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We Waited 200 Years for This Supreme Court Ethics Code?
On first impulse, I was tempted to say something nice about the Supreme Court’s first-ever ethics code, which the justices…
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US
Supreme Court Adopts Ethics Code After Reports of Undisclosed Gifts and Travel
The code does not specify how the rules would be enforced or by whom.
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Case Closed?
Prosecutors formally advised lawyers for former Vice President Mike Pence this past June that he would not be charged for…
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US
Trump Endorses Gov. Jim Justice in West Virginia Senate Race
The endorsement is a blow to the governor’s rival for the Republican nomination as the Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin III,…
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World
India’s Top Court Rejects Gay Marriage, While Voicing Sympathy
Though it expanded the definition of discrimination, the ruling was a sharp setback for petitioners seeking a landmark victory on…
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US
Justice Barrett Calls for Supreme Court to Adopt an Ethics Code
In a wide-ranging interview at the University of Minnesota that was disrupted temporarily by demonstrators, the justice said that ethics…
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World
Trump Ordered Not to Comment on Judge’s Staff in Fraud Case
The former president attacked Justice Arthur F. Engoron’s clerk in a social media post that soon disappeared. He was called…
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US
On First Day of New Term, Supreme Court Hears Debate Over First Step Act
The justices heard arguments about how to interpret part of the law aimed at reducing prison sentences for people convicted…
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US
South Carolina Supreme Court Upholds Abortion Law, Reversing Earlier Decision
The ruling, by a newly all-male bench, allows the state’s new six-week abortion ban to take effect.
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Samuel Alito Has a Favorite Branch of Government
In theory, there is no branch in the American constitutional system that exists above or beyond the reach of the…