US supreme court
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Major victory for reproductive rights activists paves way to overturn dozens of measures that curtail access to abortion providers across the country
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Justices rule 7-1 in favor of Timothy Tyrone Foster and find prosecutors kept African Americans off jury that convicted him of killing a white woman
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Bill heads to governor and if it becomes a law, any doctor who performed an abortion – except to save a woman’s life – could face three years in prison
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Influenced by the Heritage Foundation, Donald Trump’s list of potential nominees means anyone he appoints would be at least as rightwing as Scalia
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Presumptive Republican nominee’s list includes judge who said Roe v Wade ‘created right to murder unborn child’ and backed voter ID law
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No Senate Republicans attended and majority leader Mitch McConnell dismissed the ‘pretend hearing’ for the president’s nominee for the supreme court
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Got a minute? Trump releases supreme court list … but Justice Don Willett turns out to be a Trump heckler … and everything else you need to know from the campaign trail. By Tom McCarthy
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David Smith answers your questions after the court failed to resolve a dispute between faith-based groups and the Obama administration over birth control
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Justices order lower courts to find compromise in case involving faith-based organizations who hold moral objections to Obamacare contraception rules
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Court rejects efforts by Iran’s central bank to stave off orders to pay relatives of 1983 Beirut bombing and other terrorist attacks
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Justice Sotomayor challenges Republican-led case against Barack Obama’s executive actions to spare 4 million undocumented migrants from deportation
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As justices heard arguments over Obama’s executive actions to defer deportations, advocates were looking toward the presidential election
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The new dramatisation of the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas supreme court hearings of 1991 is compelling, propulsive and – in key moments – unlikely
American south braces for election three years after attack on voting rights