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Mary Elizabeth Taylor has gotten a place of national prominence after being seated behind SCOTUS hopeful and Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch during his televised confirmation hearings with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

@kwellscomm TLCNaptown.com Local & National News  — Good day to you… Fire fighters were busy Tuesday morning battling three unrelated house fires and now investigators are doing the tough work of determining a cause.  The fires were in the 800 block of N. Tuxedo Street on the near-east side then in the 300 block of […]

@kwellscomm #AccessIndy Our resident “Legal Eagles” spent some time with me on “Access Indy with Kim Wells” Sunday to go Behind The Headlines on the justice system headlines that have gripped our nation.  From an immigration ban targeting Muslims and put into effect by the stroke of a president’s pen -to- all of the fall out around the […]

Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas says government institutions are broken. He included the high court in his assessment.

The decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt means a lower court's decision to uphold the law has been reversed.

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The Court failed to reach a decision on United States v. Texas, No. 15-674, likely due to the empty Supreme Court seat.

The decision was made Monday after Sue Evenwel and Edward Pfenninger argued that only eligible voters should be counted, which can harm large urban communities consisting of non-voters and children, but benefit large districts with conservative and rural voters.

Most Democrats (80 percent) back Garland, while 45 percent of the overall public have a positive outlook about his nomination.

African-American advocates and women's group wonder why a more liberal (and African-American) judge wasn't nominated to sit on our nation's highest court.

Sri Srinivasan, Merrick Garland and Paul Watford -- who, if confirmed, would be the nation's third Black justice after Clarence Thomas and Thurgood Marshall -- were named by the source as the potential nominees, confirming the nation could know as early as Monday who the president chooses.

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Attorney General Loretta Lynch has pulled her name from the pool of possible nominees to the Supreme Court Tuesday, asking that she "not be considered" for the seat.

In 2012, Miller v. Alabama determined juveniles officially under 18 were not eligible for life sentences or punishment without parole under the protection of the eighth amendment.