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Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Dec. 26, 2018 / 3:16 PM GMT By Elisha Fieldstadt Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital Wednesday after undergoing surgery to have cancerous growths removed from her lung, according to the Supreme Court press office. Ginsburg, 85, underwent a pulmonary lobectomy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City on Friday, the court said. Two nodules had been found on her left lung during tests after she had a fall in November that fractured three of her ribs. Both "nodules removed during surgery were found to be malignant on initial pathology evaluation," the court added, but there "was no evidence of any remaining disease." "Scans performed before surgery indicated no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body. Currently, no further treatment is planned," the court said. On its website, Sloan … [Read more...] about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg released from hospital after lung surgery

The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced.The court's 5-4 decision concerns a provision of immigration law that defines a “crime of violence.” A conviction for a crime of violence makes an immigrant subject to deportation and usually speeds up the process.A federal appeals court in San Francisco previously struck down the provision as too vague, and on Monday the Supreme Court agreed. The appeals court based its ruling on a 2015 Supreme Court decision that struck down a similarly worded part of another federal law that imposes longer prison sentences on repeat criminals.Justice Elena Kagan wrote that the 20015 decision “tells us how to resolve this case.”The decision is a loss for President Trump's administration which, like President Obama's administration before it, had defended the provision at issue before the Supreme Court. And it comes … [Read more...] about Supreme Court agrees deportation provision of immigration law is too vague

North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Robin Hudson survived a runoff on Tuesday, despite a negative ad funded by a PAC called Justice for All NC.Hudson will face Superior Court Judge Eric Levinson in the November election. They were the top two vote getters in the three-way race, report WRAL and the Charlotte Observer.The Republican State Leadership Committee gave $900,000 to Justice for All NC, which funded the attack ad claiming Hudson was “not tough on child molesters.” The ad, which can be seen on YouTube, targeted Hudson for a 2010 dissent in which she said it was unconstitutional to apply a law requiring electronic monitoring of child molesters to people convicted before the law passed.“I’m glad North Carolina voters made a stand that our courts are not for sale,” Hudson told WRAL on Tuesday. “But they are going to have to do it again this fall.”Justice For All NC raised $1.7 million two years ago, sending the money to another PAC that … [Read more...] about PAC campaign doesn’t derail state supreme court justice’s bid for re-election

Updated: Ohio Supreme Court Justice William O’Neill vented on Facebook after 12 Cleveland Browns players took a knee during the national anthem prior to their preseason game against the New York Giants on Monday night.In a Facebook post on Tuesday, O’Neill said he “will NEVER attend a sporting event where the draft dodging millionaire athletes disrespect the veterans who earned them the right to be on that field. Shame on you all.” The Columbus Dispatch and the Washington Post’s Early Lead blog covered the justice’s comments.O’Neill noted that he is a Vietnam veteran and that his son is an Iraq veteran and that his father fought in World War II. The judge received a Bronze Star in Vietnam, according to the Columbus Dispatch.The military draft ended in 1973, so none of the Browns players are actually draft dodgers, the articles note.Rookie Jabrill Peppers, one of the players who kneeled, told ESPN that they “decided to take a knee and … [Read more...] about Ohio Supreme Court justice goes on Facebook to slam Browns players who kneeled during anthem

Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Manu Sebastian February 26, 2018 9:37 pm Change Font Size Hearing a public interest litigation seeking a ban on convicted persons from heading political parties filed by BJP leader and advocate Ashwini Upadhayay, the Supreme Court recently expressed its view that a convicted person – criminal or corrupt – cannot head a political party and sought the final view of the Centre within two weeks on the matter. “A convicted person can’t contest election. Then how can he form a political party and select candidates? What you cannot do individually, can you do collectively through some agents? That is our question,” asked Chief Justice Dipak Misra on February 12. If A Convict Can’t Contest In Election, How Can He Head A Political Party? Asks SC “A man cannot directly contest an election, so he constitutes a group of persons to form a political party and contest an election. An … [Read more...] about India, Pak Supreme Courts In Sync On Disqualification Of Convicts From Heading Political Parties