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The conservative era of the Supreme Court is over
After 45 years with a conservative majority, the Supreme Court appears to be entering a very different era.
The major rulings of this just-completed Supreme Court term show there are no longer five votes for a conservative result — a historic shift. From the time President Nixon’s fourth court nominee was confirmed in 1971 until Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February, there have always been five ideologically conservative Republican appointees on the bench. No longer. Indeed, if Hillary Clinton is elected president in November, a liberal majority may dominate the court for decades to come.
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The conservative era of the Supreme Court is over
After 45 years with a conservative majority, the Supreme Court appears to be entering a very different era.
The major rulings of this just-completed Supreme Court term show there are no longer five votes for a conservative result — a historic...
Key passages from the Supreme Court's abortion decision
The Supreme Court issued a 5-3 decision Monday that limits states’ ability to restrict access to an abortion by passing unnecessary health and safety regulations.
Justice Stephen Breyer issued the majority opinion in the case, which has been...
Here's how a divided Supreme Court ruled (or didn't rule) on big issues this session
In the final days of its annual term, the Supreme Court’s eight ideologically divided justices ruled on a number of politically charged cases, but deadlocked on others.
Since the February death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the justices have...
Supreme Court upholds use of affirmative action at universities
The 30-year conservative campaign to strike down race-based affirmative action came to an apparent end Thursday when a University of Texas admissions policy was upheld by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the last of the Reagan appointees to the Supreme Court...
The Supreme Court winks at an illegal police stop
At a time of justified concern about arbitrary police stops, the Supreme Court on Monday made such harassment more likely rather than less. By a 5-3 vote, the court upheld the search of a drug defendant that grew out of a stop that the state conceded...
Supreme Court gives police more power to stop and question people
The Supreme Court on Monday gave police more power to stop people on the streets and question them, even when it is not clear they have done anything wrong.
In a 5-3 ruling, the justices relaxed the so-called exclusionary rule and upheld the use...
'Confirmation' tackles the issue of power and access — and who has it, says Kerry Washington
Everybody knows Kerry Washington: Striding through the Grand Salon of the Baccarat Hotel here she greets multiple acquaintances, and a bestselling author pal stops by briefly to share a copy of her new memoir. But if you think you know Washington...
The Supreme Court says a judge should have stepped aside
Donald Trump has attracted widespread and bipartisan scorn for suggesting that a “Mexican” judge presiding over a lawsuit involving Trump University is biased because of his ancestry. (U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel was born in Indiana.) But if it’s...
Supreme Court says judges must step aside from cases they once prosecuted
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that judges must step aside from ruling in a case if they had once played a key role in the prosecution.
The 5-3 decision sided with a death row inmate in Pennsylvania whose sentence was upheld by the state supreme...
Today: Silicon Valley vs. Trump. Viacom's 'Game of Thrones.'
I'm Davan Maharaj, editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times. Here are some story lines I don't want you to miss today.
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Trump Train Bypasses Silicon Valley
There’s no love lost between Donald Trump and Silicon Valley. Trump’s statements...
Supreme Court rules that prosecutors intentionally kept black people off jury
The Supreme Court rebuked Georgia prosecutors and judges Monday for having excluded black citizens from the murder trial of a black defendant, and then denying his claims of racial bias even after stark new evidence was revealed.
In an unusually biting...
Supreme Court rules that prosecutors intentionally kept blacks off jury
The Supreme Court rebuked Georgia prosecutors and judges Monday for having excluded black citizens from the murder trial of a black defendant, and then denying his claims of racial bias even after stark new evidence was revealed.
In an unusually biting...
Trump announces list of potential Supreme Court picks, including one who has repeatedly mocked him
Hoping to reassure Republicans worried that he might be too liberal, Donald Trump on Wednesday named 11 conservative judges from outside the Washington Beltway as his likely choices for a Supreme Court justice should he be elected president.
For a...
Wendell Pierce of 'The Wire,' 'Odd Couple' arrested on suspicion of battery in Atlanta
Wendell Pierce, who plays Teddy in the CBS reboot of "The Odd Couple" and is known for his work on "The Wire," was arrested early Saturday morning in an Atlanta hotel.
"Mr. Pierce made no indication he was famous,"...
Disgruntled inventor's $500-million verdict against California tax collectors cut to $50,000
The Supreme Court has shielded California and its taxpayers from "hostile" juries in neighboring Nevada who have been willing to hand down big verdicts on behalf of those who fled California in search of lower taxes.
The 6-2 decision threw...
Elle celebrates 'Scandal' and 'Confirmation' star Kerry Washington
During an intimate, candlelit dinner at A.O.C. in West Hollywood to celebrate "Scandal" star and Elle magazine cover girl Kerry Washington, Elle editor in chief Robbie Myers told guests, including Anita Hill, Rachel Zoe and hubby Rodger...
Published in Los Angeles Times on April 17, 2016 — Print headline: "All things Kerry - PARTIES"
Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet' on Animal Planet
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'Confirmation' on HBO is as powerful as Anita Hill's testimony was 25 years ago
Covering an admirable amount of ground in a short amount of time, all roads in "Confirmation," HBO's new dramatization of the confirmation hearings for then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, lead to one indelible image:
A lone black woman,...
Published in Los Angeles Times on April 16, 2016 — Print headline: "A powerful testimony - `Confirmation,' like Hill, stuns - TELEVISION REVIEW"
What Anita Hill and, yes, Clarence Thomas taught 'Confirmation's' Kerry Washington and Wendell Pierce
"Who do you believe?"
In October 1991, as law professor Anita Hill came forward to accuse her former boss and Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, it was the question everyone in America was asking. The dramatic...
Views on the Clarence Thomas controversy: The law says that women must define harassment
With "Confirmation" airing on HBO this weekend, the landmark 1991 Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, in which attorney Anita Hill accused her former supervisor Thomas of sexual harassment, is once again a topic of discussion. This article...