Category Archives: Supreme Court

Sotomayor speeds toward confirmation

By doris | Published: July 17, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Sonia Sotomayor sped toward confirmation as the nation’s first Hispanic justice Thursday, encouraged by Republican promises of a quick vote and cheered on by a Democratic senator’s challenge to take on the Supreme Court’s conservative wing when she arrives. “Battle out the ideas that you believe in, because I [...]

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Supreme Court asked to block Chrysler sale to Fiat

By doris | Published: June 7, 2009

Full Story At News.yahoo.com WASHINGTON – Three Indiana state pension and construction funds want the Supreme Court to block Chrysler’s sale to Fiat so they can pursue an appeal in hopes of getting a better deal. The funds filed emergency papers at the high court early Sunday. An appeals court in New York approved the [...]

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Supreme Court asked to weigh in on detainee photos

By doris | Published: May 30, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com Justice Department lawyers late Thursday told a federal appeals court in New York — the same one on which high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor sits — to hold off a ruling ordering release of the material, saying they plan to ask the justices to hear their case. The government said it [...]

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On Sotomayor, abortion backers show unease

By doris | Published: May 28, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – In nearly 11 years as a federal appeals court judge, President Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, has never directly ruled on whether the Constitution protects a woman’s right to an abortion. But when she has written opinions that touched tangentially on abortion disputes, she has reached [...]

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Guessing Game: Who Will Replace Souter?

By doris | Published: May 4, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS) As he goes about making his first – but probably not last – appointment to the United States Supreme Court, President Barack Obama surely knows that he’s playing a very strong hand. He has a clear majority of fellow Democrats in the United States Senate – whether the figure [...]

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Obama hopes to replace Souter by October

By doris | Published: May 2, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama pledged Friday to name a Supreme Court justice who combines “empathy and understanding” with an impeccable legal background to succeed liberal David Souter, whose abrupt retirement announcement set off speculation the next justice could be a woman, a Hispanic or both. Obama, who will be making [...]

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Supreme Court hears immigrant’s ID theft case

By doris | Published: February 22, 2009

Full Story At WASHINGTON – Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa, an undocumented worker from Mexico, made a curious and undeniably bad decision. After working under an assumed name for six years, he decided to use his real name and exchanged one set of phony identification numbers for another. The change made his employer suspicious and the authorities [...]

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