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Landmark rulings on abortion, birthright citizenship, voting rights, gun rights, religious liberty, and executive power
The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who argued that racial discrimination tainted the selection of the jury that convicted him, in a 5-4 ruling that faulted a process in which 11 of the 12…
3 MIN READA proposed $7.25 billion settlement of thousands of lawsuits alleging Bayer failed to warn that Roundup weedkiller can cause cancer faces possible delays after an attorney asked to move the case to federal court. The dispute centers on…
4 MIN READA proposed $7.25 billion settlement of lawsuits over Roundup cancer claims in Missouri could be delayed after an attorney asked to move the case to federal court. The dispute could affect deadlines for people to opt out of the settlement,…
3 MIN READA divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed Alabama’s appeal to execute death-row inmate Joseph Clifton Smith, whom lower courts found to be intellectually disabled, leaving in place the rulings that block the state from carrying…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Alabama’s appeal on Thursday in the case of a death-row inmate found by lower courts to have intellectual disability. The court’s action left in place lower-court rulings barring the state from executing…
3 MIN READThe Supreme Court appeared likely on Tuesday to strike down Hawaii's law restricting who can carry guns into stores, malls, and hotels, marking the justices' latest gun-rights case since their landmark 2022 decision expanding Second…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Justice Department said it found the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, illegally considered race in admissions. The department’s finding comes as the Trump administration seeks to…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared inclined to allow police to use geofence warrants that collect cellphone location history to identify suspects near crime scenes, according to questions from justices during nearly two hours of…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case involving “geofence” warrants, a method that uses a location-based search to identify suspects and then gather cellphone location history. The justices will decide whether the warrants…
3 MIN READThe 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Texas requirement that the Ten Commandments be posted in public school classrooms, rejecting arguments from parents and other groups that the rule violates students’ or families’ rights.…
3 MIN READThe Supreme Court cleared the way Wednesday for a veteran wounded by a suicide bomb in Afghanistan to sue a government contractor for whom the attacker worked when he built the explosive. The court ruled 6-3 in favor of former Army Spc.…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday of limiting federal regulators’ power in a telecommunications data-privacy dispute that involves Verizon and AT&T. The companies are challenging a Federal Communications Commission process…
3 MIN READA Tennessee man jailed for more than a month over Facebook memes about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has reached a $835,000 settlement with Perry County and law enforcement officials. Larry Bushart, a 61-year-old retired…
3 MIN READThe Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case from two Colorado Catholic preschools challenging their exclusion from the state's taxpayer-funded universal preschool program because they refuse to admit children from LGBTQ+ families.…
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President Donald Trump took a front-row seat in the public seating area at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to watch oral arguments over an executive order challenging birthright citizenship, according to the Associated Press. He sat…
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump said he plans to attend Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on his bid to limit birthright citizenship. The White House schedule sent to reporters included a stop at the court, where justices will hear Trump’s…
3 MIN READThe Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal of a ruling blocking an executive order that sought to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country…
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump plans to attend Wednesday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing on his bid to limit birthright citizenship, the White House schedule shows. The case asks the court to revive an executive order that said children born to…
3 MIN READThe Supreme Court sounded skeptical Monday of state laws that allow election officials to count some mail ballots arriving after Election Day, a target of President Donald Trump. The justices heard arguments in a case from Mississippi that…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a lawsuit by Texas-based citizen journalist Priscilla Villarreal, known online as “La Gordiloca,” over her arrest in a case that drew national attention. The justices left in place a…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court on Friday revived a lawsuit by evangelical Christian Gabriel Olivier, who says Mississippi authorities violated his First Amendment rights when he was arrested for refusing to move his preaching. The unanimous ruling…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a dispute over whether states can count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. A case challenging Mississippi’s five-day grace period has raised questions for 14 states that allow…
3 MIN READA Wyoming man who hit a wolf with a snowmobile, taped its mouth shut, and displayed the wounded animal in a rural bar before killing it pleaded guilty Thursday to felony animal cruelty, with the sentencing judge saying he would review the…
4 MIN READThe Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case brought by Boulder, Colorado, accusing Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil of deceiving the public about fossil fuels' role in climate change. The ruling marks the court's first major…
4 MIN READA U.S. appeals court Friday cleared the way for Louisiana to require poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, voting 12-6 to lift a lower court's 2024 block on the law. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of…
5 MIN READFormer Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin pardoned ex-Sgt. Wesley Gonzalez Shifflett on Jan. 15 in the fatal 2023 shooting of an unarmed man accused of stealing sunglasses at a mall. The pardon, issued days before Youngkin's term ended, comes…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to strike down Hawaii’s restrictions on carrying guns into places such as stores and hotels, in a case testing how far states may limit Second Amendment rights. Justices questioned whether…
3 MIN READAn 18-year-old North Carolina man plans to plead guilty to a 2022 mass shooting in Raleigh that left five people dead, his attorneys said Tuesday. Austin Thompson, who was 15 when he shot and stabbed his 16-year-old brother and four…
4 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Tuesday in a challenge to Hawaii's rule that firearms may not be carried on privately owned, publicly accessible property — including stores, hotels, beaches, and bars — unless the owner…
4 MIN READHawaii’s gun laws are set to face U.S. Supreme Court scrutiny Tuesday, as the court considers a narrow question about carrying firearms on private property open to the public. The case centers on whether Hawaii can prohibit guns on…
4 MIN READThe Supreme Court agreed to decide the constitutionality of “geofence” search warrants that collect cellphone location history, a tool used to identify people near crime scenes. The case grew out of a Virginia robbery investigation in…
3 MIN READThe Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up the constitutionality of geofence warrants — broad search orders that compel technology companies to produce the location history of every cellphone user within a defined geographic area during a…
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