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Supreme Court rules against North Carolina Republicans over election law theory

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Share In a major election-law decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that although the Constitution gives state legislatures the power to regulate federal elections, state courts can supervise the legislature’s exercise of that power. Supreme Court last year, challenging the state supreme court’s decision.

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US Supreme Court declines to review overturned Cosby conviction

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The US Supreme Court Monday declined to review the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that overturned entertainer Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction. Cosby appealed the decision, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction in June 2021.

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Privilege Takeaways From 3 Cybersecurity Report Rulings

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A recent Pennsylvania federal court decision compelling Rutter's Inc.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2020

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A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Justices add confrontation-clause case to next term’s docket

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On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to take up the case of Darrell Hemphill , who was convicted for the 2006 shooting death of a child, who was a passenger in a car that drove by a fight on a street in the Bronx. Share The Sixth Amendment gives a defendant in a criminal prosecution the right “to be confronted with the witnesses against him.”

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Colorado Judge Rejects 14th Amendment Disqualification Effort to Bar Trump from Ballot

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Judge Wallace rejected the use of the amendment to prevent voters from voting for Trump in the 2024 election, declaring that “[t]he Court holds there is scant direct evidence regarding whether the presidency is one of the positions subject to disqualification.” Accordingly, “[t]he Court orders the Secretary of State to place Donald J.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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