However, where two or three justices are absent, only four justices constitute a majority of the sitting justices, notwithstanding the fact that four justices do not constitute a majority of Supreme Court seats.
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You have an innovative idea of five Republican-appointed justices, five Democratic-appointed justices, five chosen by consensus from the justices themselves.
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The liberal justices remained just as fixed as the conservative justices.
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GIGOT: Interesting, Bill, three justices agreed, conservative justices, but they filed concurrences.
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Unlike proposals to change life tenure for justices, or to have some justices chosen by other justices or to involuntarily send justices to lower courts, a simple expansion of the Supreme Court would be on rock solid footing with the Constitution.
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Without Scalia, there were four conservative or center-right justices and four liberal justices.
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Liberal justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan joined the conservative justices in the outcome.
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Only three justices voted to grant the administration's request: Justices Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch.
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" For the Supreme Court, they conclude, "justices on both the left and right are part of social networks that reinforce conservatism for Republican justices and liberalism for Democratic justices.
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Now, a startling new study shows that even in the United States Supreme Court, male justices and lawyers far more frequently interrupted female justices than they did male justices.
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Kennedy was joined by justices across the spectrum, including Chief Justice John Roberts, fellow conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, and liberal Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
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Democratic presidents appoint, always, center-left justices, and Republican presidents appoint, always, center-right justices.
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The next question concerned what the justices would have done if they hadn't become justices.
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That is because he views those justices as correct and the conservative justices as wrong.
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The justices did not explain their reasoning, although it took five justices to make the decision.
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Conservative justices Republican gains in the Senate make the process of confirming conservative justices significantly easier.
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The Supreme Court has had more Republican-appointed justices than Democratic-appointed justices since the 1960s.
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Of the five justices in the majority — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — only Justices Gorsuch and Thomas deigned to write anything.
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"What if there were five justices selected by Democrats, five justices selected by Republicans and those 10 then pick five more justices independent of those who picked the first 10," O'Rourke said.
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Several justices, including some of the liberal justices, pointed to this tension early in the oral argument.
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A few Supreme Court justices have been appointed through recess appointments, and Eisenhower appointed three such justices.
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The 10 justices would then agree on five more justices, bringing the court's total to 15 seats.
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Hawaii, the justices carefully tried to answer just about all the arguments made by the disagreeing justices.
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Justice Thomas, writing for Justices Gorsuch and Alito, questioned the motives of the justices in the majority.
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Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, along with Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas, voted to deny the stay.
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And male justices, perhaps not surprisingly, interrupt female justices far more often than the other way around.
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It would have taken five justices to vacate the stay and only four justices -- Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy -- were in favor of doing so.
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"We have as many justices who have graduated from Georgetown Prep as we have justices who have lived as a non-white person," Reeves said, referring to Justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor.
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Justices speak out Supreme Court justices have generally avoided the politics of leaving Scalia's seat vacant and have tried to emphasize that the court is working with only eight justices, as Breyer noted.
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While conservative justices back the business community at a higher rate than their liberal colleagues, legal scholars have also documented how the current liberal justices favor business more often than past liberal justices.
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It takes five justices to overturn a lower court ruling, but only four justices to hear a case.
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Justice Kennedy joined the liberal justices in granting that request, with the four other conservative justices in dissent.
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The 10 justices would then agree on five more justices, bringing the court's total to 15 seats. Sens.
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But word seeps out, through clerks and other staff, through the justices' friends, and through the justices themselves.
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It takes four justices to agree to hear a case and five justices to grant a stay request.
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Double or even triple the number of justices and randomly select panels of nine justices to hear cases.
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These are the very three justices—Republican president appointed justices—who authored the Casey decision, which reaffirmed Roe.
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Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, by contrast, have voted with the conservative justices in several major cases.
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The five conservative justices ruled in favor of the stay, while the liberal justices — including Sotomayor — opposed it.
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On Friday, the five conservative justices ruled in favor of the stay, while the liberal justices opposed it.
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The justices seemed inclined to rule in favor of Flowers, with even conservative justices appearing disturbed by Evans' conduct.
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The justices overturned Alvarez's conviction in a 6-3 vote, but no five justices could agree on the reasoning.
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His passing in February 2016 left the Supreme Court evenly split between four conservative justices and four liberal justices.
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The four justices to his right and the four justices to his left simply held more unyielding jurisprudential views.
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Four justices — Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Thomas, Alito, and Anthony M. Kennedy — voted to grant the state's request.
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Six justices joined most or all of her opinion, and all of the justices agreed on the bottom line.
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The court's five conservative justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts and two justices appointed by Trump, carried the day.
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The four justices appointed by Democratic presidents favored such a ruling, but the five Republican-appointed justices did not.
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Expect the four conservative justices, all appointed by Republicans (Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh) to support the Trump administration's effort to end DACA, and the four liberal justices, all appointed by Democrats (Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elana Kagan) to vote against it.
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The current justices could serve the remainder of their lifetime tenure; Roth notes the irony that there would likely be more than nine justices for several years until only new, term-limited justices are in rotation.
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O'Rourke proposed Republicans and Democrats select 5 justices each and the last 5 be selected independently by the justices. Gov.
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In 1789, the Judiciary Act established the number of justices at six, with a chief justice and five associate justices.
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The Supreme Court "panel" would be composed of nine justices, selected at random from the full pool of associate justices.
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Other justices could see that O'Connor and Rehnquist were personally close and teased each other at the justices' weekly lunches.
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The study found that Republican-appointed justices were significantly more likely to decide cases for a business than Democrat-appointed justices.
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But two other justices will be more than 80 years old by Election Day — surpassing the average retirement age for justices.
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Conservative justices, who have a 5-4 majority on the court, signaled skepticism toward judicial intervention while liberal justices seemed supportive.
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A year from now, it is quite likely that nine justices will take up the question eight justices sidestepped this week.
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By adding more justices—especially more justices appointed by Roosevelt—he hoped to save his New Deal from further defeats there.
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The two justices admired each other, but their gravitational pull was not to each other but to other like-minded justices.
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He is testing public assumptions about a bench deeply split between five Republican-appointed justices and four justices appointed by Democrats.
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What's more, when they focus on getting along with conservative justices, liberal justices fail to develop a jurisprudence of their own.
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During arguments in March, conservative justices signaled skepticism toward allowing judicial intervention to rein in gerrymandering while liberal justices seemed supportive.
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Only eight justices in the history of the Supreme Court were law clerks, and five of those justices now sit together.
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Of the seven justices in the majority (only Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented), only four subscribed to the footnote: Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Samuel A. Alito Jr., and Elena Kagan, in addition to the chief justice.
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The current Supreme Court consists of four justices from the Northeast: Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Samuel Alito.
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In that case, the proposal moved forward despite the state's sitting justices initially insisting that the court's justices needed no further help.
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With Scalia gone, the court is more likely to deadlock between the four liberal justices and the four moderate to conservative justices.
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Two factors determine the Supreme Court's effect on American society: the justices who decide the cases and the cases the justices decide.
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And all five justices who upheld Obamacare in 22010 -- the four liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts -- remain on the bench.
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Our model was able to create a reasonably accurate assessment of justices' views on issues We devised a data-driven framework that learns justices' judicial preferences and voting behavior; it can be used to answer questions about the justices' voting behavior.
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However, the conservative justices weren't the only ones to cross the ideological aisle: Justices Stephen BreyerStephen BreyerTrump Justice Department to resume federal executions Liberal, conservative Supreme Court justices unite in praising Stevens How much do you know about your government?
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On December 8th, Mr Smith lobbed a series of appeals to the justices only to see his pleas divide the justices 4-4.
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President Donald Trump loves to tout his "two great justices," the newest members of the Supreme Court, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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The brief order said two justices, liberals Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, will not participate, meaning only six justices will hear the case.
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Michigan and Ohio had asked the justices to step in to freeze the lower court orders while the justices consider the other cases.
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Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), another 2020 candidate, have suggested a reform allowing Republicans to appoint five justices and Democrats to appoint five justices.
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When justices become celebrities, the separation of law and politics is eroded as justices seek to maintain their popular positions with their bases.
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Along with the four liberal justices, Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John Roberts - the court's two other conservative justices - opposed taking up the matter.
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If the justices agree to take up the case, the court's conservative justices could ultimately scrap one of their icon's most influential decisions.
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The lawmakers said the committee is considering legislative proposals to create a "code of conduct for Supreme Court justices" involving the transparency of court proceedings, the adequacy of justices' financial disclosures and circumstances in which justices or judges must disqualify themselves from cases.
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"What if there were five justices selected by Democrats, five justices selected by Republicans and those 10 then pick five more justices independent of those who picked the first 10," O'Rourke, who announced his presidential bid last week, said in Iowa on Thursday.
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Under Epps and Sitaraman's lottery proposal, "the Supreme Court would hear cases as a panel of nine, randomly selected from all the Justices" — meaning that this panel would be randomly selected from among the nine current justices plus the 179 new justices.
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Hasson conducted an internet search for "are Supreme Court justices protected" before searching for the home addresses of two unnamed justices, court documents revealed.
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We're also projecting to the justices' end of life; there's no way to know if some justices will chose to step down before then.
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For years now, four liberal justices voted one way, four conservative justices another and one rogue justice managed to offend his or her tribe.
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Arguments tend to be a forum for testing the lawyers' dueling positions and for the justices themselves to telegraph positions to their fellow justices.
