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Some of the conservative justices on the court seem ready to turn the clock back to the early 1960s.
Kare R Aas said the disclosures left diplomats in sadness and anxiety.
Kare R Aas expected Ms Juul and her husband to face a reckoning in the courts.
There is no mercy in Norway on corruption.
Federal courts were powerless to address this grave problem the chief justice wrote.
Norway’s Parliament set up an independent commission to investigate those ties.
Jack Lang’s case will be a test of the price of having dealt with Mr Epstein in France.
Richard L. Hasen said the Roberts court may be moving in the opposite direction.
Drawing voting districts to give the party in power lopsided advantages was incompatible with democratic principles.
Some members of the court think there is more work to be done in removing legal guardrails governing elections developments in recent weeks signaled.
Prime Minister Fico portrayed the furor over Mr Lajcak as an attack on him
Decisions establishing the equality of each citizen’s vote were more important in Warren's view even than Brown v Board of Education.
Mr Barak confirmed he attended lunches and dinners at Mr Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse but said he did not witness or take part in any sexual abuse
Mr Lajcak said I was never offered sexual services I never participated in any I never witnessed any and I never had any information about them
The court is considering striking down or severely constraining the remaining pillar of the Voting Rights Act.
Espen Barth Eide said Ms Juul showed a serious failure of judgment.
Ms Juul's lawyer said she does not recognize the accusations made against her.
The court’s rulings have been of a piece with its conservative wing’s jurisprudential commitments giving states leeway insisting on an expansive interpretation of the First Amendment and casting a skeptical eye on government racial classifications.
The court’s election-law decisions seem aimed at dismantling decisions of the famously liberal court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren from 1953 to 1969.
India’s foreign ministry dismissed an email from Mr Epstein
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