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Supreme Court removes Medicaid argument from March calendar

JURIST

The Supreme Court issued Thursday a one-line docket entry removing two consolidated Medicaid cases from its March argument calendar. Gresham and Arkansas v. However, Arkansas’s attorney general, Leslie Rutledge, filed an opposition to the motion to vacate the cases. The two cases, Azar v.

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Court declines to hear death-row inmate’s claim of juror’s racial bias, prompting dissent from liberal justices

SCOTUSBlog

At Love’s trial, his attorney unsuccessfully sought to have a potential juror, Zachary Niesman, excluded from the jury because he was racially biased: Niesman had contended during jury selection that “non-white races” were statistically more violent than whites.

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