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Five justices agreed with her: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
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The Supreme Court remains male-dominated (six men to three women until Scalia's death) and white (seven white justices to two justices of color).
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At least five justices had to vote to grant the stay of execution, but justices do not have to announce their vote on stay applications like Madison's stay request, so the exact vote tally — and the votes of the other justices — is not known publicly.
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None of the subsequent two-term presidents reached those numbers: Bill Clinton appointed two Supreme Court justices and 66 appeals court judges; George W. Bush appointed two justices and 453 appeals court judges; and Barack Obama appointed two justices and 55 appeals court judges.
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The justices' alliances were not so neat in earlier decades, when some Republican appointees ended up on the left and some Democratic justices moved right.
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With the court being made up of four reliable conservative-leaning justices, and four liberal-leaning justices, Kennedy often played the role of tie-breaker.
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The justices then, as they were in Monday's ruling, were divided 5-4, with the conservative justices backing the Texas Republicans and the liberals dissenting.
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The court has a conservative bent: five justices were picked by either Ms Park or Mr Lee, or by supreme-court justices appointed by them.
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Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor took around four months to get confirmed in 2010 and 2009, respectively, from the time the previous justices retired.
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Predictably, the eight justices seem to be split 4-4 based on the way legal experts interpret the questions the justices asked during Wednesday's hearing.
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There's also the fact that none of the current Supreme Court justices has expressed interest in retirement, though several of the current justices are aging.
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Neal Katyal, representing Hawaii, had urged the justices to leave the lower court's ruling -- that echoed the justices' own words from the previous case -- intact.
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" He noted that four justices had supported the state's position and that "four liberal justices blocked North Carolina protections afforded by our sensible voter laws.
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In the new filing, Katyal urged the justices to leave the lower court's ruling -- that echoed the justices' own words from the previous case -- intact.
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Because of the importance of the case, we convened a panel of 113 Justices, the maximum number of serving Justices who are permitted to sit.
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Four of the current Justices (Chief Justice Roberts along with Justices Thomas, Ginsburg, and Kavanaugh) served on the D.C. Circuit before joining the High Court.
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Some of the justices said they are bound by what's known as stare decisis, a legal principle which requires justices to adhere to previous rulings.
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Today, Savage notes, the Court has four justices who are likely anti-Roe: Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito.
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Even the dissenting justices — Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito Jr. — agreed that the seven-factor test wasn't acceptable.
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In rural Texas, justices of the peace investigate deaths, among other duties, but the two justices in the region were out of town and unavailable.
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Yesterday's order was another 5-4 vote, with all the Republican-appointed justices in the majority and all the Democrat-appointed justices in the minority.
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Last year, five justices voted to stay Mr. Bucklew's execution, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy joining the four more liberal justices to form a majority.
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The justices seemed to split into three camps: Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. said they would have granted the entire request; Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor said they would have granted none of it; and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Anthony M. Kennedy, Stephen G. Breyer, Elena Kagan and Neil M. Gorsuch appeared to take the middle position.
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The court's Tuesday decision was opposed by the four justices of the court's liberal wing: Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
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The justices sent the Wisconsin case back to a lower court, though conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch said they would have dismissed it outright.
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Oral arguments are a chance for justices to probe the contentions in the briefs and for lawyers to address the issues that most trouble the justices.
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Supreme Court oral arguments tend to be free-for-alls, with justices often quickly interrupting lawyers -- and their fellow justices -- with questions right off the bat.
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They'll be a reminder of just how often the justices effectively have the final say — and that 2020 is a race to pick the next justices.
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Kavanaugh himself is the latest in a long line of white, male justices: Of the 113 Supreme Court justices in history, 107 have been white men.
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That reluctance coupled with opposition from the conservative justices will probably doom the California law when the justices rule in NIFLA v Becerra later this spring.
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Yet by most reports, Supreme Court justices are collegial in chambers, and there have been no incidents of the justices insulting one another in the press.
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You can be pretty sure all four Democratic justices would rule against the president, meaning only one of the Republican justices would need to join them.
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The Supreme Court justices struck down the entire federal law on a 6-153 vote, with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer dissenting.
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The first is changing the Supreme Court from nine permanent justices to a rotating group of justices, similar to a panel on a court of appeals.
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The 5-4 ruling came down along familiar ideological lines, with the Court's five conservative justices siding with the government and its four liberal justices dissenting.
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This left six justices — Chief Justice John Roberts, and justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Samuel Alito — to resolve the case.
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Workman argued that misconduct allegations against justices were exclusively the purview of the West Virginia Supreme Court itself, which the state's five acting justices agreed with.
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But the justices will move carefully, knowing that while it only takes four justices to grant a case, it takes five to prevail in an opinion.
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He has also been popular with the justices as a feeder judge, sending his law clerks to serve with Supreme Court justices across the ideological spectrum.
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But it's not just Republican-appointed justices who are embracing big business: In the Roberts Court, Democrat-appointed justices are more likely to side with businesses too.
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All nine justices rejected Nixon's complaint about the Senate rules and seven justices, including Rehnquist, concluded that Nixon's claim presented a "political" question beyond review by judges.
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"The justices I appoint would share our strong progressive values in the mold of Justices like [Ginsburg]," Buttigieg told me in a statement emailed by his campaign.
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While some of the court's liberal justices voiced support for the process, other justices raised concerns that the government might be able to revoke patents too easily.
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By "three current Justices" he was likely referring to the late Justices William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, who were then in the bench, and Justice Clarence Thomas.
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"The justices that Congressman O'Rourke would insist upon, like Hillary Clinton, are justices that undermine and effectively write the second amendment out of the Constitution," Cruz said.
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Public appearances by justices before friendly audiences are commonplace, and several of the court's more liberal justices have appeared before the American Constitution Society, a liberal group.
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Once Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party was firmly in power, they increased the size back to six justices, then to seven, to allow Jefferson to appoint new justices.
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If Trump is reelected in November, he could have the chance to nominate even more justices — and he has promised to pick justices who would overturn Roe.
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Since the Supreme Court first convened in 1790, 114 justices have served on the bench but only two justices have been African-American: Marshall and Clarence Thomas.
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It's remotely possible that the justices divided equally on the question of standing, but then that a majority of justices (perhaps all the justices, including those who voted against standing) united on the merits, but that (adhering to the traditional notion that judges should cast votes based on case outcomes rather than on an issue-by-issue basis) the court would still report an even divide with four justices voting to remand the case with instructions to dismiss for lack of standing and four justices voting to affirm (or reverse) the injunction on the merits.
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Clearly, then these three justices agreed — along with their fellow Republican-appointed Justices and all the Democratic-appointed justices — that the lower courts had undervalued the executive branch's discretion to achieve national security and over-valued the rights of foreign nationals with no connection to the United States.
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USA Today:All four liberal justices clearly were skeptical of Apple's monopoly and were joined at points by three conservatives: Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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A study showed that the male justices on the Supreme Court interrupted the female justices approximately three times as often as they interrupted each other during oral arguments.
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Perhaps the most widely canvassed idea is that justices should serve a single 18-year term rather than for life, with two new justices chosen each presidential term.
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The DOJ will have an uphill climb convincing the justices to rehear the case next term, as it would take the vote of five justices to do so.
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That's not uncommon; the list of justices confirmed in a midterm election year includes Justices Antonin Scalia in 1986, Stephen Breyer in 1994, and Elena Kagan in 2010.
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Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, two of the four justices present during the president's remarks on Tuesday, are expected to be the key votes in the case.
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Several conservative justices had skeptical questions for lawyers supporting the union position, while the liberal justices pushed back at the notion of the Court overturning long standing precedent.
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The nine-member court now has three female justices, including Ginsburg as well as justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, all of whom were appointed by Democratic presidents.
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In fact, as more women join the court, the reaction of the male justices and the male advocates has been to increase their interruptions of the female justices.
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I feel that the justices that I am going to appoint — and I've named 2180 of them — the justices that I'm going to appoint will be pro-life.
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What's at stake: Should the justices side with Texas, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan are worried that it would open a door to a flood of appeals.
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Justices are still schedule to meet behind closed doors Friday for their regular closed-door conference, although the Court said that "some justices" may participate remotely by telephone.
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Northwestern did a study of the Supreme Court of the United States and found that the female justices were interrupted three times more frequently than the male justices.
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Numerous US Supreme Court Justices have contributed to the Harvard Law Review during their time in law school, including Justices Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Antonin Scalia.
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Over the next 80 years, that number changed several times, however, with the court sometimes having fewer than 21625 justices and also having as many as 2900 justices.
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Double jeopardy and death penalty Tuesday, justices will hear a case involving the death penalty that will be closely watched to see how divided the eight justices are.
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The justices seem divided along ideological grounds, with liberal justices sounding supportive of Obama's action and the conservatives sounding skeptical, underscoring the possibility of a 4-4 split.
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Instead, it was because the Justices' values writ large (social, moral, religious, and partisan) changed when the people on the Court changed or existing Justices simply changed their minds.
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Instead of female justices adjusting their speech to limit the openness of their comments to interruptions, I suggest Justice Sotomayor and her fellow female justices undertake more interruptions themselves.
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"Perhaps this is related to the justices aging, and the justices might say that they are spending more time poring over each case and writing the opinions," he said.
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Though the reformed Supreme Court would ostensibly have 15 justices, in practical terms it would have ten full-time justices and the five most powerful interns on the planet.
