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Supreme Court Won't Spare Beltway Sniper

Execution set for tomorrow as request for more time fails

Nov 9, 09 3:47 PM CST
(Newser) - The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from John Allen Muhammad, also known as the Beltway sniper, clearing the way for his execution tomorrow. Muhammad’s lawyers said he needed more time to prepare his appeals. Although justices Stevens, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor questioned Virginia law for not affording convicts... More »

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death penalty • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • execution • John Paul Stevens • US Supreme Court • sniper • John Allen Muhammad • Lee Boyd Malvo • Sonia Sotomayor • Beltway Sniper

INTERVIEW

Justice Stevens Hints He'll Retire This Term

Liberal stalwart, at age 89, admits, 'I'm not exactly a kid'

Oct 19, 09 6:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - John Paul Stevens, the senior justice on the Supreme Court and the bench's liberal lion, says he gave serious thought to retiring—in the late 1980s, when he was 65 years old. Instead, while younger colleagues have packed their bags, Stevens has become the court's master tactician, cobbling together narrow... More »

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg • retirement • John Paul Stevens • federal judges • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor • Supreme Court justice

 Ginsburg Hospitalized Again 

Justice suffers adverse reaction to medications, released after overnight stay

Oct 15, 09 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg is out of the hospital after suffering an adverse reaction to medication last night. While waiting for takeoff on a plane bound for London, Ginsburg because extremely drowsy and fell from her seat because of a reaction between a prescription sleeping aid and an OTC cold medication,... More »

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg • cold medicine • US Supreme Court • sleeping pills • hospitalization • drug interaction • Supreme Court justice

(AP) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from a Washington hospital today after spending the night as a precaution. The 76-year-old Supreme Court justice planned to be back at work later today. Ginsburg, who underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in February, "developed lightheadedness and fatigue" in her office yesterday after receiving... More »

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cancer • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Anemia • pancreatic cancer • US Supreme Court • Supreme Court justice

Justice Ginsburg Hospitalized After Faint Spell at Court

76-year-old has been battling pancreatic cancer

Sep 24, 09 7:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has been battling pancreatic cancer, is in a Washington hospital tonight after feeling ill at work. In a statement, the court said that Ginsburg, 76, felt faint after a routine infusion, and that though subsequent tests and monitoring showed her “in stable... More »

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg • hospital • pancreatic cancer • US Supreme Court • fainting • infusion

Justices Prepare for Newest 'Family Member'

In rare interviews, they discuss dynamics of Supreme Court shifts

Sep 4, 09 7:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Sonia Sotomayor takes the bench for the first time next week, the Supreme Court will never be the same—as justice after justice tells C-Span in a rare interview program, each new member transforms the court's composition. John Roberts says that he looks at the bench "like people... More »

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Samuel Alito • John Roberts • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Sandra Day O'Connor • Clarence Thomas • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

 Justice Stevens 
 May Be Getting 
 Ready to Retire 

Liberal judge slows hiring of law clerks

Sep 2, 09 9:38 AM CDT
(AP) - Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has hired only one law clerk for the upcoming legal season, generating speculation that the leader of the court's liberals will retire next year and give President Obama the chance to fill a second seat on the court. Justice David Souter, who was replaced... More »

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg • retirement • John Paul Stevens • US Supreme Court

ANALYSIS

Sotomayor's Rope-A-Dope Strategy Looks Familiar

Nominee gives little insight into her true feelings on controversial issues

Jul 14, 09 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Sonia Sotomayor’s question-and-answer session with the Senate Judiciary Committee continues today, the Supreme Court nominee is deploying a familiar strategy, Andrew Cohen writes for CBS News. It's the Rope-a-Dope, much like the one used by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito in their confirmation hearings. Simply... More »

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg • GOP • firefighters • partisanship • Senate confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor

(Newser) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg can't wait for Sonia Sotomayor to join her on the Supreme Court. In a lively Q&A with Emily Bazelon for the New York Times magazine, Ginsburg says she's tired of being the lone female justice. "It’s almost like being back in law school in... More »

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(AP) - An Arizona middle school's strip search of a teenage girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen was illegal, the Supreme Court ruled today. School officials violated the law with their search of Savana Redding, the justices said in an 8-1 ruling. Redding, who now attends college, was 13 when school officials... More »

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Arizona • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Constitution • John Paul Stevens • Fourth Amendment • strip search • Clarence Thomas • US Supreme Court • Savana Redding

