Mark Walsh
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Supreme Court begins new term on a quieter note than last, but that could change (opens the original)
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The new U.S. Supreme Court term opens next week with a lower-temperature docket compared with last term, which saw blockbuster rulings on voting rights, immigration, transgender participation in school sports and President Donald Trump’s policies on tariffs, birthright citizenship, and the removal of federal officers. But many a high court term has started out looking sleepier than the one before it only to shift into a higher gear with the addition of more big merits cases. The court added thre
Supreme Court justices just can’t move about like they did in the good ol' days (opens the original)
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A generation or more ago, life was more carefree for U.S. Supreme Court justices. “I joined the court in 2010, and it was an entirely different world then,” Justice Elena Kagan last month told a U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee weighing the high court’s request for an increase in security funding. “I just walked out on the street. I had no security with me at any time. I drove back and forth to work by myself.” She noted that members of the Supreme Court police force would protect her whe
‘The most important criminal case of the term'—SCOTUS takes on plea bargaining (opens the original)
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy put it succinctly in a 2012 decision that noted 97% of federal criminal convictions and 94% of state convictions at that time were the result of guilty pleas entered by defendants. “Criminal justice today is for the most part a system of pleas, not a system of trials,” the now-retired justice wrote in the majority opinion in Lafler v. Cooper. Those figures have ticked up to almost 98% of federal convictions and 95% of state convictions, according to
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