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Analysis: In voting-rights case, liberal justices pitch to Kennedy

August 24, 2021 at 12:05 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barely a minute into a U.S. Supreme Court hearing, liberal justices began a strategic barrage of questions that came down to this: Why should a time-honored plank...

Analysis: In voting-rights case, liberal justices pitch to Kennedy

May 23, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barely a minute into a U.S. Supreme Court hearing, liberal justices began a strategic barrage of questions that came down to this: Why should a time-honored plank...

Justices poised to query voting rights focus on South

August 23, 2021 at 11:51 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the Supreme Court last scrutinized the 1965 Voting Rights Act in 2009, Justice Anthony Kennedy peered down from the bench and asked why federal rules were...

Insight: Lawyers in gay marriage cases aim pitches at Obama

August 23, 2021 at 10:06 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On separate occasions in recent days, lawyers on opposite sides of a Supreme Court fight over same-sex marriage took an elevator to the fifth floor of the...

Insight: Lawyers in gay marriage cases aim pitches at Obama

August 22, 2019 at 8:29 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On separate occasions in recent days, lawyers on opposite sides of a Supreme Court fight over same-sex marriage took an elevator to the fifth floor of the...

Factbox: Major U.S. Supreme Court decisions on gay rights

August 23, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two gay marriage cases the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear on Friday begin a new chapter in its review of discrimination based on sexual orientation....

Factbox: Major U.S. Supreme Court decisions on gay rights

August 22, 2019 at 7:22 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two gay marriage cases the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear on Friday begin a new chapter in its review of discrimination based on sexual orientation....

Special Report: Behind U.S. race cases, a little-known recruiter

December 25, 2018 at 7:34 a.m.

SOUTH THOMASTON, Maine (Reuters) - Sometime in the next few months, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide two cases that could fundamentally reshape the rules of race in America. In...

Special Report: Behind U.S. race cases, a little-known recruiter

August 23, 2021 at 6:47 p.m.

SOUTH THOMASTON, Maine (Reuters) - Sometime in the next few months, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide two cases that could fundamentally reshape the rules of race in America. In...

Analysis: U.S. battle over ballots averted, but not forever

August 22, 2019 at 6:46 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - They sued early and often. Voting-rights advocates, along with the U.S. Department of Justice and some political party officials, tackled potential electoral problems early this election year....

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