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Justices hold 1st meeting since leak of draft Roe opinion

The Supreme Court’s nine justices met in private for the first time since the leak of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v.

When does life begin? Religions don't agree

Debates about abortion often center around the issue of when life begins. Some religions say it's at conception. Another says it's with the baby's first breath.

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Supreme Court leak shakes trust in one more American pillar

It's been clear in recent years that people in the United States don't have much faith in their institutions.

Supreme Court Notebook: Roberts pays tribute to Breyer

The fertile mind of Justice Stephen Breyer has conjured a stream of hypothetical questions through the years that have, in the words of a colleague, “befuddled” lawyers and justices alike.

Supreme Court seems sympathetic to a coach who claims the right to pray

The court's liberal wing has no desire to overturn the court's precedents, but its conservatives want to focus on accommodating religion in public schools and other public institutions.

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AP-NORC poll: Many support Jackson court confirmation

More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided.

Spain museum confident it can keep painting stolen by Nazis

A leading Spanish museum says it's confident U.S. courts will again rule that a valuable French impressionist painting taken from a Jewish family by the Nazis belongs to the museum and not to the family's descendants.

Supreme Court rules against shackled prisoner seeking new trial

The justices decide other low-profile cases as well, including the proper venue for a legal fight over Impressionist art turned over to the Nazis.

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High court rules Congress can exclude Puerto Ricans from aid program

In an 8-1 decision, the justices agreed that Puerto Ricans can continue to be excluded from SSI benefits for low-income disabled and blind people.

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Supreme Court says Congress can deny federal disability benefits to Puerto Rico residents

The court ruled 8-1, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor as the lone dissenter.

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Court upholds Puerto Ricans' exclusion from benefits program

The Supreme Court has upheld the differential treatment of residents of Puerto Rico, ruling that Congress was within its power to exclude them from a benefits program that’s available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Supreme Court rules Congress can deny federal disability benefits to residents of Puerto Rico

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress is not required to extend a federal disability benefits program to residents of Puerto Rico.

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Supreme Court Won't Hear New York City Teacher Vaccine Dispute

New York City began requiring public school employees to be vaccinated in the fall of 2021.

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High court won't hear New York City teacher vaccine dispute

The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a lawsuit filed by four New York City public school employees over a policy that they be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Cheers for Jackson as Biden declares “moment of real change’

Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America.

Jackson will join more diverse and conservative high court

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will join a Supreme Court that is both more diverse than ever and more conservative than it’s been since the 1930s.

Jackson confirmed as first Black female high court justice

The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.

Sotomayor, Barrett discuss their lives in Supreme Court’s spotlight

As the Senate moved closer to confirming the Supreme Court’s first Black female justice, the court’s first Latina told a university audience that the spotlight at times is harsh. But she was asked several questions about diversity, and what role her Latina heritage and humble upbringing played in her decision-making on the Supreme Court. I have worked as a district court judge, a circuit court judge. The Supreme Court is still closed to the public because of the pandemic, but this week saw the justices venturing out. Justice Amy Coney Barrett was at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, where other justices have preceded her.

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Graham says he'll vote 'no' on Jackson for Supreme Court

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won’t vote for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Justices cast doubt on Texas immunity claim in vet's lawsuit

The Supreme Court is casting doubt on Texas’ claim that it can’t be sued by a former state trooper who says he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.

Justice Thomas joins arguments remotely after hospital stay

Justice Clarence Thomas participated in arguments at the Supreme Court via telephone on Monday following a hospital stay of nearly a week.

Supreme Court nominee's 'empathy' is flashpoint for Senate

Empathy is not a quality many Republican senators want to see in the next Supreme Court justice.

High court nominee says she'd skip Harvard race case

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says that if confirmed to the Supreme Court she’d sit out an affirmative action lawsuit over Harvard’s admission policies because she sits on the board of her college alma mater.

Supreme Court tosses Wisconsin legislative voting maps

The Supreme Court has thrown out Wisconsin state legislative maps that were preferred by the state’s Democratic governor and selected by Wisconsin’s top court, a win for Republicans that also makes it unclear what boundaries will be in place for the fall election.

RBG, writs and recusals: Court nomination viewer's guide

It’s become almost commonplace viewing, seeing a woman nominated for the Supreme Court appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

How to get on the Supreme Court? Smile a lot, speak a little

When presidents nominate a candidate to serve on the Supreme Court, they often ask an experienced Washington hand to help shepherd that candidate through the Senate confirmation process.

A closer look at the women who’ve served on the Supreme Court

In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement in January, President Joe Biden has nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to be his replacement.