(Newser) - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today put a temporary stay on the sale of Chrysler to Italian automaker Fiat, SCOTUSBlog reports. Ginsburg’s motion allows the justices to further consider the matter, and either postpone the sale or let it go forward. A full postponement of the sale would... More »

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Chrysler • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • bankruptcy • mergers and acquisitions • auto industry • US Supreme Court • sale • Fiat

(Newser) - The women of the Supreme Court—Sandra Day O'Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and now likely Sonia Sotomayor—may come from wildly different backgrounds, but they all shared a common childhood pastime: curling up with a Nancy Drew novel. What was it about that wholesome teenage detective? wonders Mary Jo... More »

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Sandra Day O'Connor • reading • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor • Nancy Drew

OPINION

GOP Must Get Revenge in High Court Hearings

Democrats changed the rules by opposing Roberts, Alito

May 20, 09 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Democrats waged an ideological war on the Supreme Court nominations of conservatives John Roberts and Samuel Alito, they set a dangerous precedent that should boomerang on whoever President Obama selects, says the Bush official in charge of those confirmations. Previously, the Senate graciously ushered through anyone with sufficient intellect,... More »

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Barack Obama • Samuel Alito • John Roberts • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Stephen Breyer • Ed Gillespie • confirmation hearings • US Supreme Court

Ginsburg Wants Another Woman at High Court

Justice bemoans her
male colleagues' 'lack of understanding'

May 6, 09 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Among the many people calling on Barack Obama to name a woman to fill his first Supreme Court vacancy, one voice stands out: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the sole female on the nation's highest bench. In a frank interview with USA Today, the justice says that some of her male colleagues... More »

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women • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • gender discrimination • strip search • US Supreme Court • justices • David Souter

ANALYSIS

Obama May Look Off-Court to Fill Souter Vacancy

Expect a woman from outside appeals circuit

May 1, 09 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - With everyone attempting to predict President Obama's thinking on a nominee to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court, CBS News makes two observations. The White House has dropped hints that it wants someone who is not a federal appeals court judge—as all nine current justices once were. And... More »

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Barack Obama • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Jennifer Granholm • US Supreme Court • judicial nominations • David Souter • Elena Kagan

(Newser) - The Supreme Court today put new limits on police officers' ability to search a car after an arrest, the Washington Post reports. The 5-4 ruling—with an unusual grouping of justices—says police need a warrant unless certain criteria apply, a break from the standard practice of about 30 years.... More »

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Antonin Scalia • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • John Paul Stevens • Clarence Thomas • US Supreme Court • constitutional law • David Souter • automobile • traffic stop • police search

Ginsburg Shows No Signs
of Slowing Down

Symposium celebrates 'midpoint'
of justice's career

Apr 12, 09 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg has shown no signs of slowing, despite cancer surgery in February: Since then, she's attended every Supreme Court session, written more opinions than all but one other justice, and raised plenty of questions from the bench. A symposium celebrating Ginsburg’s service almost seemed designed to quash... More »

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cancer • feminism • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • justice • pancreatic cancer • US Supreme Court

 Ginsburg 
 to Undergo 
 Chemo 

Justice says pancreatic cancer treatment won't affect court schedule

Mar 17, 09 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who recently had surgery for pancreatic cancer, will begin chemotherapy later this month, the Supreme Court said today. “I am scheduled to undergo a precautionary post-surgical course of chemotherapy at the National Institutes of Health,” the justice said. She said the treatments shouldn’t affect... More »

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg • chemotherapy • pancreatic cancer • US Supreme Court



 Ginsburg: 
 I'm Not 
 Going 
 Anywhere 

Justice says cancer won't stop her from serving several more years

Mar 6, 09 10:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Contrary to Beltway speculation, Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn't plan to leave the Supreme Court any time soon. The 75-year-old justice has survived cancer before (colorectal, a decade ago), and doesn't see a reason why the recent diagnosis of pancreatic cancer should cut short her judicial career, she tells USA Today.... More »

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg • pancreatic cancer • US Supreme Court • Jim Bunning • President Obama

Bunning Is the GOP's Burris

Despite electoral peril and party pressure, gaffe-prone Kentucky senator won't retire

Mar 6, 09 7:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Senator Jim Bunning, a former Hall of Fame pitcher, may have absorbed too much “quitters never win” talk while still an athlete: The New York Times reports that the erratic Kentuckian won’t go away, despite his Republican colleagues’ best efforts. Bunning barely held his seat in 2004 after... More »

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Senate • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Kentucky • Senate Republicans • John Cornyn • Senate race • Jim Bunning • Election 2010 • National Republican Senatorial Committee • Bill Maher Grid

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