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Registry law doesn't apply to all sex offenders, Supreme Court rules
A sex offender who moved from Alabama to Indiana in 2004 does not have to register with authorities because his move predates the registry law Congress enacted in 2006, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
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Supreme Court puts limits on life sentences for juveniles
Juveniles who commit crimes that aren't fatal to their victims cannot receive life sentences without possibility of parole, the Supreme Court ruled 6-to-3 on Monday.
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Is the 'tea party' in Utah set to oust a Republican senator?
Many in the tea party movement in Utah aren't happy with Republican Sen. Robert Bennett, saying he's too moderate. They plan to vote their displeasure at the state GOP convention Saturday.
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Supreme Court animal cruelty ruling: All sides find positives
Free-speech advocates say the Supreme Court protected the First Amendment. Animal-rights advocates say it showed how Congress could pass a new anti-animal cruelty law.
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Supreme Court rejects animal cruelty law, upholds free speech
The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a 1999 federal law that criminalized depictions of animal cruelty such as dogfighting videos.
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Chief Justice John Roberts and Obama White House: a tit for tat
Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday, in response to an audience question, he was troubled that President Obama used the occasion of his State of the Union address to criticize a Supreme Court ruling. The Obama White House, in turn, reiterated its objection to the court's decision.
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Senate goes back to the drawing board on campaign finance
A Senate committee on Tuesday discussed how to limit the US Supreme Court campaign-finance ruling that opened elections to corporate ads. One suggestion: a constitutional amendment.
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Obama vs. Alito: Political dust-up during State of the Union
Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito apparently took umbrage at President Obama’s comment about the court’s recent decision on corporate campaign contributions. Was either of them out of line?
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Supreme Court: Campaign-finance limits violate free speech
The Supreme Court campaign finance ruling on Thursday means corporations can spend freely on political ads leading up to elections. The Thursday decision invalidates a part of 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform law that sought to limit corporate influence.
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Supreme Court blocks plans to broadcast Prop. 8 trial
The Supreme Court said that the trial judge in the Prop. 8 case attempted change the federal rules that restrict broadcasts of trials. The case deals with California’s gay-marriage ban.
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At Supreme Court, no accord over life sentences for juveniles
After two hours of arguments Monday, Supreme Court justices seem split on whether states can mete out life sentences to juveniles who aren't killers.
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Supreme Court appears split on tackling rogue prosecutors
The Supreme Court Wednesday heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by two Iowa men who spent 25 in prison after prosecutors allegedly fabricated evidence against them. Justices seemed divided on the issue of how much immunity prosecutors should enjoy.
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Supreme Court questions animal cruelty law
Are dog-fighting videos free speech? Supreme Court justices Tuesday heard a case challenging a federal law covering depictions of animal cruelty.
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Supreme Court to decide case on animal cruelty and free speech
Do depictions of animal cruelty fall short of First Amendment protection? The Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday.
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Questions surround start of new Supreme Court term
How will Sonia Sotomayor vote? Is John Paul Stevens soon to retire? Will John Roberts and Samuel Alito be more unabashedly conservative? The term begins Monday.
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Supreme Court justices question campaign finance law
At a hearing Wednesday on 'Hillary: The Movie,' conservative justices repeatedly asked whether limits on corporate contributions in federal elections are too broad and amount to censorship of free speech.
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'Hillary' case: the legal stakes
Three Supreme Court justices have already announced their willingness to overturn a pair of key precedents.
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With scant support for Sotomayor, did the GOP hurt itself?
Republicans need to attract more Hispanic voters. But just nine in the Senate approved the first Hispanic justice’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
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Sotomayor roundup: How Republicans will vote
Six GOP senators have announced their intentions ahead of Tuesday's Judiciary Committee vote on the Supreme Court nominee.
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Sotomayor on track to easy Supreme Court confirmation
At her confirmation hearings this week, any ideological slugfest was avoided as the nominee stayed low-key and judicial.
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Opinion: Ricci and the future of race in America
We're witnessing the beginning of the end of affirmative action.
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Sotomayor hearings begin with debate over judges' role
Senators drew the battle lines early in confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nominee.
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The Monitor's View: The Ricci ruling's real message
The heated, even political debate among the justices calls for a national race debate.
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Supreme Court to convicts: No constitutional right to DNA testing
Conservative majority opinion limits prisoners’ chances to prove innocence.
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GOP's new Sotomayor strategy: Attack Obama
As a senator, Obama voted against Justices Roberts and Alito on the basis of their ideology, Republicans say. Why can't we do the same? they ask.
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