Supreme Court justices are showing their willingness to boost conservative causes | #elections | #alabama
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- January 18, 2023
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CNN — The Supreme Court’s reversal of abortion rights last year deviated so much from traditional decision-making that it might have soon appeared an aberration. But now into 2023, the six conservative justices are plainly positioned to remake the law across the board. Their actions in a series of pending cases, reaching out for issues […]
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Biden struggles to confirm judges in the South and thwart Trump’s impact | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- January 9, 2023
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CNN — President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats have moved quickly to appoint scores of judges during the past two years, outpacing former President Donald Trump, but they have stalled in the South. The dearth of nominees offered in southern states, notably where both US senators are Republican, threatens to undercut Biden’s large-scale effort to […]
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Kenneth Smith: Alabama set to execute inmate whose jury voted 11-1 for life in prison | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- November 17, 2022
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CNN — Alabama plans to execute on Thursday an inmate whose jury’s 11-1 vote for a life sentence was overridden by the trial judge who opted instead for the death penalty, a practice the state has since repealed. Kenneth Smith, convicted of capital murder for his role in the 1988 killing of Elizabeth Sennett, should […]
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What is even left of the Voting Rights Act? | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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- October 4, 2022
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A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — If you read Tuesday that the Supreme Court was hearing a challenge to a key part of the Voting Rights Act and thought to yourself, “Didn’t they already gut the Voting […]
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Curtain lifts on another historic Supreme Court term in the new normal | #elections | #alabama
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- October 3, 2022
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This Sunday, Oct. 2, at 8 p.m. ET and PT, CNN will air Fareed Zakaria’s latest special report, “Supreme Power: Inside the Highest Court in the Land.” CNN — Chief Justice John Roberts is looking forward to the start of the Supreme Court’s new term on Monday, especially now that the public will be able […]
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US Supreme Court Set to Start Potentially Tumultuous Term | #elections | #alabama
WASHINGTON — Fresh off an unusually rocky term in which it ended the constitutional right to abortion, the U.S. Supreme Court is embarking on another potentially tumultuous calendar of consequential cases. The new term opens Monday, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joining her eight colleagues as the first Black woman to sit on the bench. […]
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Opinion: Supreme Court can’t treat us like mind readers | #elections | #alabama
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- September 27, 2022
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Editor’s Note: Steve Vladeck is a CNN legal analyst and a professor at the University of Texas School of Law. He is the author of the upcoming book “The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View […]
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Red states are building a nation within a nation | #alaska | #politics
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CNN — It was a revealing sign of the times when the Supreme Court last week, in response to a lawsuit from the Republican state attorneys general in Texas and Louisiana, blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from changing a key element of federal immigration policy. The case was just the latest example of how red […]
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