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Carmen Reinicke
A former banker accused of leaking deal tips to his dad was convicted of insider trading - again
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Former Perella Weinberg investment banker Sean Stewart. Sean Stewart, a former managing director at Perella Weinberg Pa...
Allan Smith
Trump complains about the Senate being too slow to confirm his judicial nominees, says 'it's not fair'
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Rex Tillerson and Donald Trump. President Donald Trump said Monday that the slow pace of Senate con...
Allan Smith
Trump has crossed a major mark as he tries to quietly cement a lasting legacy
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Donald Trump. President Donald Trump recently made his 100th nomination to either a lower cour...
Allan Smith
'The dogma lives loudly within you': The battle over Trump's effort to remake the courts in his image is starting to heat up
Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images Donald Trump. A whole heck of a lot happened this week in President Donald Trump...
Allan Smith
As Trump readies to announce Supreme Court pick, one judge emerges as top candidate
AP Photo/Cliff Owen Thomas Hardiman. President Donald Trump announced Monday morning that he had settled on a nominee for th...
Allan Smith
The verdict is in: The GOP's Supreme Court plan so far has been a disaster
AP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Most Americans disagree with the Republican-controlled Senate's plan to temporari...
Allan Smith
OBAMA: Republicans are 'worried and scared' over the looming Supreme Court battle
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Barack Obama. President Barack Obama told NPR that Republicans are "worried and scared" that their...
Julia La Roche
Criminal Charges Filed Against Credit Suisse Over Tax Evasion - Bank Expected To Plead Guilty
Arnd Wiegmann/REUTERS Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan The U.S. has filed a criminal case against Credit Suisse in federal cou...
Christina Sterbenz
Trial By Combat May Still Be Legal In America
"Game Of Thrones" In "Game Of Thrones," Tyrion Lannister won freedom through trial by combat, with the help of a champion. Americans have probably on...
Erin Fuchs
How Clarence Thomas Grew To Hate Affirmative Action
Associated Press Clarence Thomas in his high school yearbook photo from 1959. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday in a fight over Mich...
Jim Edwards
How My Polaroids Of The Sept. 11 Attacks Led Me Into America's Secret Court System For Terrorist Suspects
Jim Edwards This week marks the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Penta...
Christina Sterbenz
JUSTICE SCALIA: My Decisions Are Sometimes 'Stupid And Even Cruel'
AP Images When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia spoke in Bozeman, Mont. earlier this week, he admitted his legal conclusions aren't always very n...
Christina Sterbenz
America Is Getting Desperate For Drugs To Execute People
AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File The lethal injection chamber at Southern Ohio Corrections Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. Oklahoma, Ohio and Texas, are th...
Steven Perlberg
A Federal Court Says It Doesn't Matter If Poker Is A Game Of Skill Or Not - It's Still Illegal Online
Steve Marcus/Reuters Poker buffs have long argued that their game is one of skill, not luck. Even a district judge agreed la...
Christina Sterbenz
Nebraska Police Owe A Stripper $1 Million
quinn.anya via Flickr A federal judge had ordered Nebraska police to return $1 million to an exotic dancer after state troopers confiscated it during...
Christina Sterbenz
The Supreme Court's Approval Rating Just Keeps Getting Lower
Pew Research Center/Screenshot For the first time in nearly three decades, the Supreme Court's public favorability rating has dropped below 50%, a ne...
Christina Sterbenz
The Supreme Court's Approval Rating Just Keeps Getting Lower
Pew Research Center/ScreenshotFor the first time in nearly three decades, the Supreme Court's public favorability rating has dropped below 50%, a new...
Erin Fuchs
The 6 Most Outrageous Things Scalia Ever Said About Gays
Justice Antonin Scalia surprised pretty much nobody when he wrote a bitter dissent arguing the court should have upheld the anti-gay Defense of Marri...
Erin Fuchs
The 6 Most Outrageous Things Scalia Ever Said About Gays
Justice Antonin Scalia surprised pretty much nobody when he wrote a bitter dissent arguing the court should have upheld the anti-gay Defense of Marri...
Erin Fuchs
Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Anti-Gay Marriage Law
Reuters/Joshua Roberts Edie Windsor, plaintiff in the hearing against the Defense of Marriage Act, celebrates after arguments outside the Supreme Cou...
Erin Fuchs
Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Anti-Gay Marriage Law
Reuters/Joshua Roberts Edie Windsor, plaintiff in the hearing against the Defense of Marriage Act, celebrates after arguments outside the Supreme Cou...
Christina Sterbenz
Justice Alito Keeps Acting Like A Grumpy Teenager
Getty Images/Bloomberg Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's pouty-face during his nomination hearings. On Monday, the Supreme Court decided to keep a...
Christina Sterbenz
Justice Alito Keeps Acting Like A Grumpy Teenager
Getty Images/Bloomberg Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's pouty-face during his nomination hearings. On Monday, the Supreme Court decided to keep a...
Erin Fuchs
Justice Ginsburg: There's Still Racism In The South, And Minority Voters There Need Protection From Discrimination
Getty Images/Richard Ellis The Supreme Court overturned a key provision of a 1965 law meant to protect minori...
Erin Fuchs
Justice Ginsburg: There's Still Racism In The South, And Minority Voters There Need Protection From Discrimination
Getty Images/Richard EllisThe Supreme Court overturned a key provision of a 1965 law meant to protect minorit...
