WASHINGTON — Concluding three days of fervent, public disagreement, a Supreme Court seemingly split over ideology will now wrestle in private about whether to strike down key parts or even all of President Barack Obama’s historic health care law. The justices’ decision, due this June, will affect the way virtually every American receives and pays for care.
WASHINGTON — As demonstrations swirled outside, Supreme Court justices signaled on Monday they are ready to confront without delay the keep-or-kill questions at the heart of challenges to President Barack Obama’s historic health care overhaul. Virtually every American will be affected by the outcome, due this summer in the heat of the election campaign.
COLUMBUS — A Supreme Court justice who helped write the state’s death penalty law testified Wednesday that the law isn’t working and should be scrapped.
COLUMBUS — Voters in Ohio have decided against raising the age limit for judges from 70 to 75.
If Ohio voters pass a statewide ballot issue this Nov. 8, it would give two Delaware County judges who would otherwise be too old to run again a chance for another term in office.
COLUMBUS — Lawmakers pushing to ban capital punishment in Ohio have asked the governor for a moratorium on executions while a committee studies the death penalty.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday narrowly endorsed reducing California’s cramped prison population by more than 30,000 inmates to fix sometimes deadly problems in medical care, ruling that federal judges retain enormous power to oversee troubled state prisons.