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Scared after the fall of Roe, these 2 Texas women rushed to tie the knot

Following the Supreme Court's decision, Carlie Brown and Molly Pela rescheduled their wedding for nine months earlier. They fear that without federal protections, their family remains vulnerable.

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There’s a Lot of Harvard and Yale on the Supreme Court. And That’s OK.

Both Republican and Democratic presidents have their reasons for choosing nominees from such a small pool.

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After Supreme Court ruling, it's open season on US gun laws

The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend firearms restrictions across the country as activists wage court battles over issues including age limits and bans on AR-15-style guns.

Bipartisan compromise bill would restore abortion rights

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing compromise legislation to restore abortion access in the wake of the June Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Tennessee's embrace of conservative Michigan college sours

After riding high on a promise to bring 50 charter schools to Tennessee, the relationship between the president of Michigan's Hillsdale College and Gov. Bill Lee has cooled over the past several months.

A look at pending legislation to protect same-sex marriages

The Respect for Marriage Act would ensure that same-sex marriages are recognized nationwide.

Some Republicans see good politics in same-sex marriage bill

As the Senate contemplates legislation to protect same-sex marriages, there has been a sharp shift in Republican support for the issue.

Clarence Thomas drops out of teaching a law class after students protested

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the George Washington University law school received calls to drop Thomas and cancel the seminar he taught.

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Cancel culture came for Clarence Thomas at George Washington law. Now, he's stepped aside.

Many are celebrating the justice's departure, but it's the latest example of how dissenting views are systematically eliminated in higher education.

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Justice Thomas cancels plans to teach at DC law school

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has backed out of teaching a seminar at George Washington University’s law school in the nation’s capital, following student protests and the university’s statement of support for the conservative justice’s role on campus.

What to expect from the next set of Jan. 6 committee hearings

After a flurry of hearings, the Jan. 6 committee is taking a step back to examine new evidence. What else might we learn when hearings resume in September?

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Democrats' push to protect same-sex marriage is personal for Sen. Tammy Baldwin

Baldwin, the first openly gay person elected to the Senate, is leading the charge to secure the 10 Republican votes needed for a filibuster-proof majority to pass a bill codifying marriage equality.

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GOP lawmaker opposed same-sex marriage, then went to gay son’s wedding

Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) attended his son's same-sex wedding Friday, three days after voting against federal legislation that would protect gay marriages.

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Jan. 6 Panel Deepens Probe To Trump Cabinet, Awaits Thomas

Lawmakers plan to interview additional witnesses and reconvene in September to resume laying out their Jan. 6 findings to the public.

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AP-NORC poll: 2 in 3 in US favor term limits for justices

About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices.

Liz Cheney says Jan. 6 committee could "contemplate a subpoena" for Ginni Thomas

Cheney said Sunday that her work on the committee "is the single most important thing I've ever done professionally," even if she loses her seat over it.

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Jan. 6 panel deepens probe to Trump Cabinet, awaits Thomas

The House Jan. 6 committee plans to interview more former Cabinet secretaries and is prepared to subpoena conservative activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, who’s married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as part of its investigation of the Capitol riot and Donald Trump’s role.

Jan. 6 committee to ‘contemplate a subpoena’ for Ginni Thomas

The Jan. 6 committee has vowed its investigation will continue, after a primetime hearing on Thursday capped off six weeks of televised testimony.

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Jan. 6 committee may subpoena Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice

Rep. Liz Cheney, one of the leaders of the investigation, said she hopes Thomas will voluntarily cooperate with the congressional committee.

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Ex-cult member Ginni Thomas may have fallen back into old habits with QAnon-backed conspiracy theories

Her history as both a former member of Lifespring and an anti-cult activist has prompted questions about her alignment with far-right conspiracy theories.

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Supreme Court leak probe: So many questions, so few answers

Less than 24 hours after the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion that overturned Roe v_ Wade, Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation into what he called an “egregious breach.”.

