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POLITICS 04/17/2018 10:50 am ET She'll wear a sling for several weeks. Reuters Staff 410 WASHINGTON ― U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor broke her right shoulder in a fall at her home, but will continue performing her duties as usual, a court spokeswoman said on Tuesday. “She will wear a sling for several weeks and will undergo physical therapy,” spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said in a statement. The injury that she sustained on Monday marked the second medical issue that Sotomayor, 63, has faced this year. The lifelong diabetic was treated by paramedics for low blood sugar at her home in Washington in January. Sotomayor, one of the nine-member court’s four liberal justices, was named to the court in 2009 by Democratic former President Barack Obama. She is the first Hispanic justice to serve on the court. “Justice Sotomayor plans to continue with her schedule as usual,” Arberg said. RELATED... Sonia Sotomayor Sends A … [Read more...] about Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Continues Duties After Breaking Shoulder

A majority of likely voters were unable to correctly name just one Supreme Court justice, according to the latest C-SPAN/PSB poll. The results, according to the survey: 52 percent of voters overall were unable to name one High Court justice. 48 percent of voters overall said they could or correctly named a justice. 59 percent of voters identifying as conservatives could not name a justice. 57 percent of voters identifying as liberals correctly named a justice. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the most recognizable justice; she was correctly identified by 25 percent of voters, according to the survey. Anthony Kennedy, the late Antonin Scalia and nominee Brett Kavanaugh were three incorrect responses given by voters who couldn't name a justice, according to C-SPAN. However, 53 percent of voters say they hear the right amount about the workings of the Supreme Court, compared to 44 percent who say they hear too little, according to the survey. Nearly 70 percent of those surveyed said they've been … [Read more...] about Poll: 52 Percent Can’t Name a Single Supreme Court Justice

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

Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post Published 2:21 pm, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is all but certain to shift the ideology of the court to the right. As the court's swing vote, Kennedy is what political scientists call the "median justice." Plot out the ideology of the court's nine members, and you'll find Kennedy smack in the middle with four conservatives on one side and four liberals on the other. The median justice wields considerable power on the court: On decisions that split neatly by ideology, you can't have a majority without the median justice. Political scientists have used different methods to calculate judicial ideology over the years. One of the most widely used is the Martin-Quinn score, which, at the risk of greatly oversimplifying, tracks how often justices vote with each other in affirming or reversing lower-court cases. The nice thing about this score is that it allows us to place each … [Read more...] about Chief Justice John Roberts is now the Supreme Court’s swing vote