Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to US Supreme Court
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July 8, 2019
Michelle Carter: Girlfriend who pushed boy to kill himself appeals, takes death by text case to U.S. Supreme Court
Michelle Carter, the Massachusetts woman currently serving a 15-month sentence for encouraging her late boyfriend to kill himself in 2014, has appealed her case up to the U.S. Supreme Court. BuzzFeed reported that Carter, 22, has asked the country’s highest court to review her involuntary manslaughter conviction on the basis that her texts to Conrad …
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June 21, 2019
Supreme Court tosses conviction of death row inmate tried 6 times for quadruple murder after prosecutor shows pattern of racial bias: Reports
The Supreme Court ordered a new trial for a Mississippi death row inmate who was tried for the same crime six times by a prosecutor accused of showing a pattern of racial bias in the jury selection process. Curtis Flowers, 49, spent 22 years on death row for the 1996 fatal shooting of four employees …
October 6, 2018
50-48: Kavanaugh confirmed to Supreme Court after sex assault claims, contentious confirmation process
By ALAN FRAM and LISA MASCARO, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The bitterly polarized U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday to join the Supreme Court, delivering an election-season triumph to President Donald Trump that could swing the court rightward for a generation after a battle that rubbed raw the country’s cultural, gender and political …
Politics and Crime
September 28, 2018
GOP agrees to FBI probe of Kavanaugh
By LISA MASCARO, ALAN FRAM and MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — After a dramatic flurry of last-minute negotiations, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh cleared a key procedural hurdle Friday, but his confirmation prospects were still deeply uncertain as Republicans agreed to ask for a new FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations. Under pressure …
Politics and Crime
September 27, 2018
The Moment: Dr. Ford describes memory of Kavanaugh laughing
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Indelible. That’s the way Christine Blasey Ford described the details of what she says was a sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, on a summer evening three decades ago. Asked for the most vivid memory from that night, she did not name a physical violation. Rather, …
Politics and Crime
September 27, 2018
Senate Showdown: Angry Kavanaugh denies allegations of sex assault
By LISA MASCARO and ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a day like few others in Senate history, California psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford quietly recounted her “100 percent” certainty Thursday that President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court had sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers — and then Brett Kavanaugh defiantly …
Sex Crimes
September 16, 2018
‘He was trying to attack me’: Professor comes forward with sex assault claim against SCOTUS nominee
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A California woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct when they were in high school has come forward, alleging in an interview that Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed at a Maryland house party and clumsily tried to remove her clothing. Christine Blasey …
National
June 27, 2018
Justice Kennedy retiring; Trump gets 2nd Supreme Court pick
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday, giving President Donald Trump the chance to cement conservative control of the high court. The 81-year-old Kennedy said in a statement he is stepping down after more than 30 years on the court. A Republican appointee, he has held …
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June 24, 2017
Is a Supreme Court justice about to retire?
Big cases, retirement rumors as Supreme Court nears finish