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A Bipartisan Thank You to Breyer Masks the Brawling Already Under Way

Ketanji Brown Jackson is eminently qualified, but her confirmation hearings will reflect the pernicious and, at times, unhinged discourse in Washington.

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Supreme Court lets GOP Kentucky attorney general defend state's restrictive abortion law

The Supreme Court has yet to rule on a Mississippi case that could end abortion protections guaranteed by Roe v. Wade.

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Supreme Court says Republican attorney general can defend Ky. abortion law Democratic officials dropped

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said courts should recognize the “weighty interest that a State has in protecting its own laws.”

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Four women on the Supreme Court would bring historic, near gender parity for institution long dominated by White men

If confirmed, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would join Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett on the nine-person Supreme Court.

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Jackson’s nomination is historic, but her impact on Supreme Court in short term likely will be minimal

If Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed by the Senate, the Supreme Court's conservatives will still hold a 6-to-3 majority.

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Historic court pick brings rare criminal defense experience

The judge President Joe Biden has chosen to fulfill his historic pledge to name the first Black woman to the Supreme Court would also bring rare experience of defending poor people charged with crimes.

EXPLAINER: What's ahead for Biden's Supreme Court nominee

President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court has launched what Democrats hope will be a quick, bipartisan confirmation process for the court’s first Black woman.

High court wades into clash over Trump-era immigration rule

The Supreme Court is wading into a political clash between the Biden administration and Republican-led states seeking to defend a signature Trump-era immigration rule that the new administration has abandoned.

Being the 1st: What it's like to make Supreme Court history

Just being the newest member of the Supreme Court can be a momentous adjustment for a justice.

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Whisper campaigns grow as Biden nears choice for high court

The whispers and chatter about top contenders for the Supreme Court are growing as President Joe Biden zeroes in on a nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.

For high court nominees 'When's your birthday?' matters

If President Joe Biden’s search for a nominee to the Supreme Court could be summed up by a Help Wanted ad it might read: “Seeking a well-respected liberal jurist.

Spring training threatened, MLB asks for federal mediator

Major League Baseball has asked a federal mediator to intervene in stalled labor negotiations that likely will put off the start of spring training.

‘There’s So Much That’s Not in the Constitution’

Unwritten ideas necessarily guide even the strictest readings of the text, despite what some originalist jurists like to believe.

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The Smear Campaign Against a Nominee Who Hasn’t Even Been Named Yet

The idea that Black people are getting something they have not earned by gaining access to something white people have long had began the second that slavery was abolished.

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Media barred from Justice Gorsuch talk to Federalist Society

Justice Neil Gorsuch is speaking this weekend to the conservative legal group that boosted his Supreme Court candidacy.

Supreme Court shouldn't be covered in Ivy, 2 lawmakers say

Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham say it'd be good if the person named to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer doesn’t have an Ivy League degree.

Biden: Ready for 'long overdue' pick of Black female justice

President Joe Biden has strongly affirmed that he will nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Biden pledged to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court—meet 5 who could be up for the job

President Biden promised during his campaign to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Now, he may have the chance.

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At least 3 judges eyed as Biden mulls Supreme Court pick

President Joe Biden is eyeing at least three judges for an expected vacancy on the Supreme Court, and each of them would fulfill his campaign pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court.

Abortion opponents eye priorities as high court ruling looms

Opponents of abortion rights insist their work won't end even if the Supreme Court decides to dismantle the Roe v.

In kids' book, Sotomayor asks: Whom have you helped today?

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is out with a new children’s book that challenges kids to ask how they can help at home and in their communities.

Supreme Court won't speed challenge to Texas abortion limits

In the latest setback for abortion rights in Texas, the Supreme Court has refused to speed up the ongoing court case over the state’s ban on most abortions.

Court bolsters defendant's right to cross-examine witnesses

The Supreme Court has bolstered a criminal defendant’s right to cross-examine prosecution witnesses.

Sotomayor and Gorsuch deny reported tensions over wearing masks at Supreme Court

"While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends," Sotomayor and Gorsuch said.

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Sotomayor, Gorsuch deny report they were at odds over masks

Two Supreme Court justices say a media report they were at odds over the wearing of masks during the surge in coronavirus cases is false.

Supreme Court's Gorsuch, Sotomayor dodge key detail as they deny rift over Covid masks

The statement came after a report said that Gorsuch refused to wear a mask, despite a request from Chief Justice John Roberts for all justices to do so.