The Opening for Democrats on Abortion

Senate Democrats should take their cues from the House.

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House OKs Bill To Protect Contraception From Supreme Court

The bill is the latest example of Democrats latching onto their own version of culture war battles to appeal to female, progressive & minority voters.

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Sen. Murray seeks 6th term at new inflection point for women

Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state is seeking her sixth term at a new inflection point for women.

House OKs bill to protect contraception from Supreme Court

Democrats have pushed legislation through the House that would inscribe the right to use contraceptives into law.

Former clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says he is a 'wonderful' person with 'originalist' views, but 'he will be judged for what he does as a justice'

Thomas has called for the review of rulings granting Americans the right to birth-control access, gay relationships, and marriage equality.

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Pressure on Senate GOP after same-sex marriage passes House

The Senate has unexpectedly launched a new push to protect same-sex marriage in federal law.

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Mitt Romney dismisses Clarence Thomas' opinion to reconsider same-sex marriage ruling: 'He's opened a lot of doors that no other justices walk through'

The House on Tuesday passed legislation that would protect same-sex marriage rights. Romney said he hasn't given consideration to the bill yet.

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House passes same-sex marriage bill, with 47 Republicans and every Democrat voting in favor

The Respect for Marriage Act would provide federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples. Senate Democrats are gauging GOP support for the measure, and the White House supports the bill.

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House passes same-sex marriage bill, with 47 Republicans and every Democrat voting in favor

The Respect for Marriage Act would provide federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples. Senate Democrats are gauging GOP support for the measure, and the White House supports the bill.

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House Passes Bill Protecting Same-Sex Marriage Rights

The House introduced a bill named The Respect for Marriage Act that aims to protect same-sex marriages for LGBTQIA couples.

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House Democrats prepare for votes on same-sex marriage, contraception in response to Supreme Court

The House will vote first on a bill that would protect marriage equality.

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After Roe’s end, Dems press GOP votes on marriage equality, birth control

The House will also vote later in the week on legislation that would protect access to birth control and protect health-care providers from penalties for administering it. While still expressing their disappointment at the Supreme Court ruling, Democrats have predicted overturning abortion access could give them a lift with voters. A New York Times/Siena College poll of registered voters this month saw majority support for abortion access increase since September 2020, from 60 percent to 65 percent. Among registered voters, abortion ranked fifth behind crime, gun policies and the economy as the issues guiding their vote in November. House Republicans have not introduced any legislation that would bar access to birth control or in vitro fertilization.

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House passes same-sex marriage bill in retort to high court

The House has overwhelmingly approved a bill tp protect same-sex and interracial marriages.

House Democrats tee up votes on same-sex marriage, contraception rights

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas suggested last month that previous rulings legalizing the right to contraception and marriage equality could be "demonstrably erroneous."

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The House will vote on legislation protecting marriage equality after Clarence Thomas said the Supreme Court should 'reconsider' gay marriage decision

The Supreme Court's decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion has prompted Congress to act to protect marriage equality.

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Ted Cruz Targets Marriage Equality: SCOTUS Was ‘Clearly Wrong’

The Texas senator has long been a marriage equality foe, but he's taking the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade to make his case.

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What Precedents Would Clarence Thomas Overturn Next?

The Justice was once an outlier for his “outre” legal views. Now, Jeannie Suk Gersen says, he is the heart of a conservative bloc that is only getting started.

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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Clarence Thomas

For decades, Thomas has had a deeply pessimistic view of the country, rooted in his reading of the Fourteenth Amendment. After the Supreme Court’s recent opinions, his dystopia is becoming our reality.

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What Precedents Would Clarence Thomas Overturn Next?

The constitutional-law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen on a revolution in the Supreme Court. Plus, the comedian Hannah Gadsby denounces comedy, and Patricia Marx tries to relax.

