supreme court

The Supreme Court is the highest court in the United States of America, and is the apex of the judicial branch in the American government system. Commonly referred to as the High Court or by the acronym SCOTUS, the Supreme Court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Supreme Court Justices, like all Article III federal judges enjoy lifetime tenure.

The Supreme Court hears cases that have come up through the federal appellate courts and state supreme courts. The court decides which cases to take by granting those cases that it wishes to hear a writ of certiorari or, in some extreme death penalty cases, a writ of habeas corpus.

The Court currently has six male and three female justices. The average age is 65 years, 6 months, and every current justice has an Ivy League background. Upon the retirement of Justice Stevens, the Court is without a Protestant for the first time in its history.

There are actually a few blogs that cover the cases and rulings of the Supreme Court. These include SCOTUS' own blog, the Volokh Conspiracy written by a group of professors, and Justia.com. There are also many more blogs that cover different aspects of constitutional law, or specifically investigate constitutional law itself and not necessarily the High Court.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “supreme court”

 

• Justices Uphold Retrials Even After Juries Reject Charges

  
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  The justices split over whether the constitutional protection against double jeopardy barred such reprosecutions.
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• ‘Global symbol’ Garzon should be reinstated, say European magistrates

  
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  Medel presents a petition to the Spanish Ministry of Justice demanding the superjudge be restored to the bench
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• Top Philippine judge insists he did not violate law by not declaring $2.4M in bank accounts

  
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  The chief justice of the Philippine Supreme Court has testified at his impeachment trial that he did not violate any laws when he failed to declare $2.4 million in bank accounts. Renato Corona invoked the bank privacy law that protects foreign deposits from disclosure. Several senators and prosecutors ...
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• Huge Win in Quicken RESPA Case

  
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  A ruling Thursday by the U.S. Supreme Court on unearned fees is good news for Quicken Loans Inc. and for mortgage lenders in general. But the ruling was a setback for the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Supreme Court agreed last year to hear the case, which addressed whether Section 8(b) of the Real ...
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• AR Supreme Court denies teenagers request to be tried as juvenile in murder of guard www.privateofficer.com

  
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    LITTLE ROCK AR May 25 2012 — The state Supreme Court today denied a teenager’s request to transfer his capital murder case to juvenile court. Christopher Beverage is charged with killing a guard during an escape from the Jack Jones Juvenile Justice Center in Pine Bluff. Prosecutors say Beverage and two other ...
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• Supreme Court rules murder retrial would…

  
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  KOMO News Supreme Court rules murder retrial would not invoke double jeopardy The Seattle Times Arkansas may retry a man for murder even though jurors in his first trial were unanimous that he was not guilty, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. By Robert Barnes No comments have been posted to ...
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• The Filipino People dares 188 Congressmen and Several Senators to file their waivers

  
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  Now that the Highest Magistrate of this country already did what was expected of him, I, along with the rest of the Filipino People who want nothing more than see a cleaner bureaucracy, demand that these 188 Congressmen and several moralizing Senators to also file their waivers on the confidentiality of their foreign ...
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• Landmark Judicial Decisions–Videos

  
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  McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Lochner v. New York (1905) Wickard v. Filburn (1942) Brown v. Board of Ed. (1954) United States v. Lopez (1995) Gonzalez v. Raich (2005) These are all important decisions in the consideration of ...
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• Va. Man Exonerated Of 1978 Rape

  
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  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday exonerated a Charles City area man wrongfully convicted of a 1978 rape. The justices granted a writ of actual innocence to Bennett Barbour, 56. Barbour was convicted of the rape of a 19-year-old College of William and Mary student at an off-campus ...
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• Chairman of the Supreme Court, Carlos Dívar, survives vote in the CGPJ

  
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  The member of the CGPJ who brought the vote, Gómez Benítez, was then asked to resign by seven others in the committee. The Chairman of the Supreme Court, and the head of General Council for Judicial Power, the body which oversees the judiciary in Spain, Carlos Dívar, will remain in those poses are only a minority ...
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• Supreme Court says double jeopardy does…

  
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  The Associated Press Supreme Court says double jeopardy does not protect against murder retrial Washington Post Arkansas may retry a man for murder even though jurors in his first trial were unanimous that he was not guilty, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Alex Blueford, who is accused of ...
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• Supreme Court says double jeopardy does not protect against murder retrial

  
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  Arkansas may retry a man for murder even though jurors in his first trial were unanimous that he was not guilty, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Alex Blueford, who is accused of killing his girlfriend’s 1-year-old son, is not protected by the Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause, the court ruled in a 6 to 3 ...
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• Supreme Court says double jeopardy does not protect against murder retrial

  
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  Arkansas may retry a man for murder even though jurors in his first trial were unanimous that he was not guilty, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Alex Blueford, who is accused of killing his girlfriend’s 1-year-old son, is not protected by the Constitution’s Double Jeopardy Clause, the court ruled in a 6 to 3 ...
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• Medical marijuana advocates claim legal victory

  
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  Medical marijuana advocates are trumpeting what they call a major legal victory providing some protection for dispensaries that provide the drug to patients. The California Supreme Court has denied review of a February state Court of Appeal ruling from Los Angeles which had held that dispensaries need not have ...
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• Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Hulu Case

  
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  The Supreme Court this week sent a case involving broad patents back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for reconsideration. The case surround a patent that was granted to the company Ultramercial. The patent is for the concept – not the technology, mind you – of ads supporting online videos. ...
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• Quit Pretending That Vote Wasn’t Based On Race

  
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  Actually, Kenny Coleslaw, about a quarter of Democrats in Kentucky admitted that they voted against Barack Obama on the basis of race in 2008. [ WFPL ] It’s silly to protest this North Carolina nutjob. He’s so crazy that a protest isn’t necessary. His words do all the work for you. [ HuffPo ] The paper in ...
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• India’s Softer Tax Stance Fails to Placate Foreign Investors

  
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  Indias Softer Tax Stance Fails to Placate Foreign InvestorsReviewed by Adminnews on May 24.Rating: India.......
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• Even Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Won’t Say The Affordable Care Act Is Unconstitutional

  
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  Alberto Gonzales knows something about distorting the law. As George W. Bush’s White House Counsel, he called the Geneva Convention’s protections for wartime prisoners “ quaint ” and played a key role in authorizing the Bush Administration’s torture policies . As Attorney General, he presided over massive ...
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• Corporate Court Gives Thumbs Up to Mortgage Scam

  
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  Today the Supreme Court issued its decision in Freeman v. Quicken Loans ( .pdf download ), holding unanimously that the statute in question does not prohibit mortgage lenders from charging “unearned fees” – that is, charging fees for services never rendered. As a result of the Court’s decision in Freeman ...
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• Why running against the Supreme Court just might work for Obama

  
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  Some time between now and July 4, the Supreme Court will hand down two rulings — one on the constitutionality of President Obama’s health care law, the other on Arizona’s immigration law — that could have genuine impact on the battle for the White House this fall. Read full article >>
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