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BYU law professor headed to the Supreme Court

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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Patrick Murphy. Lawyers for the member of the notorious "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners who is scheduled to be executed Thursday, March 28, 2019, say he should be spared because he never fatally shot a suburban Dallas police officer during a Christmas Eve robbery nearly 18 years earlier. Murphy is slated to die by lethal injection after 6 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

Patrick Murphy execution stayed by Supreme Court over Buddhist minister petition

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

High court seems split over curbing federal agencies’ power

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

4 child sex abuse convictions tossed over disputed theory

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at a rally calling for Fair Maps at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. The justices struggled to come up with a formula for when gerrymandering went too far. (Associated Press)

Supreme Court divided on solution for heavily gerrymandered districts

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court is seen at sunset in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

The Latest: High court wary of limiting partisan map drawing

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The Supreme Court is seen at sunset in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

High court questions courts’ role in partisan redistricting

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Pan Ei Mon, wife of Reuters journalist Wa Lone, carries her baby on arrival at the Supreme Court in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Myanmar Supreme Court is expected to rule on appeal to overturn conviction of two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of violating Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Myanmar Supreme Court agrees to rule on journalists’ appeal

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FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2019, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen at sunset in Washington. A long-delayed disaster aid bill that’s a top political priority for some of President Donald Trump’s GOP allies is facing a potentially tricky path as it heads to the Senate floor this week. Although the measure has wide backing from both parties, the White House isn’t pleased with the bill and is particularly opposed to efforts by Democrats to make hurricane relief to Puerto Rico more generous. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court denies appeal in mystery Mueller grand jury case

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court is seen at sunset in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

A more skeptical high court to hear redistricting challenge

By MARK SHERMAN and GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

NCAA to appeal ruling in antitrust case about compensation

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 24, 2016, file photo former state Attorney General Kathleen Kane leaves court in handcuffs after her sentencing at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Kane is losing her law license, a few months after she began a jail sentence for perjury, obstruction and other counts.The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a disbarment order on Friday, March 22, 2019. (Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP, Pool, File)

Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kane is disbarred

By MARC LEVY - Associated Press

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers answered reporters questions at the State Capitol in Madison, Wisc., Thursday, March 21, 2019, after a Dane County judge has blocked the lame duck laws that Republicans passed in December to limit the power of the governor and attorney general. (Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

Republicans ask to stay order blocking lame-duck laws

By TODD RICHMOND - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2011, file photo, commission attorney Mary O'Grady, left, speaks with Stephen Miller, a Casa Grande city council member, as they point to a possible map outlining the new congressional landscape during an Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission meeting in Tempe, Ariz. in Arizona congressional and state legislative districts are drawn by a five-person commission established under a ballot measure approved by voters in 2000. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Number of states using redistricting commissions growing

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this Jan. 7, 2019 photo, The Supreme Court is seen in Washington. Supreme Court justices are again considering how to keep prosecutors from removing African-Americans from criminal juries for racially biased reasons, this time in a case involving a Mississippi death row inmate who has been tried six times for murder. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The Latest: Justices seem troubled by Mississippi conviction

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This Oct. 20, 2015, file photo, shows signage outside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Supreme Court: Google class-action case should be revisited

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In this Feb. 15, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits as he is introduced during an event at the Library of Congress in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) **FILE**

Justice Thomas talks at court arguments, 1st time in 3 years

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump listens to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speak during a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump, with eyes on 2020, hits John McCain, socialism, anti-conservative bias

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 7, 2019 photo, The Supreme Court is seen in Washington. Supreme Court justices are again considering how to keep prosecutors from removing African-Americans from criminal juries for racially biased reasons, this time in a case involving a Mississippi death row inmate who has been tried six times for murder. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump’s 2 Supreme Court picks on opposite sides in 2 cases

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

In this Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch, left, and Brett Kavanaugh watch as President Donald Trump arrives to give his State of the Union address to a joint session on Congress at the Capitol in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, Trump Supreme Court picks, on opposite sides in 2 of 3 cases

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press