For Supreme Court's new term: rise of a new centrist
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The Christian Science Monitor - Abortion regulations and race-based public school enrollment plans are among major national issues at the US Supreme Court this year in a term that offers the first real insight into the constitutional vision of the high court under Chief Justice John Roberts.
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Some of the major issues to be decided by the Supreme Court next year:
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U.S. Chief Justice William  Rehnquist, the leader of the Supreme Court's conservative  majority, has undergone surgery for thyroid cancer, suddenly  throwing a political spotlight on the highest court in the land  just eight days before the presidential election.
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The legal profession may have a reputation for being conservative, but some US courts are taking a more hi-tech approach.
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The Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday faced with urgent business and looming uncertainty.
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Legal correspondent Jeffrey Toobin talks about his new book, Roe v. Wade and what to expect from the new Supreme Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court opened its new term on Monday, with two hours of arguments on federal sentencing rules and the rejection of some 1,800 appeals, including a challenge by telemarketers to the government's popular do-not-call list.
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Bush may get to fill as many as three Supreme Court openings, remaking the court for a generation. Democrats have become experts at blocking nominees they oppose, but they can't stop them all
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After months of intense campaigning about Iraq, terror, taxes and jobs, the future of the Supreme Court has finally entered the public discourse.
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During the first term under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., justices found common ground by agreeing not to decide much. The new term is likely to be different.
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The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday that will decide important cases on federal sentencing rules, the death penalty for juveniles and the medical use of marijuana.
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While liberals view Antonin Scalia as a right-wing ideologue, he holds exalted status among a growing cadre of conservatives.
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A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upholds New York's system of choosing trial judges is likely to renew calls for legislative reform, but even some proponents of change say their chances of success are slim.
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One way to win back the Supreme Court: Sweeten the message and market it.
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not in the way that the court counted in 2000. If President Bush gets to make his first Supreme Court appointment
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The news that US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has cancer has raised a neglected but weighty factor this election: The next president will very likely choose one or more new Supreme Court justices.
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The justices begin their term Monday by reviewing judges' role in federal sentences.