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A Supreme Court reshaped by Trump has a low profile in this presidential campaign
Read full article: A Supreme Court reshaped by Trump has a low profile in this presidential campaignWhen he was president, Donald Trump remade the Supreme Court with three nominees, and in the process shifted the court's ideological balance to the conservative right.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is hitting the road to promote her new memoir, 'Lovely One'
Read full article: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is hitting the road to promote her new memoir, 'Lovely One'Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is embarking on a high-profile, nationwide tour to promote her new memoir, “Lovely One.”.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor's security detail shoots man during attempted carjacking, authorities say
Read full article: Justice Sonia Sotomayor's security detail shoots man during attempted carjacking, authorities sayA member of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s security detail shot an armed man during an attempted carjacking in the early morning hours.
Supreme Court opinion conferring broad immunity could embolden Trump as he seeks to return to power
Read full article: Supreme Court opinion conferring broad immunity could embolden Trump as he seeks to return to powerA Supreme Court opinion giving broad immunity to former President Donald Trump matters in the current presidential race.
Big wins for Trump and sharp blows to regulations mark momentous Supreme Court term
Read full article: Big wins for Trump and sharp blows to regulations mark momentous Supreme Court termDonald Trump and the conservative interests that helped him reshape the Supreme Court have gotten most of what they wanted this term — from substantial help for Trump’s political and legal prospects to sharp blows against the administrative state they revile.
High court passes on case of Georgia man on death row who says Black jurors were wrongly purged
Read full article: High court passes on case of Georgia man on death row who says Black jurors were wrongly purgedThe U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider the case of a Black man on death row in Georgia who says his trial was unfair because the prosecutor improperly excluded Black jurors.
Highlights from Supreme Court term: Rulings on Trump, regulation, abortion, guns and homelessness
Read full article: Highlights from Supreme Court term: Rulings on Trump, regulation, abortion, guns and homelessnessThe Supreme Court ended its term by ruling for the first time that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution, a decision that almost certainly means Donald Trump won’t stand trial before the November election.
Sotomayor's dissent: A president should not be a 'king above the law'
Read full article: Sotomayor's dissent: A president should not be a 'king above the law'The Supreme Court is allowing a president to become a “king above the law,” in the use of official power, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in a biting dissent that called the majority opinion on immunity for former President Donald Trump “utterly indefensible.”.
Divided Supreme Court rules in major homelessness case that outdoor sleeping bans are OK
Read full article: Divided Supreme Court rules in major homelessness case that outdoor sleeping bans are OKCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsome says a Supreme Court ruling that cities can enforce bans on people sleeping outdoors in West Coast areas will give local officials more freedom to address the crisis.
The Supreme Court strips the SEC of a critical enforcement tool in fraud cases
Read full article: The Supreme Court strips the SEC of a critical enforcement tool in fraud casesThe Supreme Court has stripped the Securities and Exchange Commission of a major tool in fighting securities fraud in a decision that also could have far-reaching effects on other regulatory agencies.
7 in 10 Americans think Supreme Court justices put ideology over impartiality: AP-NORC poll
Read full article: 7 in 10 Americans think Supreme Court justices put ideology over impartiality: AP-NORC pollAs the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on a major case involving former President Donald Trump, 7 in 10 Americans think its justices are more likely to shape the law to fit their own ideology, rather than serving as neutral arbiters of government authority.
The Supreme Court rules against California woman whose husband was denied entry to US
Read full article: The Supreme Court rules against California woman whose husband was denied entry to USThe Supreme Court has ruled against a California woman who said her rights were violated after federal officials refused to allow her husband into the country, in part, because of the way his tattoos were interpreted.
Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fight
Read full article: Supreme Court strikes down Trump-era ban on rapid-fire rifle bump stocks, reopening political fightThe Supreme Court has struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a rapid-fire gun accessory that was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
Justice Clarence Thomas took more trips paid for by donor Harlan Crow, Senate panel reveals
Read full article: Justice Clarence Thomas took more trips paid for by donor Harlan Crow, Senate panel revealsSenate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin says his committee has uncovered at least three additional luxury trips given to Justice Clarence Thomas by donors as part of the panel’s ethics investigation into the Supreme Court.
NRA can sue ex-NY official it says tried to blacklist it after Parkland shooting, Supreme Court says
Read full article: NRA can sue ex-NY official it says tried to blacklist it after Parkland shooting, Supreme Court saysThe Supreme Court has cleared the way for a National Rifle Association lawsuit against an ex-New York state official over claims she pressured companies to blacklist it following the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting.
Supreme Court sides with music producer in copyright case over sample in Flo Rida hit
Read full article: Supreme Court sides with music producer in copyright case over sample in Flo Rida hitThe Supreme Court has sided with a music producer in a copyright case, allowing him to seek more than a decade's worth of damages over a sample used in a Flo Rida song.
