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The Case for Impeaching Clarence Thomas
With new evidence that he lied to get onto the Supreme Court, it’s time to take the idea seriously.
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Tempers Flare as Panama Hotel Owners Try to Oust Trump Company
A bitter struggle between a Trump Organization hotel business and the owners of the Panama City hotel that carries the Trump name escalated on Monday when the Panamanian authorities announced that they had begun a formal investigation into the dispute. The country’s Public Ministry said in a brief statement that it was looking into whether there had been any “punishable conduct” in the matter. The decision came in response to a complaint filed with the ministry on Friday accusing Trump executives of illegal “encroachment” on the property, the ministry’s statement said.
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We All Must Live With Mitch McConnell’s Proudest Moment
A Supreme Court case on public-sector unions is a reminder of why it matters how Justice Neil Gorsuch landed on the court.
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When the Supreme Court Doesn't Care About Facts
The conservative justices seem prepared to decide Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, a case that could harm public sector unions, without so much as a factual record.
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Allergan was blasted for its unusual Mohawk patent license, and now it's a total flop
After months of criticism that even spilled into a judge's opinion in a separate case, Allergan's Restasis patent deal with the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe just didn't work. Thanks to a Friday ruling, the blockbuster eye drug has to face the very patent challenge Allergan sought to prevent.
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Every lawyer in Utah received a picture of naked breasts from the state's Bar association
Just after 3 p.m. on Monday, all attorneys in the state of Utah received a shocking email from the bar association.
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'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie
How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent
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Charles Manson Grandson Wins Legal Battle Over Cult Leader's Body
At least three people claimed that they had a legal right to dispose of Manson's body. His remains have been stored in California's Kern County since his death in November.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Opens Up About MeToo, Voting Rights, and Millennials
The Supreme Court justice talks #MeToo, Millennials, and the cases she’d like to see overturned.
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Opinion | Justice Scalia’s Fading Legacy
Using legislative history to interpret laws once risked tiptoeing over the hot coals of his scorn. No longer. Now justices use it without apology.
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Bill Cosby’s lawyer falls asleep during testimony
As rapt jurors listened to the judge overseeing Bill Cosby’s sex assault retrial read back prior testimony, the entertainer’s lead lawyer snoozed in his chair. Tom Mesereau, mouth open, drifted in and out of consciousness Wednesday as Judge Steven O’Neill read pages and pages of Cosby’s own words about Quaaludes and his sexual contact with accuser Andrea Constand into the record. Cosby, now 80, sat for the civil deposition over 2004 and 2005, in connection with a lawsuit Constand filed against him that would later be settled for $3.4 million.
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Opinion | The Supreme Court and the New Civil War
The battle between the White House and blue states raises questions about the limits of federal authority.
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'Hero' policeman wins payout 46 years on
Former Australian detective Denis Ryan was driven out of the police force in 1972 when he tried to bring a paedophile priest to justice. Now almost 50 years after he was ordered by superiors to drop the case - and deprived of a police pension - Mr Ryan will receive compensation. The 86-year-old man was recently awarded an undisclosed sum by the state government of Victoria.
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Sotomayor’s Libertarian Defense of Private Property Puts Thomas and Alito to Shame
A case about a stolen motorcycle has major ramifications for Americans’ right to live free from police intrusions.
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Poland's Top Judge Rings Alarm as Populist Makeover Takes Hold
As Italy’s new government prepares to challenge the European Union, Poland has a timely lesson for how quickly a particular brand of politics can change a country.
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Pakistani student stabbed 23 times, fights back after her attacker walks free
A Pakistani law student has emerged as a women’s rights crusader after she was stabbed 23 times in a busy street only to see her alleged attacker walk free, igniting outrage across the deeply patriarchal country. Khadija Siddiqui, 23, survived the frenzied attack in broad daylight outside her sister’s school on a busy thoroughfare in the teeming eastern city of Lahore, Pakistan’s cultural capital, in May 2016.
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Poland's Supreme Court rules against print shop worker who refused to make banner for LGBT group
The Polish Supreme Court ruled this week against a print-shop worker who refused to create a banner for an LGBT group, a decision hailed as a victory by gay rights groups in the country.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy to Retire From Supreme Court
The announcement gives President Trump the opportunity to create a solid five-member conservative majority and fundamentally change the direction of the court.
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Amid Growing Uproar, Poland to Remove 27 Supreme Court Justices
The forced dismissal of the judges, including the court’s president, has provoked cries of “Soviet-style justice” while posing a test for the European Union.
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Kennedy’s Sadly and Unnecessarily Tainted Legacy
The Supreme Court’s latest term of almost uniformly hard-right decisions ended last week with the surprise announcement that Justice Anthony Kennedy had decided to retire from the Court. What comes next is almost certain to be an ever more reactionary Court, with Justices Thomas and Gorsuch leading an empowered bloc toward reconsidering established doctrines across the board (abortion rights being only the tip of the iceberg).
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