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High court hears case involving painting stolen by Nazis

The Supreme Court has heard arguments from lawyers for a California man and a Spanish museum locked in a dispute over an impressionist masterpiece stolen by the Nazis.

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Supreme Court's Gorsuch refused to wear mask despite request over Sotomayor's Covid concerns, report says

Gorsuch's refusal to wear a mask has led Sotomayor, who has diabetes and is at a higher risk from Covid, to attend proceedings remotely, the report said.

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Neil Gorsuch defied a request from Chief Justice John Roberts to wear a mask out of respect for Sonia Sotomayor, report says

Gorsuch's refusal to wear a mask led Sotomayor, who has diabetes, to attend oral arguments virtually. The justices are all vaccinated and boosted.

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Neil Gorsuch defied a request from Chief Justice John Roberts to wear a mask out of respect for Sonia Sotomayor, a report says

Gorsuch's refusal to wear a mask led Sotomayor, who has diabetes, to attend oral arguments virtually. The justices are all vaccinated and boosted.

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Supreme Court justices aren't 'scorpions,' but not happy campers either

Anybody who regularly watches Supreme Court arguments is used to seeing testy moments But you don't have to be a keen observer these days to see that something out of the ordinary is happening.

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MLB talks resume after 42-day gap, little progress evident

Labor talks to end the baseball lockout have resumed for the first time in 1 1/2 months with little evident progress during a bargaining session that lasted about an hour, jeopardizing a timely start to spring training.

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch again doesn't wear mask on bench, Sotomayor and Breyer log in remotely for hearing

Two justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer, appeared remotely due to apparent concerns about Covid-19 as Neil Gorsuch did not wear a mask.

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Justice Sotomayor Claims Not to Understand the Distinction Between State and Federal Powers

Justice Sotomayor professed not to understand the distinction between federal authority and state police powers during oral arguments.

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Supreme Court casts doubt on Biden’s vaccine rule for the workplace

Supreme Court conservatives express skepticism of President Biden's mandate that employees be vaccinated for COVID-19.

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Supreme Court skeptical of Biden’s workplace vaccine rule

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears skeptical of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s large employers.

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High court won't say whether justices have received booster

The Supreme Court is refusing to say whether the nine justices have received COVID-19 vaccination booster shots.

READ: Key excerpts from the Supreme Court ruling on S.B. 8, the Texas abortion case

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing abortion providers to challenge the restrictive Texas abortion law and dismisses a Justice Department case against the law. Here are excerpts from Friday's opinion.

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If Roe falls, some fear ripple effect on civil rights cases

If the Supreme Court decides to overturn or gut the decision that legalized abortion, some fear that it could undermine other precedent-setting cases, including civil rights and LGBTQ protections.

Kavanaugh cites landmark gay rights cases in argument about abortion restrictions

Lawyers who argued for landmark LGBTQ rights cases — Obergefell v. Hodges and Lawrence v. Texas — were conflicted on the validity of Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s argument.

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With Roe in question, justices dig into private debate

After hours of public arguments, the Supreme Court's justices will now embark on a private debate over what to do about possibly drastic abortion limits for pregnant women in the U.S. The justices will talk it over this week and hold a preliminary vote.

Abortion remarks by 9 court justices indicate how they lean

The Supreme Court has been asked in arguments to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.

MLB owners lock out players, 1st work stoppage since 1995

Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired and owners immediately locked out players in a move that threatens spring training and opening day.

'How will we survive?' Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor sounds alarm in fight to overturn Roe v. Wade

The case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, marks the most significant challenge to abortion rights in decades.

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What the Supreme Court justices have said about abortion and Roe v. Wade

On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court will consider a Mississippi law that could overturn Roe v. Wade — the 1973 ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion. Here's what we know about where each justice stands on the issue.

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Court seems reluctant to sweep Puerto Rico into SSI program

The Supreme Court appears reluctant to rule for a resident of Puerto Rico who claims it’s unconstitutional to be excluded from a welfare program that’s available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

High court seems ready to strike down New York gun law

The Supreme Court seems ready to strike down a restrictive New York gun permitting law.

Supreme Court rejects appeal over secretive court's work

The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal over whether the public should have access to opinions of the secretive court that reviews bulk email collection, warrantless internet searches and other government surveillance programs.

EXPLAINER: Texas abortion law gets Supreme Court arguments

The Supreme Court has allowed a Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in effect for now.

Supreme Court leaves Texas abortion ban in place, agrees to take up legal battle over law

The court will hear oral arguments November 1.

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Supreme Court doesn't block Texas abortion law, sets hearing

The Supreme Court is allowing the Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in place for now, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case on Nov. 1.

