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U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene in a request by Ohio Democrats to restore an extra week of early voting.

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A student activist is calling for a statue of Harriet Tubman to be added to the grounds of the Maryland State House as foxbaltimore.com reports. The Washington Post reports that University of Maryland student Colin Byrd thinks his push for the Tubman statue will be able to gather momentum after the Treasury Department decided to put […]

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The Supreme Court has rejected former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's appeal and will not review his corruption conviction. The High Court's decision was announced on its order list without further comment.

The decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt means a lower court's decision to uphold the law has been reversed.

The U.S. Supreme Court denied Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s request for a new trial. Kilpatrick was convicted of bribery, racketeering, and other corruption charges in 2013 and was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison. Kwame Kilpatrick Asks Supreme Court To Vacate Corruption Conviction There was much tension between Kwame Kilpatrick and his lawyer during […]

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Abigail Fisher, the White woman who made a big fuss about the affirmative action program at the University of Texas, lost big at the Supreme Court on Thursday.

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The Court failed to reach a decision on United States v. Texas, No. 15-674, likely due to the empty Supreme Court seat.

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The Supreme Court examined a case out of Utah that questioned whether it was constitutional for evidence collected unlawfully by a police officer could be used as evidence in court.

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Thomas, who will turn 68 on June 23, is the lone Black Supreme Court Justice and one of the court's most conservative members.

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Four decades after the ban on first-trimester abortions was declared unconstitutional in Roe v. Wade, women's reproductive rights activists find themselves before the Supreme Court for another battle in the Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt case.