Lawrence Hurley
By Lawrence Hurley
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Fast Forward Rod Rosenstein Gets Break From Stressful Day Job — With Supreme Grilling
Only for embattled Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein could a half hour of tough questioning from U.S. Supreme Court justices be seen as a break from his stressful day job. That is what happened on Monday for Rosenstein, who oversees Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia and the 2016 U.S. election, and has been…
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Fast Forward U.S. Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Terror Victims’ Lawsuit Against Palestinians
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization gained a legal victory at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday as the justices refused to consider reinstating a $655.5 million jury award won against them by 11 American families over militant attacks in Israel. The court declined to hear the families’ appeal of a…
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Fast Forward Ruth Bader Ginsburg Apologizes for ‘Ill-Advised’ Attacks on Donald Trump
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Thursday said she regrets making critical comments about Republican presidential contender Donald Trump. “On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them,” she said in a statement issued by the court. Ginsburg, the 83-year-old senior liberal member of the high…
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Fast Forward Judge Merrick Garland Once Lost Out to Elena Kagan — Long on Obama’s Radar
President Barack Obama will nominate Jewish appellate court judge Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, the White House said, setting up a potentially ferocious political showdown with Senate Republicans who have vowed to block any Obama nominee. Garland, 63, who is currently chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…
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Fast Forward Antonin Scalia’s Death Could Leave 4-4 Split on Key Votes
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday means that the normally nine-member U.S. Supreme Court will probably be down to eight when it rules on such divisive issues as abortion, immigration, affirmative action and the power of public-sector unions. With a replacement unlikely to be appointed before the current Supreme Court term ends in…
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News Antonin Scalia Was Irrascible Conservative — and Unlikely Opera-Loving Pal of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
In almost 30 years on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was strident, colorful, and most of all, conservative. That made him an unlikely buddy for fellow justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “I love him but sometimes I’d like to strangle him,” Ginsburg, a liberal who bonded with Scalia over a love…
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Fast Forward Supreme Court OK’s Gay Marriage in Landmark Ruling
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement. The court ruled 5-4 that the Constitution’s guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law mean that states cannot ban same-sex marriages. With the ruling, gay…
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Fast Forward Supreme Court Strikes Down Jerusalem Passport Case
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law that would allow American citizens born in Jerusalem to have Israel listed as their birthplace on passports, handing a victory to President Barack Obama’s administration. The Obama administration argued that the law unlawfully encroached on the president’s power to set foreign policy and would have, if…
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