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America’s Gun Laws Are as Old as Its Gun Politics

In an interview, a political scientist discusses the Supreme Court’s misreadings of the history of gun regulation.

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Justice Clarence Thomas once opposed Highland Park's assault weapons ban, saying that the 'overwhelming majority' of those with the rifles use them lawfully

Thomas called the city's ban "highly suspect because it broadly prohibits common semiautomatic firearms used for lawful purposes."

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Jan. 6 panel: More turning up with evidence against Trump

A member of the House Jan. 6 committee says more witnesses are coming forward with new details on the Capitol insurrection following former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s devastating testimony last week against former President Donald Trump.

'Stay tuned' for new evidence against Trump in July hearings

A member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot says more evidence is emerging that lends support to recent testimony that President Donald Trump wanted to join an angry mob that marched to the Capitol and rioted.

Op-Ed: Clarence Thomas earns our scorn

Thomas' concurring opinion in the decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade urges the right wing toward more fascism.

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Nearly 850,000 people signed a petition demanding that Justice Clarence Thomas should be booted from the Supreme Court following Roe v. Wade ruling

The petition created by Move On, an advocacy group, has just over 840,000 signatures as of Saturday morning.

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'Revolutionary' high court term on abortion, guns and more

Abortion, guns, religion.

More than 700K sign petition calling for Clarence Thomas to be impeached

More than 700,000 people have signed a petition calling for Justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. The petition, made by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn, was created after the Supreme Court overturned Roe in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and while controversy swirls…

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What Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Can Do on a Radical-Right Court

Can the liberal Justices hold the conservatives back—by appealing to shame or the Constitution—as the consequences of the majority’s recklessness become even more dangerous for American democracy?

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Same-sex couples updating legal status after abortion ruling

The Supreme Court's decision eliminating the constitutional right to abortion is causing anxiety for people in same-sex marriages, particularly those with children.

Same-sex couples updating legal status after abortion ruling

Emails and phone calls from same-sex couples, worried about the legal status of their marriages and keeping their children, flooded attorney Sydney Duncan’s office within hours of the Supreme Court’s decision eliminating the constitutional right to abortion. The ruling last week didn’t directly affect the 2015 decision that paved the way for same-sex marriage. “That has a lot of people scared and, I think, rightfully so,” said Duncan, who specializes in representing members of the LGBTQ community at the Magic City Legal Center in Birmingham.

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How the Supreme Court ruled in the major decisions of 2022

In their 2022 rulings, an emboldened 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court rolled backed abortion rights, expanded the rights of gun owners and strengthened the role of religion in public life.

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Anti-Roe justices a part of Catholicism's conservative wing

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

Justice Thomas cites debunked claim that Covid vaccines are made with cells from 'aborted children'

In a sharply worded dissent Thursday, Justice Clarence Thomas expressed support for the plaintiffs’ debunked claims that all Covid vaccines are made with cells from “aborted children.”

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Supreme Court lets vaccine mandate stand without religious exemption

Three conservative justices, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, objected to their colleagues’ refusal to review the state’s requirement.

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Justice Clarence Thomas and the Conservative Supreme Court Have Fanned the Flames of Racism in America

Former President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again cry proved an easy between-the-lines moniker, but even that stood as a dog whistle – until now. “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a day before abolishing Roe. If the court overturned that law, Thomas’ marriage to Ginni, who is white, would face peril. “Even Chief Justice Taney recognized that public carry was a component of the right to keep and bear arms – a right free Blacks were often denied in antebellum America,” Thomas dared to assert. “I join the opinion of the court because it correctly holds that there is no constitutional right to abortion,” Thomas wrote.

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High court rejects COVID-19 shot mandate case from New York

The Supreme Court has declined to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that doesn't offer an exemption for religious reasons.

Supreme Court to hear case on state authority over elections

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a North Carolina case that could dramatically change the way elections for Congress and the presidency are conducted.

