Hobbs is first Democrat in 20 years to appoint justice to Arizona Supreme Court
Hobbs nominated Judge Maria Elena Cruz, a lifelong resident of Yuma, Arizona, to the state Supreme Court. Cruz will replace Justice Robert Brutinel, who retired last year. “Judge Maria Elena Cruz has ...
Arizona governor appoints first Latina and Black justice to state Supreme Court
The appointment of Maria Elena Cruz broadens the racial, geographic and political diversity of the seven-member, ...
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Arkansas State Supreme Court justices debate chief justice authority in meeting
Five Justices of the Arkansas State Supreme Court and Chief Justice Karen Baker went back and forth about the authority they believe she has in a Thursday meeting. “I don’t understand why the ...
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Supreme Court to weigh constitutionality of nation’s first religious charter school
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether states may reject religious charter ... this spring and hand down a decision before July. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative, recused ...
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Supreme Court takes up Oklahoma effort to create nation’s first public religious charter school
The victory was short lived, though, after Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general, Gentner Drummond, sued and took the case to the state Supreme Court where the justices ruled the school ...
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Supreme Court will weigh in on effort to found nation’s first religious charter school
The school and the charter school board came to the Supreme Court in October, asking the justices to weigh in. The school contended that the state supreme court’s ruling “unconstitutionally punished ...
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Supreme Court to weigh major clash between church and state
The Supreme Court will weigh the fate of an Oklahoma religious charter school that has blurred the lines between church and state, justices announced Friday in an unsigned order distributed days ...
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Supreme Court May Rip A Few More Schoolhouse Bricks Out Of The Church-State Wall
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a ... Makin, in which Chief Justice Roberts laid out this reasoning in deciding that the state’s voucher program must include religious schools: In ...
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State Supreme Court takes a step toward transparency with contentious livestreamed meeting
there was a bit of big-picture good news from the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday, as the court livestreamed one of its internal meetings on YouTube for the first time. Chief Justice Karen ...
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Wisconsin voters gear up for another high-stakes state Supreme Court race
Dane County Judge Susan Crawford, a liberal, will face former Wisconsin Attorney General conservative Brad Schimel after liberal-leaning Justice ... Wisconsin Supreme Court. The state’s 2023 ...
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Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ... interference case from state court into federal court. Despite speculation in liberal legal circles and talk among Democratic senators of urging Justice Sonia Sotomayor ...