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It would have taken four justices to agree to hear the issue, and only three conservative justices -- Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch -- voted to hear the case.
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Kalhan specifically pointed to the court's right-wing leanings and justices' ties to the political conservative movement as indicative of a negative trend in the behavior of some justices.
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The justices have broad discretion in deciding which cases to hear, and justices are appointed for life in an attempt to shield them from the pressures of outside politics.
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But with such short terms of service, the justices could not pick cases with a partisan agenda in mind; another slate of justices would hear the cases they select.
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In the union and political apparel cases, Justices Thomas and Gorsuch joined majority opinions written by Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts that did not rely on original meaning.
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The court's four conservative justices, led by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, backed a narrow approach to federal jurisdiction, while the court's four liberal justices endorsed broad federal authority.
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The court is a breeding ground for Supreme Court justices including not just Kavanaugh but Chief Justice John Roberts as well as Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas.
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It is unclear how many justices wanted to put part of the order back in place immediately, and it is unclear how many justices wanted to hear the case.
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Some reproductive rights advocates hope that the justices will reaffirm the Whole Woman's Health decision, but others fear that the justices are taking up the case to overturn it.
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Last February, Roberts cast the fifth vote with liberal justices to block the Louisiana law from taking effect before the justices could review the merits of a challenge to it.
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The new documents reveal that Hasson conducted an internet search for "are Supreme Court justices protected" about two weeks before searching for the home addresses of the two unnamed justices.
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She then turned to the current court, saying that "we need new justices who actually understand the challenges we face" and wondering if some justices made decisions based on "naïveté."
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But since justices are guaranteed lifetime tenure by the Constitution, the Republican response probably would be the further legislative enlargement of the court and the confirmation of additional Republican justices.
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But where the liberal justices expressed concern over applying a dated statue to a hyper-modern circumstance, some of the conservative justices were clearly concerned about not applying the statute.
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Unless the Senate confirms a new justice in time for arguments, the cases will be heard by just six justices, as Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan have recused themselves.
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But this time, thanks to Trump's nomination of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, many believe the majority of justices on the Court take a favorable view of abortion restrictions.
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But at the rate Trump and some of his critics are calling for justices to recuse themselves, there would be only a couple of justices left to hear these cases.
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The three more liberal justices agreed that the stay should have been granted, as they regularly do in such cases, just as the conservative justices regularly vote the other way.
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And with President Donald Trump's two appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, the high court now has five conservative justices who may be inclined to reverse the landmark ruling.
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Remanding the case back down to the lower court might be a way for the justices to avoid issuing a deadlocked decision where the justices are split along ideological lines.
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The next president will likely have the opportunity to choose three — now potentially four — new justices during his or her term, considering the age of some of the current justices.
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The court's private rules say that if five justices vote to deny a stay of execution and four justices want to grant it and believe the petition has merit and should be heard, one of the justices who would let the execution proceed "may" change his or her vote for the requisite five.
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The other three justices joining Alito's concurrence—Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan—all might be good candidates to join Justice Sotomayor in reversing the third party doctrine sometime in the future.
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The justices declined to review a woman's claim that she was discriminated against based on her sexual orientation — a case that would have required the justices to rule on the matter.
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Instead, the objective of a code would be to set discernible standards for the justices' conduct so that the public could know the norms to which the justices are holding themselves.
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O'Connor failed to get other justices to join the class; reportedly Justice Stephen Breyer didn't want to be the only man, so without any justices as members they lost their space.
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With three of the court's justices 78 or older, Trump told reporters he hoped to appoint as many as four Supreme Court justices, a move likely to make it overwhelmingly conservative.
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However, this was a secondary argument that the justices, in their majority opinion, didn't even bother to address and the dissenting justices who sided with the city mentioned only in passing.
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Then-Justice Anthony Kennedy, Chief Justice John Roberts, and conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch ruled in favor of the baker, along with liberal Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
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The point, however, is not that justices should always act "modestly" in the sense of deferring to the legislature or executive branches and that the conservative justices are necessarily acting badly.
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The practice has drawn scrutiny from liberal and conservative justices alike: UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh noted that both Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Clarence Thomas recently questioned the doctrine's viability.
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During the arguments, conservative justices appeared to lean toward the administration's concerns while liberal justices voiced worry about leaving individuals with no way to hold federal officers accountable for unlawful conduct.
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Politico reported that Gillibrand said she also would not rule out adding justices to the Supreme Court, and that she called for the Senate to impose stringent ethics rules for justices.
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So the fate of thousands of regulations would come down to the whims of five Republican-appointed justices—and we already know that these justices aren't friendly to clean air regulations.
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Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonya Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, as described by the New York Times as the "more liberal justices" of the Supreme Court, dissented in this case.
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But there is no question that Clinton would appoint Supreme Court justices to create a liberal majority on the court while Trump would nominate conservative justices to create a conservative majority.
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He says there are other major changes needed at the court, including term limits for justices, a judicial code of conduct and a requirement that the justices sell their individual stocks.
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The articles allege the justices – Chief Justice Margaret Workman and Justices Allen Loughry, Robin Davis and Elizabeth Walker – have engaged in corruption, incompetency, neglect of duty, maladministration and certain high crimes.
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The challengers have urged the justices to hear the case even so, saying that some elements of the revised law remain problematic and that the justices should not encourage litigation gamesmanship.
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By the end of arguments, six justices — Roberts and Ginsburg, plus Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Brett Kavanaugh — all appeared likely to rule in favor of the insurers.
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Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh were silent throughout the oral argument, but their votes won't matter if Roberts and the four liberal justices all agree that the case is moot.
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" The group urges the justices to "reconsider those precedents.
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Here's what you need to know: • Justices, get ready.
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Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence ThomasClarence ThomasRoberts wrestles with abortion law in high-stakes Louisiana case Justices to hear first major abortion case of Trump era Justices bar Mexican parents from suing over fatal cross-border shooting of teen MORE and Samuel AlitoSamuel AlitoRoberts wrestles with abortion law in high-stakes Louisiana case Justices to hear first major abortion case of Trump era The Hill's Morning Report - Sanders takes incoming during intense SC debate MORE dissented.
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With only eight justices currently on the court due to Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement, at least one of the four more liberal justices would have to join the more conservative justices or vice versa in order to reach a definitive ruling on what the government would be responsible for doing while the litigation plays out.
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That decision featured Roberts and four other Republican-appointed justices outvoting three justices appointed by Democrats and John Paul Stevens, a Gerald Ford appointee, who often voted with the court's liberal bloc.
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It seems the four left-leaning justices are inclined to let the government go ahead with its efforts to protect the dusky gopher, while the four right-of-center justices are not.
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The backstory: Scott's decision last month to start the process to find replacements for the retiring justices had prompted a lawsuit, per the AP. The justices are slated to retire on Jan.
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The court's five conservatives as well as Justices Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer agreed that the cross should remain on public land, while liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
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Scalia's death also leaves the court with a 4-4 split between its conservative and liberal justices, meaning Obama or a Democratic successor could tip the balance of power among the justices.
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It declined the Obama administration's request that it rehear a major immigration case, which the justices split on 783-4 in June, once the court has a full complement of nine justices.
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The four liberal justices are expected to vote against Texas, the three conservative justices are expected to vote in favor, leaving Kennedy the swing vote, and opening the door for a tie.
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A more drastic step would be to amend the Constitution to impose 18-year term limits on the justices, which would ensure that every president gets to name two justices per term.
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The key to the proposal is that these politically appointed justices would need to unanimously pick five additional justices, drawn from the courts of appeals, to sit with them for a year.
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With four justices seemingly ready to overturn Whole Woman's Health just three years after it was decided and four justices fully committed to the ruling, all eyes are on Chief Justice Roberts.
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There is scant precedent about how justices have interpreted whether cases involving former clients raise an actual or apparent conflict of interest because few modern justices had extensive backgrounds in private practice.
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Roberts was joined in that case, centering on challenges to districts in North Carolina and Maryland, by his fellow justices on the right, as the four justices on the left passionately dissented.
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The second group of cases are those in which the president's position is so weak that even the most loyal justices (including his appointees) join the other justices to rule against him.
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U.S. law requires justices to step aside when there is a conflict of interest or genuine question of bias, but it leaves the recusal decision in the hands of the individual justices.
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The justices were unanimous in deciding against ruling in the Maryland case, although one of the liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, noted that she would not have wiped out the appeals court ruling.
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Heller, not just because four justices agreed with him that the original public meaning of the Second Amendment protected an individual right, but also because all nine justices focused on text and history.
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Notably, two of the court's four pro-choice justices, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, declined to dissent with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, while also declining to sign the majority opinion.
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"I wonder if people realize that Justices (Clarence) Thomas and (Sonia) Sotomayor agree about 60% of the time, or that Justices Scalia and (Stephen) Breyer agreed even more often than that," he said.
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The public's confidence in the courts does not turn on pretending that sterile interpretations of "law" are all that matter to justices or that ideology plays no part in the choices justices make.
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But at the same time, Roberts often has reinforced the partisan divide at the Supreme Court, where the five conservative justices are appointees of Republican presidents, the four liberal justices of Democratic presidents.
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But we&aposve also invited what you call liberal justices, or judges and justices who have a different view than what we articulate in a lot of our materials, and we like that.
