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US Supreme Court backs consumer finance watchdog agency’s funding mechanism

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Amanda Smith

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding mechanism in a challenge ...

Thomas says critics are pushing ‘nastiness’ and calls Washington a ‘hideous place’

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Amanda Smith

FAIRHOPE, Alabama — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a judicial conference Friday that he and his wife have faced ...

Supreme Court says cops can keep your stuff pending forfeiture hearings

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Amanda Smith

The Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority yet again went further than it had to. This time, the court approved stingy safeguards for civil ...

Trump immunity case suggests new role for supreme court: kingmaker

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Amanda Smith

“Well,” said one reporter to another as they left the supreme court chamber, sometime after noon on Thursday. “Looks like we’re getting ...

Justice Thomas misses Supreme Court session Monday with no explanation

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Amanda Smith

FILE – Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at ...

How Justice Thomas’s ‘Nearly Adopted Daughter’ Became His Law Clerk

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Amanda Smith

The email went out to members of Justice Clarence Thomas’ law clerk network late last month celebrating his newest addition to an ...

The next Clarence Thomas? Abortion pill case spotlights rightwing judge and his wife’s shadowy connections

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Amanda Smith

When the former president Donald Trump appointed the Texas attorney James Ho to the fifth circuit court of appeals in 2017, lawyers ...

Brett Kavanaugh knows truth of alleged sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford says in book

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Amanda Smith

The US supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh is not a “consummately honest person” and “must know” what really happened on the night ...

Unhappy with the Supreme Court? Your vote for president could make it worse

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Amanda Smith

By now it shouldn’t need to be said: When Americans vote for a president, the federal courts are on the ballot as ...

House Democrats urge Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Trump Colorado ballot case

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Amanda Smith

A group of House Democrats on Thursday called on conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from a case involving ...