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Obama nominee could shape Supreme Court for decades

April 13, 2010 By Pepe Lozano

Obama told reporters he would look for a candidate with qualities similar to Stevens, a Republican who became a liberal on the court.

After Supreme Court ruling, unions fear opening of corporate cash floodgates

February 2, 2010 By John Wojcik

Leaders of the nation's largest unions came out in unanimous opposition to the recent Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to spend as much as they like to influence the outcome of elections in the United...

Supreme Court fumbles Native American mascot challenge

November 17, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

The U.S. Supreme Court refused this week to hear a case involving a lawsuit by Native American activists on use of the name "Washington Redskins."

Supreme Court refuses to hear case of Cuba 5

June 16, 2009

WASHINGTON -- The United States Supreme Court today refused, without comment, to hear the case of the “Cuba 5,” Cuban citizens jailed by the federal government in a case that has generated intense international criticism of...

Suddenly it’s OK to call a judicial nominee a racist

May 31, 2009 By Jamison Foser

When the nation learned in 2005 that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito had belonged to a Princeton University alumni organization that advocated a cap on the number of women and minorities allowed at Princeton, the news...