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Needless to say, President Clinton would likely nominate justices who are friendly to LGBTQ rights, while Trump indicated that he'd nominate fairly conservative justices who would likely be less friendly to LGBTQ equality.
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This term, in contrast, will test even the most civil branch of government as the justices take on issues that often produce sharp divides as the justices break down along familiar ideological lines.
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Further, this reform would maintain judicial independence, but instill regularity to the nominations process, discourage Justices from choosing a retirement date based on politics, and will stop the ever-increasing tenure of Justices.
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Eighteen years later, four justices insisted it was impossible to determine when politically motivated district-drawing crossed a constitutional line, while the four liberal justices each floated a standard for doing just that.
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The Justice Department, however, told the justices that while the 9th Circuit lacked the authority to appoint the prosecutor, the justices should not step in at this juncture -- a position they sided with.
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The conservative justices took turns joining the liberal justices in nine 5-33 victories—and they chalked up only half as many wins in closely divided cases as they did a year ago.
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Some might say the justices' action is unremarkable and should not be read as a sign that five or more justices are ready to strike down the Texas law in Whole Woman's Health.
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As my colleagues reported, the conservative majority of justices seemed prepared to let the Trump administration end the program, although the more liberal justices expressed skepticism about the administration's rationale for ending DACA.
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Ten would be chosen the normal way, but with a twist: Five of those justices would be "affiliated with" the Republican Party, while another five justices would be affiliated with the Democratic Party.
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Earlier this month, the same 5-4 lineup of Republican-appointed justices against Democratic-appointed justices affirmed an Ohio law for purging citizens from voter rolls that challengers said would disproportionately hurt minorities.
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"Four Supreme Court justices believe you have a right to defend yourself with a gun," the spot's narrator says, referencing Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy.
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A panel of state judges recently struck down a new law changing the way state Supreme Court justices are elected; Democrats had said it was an attempt to keep conservative justices in power.
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For their part, the liberal justices repeatedly suggested that the case should be dismissed because it was improperly before the court because the justices can only decide issues that present an ongoing controversy.
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The Court split 5-50.83 along partisan lines, with the five conservative-leaning justices, in a majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, upholding the system and the four liberal-leaning justices opposing it.
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To be sure, the rules of recusal that bind lower federal court judges do not technically apply to Supreme Court justices — at least according to the self-interested interpretation of the justices themselves.
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Now the court is as politicized as any in memory, cleaved into four reliably liberal justices who presumably favor limits on gerrymanders and four conservative justices who may want to let politicians decide.
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U.S. law requires Supreme Court justices, who serve lifetime terms, to step aside when there is a conflict of interest or genuine question of bias, but leaves recusal decisions to the individual justices.
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The court's justices -- Chief Justice Margaret Workman and Justices Allen Loughry, Robin Davis and Elizabeth Walker -- are accused of failing to carry out the court's administrative duties and wasteful spending during office renovations.
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Some believe that the justices will ultimately stay out of the case and deny the government's petition because the justices may feel that the lower court opinion did not break much new ground.
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But Mr. Leahy pointed out that the law was the same for both appeals court judges and Supreme Court justices, except that justices' decisions not to recuse themselves cannot be appealed to anyone.
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So far, however, he has chosen justices with conventional résumés.
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Summer affords the justices opportunities to supplement their $251,800 salary.
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But justices count votes, just like the rest of us.
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And I mean all federal judges, including Supreme Court justices.
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Supreme Court justices would have to pack their summer robes.
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Leo has already helped get four justices on the court.
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Three current justices (and Scalia) came from that appeals bench.
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So, it was conservative justices who voted for the president.
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Trump has vowed to appoint justices who would reverse Roe.
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The Supreme Court is designed to operate with nine justices.
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This case has also already been heard by the justices.
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But the justices' anger often surfaces in their work product.
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The opinion was joined by the four other conservative justices.
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Including his list of potential Supreme Court justices, apparently. 333.
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The liberal justices' despair in the courtroom Thursday was palpable.
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Tuesday's order suggests at least five justices opposed a stay.
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The justices did not issue a ruling on that matter.
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In the past, justices were often confirmed overwhelmingly (see chart).
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She was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
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CONFIRMATION hearings for Supreme Court justices have become frustrating affairs.
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The court's more conservative justices asked few questions of Francisco.
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Both rulings, upheld by Mr Zavascki's fellow justices, set precedents.
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When exactly did the President's power to appoint justices lapse?
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The justices refused to consider reviving a lawsuit against Backpage.
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Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, who were nominated by President Obama.
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Only eight of the nine justices participated in the case.
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The justices did not directly mention Msando in their report.
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The justices declined to define the required relationships more precisely.
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Pepper, during which the justices seemed skeptical of Apple's arguments.
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A majority of the justices seemed inclined to say no.
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They are "a mirror", he told the justices, on ourselves.
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But the justices may not decide the case, after all.
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Several justices seemed sceptical that they should rule at all.
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Fate has handed the justices a chance to hit reset.
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Ginsburg is one of three justices who are over 70.
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Trump gave them two: Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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The questions often end up back in the justices' laps.
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So what exactly did the justices do on July 19th?
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But in recent years, the justices have appeared more cautious.
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It would have taken five justices to grant the stay.
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The Supreme Court's term began Monday with only eight justices.
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There was no indication of how the nine justices voted.
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Justices Kagan and Sotomayor were similarly clear on their positions.
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For three justices, this strategy of avoidance has its limits.
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But that doesn't mean justices don't want a full bench.
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The justices have sharply disagreed among themselves over capital punishment.
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Any choice the justices made would have been a statement.
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The justices are set to hold oral arguments next week.
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That politicization is something several justices have anticipated, and dreaded.
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The court currently has four conservative justices and four liberals.
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Mitchell's case is on hold until the state justices rule.
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The justices "don't work as Republicans or Democrats", he insisted.
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She knew there were only two justices who supported Roe.
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"The Supreme Court can function with eight justices," he said.
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Both Shakespeare and Carroll accrued sixteen references from five justices.
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None of the other justices visibly reacted to his remarks.
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The plaintiffs' attorney, Paul Smith, urged the justices to act.
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Failing to register the contracts was illegal, the justices concluded.
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Presidents, the senator insists, are empowered only to "nominate" justices.
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The justices released a letter they had written to Misra.
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Obama has nominated two justices: Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
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If Trump gets at least two Supreme Court justices confirmed,
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Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor liked that idea.
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The justices ruled that the officer had gone too far.
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It is so imperative that we have the right justices.
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There are justices who frequently vote in a conservative way.
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Many Democrats question the legitimacy of three of these justices.
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And I'm going to add justices, judges in that category.
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A few of the justices disclosed gifts received last year.
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Many observers expected the justices to either use Gill v.
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Other sources indicate that the justices' trips can be lavish.
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Tuesday, justices rehear another immigration related case, Jennings v. Rodriguez.
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Six justices would be needed to act in the case.
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Some justices work only part time; all have limited budgets.
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In 2007, the justices expanded the prohibition in Panetti v.
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The four liberal justices favored putting the execution on hold.
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The eight justices heard the case, Whole Woman's Health v.
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Justices Holmes and Brandeis were not acting maliciously or irresponsibly.
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Eight justices will hear the case, not the usual nine.
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These dissenting justices did not even offer a written opinion.
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Both Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas penned dissenting opinions.
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But they won't have the same power over the justices.
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The justices are likely to ask challengers for their response.
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The four dissenting justices, all conservatives, rejected all legal grounds.
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In these situations, justices often vote by phone or email.
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Other justices often pick up on her lines of inquiry.
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Our justices are to uphold the law, not break it.
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The justices increasingly appear ready to side with the former.
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The justices sent the case back to the lower court.
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Despite Whitehouse's refusal to acknowledge it, so do conservative justices.
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"Someone has to speak for the justices," said former Gov.
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It's just so imperative that we have the right justices.
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Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented.
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The justices heard arguments in the Microsoft case in February.
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The justices were scheduled to hear oral arguments on Nov.
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Term limits for Supreme Court justices might be one thing.
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These justices won't admit that they're overturning a landmark law.
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Only the justices (and their law clerks) know for sure.
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And for the justices, perception is not a small thing.
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Teachers Association is any indication, Supreme Court justices should have
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While states rush in, the justices go slow Roe v.
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The other justices may add items to the "discuss" list.
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Those justices stand accused of wasteful spending, among other things.
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It takes five justices to agree to a stay request.
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The court's liberal justices dissented from that line of reasoning.
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And I think the justices will seek to follow precedent.
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The court did not disclose how the justices had voted.
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Justices will hear arguments on the case in the fall.
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Congress has adjusted the number of Supreme Court justices before.
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The justices seem to appreciate having the solicitor general's perspective.
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The emoluments issue also could be heading toward the justices.
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In addition, the ideological environment justices operate in is different.
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The study considered justices who served between 1789 and 2006.
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Justices Kavanaugh and Thomas each voted with that bloc once.
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The justices sent the case back to an Oregon court.
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She did not say which justices were working from home.
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A majority of the justices seemed inclined to say yes.
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In March, five justices voted to stay Mr. Bucklew's execution.
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Here's what the justices said about the First Amendment case.
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Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. joined Justices Gorsuch and Thomas.
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Five justices who ruled in that unanimous decision, Jones v.
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Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch asked no questions.
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Both justices have refused to recuse themselves from the case.