Divided Supreme Court rules no quick hearing required when police seize property
Read full article: Divided Supreme Court rules no quick hearing required when police seize propertyA divided Supreme Court has ruled that authorities do not have to provide a quick hearing when they seize cars and other property used in drug crimes, even when the property belongs to so-called innocent owners.
Key moments in the Supreme Court's latest abortion case that could change how women get care
Read full article: Key moments in the Supreme Court's latest abortion case that could change how women get careIt’s unclear exactly where the Supreme Court will land after hearing arguments about Idaho's abortion ban.
Supreme Court Justices Barrett and Sotomayor, ideological opposites, unite to promote civility
Read full article: Supreme Court Justices Barrett and Sotomayor, ideological opposites, unite to promote civilityWith the Supreme Court’s approval hovering near record lows, two justices have teamed up to promote the art of disagreeing without being nasty about it.
Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on the uses of artificial intelligence in the federal courts
Read full article: Chief Justice Roberts casts a wary eye on the uses of artificial intelligence in the federal courtsChief Justice John Roberts is turning his focus to the promise and shortcomings of artificial intelligence in the federal courts.
The late Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, honored as trailblazer
Read full article: The late Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, honored as trailblazerThe first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court lay in repose at the Supreme Court on Monday.
The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but it has no means of enforcement
Read full article: The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics, but it has no means of enforcementThe new Supreme Court code of conduct agreed to by all nine justices does not appear to impose any significant new requirements on them.
The Supreme Court opens its new term with a case about prison terms for drug dealers
Read full article: The Supreme Court opens its new term with a case about prison terms for drug dealersThe Supreme Court has opened its new term with a case about prison terms for drug dealers and rejections of hundreds of appeals, including one from an attorney who pushed a plan to keep former President Donald Trump in power.
Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh predicts 'concrete steps soon' to address ethics concerns
Read full article: Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh predicts 'concrete steps soon' to address ethics concernsU.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has told attendees at a judicial conference in Ohio that addressing recent ethics concerns can increase public confidence in the institution.
US Supreme Court Justice Barrett says she welcomes public scrutiny of court
Read full article: US Supreme Court Justice Barrett says she welcomes public scrutiny of courtU.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told attendees at a judicial conference in Wisconsin on Monday that she welcomed public scrutiny of the court.
Missouri man executed for 2002 abduction, killing of 6-year-old girl lured to abandoned factory
Read full article: Missouri man executed for 2002 abduction, killing of 6-year-old girl lured to abandoned factoryA Missouri man who abducted and beat a 6-year-old girl to death at an abandoned factory two decades ago has been executed.
Senate committee approves legislation to impose stronger ethics standards on Supreme Court justices
Read full article: Senate committee approves legislation to impose stronger ethics standards on Supreme Court justicesThe Supreme Court would have to abide by stronger ethics standards under legislation approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Senators call for Supreme Court to follow ethics code like other branches of government
Read full article: Senators call for Supreme Court to follow ethics code like other branches of governmentThe chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says it's time for Supreme Court justices to bring their conduct in line with the standards of other branches of government.
In the Supreme Court chamber, the subject was race, the mood was somber, the criticism harsh
Read full article: In the Supreme Court chamber, the subject was race, the mood was somber, the criticism harshChief Justice John Roberts delivered Thursday's Supreme Court ruling striking down race-based admissions in higher education.
Supreme Court lets lawsuits over team doctor's sexual abuse proceed against Ohio State
Read full article: Supreme Court lets lawsuits over team doctor's sexual abuse proceed against Ohio StateThe Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that allows more than 230 men to sue Ohio State University over decades-old sexual abuse by a university doctor, the late Richard Strauss.
Justice Jackson reports flowers from Oprah, designer clothing as Thomas delays filing disclosure
Read full article: Justice Jackson reports flowers from Oprah, designer clothing as Thomas delays filing disclosureJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson has disclosed that she received a $1,200 congratulatory floral display from Oprah Winfrey and $6,580 in designer clothing for a magazine photo shoot in her first months as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
COVID emergency orders are among `greatest intrusions on civil liberties,' Justice Gorsuch says
Read full article: COVID emergency orders are among `greatest intrusions on civil liberties,' Justice Gorsuch saysSupreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says emergency measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis that killed more than 1 million Americans were perhaps “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.”.
Supreme Court rules against Andy Warhol's foundation in a case about a portrait he made of Prince
Read full article: Supreme Court rules against Andy Warhol's foundation in a case about a portrait he made of PrinceThe Supreme Court says the 2016 publication of an Andy Warhol image of the singer Prince violated a photographer’s copyright.
