominate appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, challenging Republicans to reject a long-time jurist and former prosecutor known he called "one of America's sharpest legal minds."
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite calls to select a Supreme Court nominee from outside the judicial monastery, President Barack Obama doesn't appear to be ready to leave the faith. In his search for a replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, President Barack Obama is zeroing in on a small
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MIAMI (AP) — A federal appeals court judge who could have become the Supreme Court's first Cuban-American justice has withdrawn his name from consideration, a Democratic senator said Wednesday. Judge Adalberto Jordan told U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida that he is not interested in being a candidate
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats accused Republicans on Tuesday of taking their cues from Donald Trump after the Senate's No. 2 Republican said President Barack Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court should expect to be treated like a "piñata." Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Republicans
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Alabama's top court went too far when it tried to upend a lesbian mother's adoption of her partner's children. The justices threw out a ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court in a dispute between two women
Abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday blocked enforcement of a Louisiana law that could force all but one of the state's abortion clinics to close, a sign that a similar law in Texas also could be in peril. The justices effectively reversed an order by the federal
Abortion
BOSTON – As the U.S. Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with one of the most significant abortion cases to reach its chambers in two decades, pro-life advocates in Massachusetts highlighted legislative inaction in Boston on a measure similar to the one at the center of the high court case. Like the
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