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Watchdogs applaud after Democrats vote to summon key rightwing duo to answer questions amid supreme court ethics row

Online electrical goods seller still able to report pre-tax profits of £13m in the half year as cost-cutting measures bear fruit

The new rules leave compliance up to each justice. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor have been under scrutiny for gifts, benefits, travel received from outside sources.

Several justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, seemed sympathetic toward James Rudisill, a decorated Army veteran who says the VA cut short his benefits and thwarted his dream of attending Yale’s divinity school.

A very interesting article by Prof. Steve Sanders (Indiana), who is also an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a scholar of sexual orientation and the law; it's in the Chronicle of Higher Education, but also available without the need for registration here. An excerpt: During the Red Scare of…

If so, the decision would be a small retreat from the Supreme Court's sweeping decision on gun rights last year.

Justices appear to be against further unravelling of gun laws as DoJ makes passionate call for preservation of 1994 firearms ban

The Supreme Court is hearing its first case about guns since last year’s decision that called into question numerous gun control laws

The boss who sells us appliances by the thousand is chilled about Mike Ashley’s stake in the company, but hot on recycling and the need for the rich to give back