Elena Kagan

Elena Kagan

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  Court appears conflicted over DNA sampling issue

  The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with what one of the justices called its most important criminal procedure case in decades, whether to let ... 

• Court won't allow challenge to surveillance law

  A sharply-divided Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out an attempt by U.S. citizens to challenge the expansion of a surveillance law used to monitor ... 

• Court says police don't have to prove dog training

  Police don't have to extensively document the work of drug-sniffing dogs in the field to be able to use the results of their work in court, the ... 

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  In Senate farewell, Kerry speaks of need to listen

  His voice quavering, Secretary of State-designate John Kerry bid farewell to the Senate after 28 years with a plea for comity and cooperation.