These are the key remaining opinions for the Supreme Court as it enters the the final rounds of the term: ▪ 2020 Census citizenship question ▪ Partisan gerrymandering ▪ Racial gerrymandering ▪ Maryland 'Peace Cross' ▪ Race in jury selection
So far, Chief Justice John Roberts has bobbed and weaved, balancing his institutional concerns against his own solidly conservative leanings. Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court in the early part of the 2018-19 term after a contentious nomination hearing featuring allegations of sexual misconduct as a teenager. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had two cancerous nodules removed from her left lung in December.There have been some opinions that resemble compromises.
Supreme Court to decide fate of WWI memorial cross 02:11Race in jury selection Curtis Flowers, an African-American on death row, was tried five times for the 1996 murder of four people inside a furniture store in Winona, Mississippi. But it was only in 2010, after his sixth trial, that a conviction stuck and Flowers was sentenced to death. Now, his lawyers want his conviction reversed.
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