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On this proposal, the Supreme Court would have 15 justices.
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The justices eagerly went further than simply decriminalizing gay sex.
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The Supreme Court begins a new term with eight justices.
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On Tuesday, the justices heard oral arguments in Gill v.
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Several of the justices noted it, but it remains unresolved.
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To accept a case, at least four justices must agree.
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Did Senate Democrat leader Schumer just threaten two conservative justices?
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His willingness to side with liberal justices has been crucial.
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Justice Gorsuch said the justices worked hard to find consensus.
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The justices typically defer to Congress in cases concerning citizenship.
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Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan joined Justice Kennedy's opinion.
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Did all of the court's justices agree with the ruling?
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The justices said the distinction should be easy to administer.
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"Not everything justices can do is something they should do."
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The questions for the justices in the case, Mathena v.
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The justices returned the case, County of Los Angeles v.
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But he said the justices should not move too fast.
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Three Justices appointed by Nixon put the public interest first.
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Securities and Exchange Commission answered the question before the justices.
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Some justices noted that criminal convictions can have lasting consequences.
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The justices should take the case and overturn this sentence.
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In court, the conservative justices suggested they agreed with Texas.
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It's the second time the justices have reviewed the case.
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The cases before the justices on Tuesday were not blockbusters.
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Trump promised his justices would seek to overturn Roe v.
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In January, four senior justices held a rare news conference.
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The only question is which path the justices will take.
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The decision from the justices was announced in an order.
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None of the shorthanded court's eight justices recorded any dissent.
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The justices issued the order without comment or noted dissent.
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The justices appeared conflicted about how to handle the case.
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The justices will hear arguments in the case this spring.
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Among the justices, two Republicans and two Democrats were chosen.
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Or the justices might simply be unsure on this point.
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In January 2016, the justices agreed to hear the case.
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Sonia Sotomayor and other liberal justices signaled support for Strieff.
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Other similar challenges appear on their way to the justices.
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Burwell as an example of the justices working toward consensus.
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What's next: The justices gave Trump until noon on Dec.
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Read more of what the justices said from Lydia Wheeler.
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In equal measure, Roberts touted the justices' efforts at collegiality.
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The justices heard oral arguments in that case on Wednesday.
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It takes four justices to agree to hear a case.
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This would permanently politicize the selection of Supreme Court justices.
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Justices are supposed to be free from external political pressures.
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Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted their dissent.
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It would have taken five justices to grant the request.
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Heeding the lessons of the past, the justices practice restraint.
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There, five of the nine justices are conservative Republican appointees.
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Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch joined the dissent.
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But several justices seemed to be looking for something more.
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The justices unanimously agreed that the plaintiffs in Gill v.
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The justices concluded that this doesn't work, for standing purposes.
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I am also going to appoint great Supreme Court Justices.
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Based on the skepticism of the justices during the Jan.
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Usually these are treated as questions for the nine justices.
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The liberal justices, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Elena KaganElena KaganRoberts wrestles with abortion law in high-stakes Louisiana case Justices to hear first major abortion case of Trump era Justices bar Mexican parents from suing over fatal cross-border shooting of teen MORE as well as Stephen BreyerStephen BreyerRoberts wrestles with abortion law in high-stakes Louisiana case Justices to hear first major abortion case of Trump era Justices bar Mexican parents from suing over fatal cross-border shooting of teen MORE, who wrote the Hellerstedt opinion, are expected to oppose the Louisiana law, with Alito and Thomas, who dissented in the Texas opinion, likely to uphold it.
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His quest to start building a fence along America's southern border using money Congress appropriated for other projects got a shot in the arm from five justices—with the four liberal justices in dissent.
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The court was not split on ideological lines, with Ginsburg joined in the majority by fellow liberal justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor as well as two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.
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If the justices stick with their ideological predilections in an appeal of one of these cases, then the court will tie 4-4 (if the justices even agree to hear the case at all).
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Four justices, including, crucially, Anthony Kennedy, voted to uphold; the three conservative justices dissented; and Elena Kagan recused herself, presumably because of the work she did on the case as President Obama's solicitor general.
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Six justices — the Court's four liberal justices (Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan) joined Justice Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice John Roberts in partially lifting the hold on the ban.
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As the cameras clicked, some justices smiled broadly, others looked slightly annoyed with having to participate in a formality that comes as the justices are racing to finish the last opinions of the term.
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At the same time, the conservative movement, upset that Republican-appointed justices like Kennedy failed to be reliable votes, have pushed GOP presidents to find justices whose ideology represented a deeper shade of red.
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Trump would appoint conservative Supreme Court justices, but justices tend to get more liberal with age—Republican appointees recently cast deciding votes in decisions upholding Obamacare and striking down the ban on gay marriage.
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Three of the court's liberal justices appeared sympathetic toward the review process, but other justices including conservatives John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch raised concerns that the government might be able to revoke patents too easily.
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And when the unaccountable regulatory state inevitably gets challenged before the Supreme Court, Clinton-appointed justices will ignore the Constitution and let the red tape keep flowing; Trump-appointed justices will do exactly the opposite.
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Despite changes among the nine in recent years, the five justices who upheld the ACA remain on the bench: Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
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But unless he manages to get re-elected in 2020, and appoint more justices, Trump is likely to end up in the bottom half of presidents, based on the total tenure of their appointed justices.
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It's the first time High Court justices' emails have ever been released, and the first disclosure that Solicitors General have had private communications with justices while the US government had cases before the Supreme Court.
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The One Supreme Court Clause thus only requires that there be one identified set of justices with final adjudicatory power for any given case, not that all such justices be permanent members of the Court.
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Faced with at least a generation of conservative justices ruling against them, a growing number of Democrats are rallying around court-packing—that is, to add justices to the court—as a last-ditch solution.
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Breyer had accused the court's conservative justices of acting arbitrarily and unfairly to all of the justices by declining a request to wait until the court's scheduled weekly conference to discuss the death penalty case.
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Over the years, in fits and starts, some justices have sought to address this anomaly by casting a "courtesy fifth" vote to stay an execution when four justices thought the case worthy of further consideration.
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And with just eight justices on the court — confirmation hearings for Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, Mr. Trump's nominee for the ninth seat, are scheduled to begin March 20 — the justices might be inclined to wait.
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Justice Neil Gorsuch, who has proven one of the court's most conservative justices, was confirmed to the Supreme Court after the justices heard arguments in the case and did not weigh in on the decision.
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Anthony Kennedy's retirement gave the conservative legal movement the opportunity it had sought for more than 40 years: five reliably conservative justices on the Supreme Court, untroubled by swing justices or ideologically transient David Souters.
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How would basic Supreme Court functions, such as the conferences where all nine justices meet in a room to decide which cases to hear, continue to operate when one of those justices is behind bars?
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How do the justices spend their three months of summer break?
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Advocates and other justices rely on legislative history sparingly these days.
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Other justices followed suit, and things have never been the same.
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Michaels disputed those holdings and took his appeal to the justices.
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Four votes are needed for the justices to hear a case.
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Kagan, writing for four justices, upheld the scope of the law.
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But that wasn't the only jurisdictional theory the state justices rejected.
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The decision crossed traditional ideological lines between conservative and liberal justices.
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Several justices expressed unease with having to choose between these options.
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Ultimately, the justices punted on the central issues in the case.
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The justices also dislike cameras because they value their own anonymity.
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MCGURN: Look at the other justices, the administration they served in.
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The Supreme Court justices have "thrown up their hands," Duchin said.
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The justices placed a temporary halt on the deposition in October.
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Those two were replacing liberal justices and faced a Democratic Senate.
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He voted for Justices Sotormayor and Kagen on old fashioned principles.
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The Supreme Court consists of nine unelected justices with lifetime appointments.
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Sandford decision, briefly increasing the number of justices to secure emancipation.
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But after Scalia's death, the justices announced that they were deadlocked.
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The court could potentially delay acting until it has nine justices.
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The justices ordered the parties to attempt to negotiate a solution.
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It's not enough for those justices to merely oppose abortion personally.
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In the order issued on Monday, the justices adopted that deadline.
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"I am putting pro-life justices on the court," he said.
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So the draft opinion does not benefit from those justices' critiques.
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Wade now that there are a solid majority of conservative justices.
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It was less clear how the other conservative justices would vote.
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They see new justices on the court and think it's possible.
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The justices were even more collegial with one another than usual.
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Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
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He was joined by justices to his left for a majority.
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He suspects the justices don't want to be so dramatic anyway.
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Justice Gorsuch, joined by Justices Alito and Thomas, dissented in part.
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Not this court, not with these five conservative justices, I thought.
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None of the other eight justices joined Thomas in his opinion.
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Three of the current justices are former Supreme Court law clerks.
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Supreme Court justices appear befuddled by the basic process of coding.
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The justices did not say on Wednesday when they would rule.
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Trump had pledged to nominate justices who would overturn the decision.
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Two current sitting Supreme Court justices have done so as well.
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The eight justices heard oral arguments in that case on Wednesday.
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Conservative justices appear to lean in favor of allowing the question.
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In one case, the justices will review a Florida robbery conviction.
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How many justices are currently serving on the U.S. Supreme Court?
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The justices agreed to hear the full case in the autumn.
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Only Justices Clarence Thomas and David Souter come close, at 77%.
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The justices also agreed to hear that part of the dispute.
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"Bankruptcy is not a licence to ignore rules," the justices wrote.