Connecticut high court nominee regrets signing 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett
Read full article: Connecticut high court nominee regrets signing 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney BarrettA nominee to the Connecticut Supreme Court has told state lawmakers that she would not have signed a 2017 letter supporting Amy Coney Barrett for a federal appeals court position if she knew Barrett would later vote to overturn Roe v. Wade abortion protections as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Supreme Court rules for Arizona inmate in death penalty case
Read full article: Supreme Court rules for Arizona inmate in death penalty caseThe Supreme Court has ruled that a man on Arizona’s death row should be resentenced because jurors in his case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure he would never walk free was to sentence him to death.
High court told jurors were misled in Arizona death row case
Read full article: High court told jurors were misled in Arizona death row caseA lawyer for a man on Arizona’s death row has told the U.S. Supreme Court that jurors in the case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure the man would never walk free was to sentence him to death.
Justice Kagan: 'Time will tell' if court finds common ground
Read full article: Justice Kagan: 'Time will tell' if court finds common groundJustice Elena Kagan says “time will tell” whether the Supreme Court can get back to “finding common ground” after a term in which the court’s six conservatives and three liberals split over major issues including abortion and gun rights.
Court rejects Black Texas death row inmate's race bias claim
Read full article: Court rejects Black Texas death row inmate's race bias claimA divided Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn’t get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage.
Supreme Court welcomes the public again, and a new justice
Read full article: Supreme Court welcomes the public again, and a new justiceThe Supreme Court began its new term Monday with a new justice on the bench, the public back in the courtroom and a spirited debate in a case that pits environmental protections against property rights.
Yeshiva University halts clubs amid high court LGBTQ ruling
Read full article: Yeshiva University halts clubs amid high court LGBTQ rulingYeshiva University has abruptly suspended student club activity in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision earlier this week that ordered the school to recognize for now an LGBTQ student group.
Justice Sotomayor visits Bronx for unveiling of her statue
Read full article: Justice Sotomayor visits Bronx for unveiling of her statueU.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor returned Thursday to the Bronx community where she grew up to see the unveiling of her bronze statue at a shopping center in the heart of the community.
Supreme Court move allows Jackson to take part in case that could lead to end of use of race in college admissions
Read full article: Supreme Court move allows Jackson to take part in case that could lead to end of use of race in college admissionsThe Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.
Supreme Court won’t let Biden implement immigration policy
Read full article: Supreme Court won’t let Biden implement immigration policyThe Supreme Court won’t allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.
Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in, becomes 1st Black woman on Supreme Court
Read full article: Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in, becomes 1st Black woman on Supreme CourtKetanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.
Supreme Court rules for inmates seeking reduced prison terms
Read full article: Supreme Court rules for inmates seeking reduced prison termsThe 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.
Justices rule for American woman in bitter custody dispute
Read full article: Justices rule for American woman in bitter custody disputeThe Supreme Court has ruled unanimously for an American woman who is involved in a bitter international custody dispute with her Italian husband over their young son.
Supreme Court blocks Texas law on social media censorship
Read full article: Supreme Court blocks Texas law on social media censorshipA 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.
Supreme Court rules against inmates in right-to-counsel case
Read full article: Supreme Court rules against inmates in right-to-counsel caseThe 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.
Supreme Court Notebook: Roberts pays tribute to Breyer
Read full article: Supreme Court Notebook: Roberts pays tribute to BreyerThe 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.
AP-NORC poll: Many support Jackson court confirmation
Read full article: AP-NORC poll: Many support Jackson court confirmationMore 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
Read full article: Spain museum confident it can keep painting stolen by NazisA 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.
Court upholds Puerto Ricans' exclusion from benefits program
Read full article: Court upholds Puerto Ricans' exclusion from benefits programThe 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.
Cheers for Jackson, who declares, 'We've made it, all of us'
Read full article: Cheers for Jackson, who declares, 'We've made it, all of us'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 confirmed as first Black female high court justice
Read full article: Jackson confirmed as first Black female high court justiceThe 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.
Justices cast doubt on Texas immunity claim in vet's lawsuit
Read full article: Justices cast doubt on Texas immunity claim in vet's lawsuitThe 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.
High court nominee says she'd skip Harvard race case
Read full article: High court nominee says she'd skip Harvard race caseJudge 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
Read full article: Supreme Court tosses Wisconsin legislative voting mapsThe 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.
How to get on the Supreme Court? Smile a lot, speak a little
Read full article: How to get on the Supreme Court? Smile a lot, speak a littleWhen 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
Read full article: A closer look at the women who’ve served on the Supreme CourtIn 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.
Historic court pick brings rare criminal defense experience
Read full article: Historic court pick brings rare criminal defense experienceThe 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
Read full article: EXPLAINER: What's ahead for Biden's Supreme Court nomineePresident 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
Read full article: High court wades into clash over Trump-era immigration ruleThe 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.