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In a JURIST Forum special, JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross, Professor of Law at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law in Alabama, reviews the second day of the Senate confirmation hearings for US Chief Justice nominee John Roberts, and...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its confirmation hearings Monday for John Roberts , nominated by President Bush to serve as the 17th Chief Justice of the United States in the wake...

The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted unanimously to allow high ranking members within the group to subpoena certain information from companies sued over asbestos claims. Committee leaders Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) and the...

President Bush Sunday paid personal tribute to Chief Justice William Rehnquist , who died Saturday evening at the age of 80 . Speaking in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, he said of the late...

US Senator Patrick Leahy , ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Monday that the committee's Democrats intend to question Supreme Court nominee John Roberts about a Justice Department memo that some say led...

US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, denounced Tuesday the "radical" views of US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts and claimed that Roberts worked to reverse "decades...

The US Department of Justice Friday refused a congressional request to turn over certain documents authored by US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts when he was deputy Solicitor General, saying that internal deliberations on the merits of...

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said Wednesday that notwithstanding White House warnings, Democrats plan to request additional legal writings by Supreme Court nominee John Roberts, including work he produced during his tenure as principal deputy solicitor general in...

The White House said Sunday that it will not release US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' entire file during his tenure in two Republican administrations because of privacy and precedential reasons. Former US Senator Fred Thompson [Wikipedia...

President Bush's Tuesday evening nomination of conservative federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts to the US Supreme Court has predictably drawn praise from Republicans and calls for caution from Democrats, who vow to examine Robert's record...