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WASHINGTON - President Obama's candidates for the Supreme Court include a new name, federal appeals court Judge Sidney Thomas of Montana, and at least six others who were contenders when Obama chose his first high court nominee last year, The Associated Press has learned.
Among the others under consideration are former Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, federal appeals court judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
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...-century after King spoke, in the Supreme Court's recent decisions addressing race-conscious effor... that included scarcely any minority candidates. While the City justified its decision as avoiding... of our history, that individuals should be judged by the color of their skin. Racial classifications...) Kenji Yoshino argues that universalizing appeals to liberty might serve as the "new equal protectio..., McCleskey would have to prove that the Georgia Legislature enacted or maintained the death penalt...
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...Political parties and candidates were able to circumvent FECA's limitations by cont...A three-judge District Court held some parts of BCRA unconstitut... . on appeals from the united states district court for the dist...Beam Distilling Co. v. Georgia, 501 U. S. 529, 547 (1991) (Blackmun, J., dissent...
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... plan that favored Democratic candidates. The Republicans challenged the 1991 Plan as an un... party for the benefit of another, the three-judge Federal District Court sought to apply only "neutr... throughout a decade, see, e.g., Georgia v. Ashcroft, 539 U. S. 461, 488, n. 2, appellan.... ON APPEALS FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EAST...
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..., Chief Justice Taney, writing for the Court, ruled that this rule did not apply to freed slave... that a petition to form and nominate candidates for a new political party be signed by at least 20... seeking to impose rates which, in a judge's estimation, were arbitrary or unreasonable. This...615 (1915); Seaboard Air Line R.R. v. Georgia R.R. Comm'n, 240 U.S. 324 , 327 (1916). . Genera..., as in the famous New York Court of Appeals case of Seider v. Roth , in which the property s...
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...certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the second circuit. No. 071428. Argued April 2... captain positions showed that white candidates had outperformed minority candidates, a rancorous ... en banc, over written dissents by Chief Judge Jacobs and Judge Cabranes. 530 F. 3d 88. This a..., IOS retained a senior fire officer from Georgia to review the exams for content and fidelity to th...
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...certiorari to the supreme court of appeals of west virginia. No. 08–22. Argued March 3, 200... common-law rule requiring recusal when a judge has “a direct, personal, substantial, pecuniary ... by the campaign committees of both candidates combined. Brief for Petitioners 28. . Ben...Georgia, 429 U. S. 245, 250 (1977) (per curiam). It may...
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's candidates for the Supreme Court include a new name, federal appeals court Judge Sidney Thomas of Montana, and at least six others who were contenders when Obama chose his first high court nominee last year, The Associated Press has learned.
Among the others under consideration are former Georgia Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, federal appeals court judges Diane Wood and Merrick Garland, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
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...CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT . . No. 06-5754. Argued Fe...The judge concluded that the appropriate sentence was 33 mon... above, there are four conceivable candidates. . . 1 . The most simplistic objection is that t... Georgia , 435 U. S. 223 (1978) (prohibiting five-person st...
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...CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT . No. 04-1528. Argued Febru... limits both the amounts that candidates for state office may spend on their campaigns and ... First Amendment does not authorize us to judge whether a restriction of political speech imposes ... but not necessarily dispositive." Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U. S. ___, ___ (2006) (slip op...