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A busy term awaits U.S. Supreme Court, which opens with just...

WASHINGTON — Although the Supreme Court began its new term Oct. 5, it is hardly business as usual since the court only has eight...

Notre Dame Law School colleagues, teachers, praise Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination

WASHINGTON -- If Judge Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed to the Supreme Court, she will be the first Notre Dame Law School graduate to...

Judge Amy Coney Barrett ‘humbled by the prospect of serving in...

WASHINGTON -- Eight days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Donald Trump announced Sept. 26 that Judge Amy Coney...

Supreme Court denies appeals of federal death-row inmates; William LeCroy and...

WASHINGTON  -- The Supreme Court denied the appeals of two federal death-row inmates in late September. On Sept. 22, it denied an appeal to postpone...

U.S. bishops say ‘enough’ on federal executions, call for ‘rehabilitation and...

WASHINGTON -- Just hours before the sixth federal execution took place this year, and two days before the next one was scheduled, two U.S. bishops' committee chairmen...

Pope Francis brought message of encouragement to United States in 2015

WASHINGTON — Although the thought of standing with throngs of people for hours at a time seems foreign now in the midst of the...

‘Jurist of historic stature’ — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader...

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Sept. 18 at age 87, has been described in countless tributes as a cultural...

Pope Francis accepts resignation of Bishop-elect Michel Mulloy of Duluth, Minn.,...

WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Father Michel J. Mulloy -- who had been appointed but not installed as bishop of...

All eyes on U.S. Supreme Court as religious liberty case from...

WASHINGTON — As part of what seems to be a new trend for the Supreme Court, it will once again take up a religious...

Supreme Court gives the go-ahead for continued construction on Trump administration’s...

WASHINGTON  -- In a 5-4 vote July 31, the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for construction to continue on portions of the Trump administration's...

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