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In California, long jail sentences pack prisons, but a Supreme Court ruling and a hunger strike may improve conditions.
Opinion Last Modified: 03 Aug 2011 13:50 GMT
US state asked to free tens of thousands of prisoners or take other steps to prevent suffereing in overcrowded prisons.
Americas Last Modified: 23 May 2011 23:40 GMT
Supreme Court decision rules that race cannot be a factor in determining school.
Americas Last Modified: 29 Jun 2007 10:02 GMT
A sharply divided US Senate has confirmed Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, backing a second conservative nominated by George Bush, the US president, in his effort to move the nation's highest court to the right.
Archive Last Modified: 31 Jan 2006 16:56 GMT
The US Senate is set to approve Samuel Alito, George Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, after opposition Democrats failed to block the move with a last-minute procedural manoeuvre.
Archive Last Modified: 31 Jan 2006 00:18 GMT

Samuel Alito, the US Supreme Court nominee, has faced more aggressive questioning from Democrats at his Senate confirmation hearing.

Archive Last Modified: 12 Jan 2006 03:39 GMT
George Bush's conservative Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has begun what is likely to be a contentious week of Senate confirmation hearings.
Archive Last Modified: 09 Jan 2006 20:45 GMT
US President George Bush has nominated conservative judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in a move likely to set off a partisan battle with Democrats as he tries to right his struggling presidency.
Archive Last Modified: 31 Oct 2005 15:05 GMT
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