The Experiment Podcast: Justice, Interrupted

The highest court in America isn’t safe from mansplaining. A new set of rules for oral argument may change things.

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EXPLAINER: Texas abortion law again on path to high court

The Biden administration is looking to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to halt a restrictive Texas law that has banned most abortions since September.

Sonia Sotomayor says Supreme Court changed arguments structure partly because female justices were interrupted

Before the system changed, Justice Sotomayor said she found a way to deal with the problem: "I interrupt back," she said, per CNN.

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Sotomayor says Supreme Court adjusted argument format partly over interruptions of female justices

One 2017 study found the female justices were interrupted at disproportionate rates by male members of the high court, as well as by male lawyers arguing before them.

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Sotomayor says Supreme Court adjusted argument format partly over interruptions of female justices

One 2017 study found the female justices were interrupted at disproportionate rates by male members of the high court, as well as by male lawyers arguing before them.

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SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Don't stand so close to us

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor says 'there's going to be a lot of disappointments in the law' and encouraged people to change 'laws that you don't like'

"I can't change Texas's law, but you can," Sotomayor said of a recently enacted Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.

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Losing can 'get frustrating' says liberal Justice Sotomayor

Acknowledging the limits of her own influence on the law as a member of the Supreme Court's liberal minority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Wednesday encouraged citizens to work to change laws they may disagree with, like a recent Texas law that limits access to abortions. Already the court has on its calendar big cases, including ones involving guns and abortion, where Sotomayor might be expected to be in the minority of any decision.

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We're watching the implosion of the Supreme Court in real time

The Supreme Court is having a credibility crisis as fewer and fewer Americans believe that it is a nonpartisan, unbiased institution.

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Supreme Court will resume in-person arguments this fall after switching to phones during Covid

The return to in-person proceedings was announced more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced the Supreme Court to hear cases over the phone.

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The Manifold Threats of the Texas Abortion Law

It not only violates abortion precedents but also attempts to shield illegal statutes from the courts.

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Texas abortion ban turns citizens into "bounty hunters"

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor condemns law's "cash prizes" for citizens "prosecuting their neighbors' medical procedures."

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Texas abortion ban turns citizens into "bounty hunters"

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor condemns law's "cash prizes" for citizens "prosecuting their neighbors' medical procedures."

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Sotomayor pens scathing dissent of Texas abortion ban: "Justices have opted to bury their heads in the sand"

"The Act is a breathtaking act of defiance — of the Constitution, of this Court's precedents, and of the rights of women seeking abortions throughout Texas."

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Chief Justice Roberts, 3 other dissenters slam colleagues for hastily rewarding Texas 'bounty hunter' abortion ban scheme

Chief Justice Roberts, 3 other dissenters slam colleagues for hastily rewarding Texas 'bounty hunter' abortion ban scheme

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Supreme Court Upholds New Texas Abortion Law, For Now

The Texas law bans all abortions in the state after six weeks of pregnancy. That is well before many women even know they are pregnant, and is at odds with the Supreme Court's precedents

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Supreme Court rules against inmate in death penalty case

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued that his trial counsel should have done more to try to show he is intellectually disabled and therefore he should be spared a death sentence. In an unsigned 6-3 opinion, the conservative majority on Friday reversed an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finding and said that a state court had correctly rejected claims that Matthew Reeves had ineffective counsel at trial because they did not hire a neuropsychologist to present evidence he is intellectually disabled. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Elena Kagan, said the majority’s decision continues a “troubling trend in which this Court strains to reverse summarily any grants of relief to those facing execution.”

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The Roberts Court thinks plutocrats should be able to buy the government in secret

Supreme Court conservatives have invented a right to corruption

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High court: California can't collect charity top donor names

The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered California to stop collecting the names and addresses of top donors to charities. The justices voted 6-3 along ideological lines to side with two nonprofit groups, including one with links to billionaire Charles Koch. The groups argued that California's policy of collecting the information violates the First Amendment.

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Supreme Court rules California may not force Koch-backed charity to reveal its big donors

The Supreme Court has extended privacy rights to big donors of Koch and other charities, ruling California may not demand to see their names.

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Sotomayor tells Congress it can fix First Step Act after court rules against defendant

The Obama-appointed justice sided with a unanimous Supreme Court based on the text of the law.

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Race, Drugs And Sentencing At the Supreme Court

The court ruled that some crack cocaine offenders sentenced to harsh prison terms more than a decade ago cannot get their sentences reduced under a federal law designed to do just that.

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