Author: Mark Sherman
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Supreme Court upholds state voting restrictions
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WASHINGTON • Flexing its new strength, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority Thursday cut back on a landmark voting rights law in a decision likely to help Republican states fight challenges to voting restrictions they’ve put in place following last year’s elections. The court’s 6-3 ruling upheld voting limits in Arizona that a lower court had…
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Supreme Court upholds Arizona voting restrictions
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld voting restrictions in Arizona in a decision that could make it harder to challenge other states’ voting limits put in place by Republican lawmakers following last year’s elections. The 6-3 ruling by the conservative-majority court fueled new calls from Democrats to pass federal legislation, blocked by…
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‘Obamacare’ survives: Supreme Court dismisses big challenge
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court, though increasingly conservative in makeup, rejected the latest major Republican-led effort to kill the national health care law known as “Obamacare” on Thursday, preserving insurance coverage for millions of Americans. The justices, by a 7-2 vote, left the entire Affordable Care Act intact in ruling that Texas, other GOP-led…
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Biden clears 270-vote mark as electors affirm his victory
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WASHINGTON • The Electoral College formally chose Joe Biden Monday as the nation’s next president, giving him a solid electoral majority of 306 votes and confirming his victory in last month’s election. The state-by-state voting took on added importance this year because of President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede he had lost. California’s 55 electoral votes…
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‘Obamacare’ likely to survive, high court arguments indicate
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WASHINGTON • A more conservative Supreme Court appeared unwilling Tuesday to do what Republicans have long desired: kill off the Affordable Care Act, including its key protections for preexisting health conditions and subsidized insurance premiums that affect tens of millions of Americans. Meeting remotely a week after the election and in the midst of a…
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Judges dismiss Trump claims in Georgia, Michigan
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits Thursday, undercutting a campaign legal strategy to attack the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean President Donald Trump’s defeat. The rulings came as Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to…
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GOP pushes Barrett’s nomination ahead
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WASHINGTON • Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination cleared a key hurdle Thursday as Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans powered past Democrats’ objections in the drive to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick before the Nov. 3 election. The panel set Oct. 22 for its vote to recommend Barrett’s nomination to the full Senate for a…
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Barrett keeps Democrats at bay in Senate hearing
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WASHINGTON • Over and over, Amy Coney Barrett said she’d be her own judge if confirmed to the Supreme Court. But she was careful in two long days of Senate testimony not to take on the president who nominated her, and she sought to create distance between herself and past positions, writings on controversial subjects…
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Barrett stands ground from Dems’ skeptical questions
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WASHINGTON • Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett batted back Democrats’ skeptical questions on abortion, gun rights and election disputes in lively Senate confirmation testimony Tuesday, insisting she would bring no personal agenda to the court but would decide cases as they come. The 48-year-old appellate court judge declared her conservative views with often colloquial…
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Ginsburg, a feminist icon memorialized as the Notorious RBG
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg moved slowly. • When court was in session, she often had her head down, sometimes leading visitors to think she was asleep. She once acknowledged she did occasionally nod off. She once confessed to dozing during a State of the Union. • But it was a mistake to equate…