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The 2013 filibuster change did not apply to Supreme Court justices.
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Besides the lunches the justices gather for celebrations such as birthdays.
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Other justices order salad from the cafeteria, or pack a lunch.
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Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor were the only dissenters.
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The justices appeared to struggle with how to resolve the case.
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Wade — but the justices' ideological divisions were nevertheless on full display.
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He was one of the longest-serving justices in U.S. history.
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We worked with the conference of chief justices around the country.
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The Supreme Court now has five conservative justices and four liberals.
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Other justices in their early days have leaned on their colleagues.
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The court has five conservative justices, including Gorsuch, and four liberals.
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Wade, but that doesn't mean justices will take up their case.
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The next president could appoint up to three Supreme Court justices.
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Which presidential candidate will nominate justices who take that oath seriously?
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The case will be argued before the justices on Feb. 19.
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If the justices do, they may not like what they see.
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The justices denied an appeal by Zappos, a subsidiary of Amazon.
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The High Court announced that its justices would hear Trump v.
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Three Supreme Court justices later dismissed another challenge from the couple.
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Retired Justices John Paul Stevens and Justice David Souter were there.
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" He added, "there's nothing sacrosanct about the number of nine justices.
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The emails show that Supreme Court justices are provided with official .
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We will also be appointing justices who will defend our Constitution.
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This is the best photo of Justices Scalia & Ginsburg that exists.
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Conservative justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are 65 and 67.
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The court was shorthanded with only eight justices following the Feb.
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There are several levels of analysis facing the justices in Zubik.
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Then in May, the justices also suspended Mr Cunha from congress.
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One of the nine justices did not participate in the case.
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" Another user concluded the justices "must have been drunk or something.
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But the justices came out 8-0 in the other direction.
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At oral arguments, the justices seemed closely divided along ideological lines.
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The remaining justices make up the new center of the court.
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On Wednesday, the justices will hear oral arguments in Benisek v.
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Hard job to give up Justices, appointed for life, resist retirement.
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The justices typically don't agree to hear cases over the summer.
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Four justices need to agree to review a lower court ruling.
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In the meantime, the Supreme Court will have just eight justices.
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His dissent was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
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The justices announced on Monday that they will review Royal v.
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Now they're denouncing "activist" judges and working to replace the justices.
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Kennedy was the deciding vote, joining the court's four liberal justices.
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Many observers expected that the justices would use Planned Parenthood v.
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Three conservative justices reiterated the point in 2017's Microsoft v.
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Justices take initial stances toward a case by reading prehearing filings.
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The justices did not specify when the moment of registration occurs.
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And the justices have differed in their responses to public inquires.
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Justices Thomas and Gorsuch would have granted the petition for certiorari.
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The tragic story of Hernández's death is familiar to the justices.
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The justices' initial consideration of Vance and Mazars has been accelerated.
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There's no guarantee the justices will agree to hear the dispute.
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Supreme Court justices serve until they retire or reach age 75.
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Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Gorsuch wrote separate concurring opinions.
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Holder, five Supreme Court justices disabled that requirement, known as preclearance.
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The justices have sparred over the significance of precedent this term.
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The justices are not due back to the bench until January.
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By a 5-4 vote, the justices upheld the travel ban.
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The justices did not seem inclined to adjudicate that last dispute.
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In 1939, the justices issued a perfunctory ruling in U.S. v.
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On Friday, four of seven justices ruled in the schools' favor.
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Some justices have called for the overruling of Roe v. Wade.
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But some of the conservative justices have signaled that it does.
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In theory, five justices could change those precedents whenever they want.
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The justices will always play a major role in American governance.
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The court's eight justices agreed in Army Corps of Engineers v.
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TV's Joe Concha, referring to justices from the 1980s and 1990s.
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Usually four or five justices sit on a panel considering cases.
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The court's conservative justices took it even further in Glossip v.
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VENICE — What do Supreme Court justices do on their summer vacations?
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The justices' minds can change as the final opinions are written.
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At times, the justices treated the outcome like a foregone conclusion.
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Federal Commission, while the justices, observing protocol, sat on their hands.
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Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito joined Thomas in the opinion.
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He retired in 2010 as the dean of the liberal justices.
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Two of the six justices missed the argument because of sickness.
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The justices do not return for official business until January 4.
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It is a euphemism for court packing, or adding more justices.
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The justices appeared to balk at that extension of prosecutorial power.
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Four justices dissented and Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote a separate opinion.
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Should Brett Kavanaugh be appointed, that would make five Catholic justices.
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Kavanaugh clerks often go on to clerk for Supreme Court justices.
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The justices are expected to reach a decision by late spring.
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Ultimately, the justices' waffling won't smooth the transition to equal citizenship.
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The justices are scheduled to hear arguments on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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But when the case reached the Supreme Court, the justices disagreed.
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He's appointed lower-court justices who are in the same camp.
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Dismissal, according to insiders, required agreement among at least five justices.
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A majority of the justices had seemed inclined to say no.
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Board of Education, the justices made do with six amicus briefs.
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That case will be argued before the justices on Oct. 10.
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Justices Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor both rose from modest circumstances.
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ELSEWHERE > Supreme Court justices released their financial disclosure reports for 2017.
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But it shows that at least some justices are using email.
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Levitt said the justices could decide to hear all three together.
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My sense is that the justices are unlikely to overturn Heller.
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The court is split 4-4 between liberal and conservative justices.
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The justices heard arguments in the high-profile case on Feb.
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Two liberal justices — Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan — joined Kennedy's opinion.
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And with only eight justices on the bench, anything could happen.
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The US Marshals Service typically provides security for Supreme Court justices.
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The justices heard oral arguments last week in American Legion v.
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Furthermore, pro-choice groups vigorously opposed each of these justices' nominations.
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The justices seemed at odds over how to address the issue.
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Through legislation, the number fluctuated, with as many as 10 justices.
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But primarily, it has been liberal justices challenging the Trump administration.
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Will it look that way from inside the justices' private conference?
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Wade and guaranteed abortion rights with Trump-appointed Supreme Court justices.
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Mr. Marshall told the justices that Mr. Madison satisfied that standard.
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But there's no chance that the justices will miss its significance.
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Warren also hinted at her approach to nominating Supreme Court justices.
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The justices took it up at their private conference 10 times.
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It's now up to the justices whether to indulge these premises.
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Thomas is seen as a popular figure among the other justices.
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The Louisiana case pending before the justices resembles the Texas case.
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Lawyers for Kansas had urged the justices to resolve the dispute.
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Since 1899, the justices have arranged themselves in order of seniority.
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If the five justices rule against the tribe, its case ends.
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All of the other justices were there except for Justice Ginsburg.
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Scalia's death left it with four conservative and four liberal justices.
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That distinction did not seem to sit well with some justices.
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The questions Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh asked may help clarify matters.
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The justices ruled that the formula that included noncitizens was constitutional.
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But Louisiana is now urging the justices to change that standard.
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The justices took no vote at their conference after the argument.
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The justices began hearing opening arguments for the case on Wednesday.
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The justices overruled the 1992 Supreme Court decision Quill Corporation v.
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Political science data on the justices' voting patterns confirm that analysis.
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The justices are set to hear that case on Nov. 8.
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All eight justices on the Supreme Court agreed with these critics.
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Too often we've hoped that the justices will be our saviors.
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"'Supreme Court justices don't wear high heels,'" she recalled him saying.
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The justices also suspended Texas redistricting while they consider an appeal.
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Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch joined Justice Alito's dissent.
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The question was before the justices last year in Friedrichs v.
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And his clerks have clerked for justices across the ideological spectrum.
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During oral arguments, she said, the male justices were too dismissive.
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"We've reached an ethical rapprochement on appearances by justices," he said.
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He urged the justices to stay out for the time being.
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But June Medical also places the justices in an awkward position.
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In the meantime, gay and transgender Americans await the justices' decision.■
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Liberal Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor seemed firmly in agreement.
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Burwell last year, writing for not just five, but six justices.
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The views of the justices were previewed in United States v.
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GOP lawmakers have moved to impeach the justices behind the decision.
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We could easily have a situation where we start adding justices.
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And past chief justices have had opposing interpretations of that mandate.
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The justices do not sit on opposite sides of an aisle.
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To the liberal justices, the grounds for a dismissal were clear.
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Appearances by justices before groups with political leanings are not unusual.
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Mr. Francisco urged the justices to ignore Mr. Trump's campaign statements.
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Ohio's high court has six GOP justices and just one Democrat.
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The justices took no stand on the legality of the ban.
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Delaying their summer vacation, the justices scheduled arguments for July 503.
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The justices are expected to rule within the next few days.
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But the justices did not seem inclined to fill the gap.
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Supreme Court justices reject pipeline, wildfire cases, E&E News reports.
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But it's unclear whether the other justices will side with him.
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Justices across the ideological spectrum appeared wary of allowing such prosecutions.
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But last week, conservative activists and Supreme Court justices lost me.
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The justices' decision to intervene sparked a flurry of legislative activity.
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The justices were alert to the potential consequences of their decision.
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With Scalia's absence, the case will now only have seven justices.
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There's a question of what would happen to the current justices.
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Three sitting Justices are in their late seventies or early eighties.
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Malloy has appointed five of the seven justices on the court.
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The question is how the justices interpret the country's founding document.
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The justices are likely to rule on the cases by June.
