The American jurist Hugo Lafayette Black (1886-1971) was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Associate Justice Black was an ardent New Dealer and led the liber...
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Hugo Black IIIMIAMI (AP) _ Assistant U.S. Attorney Hugo Black III, who shared a name with his grandfather the former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, died Saturday. He was 54.Colleagues at the U.S. Atto...
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My first reaction after President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court was: Ohmigod. My second was: Why do we care so much?
Begin with ohmigod. I donR...
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It was quiet on Floyd Abrams' side of the thick door leading into the television studio. On the other side, Jon Stewart was warming up the young, rowdy crowd perched in the bleachers to watch the l...
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