Liberal and conservative political groups are bracing for what could be a divisive battle over the confirmation for President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. The Senate will take up Judge Sotomayor's nomination sometime

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Burma's highest court has rejected an appeal to allow more defense witnesses in the trial of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The trial has been widely condemned as rigged to keep the Nobel Peace Prize winner locked up. The Burmese high c

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IN THE NEWS - Senators Aim to Avoid Delays Over Bush's Court Nominees By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Saturday, May 21, 2005 I'm Steve Ember with IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr

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By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 23 January 2006 watch Right to Die report The Supreme Court last week upheld a controversial law in the state of Oregon that allows physicians to prescribe lethal dose

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By Jim Malone WAshington 22 February 2006 The U.S. Supreme Court will revisit the politically divisive issue of abortion later this year. The abortion case in question will be a major test for a court

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A high-ranking Republican senator says President Barack Obama's nominee for a seat on the Supreme Court should apologize for a comment made years ago about the roles of race and gender in judicial opinions. Meanwhile, Democratic senators are downpla

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Pakistan's Supreme Court has granted bail to the hard-line cleric who led Islamabad's Red Mosque - a former hub for the country's militant groups. The military's deadly assault on gunmen barricaded inside Abdul Aziz's mosque in 2007 sparked a surge

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Detained American Muslims look to media as they arrive to appear in an anti terrorist court in Sargodha, Pakistan [file photo] A Pakistani court has sentenced five Americans to 10 years each in prison after finding them guilty of terror offenses. Pak

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Four years ago, the Dixie Chicks decided to take a break from making music. Two of the three members became restless, however, and formed a duo as a side project. They have now released a debut album. Sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison decided

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Autism spectrum disorder is a complex neurological disorder that affects a person's ability to communicate and interact with others. For decades some parents, researchers and doctors have debated a possible link between autism and vaccines that conta

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Indian Court Rejects Harsher Sentences for Bhopal Disaster India's top court has turned down a plea to reopen a case aimed at getting a stronger punishment for those found guilty for the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, which killed thousands of people. The

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Court Overturns California Gay Marriage Ban Those who back the right of same-sex couples to marry cheered the ruling by the three-judge panel in San Francisco. In their 2-1 decision, the judges upheld the ruling of a lower court, saying Proposition 8

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NOEL KING, HOST: The curtain rises today on Act 2 of extreme partisan gerrymandering, a play in three acts currently onstage at the U.S. Supreme Court. NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg updates the plotline of the biggest legal controv

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: In 2010, a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and killed an unarmed 15-year-old boy who was standing on the Mexican side of the border. Between 2005 and 2013, there were 42 of these cross-border shooting deaths. Today, the U.S. Suprem

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By Tom Rivers London 14 February 2008 In a Landmark decision, a three judge Court of Appeal panel, headed by the country's most senior judge, overturned Wednesday the convictions of five young British Muslim men who were jailed last July for having o

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By Sonja Pace London 09 July 2007 A British court has handed guilty verdicts for four men in plotting to bomb London's transport system in July 2005. Jury deliberations continue for two others implicated in the plot. VOA's Sonja Pace reports from Lon

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The Indonesian Supreme Court turned down a last-minute appeal filed by the families of the three men waiting to be executed for the 2002 terrorist bombings on the resort island, Bali. VOA's Nancy-Amelia Collins in Jakarta has more. Bali Bombers from

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By Jim Malone Washington 01 October 2009 The U.S. Supreme Court opens its annual term Monday with a new justice and a new slate of potentially significant cases. US Supreme Court (file photo) The Supreme Court traditionally opens its annual term on

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THIS IS AMERICA - US Supreme Court Upholds Healthcare Law, Strikes Down Much of Immigration Law CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. Im Christopher Cruise. Today, we will look at the recent United States Supreme Cour

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By Scott Stearns Dakar 13 October 2009 Ali Bongo (Aug 2009 file photo) Gabon's constitutional court has upheld Ali Ben Bongo's win in the August presidential election. Nine opposition candidates challenged those results alleging massive vote fraud.

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