Supreme Court: Veteran Who Lost Job As Texas Trooper Can Sue State

In a 5-4 vote, the court ruled state agencies are not immune from private lawsuits.

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has a lot to celebrate

Last week Clarence Thomas achieved two long-sought goals: expanding gun rights and overturning Roe v. Wade’s nationwide protection for abortion.

Some Missouri hospitals briefly halt emergency contraception

A large Missouri hospital chain briefly stopped providing emergency contraception amid confusion over whether the state’s abortion ban could put doctors at risk of criminal charges for providing the medication, even for sexual assault victims.

Texas AG says he’d defend sodomy law if Supreme Court revisits 2003 ruling

When asked whether the Texas legislature would pass a sodomy law, and if he would defend it and bring it to the Supreme Court, Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested he would be comfortable supporting a law outlawing intimate same-sex relationships.

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Justices say vet who lost job as Texas trooper can sue state

The Supreme Court has allowed a former state trooper to sue Texas over his claim that he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.

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Ginni Thomas' lawyer tries to get her out of Jan. 6 panel testimony, saying it's been a 'particularly stressful time' amid Supreme Court rulings

The wife of Justice Clarence Thomas was asked to testify before the Jan. 6 committee over her correspondence about overturning the 2020 election.

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Ginni Thomas' attorney wants "better justification" before Jan. 6 committee interview

"I do not understand the need to speak with Mrs. Thomas," wrote a lawyer for the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

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Ginni Thomas' attorney wants "better justification" before Jan. 6 committee interview

"I do not understand the need to speak with Mrs. Thomas," wrote a lawyer for the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

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Hillary Clinton, who has known Clarence Thomas since law school, says he is a person of 'resentment, grievance, anger'

Thomas wrote in a concurring opinion with the repeal of Roe v. Wade that the Court should also "reconsider" birth control, gay marriage, and gay sex.

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Ginni Thomas said Anita Hill's allegations of sexual harassment against her husband were 'highly offensive': book

"I know the man. I know the people in his life. I know what he's like with everyone in our world, and everyone in the workplace," she said.

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Supreme Court turns down South Florida church bid for hearing on ‘hate group’ designation

The U.S. Supreme Court turned down Coral Ridge Ministries, a South Florida church that says its designation as a “hate group” is preventing it from collecting donations from Amazon's Smile program. The decision rejects a chance to make it easier for public figures to sue organizations for libel and defamation.

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Kamala Harris warns abortion rights are only the beginning

Vice President Kamala Harris says she worries other rights might be endangered after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the landmark case legalizing abortion.

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Nancy Pelosi Calls to Eliminate Filibuster to Codify Roe , Kamala Harris Disagrees

House speaker Nancy Pelosi recently called for the elimination of the legislative filibuster “so that we can restore women’s fundamental rights” after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, though Vice President Kamala Harris said she would not endorse such a move.

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Gay Connecticut Supreme Court justice calls out U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on same-sex marriage ruling repeal idea

Clarence Thomas used the Supreme Court ruling overturning the right to abortion from Roe v. Wade to call for reversal of rulings on gay rights.

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Howard Stern on Roe v. Wade’s overturning: ‘I’m actually going to probably have to run for president now’

Howard Stern is ripping the Supreme Court’s decision striking down Roe v. Wade, saying the ruling might spur him to launch a White House bid. “I’m actually going to probably have to run for president now,” the SiriusXM host told “Howard Stern Show” listeners on Monday. The show marked Stern’s first public comments about Friday’s…

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Supreme Court rules for inmates seeking reduced prison terms

The Supreme Court has made it easier for certain prison inmates to seek shorter sentences under a bipartisan 2018 federal law aimed at reducing racial disparities in prison terms for cocaine crimes.

Pride parades march on with new urgency across US

Pride parades kicked off in some of America’s biggest cities Sunday amid new fears about the potential erosion of freedoms won through decades of activism.