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The justices have not yet decided whether to take the case.
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" But Roberts said the justices "don't work as Democrats or Republicans.
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It sought a stay of Judge Chutkan's order from the justices.
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The two justices criticized the lower court's "crabbed" reading of Heller.
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The justices removed the dispute from the calendar pending further developments.
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The Justices do not sit on opposite sides of an aisle.
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The justices have yet to decide whether to hear the case.
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Presidents usually attend formal ceremonies for justices at the Supreme Court.
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It is extremely rare for Supreme Court justices to be impeached.
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Eighteen months later, we have future Supreme Court justices doing it.
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The justices did not provide any explanation for their brief orders.
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The justices threw out Foster's conviction after decades on death row.
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Lawyers with the A.C.L.U. told the justices that little had changed.
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Whatever the justices decide, the market is already rendering its verdict.
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The court's justices reportedly voted 10-6 in favor of Wikipedia.
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The justices instead sidestepped the central questions in the two cases.
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None of the eight sitting justices has a verified Twitter account.
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Is there any indication on which way the justices are leaning?
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Once elected, Wisconsin Supreme Court justices serve out 10-year terms.
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Justices Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined Justice Breyer's statement.
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Several justices said the evidence of extreme partisan gerrymandering was strong.
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Justice Sonia SotomayorSonia SotomayorDivided Supreme Court leans toward allowing Trump to end DACA Justices wrestle with reach of Clean Water Act Justices appear divided over expanding police officers' traffic stop power MORE, an Obama appointee, was among several liberal justices who questioned whether the administration weighed the impact on DACA recipients, commonly known as "Dreamers," who had come to rely on the program.
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A July 4 civics quiz MORE and Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg defends conservative Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch Ginsburg dismisses court packing and term limits for Supreme Court justices Ginsburg says she hopes to serve on bench 'as long as' Stevens did MORE each joined more conservative justices to create the majority in two separate 5-4 rulings this term.
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Earlier in the session, on the same day that the justices allowed the execution of Domineque Ray without an imam, the justices by a 5-4 vote temporarily blocked a Louisiana abortion restriction from taking effect.
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Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg seemed to share Ms Kagan's sympathy for Mr Lee, but it is hard to find two more justices willing to permit him to retract his eight-year-old plea.
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Alternatively, the court could be expanded to 15, with five justices chosen by Republicans, five by Democrats and the last five by the justices themselves, who would have to nominate them from the appellate bench unanimously.
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The justices' order, on February 27th, approved by a 5-4 vote—with the four liberal-leaning justices in dissent—made no mention of the apparent constitutional problem with Alabama's refusal to grant Mr Ray's request.
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The four conservative justices, as expected, voted to allow North Carolina to implement most of its voting restrictions, but none of the liberal-leaning justices opted to provide the fifth vote necessary to issue a stay.
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In court, the justices seemed closely divided on the issue with the conservatives peppering a lawyer for victims of terrorism with questions suggesting the justices did not think such suits should be allowed to go forward.
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Appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987, Kennedy has been more moderate than the other Republican-picked justices, especially on issues like abortion, racial discrimination, and LGBT rights, where he has on occasion sided with liberal justices.
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George Washington put 10 justices on the court, six of which filled new seats when the Constitution went into effect, and President Franklin Roosevelt placed nine justices on the court during his 12 years in office.
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With the four more conservative justices likely to vote on the side of Masterpiece Cakeshop and the four more liberal justices likely to vote against the bakery, Kennedy stands in the middle as the potential tiebreaker.
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Between the Court's 1875 decision that denied women the right to vote and the 19th Amendment that won that right in 1920, twenty-five Supreme Court Justices died or retired and were replaced by new justices.
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The rebuke came after Schumer earlier Wednesday warned that Justices Neil GorsuchNeil GorsuchGeorge Conway: Schumer was 'channeling Trump' in comments about Supreme Court justices The Hill's Morning Report — Presented by the APTA — Now it's Biden vs.
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To ensure that the justices come to consensus, the Court would need to agree on all five additional justices or else it would be deemed not to have a quorum, and thus unable to hear cases.
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As Roberts read the Constitutional oath of office to Kavanaugh late Saturday, with their wives and other justices and guests gathered in the justices' private conference room, protesters swarmed the exterior of the marble columned building.
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Under the current system, presidents get to pick a random number of Supreme Court justices based on who dies or retires, with justices having an incentive to retire when an ideologically sympathetic president is in office.
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The tradition of draping black crepe on the bench dates to at least the late 19th century and is reserved for sitting justices, while the doorway is trimmed after the death of all justices, sitting or retired.
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They noted that the justices often issue unanimous decisions in cases that aren't necessarily closely followed by the general public and that at different times in history the court has functioned with an even number of justices.
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In the past year and a half, Trump has gotten a number of state supreme court justices on his list confirmed to seats on the federal appeals courts, a common launching pad for future Supreme Court justices.
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Five of the nine current Justices are Republican nominees with staunch conservative credentials -- including two Trump appointees, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh -- though Chief Justice John Roberts has shown increasing signs of ideological independence and unpredictability.
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Of the remaining three justices — Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor — none seemed settled on Gamble's argument, and Breyer, as the argument wore on, appeared to settle closer to the governments' side.
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Four justices—Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas and John Roberts, the chief—would have let the lethal injection go forward, while the four liberal-leaning justices and Justice Anthony Kennedy blocked it for the time being.
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The justices have not weighed the constitutionality of Trump's policy, but some argue their ruling shows there is already support among a majority on the court if and when the justices are again asked to step in.
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" While it takes four justices to grant review of a case, Zall said it's not clear how many justices it took to add the question, "especially one [as] momentous as a fundamental question of separation of powers.
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Generally speaking, judges and justices with that combination of characteristics tend to be more skeptical of the benefits of government regulation and less deferential to agencies than are judges and justices who do not have those characteristics.
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The five justices on the court picked by Republican presidents — Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Anthony Kennedy — have often voted together as a bloc, giving the court a conservative majority.
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As a result, I voted in favor of Justices Roberts and Alito, who were nominated by President Bush, Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, who were nominated by President Obama, and Justice Gorsuch, who was nominated by President Trump.
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Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Gorsuch joined all of their Democratic-appointed colleagues in the decision favoring broad oversight of executive branch actions in immigration cases, while Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
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Supreme Court justices John Roberts and Sonia SotomayorSonia SotomayorPress: Pelosi strikes back, hatred is a sin Justices appear cautious of expanding gun rights in NY case Divided Supreme Court leans toward allowing Trump to end DACA MORE.
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Leading proponents premise the notion on the belief that after Congress expands the number of justices, a new Democratic president would be able to appoint justices to counterbalance today's court, which has a 103-210 conservative majority.
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The political nature of the case and that divide between justices generated exactly the kind of criticism -- that justices are merely politicians in black robes -- that Roberts spent much of the 2018-2019 session trying to thwart.
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Kennedy was often seen as the swing vote on the court, often siding with its conservative justices on issues of religious freedom and free speech and with its liberals justices on issues like gay rights and abortion.
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He said the justices should have simply announced they were evenly divided.
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The remaining four justices are set to cast their votes on Thursday.
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The justices have avoided taking another major gun case for eight years.
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Trump's campaign promise to only nominate justices who would overturn Roe v.
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But Katyal's support may also resonate with some of the sitting justices.
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The Legislative Branch also holds constitutional power to impeach Supreme Court justices.
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The Supreme Court's justices have sharply disagreed among themselves over capital punishment.
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The justices have not agreed to hear arguments in the gun case.
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At the moment, there are only eight justices on the Supreme Court.
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But the justices did not agree to hear the case next term.
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Justices are appointed for life because they&aposre not to be political.
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He was joined by fellow conservatives Justices Neil Gorsuch and Samuel Alito.
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Six justices chose to hide behind the anonymity of an unsigned opinion.
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Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
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Justices are unlikely to just overturn this previous ruling on a whim.
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Among the Democrats urging the justices to take the case was Rep.
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Working to find consensus Justices have worked to find consensus whenever possible.
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Mr Lee needs five justices on his side to stay in America.
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And here's the thing: The justices appear to be on his side.
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He did not consult his fellow justices and was overruled by them.
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Supreme Court justices Sandra O'Day Connor, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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That's the day justices will consider whether to take up the case.
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Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented from the December ruling.
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The court's four liberal justices indicated more sympathy toward hearing gerrymandering challenges.
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The justices' task in this pair of vexing cases is not light.
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His appeal of that federal sentence was before the justices on Thursday.
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The professors told me the justices' reticence about outside influences is telling.
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Several contentious issues await the justices when they convene again in October.
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Conservative justices expressed reservations about the affirmative action admissions policy during Dec.
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We know that among the Justices there are a range of opinions.
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The justices had been scheduled to hear oral arguments on Dec. 7.
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And on Wednesday, the justices granted that request in a brief order.
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All of the justices but one are former federal appeals court judges.
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Her investigation led two state Supreme Court justices and others to resign.
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The justices have decided three cases so far this term—all unanimously.
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Common Cause (North Carolina) when they appear before the justices in March.
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The justices might also agree to hear a case concerning transgender rights.
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That aside, the four liberal justices routinely protested the majority's rightward direction.
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They will go down as great, great justices of the Supreme Court.
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Listening to what the justices have said is a more dependable strategy.
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None of the four liberal-leaning justices seems keen to join them.
