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SUPREME COURT

WORLD / Politics
Aug 12, 2016
Reid says Clinton will back Obama's Supreme Court pick
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said on Thursday he believed Hillary Clinton would stick with President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee if she won the Nov. 8 presidential election.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 13, 2016
Justice Ginsburg enters political fray, terms Trump 'faker' with ego
In calling Republican Donald Trump a "faker," Ruth Bader Ginsburg thrust herself into presidential politics to an unprecedented degree for a U.S. Supreme Court justice in the modern era.
EDITORIALS
Jun 24, 2016
Capital punishment for a minor
Putting someone to death for crimes committed while they are a minor is a very serious business, one that deserves a great deal more study.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 24, 2016
Supreme Court rejects white woman's challenge to Texas school's affirmative action stance
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the consideration of race in college admissions, rejecting a white woman's challenge to a University of Texas program designed to boost the enrollment of minority students.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 10, 2016
U.S. top court sides with death-row inmate, hits prosecutor-turned-judge's potential bias
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a death-row inmate in a ruling warning of the hazards of judicial bias, slamming Pennsylvania's former chief justice for not stepping aside in a murder case in which he earlier had served as a prosecutor.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 24, 2016
U.S. top court rules for black Georgia death-row inmate who faced all-white jury
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday effectively overturned a black man's 1987 conviction for murdering a white woman, rebuking Georgia prosecutors for unlawfully excluding black potential jurors in picking an all-white jury that condemned him to death.
WORLD / Politics
May 3, 2016
Obama takes case for Supreme Court pick to home turf of GOP senators up for re-election
President Barack Obama on Monday took the political battle over his pick for a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court to the home states of seven Republican senators up for re-election in November.
EDITORIALS
Apr 28, 2016
Supreme Court's probe falls short
The top court's probe into 'special trials' held for leprosy patients accused of criminal offenses failed to address whether the defendants recieved justice.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 25, 2016
Supreme Court apologizes for discriminatory treatment of Japan's leprosy patients
The Supreme Court apologizes to former leprosy patients for allowing lower courts to hold criminal trials involving them outside standard courtrooms over ungrounded fears about the spread of infection.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 21, 2016
Iran bank must pay $2 billion to U.S. kin of 1983 Beirut bomb victims: Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that almost $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets must be turned over to American families of people killed in the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut and other attacks blamed on Iran.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Apr 6, 2016
Moderate Maine Republican Collins urges Senate hearings on Obama top court pick
A moderate Republican senator heaped praise on Tuesday on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, bucking Senate Republican leaders in calling for confirmation hearings but saying she was not optimistic enough others in her party would agree.
EDITORIALS
Apr 5, 2016
Special trials for Hansen's patients
Rather than merely offer an apology to former Hansen's disease patients for their closed trials, the Supreme Court should look into whether they received fair trials.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Mar 30, 2016
U.S. Supreme Court 4-4 split by default upholds public-sector worker collective bargaining fees
Public sector unions triumphed before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday when the justices preserved a vital source of cash for organized labor, splitting 4-4 on a conservative challenge that had seemed destined for success until Justice Antonin Scalia's death last month.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 30, 2016
Facing poll threat, senator hits Republican colleagues' 'closed-minded' boycott of Obama justice pick
Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois on Tuesday accused many of his fellow Senate Republicans of being "closed-minded" by refusing to consider President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 29, 2016
Trump would destroy progressive movement if he gets to pick top court justice: Clinton
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton rebuked Senate Republicans on Monday for denying a hearing to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, accusing them of obstructionism, and warned of dangers if Donald Trump appointed the next justice.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 29, 2016
Clinton to rip Trump, Republicans over snub of Obama's top court pick
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton will assail the prospect of a Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Supreme Court justice on Monday, her campaign said, as she seeks to regain momentum from party rival Bernie Sanders, the winner of three weekend nominating contests.

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