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What the Supreme Court's mail-in ballots ruling means for LA County and California
Los Angeles County and California state elections officials hailed a Supreme Court ruling Monday that they said validates the process of accepting mail-in ballots that arrive a certain number of days after Election Day. The 5-4 ruling on an issue that has been a persistent target of President Trump rejected an attack on laws in more than half the states…
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Supreme Court Rules Maine's Tuition Assistance Program Can't Exclude Religious Schools
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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Supreme Court Reimposes Boston Marathon Bomber's Death Sentence
The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The justices, by a 6-3 vote Friday, agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death a jury imposed on Tsarnaev for his role in the bombing that killed three people near the...
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Marathon Bomber Tsarnaev Faces Revived Death Sentence in Supreme Court
The Biden administration will try to persuade the Supreme Court this week to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by arguing that a jury had no need to examine evidence that the government itself relied on at an earlier phase of the case. Tsarnaev’s guilt in the deaths of three people in the shocking...
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Supreme Court Allows 3-Day Extension for Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballots
The Supreme Court will allow Pennsylvania to count ballots received up to three days after the election, rejecting a Republican plea.
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Supreme Court: NY Can Subpoena Trump Taxes, Congress on Hold
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a New York grand jury can subpoena President Trump’s tax returns, but separately said lower courts needed to reconsider whether Congress could subpoena his financial records. The 7-2 ruling in the New York grand jury case, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, says “Article II and the Supremacy Clause do not categorically preclude,...