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Justices Samuel Alito and Anthony Kennedy seemed less sympathetic to Carpenter's case.
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Justices used the decision to highlight that the government cannot compel expression.
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The justices have wrangled over how openly to talk about their differences.
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Most of the justices, including Ginsburg, asked tough questions of both sides.
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The justices decline to assess the constitutionality of the university's admissions program.
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With five votes—a majority of the justices—you can do anything.
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Every year, between October and April, the justices hear about 65 cases.
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Kander would serve to approve "liberal" Supreme Court justices, the ad continues.
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Trump previously said he'd only nominate justices who would overturn Roe v.
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The justices have a third case of this sort to contend with.
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The four absent justices had previously scheduled commitments, a court spokeswoman said.
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West Virginia state Supreme Court justices, from left, Robin Davis on Oct.
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He is a former clerk to both Justices Byron White and Kennedy.
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Justices will circle back and review arguments in the case in October.
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The justices are expected to rule on the matter by late June.
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And more than half of the Supreme Court justices seem to agree.
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Wade is precedent and it's important for the justices to uphold precedent.
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Justices Samuel Alito and Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented.
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The justices will hear a number of cases before recessing in July.
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"It's just so imperative that we have the right justices," Trump said.
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Jewish justices Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were absent.
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The court's four liberal justices joined Kavanaugh in the 5-4 decision.
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After that, the justices would decide whether to hear the case again.
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Two justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony Kennedy, are in their 80s.
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Masterpiece Cakeshop will make Trinity Lutheran look like the justices' kumbaya moment.
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Justices Scalia and Ginsburg showed just how much everyone else was missing.
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The challengers' 81-page brief to the justices expands on this argument.
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The justices are still divided ever so closely on Roe v. Wade.
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This is the second time justices have acted on gerrymandering this year.
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Supreme Court justices discussed the pending case behind closed doors last week.
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Tam, the justices sided unanimously with the band and against the government.
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He seems likely to have persuaded a majority of the justices, however.
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For all intents and purposes, no more than two justices at a
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It takes a majority of justices to overturn a lower-court ruling.
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It's not clear if justices are subjected to those same rules, however.
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But it wasn't clear that five justices would be willing to wait.
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The justices have sent an early signal that they may be divided.
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AMERICA'S Supreme Court has not always had an odd number of justices.
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There is no constitutional requirement that the Supreme Court have nine justices.
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The justices likely are waiting to see whether Scalia's successor is confirmed.
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Kennedy was key in siding with liberal justices to support Roe v.
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It takes a vote of five justices to grant a stay application.
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All five of the justices in the gerrymandering majority ran as Democrats.
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And unlike members of Congress, justices do not sit according to ideology.
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The justices recently tightened the Lujan test in 2013's Clapper v.
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A series of public remarks last week from three justices delivered another.
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The justices didn't comment on why they chose to reject the appeal.
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The justices are schedule to hear arguments in one case on Wednesday.
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There's pretty good evidence that the other justices are split 4-4.
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The two justices ticked off favorite foods of current and former colleagues.
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Four of the justices had indicated three years earlier, in Webster v.
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For that we need to look at the justices' voting records directly.
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At least four justices are needed to agree to review a case.
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But I have hope that the justices will decide in our favor.
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Court officials sometimes minimize the justices' health problems, and plenty go unreported.
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Under relentless questioning from the justices, Mr Ortega's thesis looked increasingly shaky.
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Katyal urged the justices to focus on the reality behind it all.
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"This is the president's proclamation through and through," he told the justices.
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The four liberal justices are seen as likely to uphold the rule.
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Some justices continue to reject any consideration of race in college admissions.
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Will the justices allow the Trump administration to toss out the Dreamers?
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It takes at least five justices to agree to a stay petition.
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The justices also appeared to be leaning toward Texas-based railroad BNSF.
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Only two of the nine high court justices dissented to the decision.
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Beto O'Rourke have signaled an openness to adding justices to the court.
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The justices agreed Tuesday to take the case, known as Husted v.
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He attended Harvard Law School, as did five of the current justices.
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Ray, seems to have intensified the justices' fissures over the death penalty.
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The case the justices were debating has nothing to do with bathrooms.
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The justices appeared closely divided when oral arguments were heard in January.
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Kennedy joined the court's four liberal justices in Whole Woman's Health v.
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Then, the justices will decide whether to hear the government's full appeal.
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Recent justices like John Paul Stevens and Anthony Kennedy followed this tradition.
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He served with two associate justices that he had appointed as president.
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The justices are likely to take up even more cases on Monday.
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Supreme Court justices can be a major feather in any president's cap.
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By a 5-20073 vote in 2012, the justices upheld that provision.
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Obama appointed Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan earlier in his administration.
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That means that come March, only seven justices will hear the argument.
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I'm not arguing here that public opinion will definitely sway the justices.
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Every major Democratic policy would need to survive scrutiny by the justices.
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Not everyone is convinced that the justices will finally resolve the dispute.
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Supreme Court justices don't need an electoral mandate to do their jobs.
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Fortunately, five justices disagreed with Scalia's interpretation of what constitutes protected waters.
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The justices are scheduled to meet in a private conference on Friday.
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The justices have not yet said whether they will consider that appeal.
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But such cases are rare, whether there are eight justices or nine.
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Trump lied about his motivations, and five justices called him on it.
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Current Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer were dissenters in Zelman.
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In their questioning, the justices grappled with where to draw the line.
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The justices also pressed Francisco on the shifting explanations for ending DACA.
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Millions of people were furious at the justices' decision in Bush v.
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The justices could turn away one or both cases on procedural grounds.
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To succeed, the Trump administration will need the votes of five justices.
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Scalia's death left the court with four conservative and four liberal justices.
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All of this assumes that the justices pay attention to supporting briefs.
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Seven justices will hear the case, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor is recused.
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They are farm workers, astronauts, Supreme Court justices and everything in between.
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It takes five justices to agree to stay a lower court ruling.
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Roberts could act alone or refer the matter to all eight justices.
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She said she was encouraged that three justices agreed with their position.
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The House first has to find that the justices committed impeachable offenses.
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Now, Americans expect the justices to keep their opinions largely to themselves.
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University of Texas, was decided by just seven justices, 4 to 3.
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At age 20103, Ginsburg is the eldest of the nine sitting justices.
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Dissenting with Ginsburg were Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
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The issue did not seem to strike the justices as particularly difficult.
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Given the advanced age of some justices, retirements are a distinct possibility.
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The odds are that some terrible people will become Supreme Court justices.
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The eight justices worked harder to find common ground on divisive issues.
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Now, one or more justices dissent in about 60 percent of rulings.
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It also asked the justices to consider punishing the A.C.L.U.'s lawyers.
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Unfortunately, the conservative Justices on the Roberts Court are not among them.
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The justices aren't set to take the bench again until March 23rd.
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Over time, the number fluctuated up to as many as 10 justices.
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Many liberals think that the conservative justices are cat's paws of business.
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The current justices of our Supreme Court are, to be blunt, old.
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It's about justices who do not represent the will of the majority.
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The virus is bound to force Supreme Court justices into new territory.
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He sees those justices as acting in league with their fellow Republicans.
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The justices' next round of oral arguments is scheduled for March 22020.
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There are several ways to measure the ideology of Supreme Court justices.
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Two of them — Justices White and John Paul Stevens — retired later on.
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The justices on Wednesday appeared ready to chastise Mr. Evans yet again.
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The justices will consider in mid-April whether to hear the case.
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Mr. Garre said the two newest justices are a study in contrasts.
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Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Samuel A. Alito Jr. joined the dissent.
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The Supreme Court is composed of life-tenured justices for a reason.
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As justices, though, the two men can be a study in contrasts.
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El Rematito flea market is presumably little-traveled by Supreme Court justices.
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But he said he was quickly welcomed by his eight fellow justices.
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President Trump promised to appoint justices who would overrule Roe v. Wade.
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In an unsigned one-sentence order, issued last Friday, the justices refused.
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The case marked the latest important free speech decision by the justices.
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But those skeptical conservative justices were nowhere to be found on Tuesday.
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During a January hearing, the Justices appeared to side with the company.
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That ability to nominate justices will probably be Clinton's most important power.
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The justices are taking "incremental steps," said Liptak, who covered the ruling.
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Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the December ruling.
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But the justices have been divided on whether such measures are constitutional.
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Ordinarily, the justices shy away from a case that looks jurisdictionally sketchy.
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The justices could act in that case as early as next week.
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Conservative justices suggested that judicial review did not apply to Thuraissigiam's circumstances.
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Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined the dissent.
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Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan joined the dissent.
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Other Republican appointees, including Justices Stevens and Souter, drifted left over time.
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The justices affirmed that standard last year in Whole Woman's Health v.
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In Hampton, Mr. King joked about Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
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It is the justices' apparent "acquiescence" in the government's game of leapfrog.
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The latest move is unlikely to ease discontent among her fellow justices.
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Today we need justices who will address a new generation of issues.
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And the commission made the case an easy one for the justices.
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Under normal circumstances, justices don't like to retire during an election year.
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The justices rightly reversed the State Supreme Court's decision upholding that conviction.
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The decision was unanimous, but the justices were divided on the reasoning.
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Justice Alito, writing for eight justices on Monday, said trademarks are different.
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Here is a look at where things stand, and the justices' options.
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