What GOP-named justices had said about Roe to Senate panel

The nine justices of the Supreme Court made clear in their landmark ruling Friday whether they stand on abortion.

Supreme Court conservatives flex muscle in sweeping rulings

Sweeping Supreme Court rulings on guns and abortion this past week have sent an unmistakable message.

Two months of waiting, and finally a Supreme Court ruling

And so, the interminable wait after the leak of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade has come to an end — nearly two months in which abortion and all of its complexities have been have been hashed and rehashed, while the U.S. Supreme Court was silent.

To some defenders, gun ruling could right a racial wrong

When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s tight restrictions on who can carry a handgun, condemnation erupted from liberal leaders and activists.

Guns and abortion: Contradictory decisions, or consistent?

They are the most fiercely polarizing issues in American life: abortion and guns.

With Roe dead, some fear rollback of LGBTQ and other rights

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision allowing states to ban abortion is stirring alarm among LGBTQ advocates.

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Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion

The Supreme Court has stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abortion.

After Supreme Court gun decision, what’s next?

The Supreme Court issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade Thursday.

NY leaders vow new gun limits after Supreme Court ruling

New York’s Democratic leaders aim to preserve as many restrictions as possible on carrying a handgun in public after a U.S. Supreme Court decision Thursday struck down key portions of the state’s gun-licensing law.

Supreme Court rules Americans have right to carry guns in public

The Supreme Court has ruled that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense, a major expansion of gun rights.

Ginni Thomas responds to 1/6 panel, hearings stretch to July

The House's Jan. 6 committee plans to continue its public hearings into July as its investigation of the Capitol riot deepens.

Supreme Court limits reach of federal gun crime law

The Supreme Court is limiting the reach of a federal statute that requires stiff penalties for crimes involving a gun.

Jan. 6 committee setting its sights on Pence, Ginni Thomas

Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot say they may subpoena former Vice President Mike Pence.

Justices seem poised to hear elections case pressed by GOP

The Supreme Court seems poised to take on a new elections case being pressed by Republicans.

Jan. 6 panel wants to hear from Ginni Thomas, chairman says

The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection says the panel will ask Virginia Thomas for an interview.

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EXPLAINER: The last-ditch plan to have Pence stop Biden win

The House committee investigating the Capitol riot plans to focus its hearing Thursday on the pressure that Donald Trump put on Vice President Mike Pence in a last-ditch and potentially illegal plan to stop Joe Biden’s election victory.

Justices dismiss Trump-era immigration case, in a Biden win

The Supreme Court says it was wrong to wade into a dispute involving a Trump-era immigration rule that the Biden administration has abandoned, so the justices have decided to dismiss the case.

Justice Barrett's $425K tops among Supreme Court's authors

Supreme Court financial disclosures reveal that the justices took in $800,000 in book royalties last year, a lucrative supplement to their judicial salaries.

Justices allow counting of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania

The Supreme Court is allowing elections officials to count mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania that lack a handwritten date but were received in time.

High court limits suing officials over rights violations

The Supreme Court is limiting when someone can sue for a violation of their rights by a federal official.

30 cases in a month: Abortion, guns top justices' to-do list

Curbing abortion rights and expanding the right to be armed in public have long been prizes of the conservative legal movement that the Supreme Court seems poised to award within the next month.

Supreme Court blocks Texas law on social media censorship

A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints.

Justices to rule in gun case with US raw from mass shootings

With mass shootings in Texas, New York and California fresh in Americans’ mind, the Supreme Court will soon issue its biggest gun ruling in more than a decade.

Supreme Court rules against inmates in right-to-counsel case

The Supreme Court has ruled along ideological lines against two Arizona death row inmates who had argued that their lawyers did a poor job representing them in state court.

Ginni Thomas' emails deepen her involvement in 2020 election

Newly discovered emails show that Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was more deeply involved in baseless efforts to overturn the 2020 election than previously known.

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