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Supreme Court Won't Let Biden Implement Immigration Policy
The 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. The court’s order Thursday leaves the policy frozen nationwide. The vote was 5-4 with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining three liberal justices in saying they would’ve allowed the Biden administration to...
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Texas Supreme Court Blocks Order Allowing Abortions Following Overturn of Roe v. Wade
The Texas Supreme Court has blocked a lower court order that had allowed clinics in the state to continue performing abortions even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its landmark 1973 ruling that confirmed a constitutional right to abortion.
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Justices Side With Doctors Convicted in Pain Pill Schemes
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for doctors who face criminal charges for overprescribing powerful pain medication in a case arising from the opioid addiction crisis. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that prosecutors must prove that doctors knew they were illegally prescribing powerful pain drugs in violation of the federal Controlled Substances Act. The ruling came as the…
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Supreme Court's Abortion Ruling Sets Off New Court Fights
Judges have temporarily blocked abortion bans in Louisiana and Utah, while a federal court in South Carolina said a law sharply restricting the procedure would take effect there immediately. The decisions emerged as the battle over whether women may end pregnancies shifted from the nation’s highest court to courthouses around the country. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to end...
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TIMELINE: Roe v. Wade Abortion Law From 1973-2022
From 1973-2022, here’s a look at how Roe v. Wade has developed throughout the years.
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Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade, Eliminating Constitutional Right to Abortion
The Supreme Court issued a decision Friday overturning Roe v. Wade, wiping the constitutional right to an abortion.
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Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade, Allowing States to Ban Abortion
The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
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Supreme Court Rules Religious Schools Can Get Maine Tuition Aid
The Supreme Court has ruled that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education.
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If Roe Falls, Some District Attorneys Won't Enforce State's Anti-Abortion Laws
Progressive prosecutors around the U.S. are declaring they won’t enforce some of the most restrictive and punitive anti-abortion laws that GOP-led states have waited years to implement.
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Supreme Court Blocks Texas Law Intended to Restrict Social Media Site Blocking
The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked a Texas law that would restrict the ability of popular social media companies to control the content of their own sites. Under the law, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and other sites would be unable to block content based on its viewpoint. Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, said the law was a response to “a…
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Ginni Thomas' Emails Deepen Her Involvement in 2020 Election
Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative political activist, urged Republican lawmakers in Arizona after the 2020 presidential election to choose their own slate of electors, arguing that results giving Joe Biden a victory in the state were marred by fraud. The revelations first published by The Washington Post on Friday show that Thomas…
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If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned, What Could Come Next?
If the U.S. Supreme Court were to overturn Roe v. Wade, as a leaked draft option suggests it might as early as this summer, there are concerns about the ripple effect of the changed interpretation of law. The information came from a Politico report. The Supreme Court released a statement confirming the authenticity of the Politico report Tuesday as well....
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Supreme Court Revives Lawsuit Involving a Multi-Million-Dollar French Painting, Nazis and Spanish Museum
The U.S. Supreme Court resurrected a lawsuit over the ownership of a French painting that a Jewish woman surrendered to the Nazis.
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Mass. Celebrating After Harvard Alum Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed to Supreme Court
There was lots of celebrating Thursday in Massachusetts where Ketanji Brown Jackson spent a good chunk of time in the Cambridge and Boston area. She was of course a Harvard and Harvard Law School graduate. Her confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court had many feeling inspired by this absolutely historic milestone.
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GOP Sen. Susan Collins Says She Will Vote for Biden Supreme Court Pick Ketanji Brown Jackson, Giving Her Likely Confirmation Bipartisan Support
With Collins’ vote, Jackson, Biden’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, is now all but guaranteed to become the first Black woman to serve on the high court.
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Clarence Thomas Faces Growing Pressure to Step Aside From Jan. 6 Cases
The Democratic-controlled Congress is turning up the heat on Justice Clarence Thomas with calls for him to step back from cases involving Jan. 6, after his wife was found to have actively pressured the Trump White House to change the result of the 2020 election based on false claims of fraud. At a closed-door meeting Tuesday, House Democrats raised questions about what they could do...
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Democrats Demand Supreme Court's Clarence Thomas Recuse Himself From Key 2020 Election, Capitol Riot Cases Over Wife's Push to Overturn Biden Win
The request followed news that the justice’s wife, Virginia Thomas, urged then-President Trump’s top aide Mark Meadows to try to overturn Biden’s election win.
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Jan. 6 Riot Probe Expected to Seek Interview With Wife of Supreme Court Justice Over Texts to Trump Aide
Texts reportedly showed Thomas urging then-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to try to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
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Ginni Thomas Pressed for GOP Lawmakers to Protest 2020 Election Results
Shortly after the 2020 election, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent an email to an aide to a prominent House conservative saying she would have nothing to do with his group until his members go “out in the streets,” a congressional source familiar with the exchange told NBC News. Thomas told an...
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Dems Call on Thomas to Recuse Himself From Jan. 6 Cases Due to Wife's Texts
Democrats on Friday called on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Jan. 6 related cases after it was revealed that his wife had texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows urging him to challenge Donald Trump’s election loss. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said in light of reports of text messages traded between Ginni Thomas and Meadows after...