Author: Mark Sherman
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Judges dismiss Trump claims in Georgia, Michigan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits Thursday, undercutting a campaign legal strategy to attack the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean President Donald Trump’s defeat. The rulings came as Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to…
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GOP pushes Barrett’s nomination ahead
WASHINGTON • Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination cleared a key hurdle Thursday as Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans powered past Democrats’ objections in the drive to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick before the Nov. 3 election. The panel set Oct. 22 for its vote to recommend Barrett’s nomination to the full Senate for a…
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Barrett keeps Democrats at bay in Senate hearing
WASHINGTON • Over and over, Amy Coney Barrett said she’d be her own judge if confirmed to the Supreme Court. But she was careful in two long days of Senate testimony not to take on the president who nominated her, and she sought to create distance between herself and past positions, writings on controversial subjects…
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Barrett stands ground from Dems’ skeptical questions
WASHINGTON • Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted back Democrats’ skeptical questions on abortion, gun rights and election disputes in lively Senate confirmation testimony Tuesday, insisting she would bring no personal agenda to the court but would decide cases as they come. The 48-year-old appellate court judge declared her conservative views with often colloquial…
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Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBG
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moved slowly. • When court was in session, she often had her head down, sometimes leading visitors to think she was asleep. She once acknowledged she did occasionally nod off. She once confessed to dozing during a State of the Union. • But it was a mistake to equate…
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No peeking, voters: Court keeps Trump taxes private for now
WASHINGTON • Rejecting President Donald Trump’s complaints that he’s being harassed, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a New York prosecutor’s demands for the billionaire president’s tax records. But in good political news for Trump, his taxes and other financial records almost certainly will be kept out of the public eye at least…
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Supreme Court lifts ban on state aid to religious schooling
WASHINGTON (AP) — States can’t cut religious schools out of programs that send public money to private education, a divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. By a 5-4 vote with the conservatives in the majority, the justices upheld a Montana scholarship program that allows state tax credits for private schooling in which almost all the recipients…
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Justices boost Trump administration’s power in asylum cases
WASHINGTON • The Supreme Court on Thursday strengthened the Trump administration’s ability to deport people seeking asylum without allowing them to make their case to a federal judge. Immigration experts suggested the administration would use sweeping language in the majority opinion to bolster broader efforts to restrict asylum. The high court’s 7-2 ruling applies to…
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Supreme Court rejects Trump attempt to end DACA
WASHINGTON • The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, the second stunning election-season rebuke from the court in a week after its ruling that it’s illegal to fire people because they’re gay or transgender. Immigrants who are part of the 8-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood…
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Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to end DACA protections for young immigrants
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. The outcome seems certain to elevate the issue in Trump’s campaign, given the anti-immigrant rhetoric of his first presidential run in 2016…