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Biden Getting 1st Shot at Making Mark on Federal Judiciary
President Joe Biden has two seats to fill on the influential appeals court in the nation’s capital that regularly feeds judges to the Supreme Court
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In Supreme Court, GOP Attorney Defends Voting Restrictions by Saying They Help Republicans Win
A Republican attorney defending Arizona’s voting restrictions in front of the Supreme Court told justices Tuesday that the GOP was defending the measures because they disadvantage Democrats. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over Arizona voting restrictions in a pair of consolidated cases challenging a state law banning ballot collection and a policy that tosses ballots cast in the wrong precinct. Democrats have...
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Supreme Court Could Put Limits on Efforts to Combat Racial Discrimination in Voting
Eight years after carving the heart out of a landmark voting rights law, the Supreme Court is looking at putting new limits on efforts to combat racial discrimination in voting
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Supreme Court Weighs Expansion to Warrantless Entry
When can law enforcement enter and search your home? That’s the issue that was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week. What’s the case that led to the hearing and what did the justices say?
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High Court Formally Rejects Trump Election Challenge Cases in Pa., Other States
The Supreme Court has formally rejected a handful of cases related to the 2020 election, including disputes from Pennsylvania that had divided the justices just before the election.
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NJ Judge Says Lawyer Who Killed Her Son Also Tracked Sotomayor
A federal judge in New Jersey says the lawyer who killed her son and seriously wounded her husband also had been tracking Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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California to Revise Indoor Church Guidelines After Supreme Court Ruling
In the most significant legal victory against California’s COVID-19 health orders, the high court issued rulings late Friday in two cases where churches argued the restrictions violated their religious liberty. The justices said for now California can’t continue with a ban on indoor church services, but it can limit attendance to 25% of a building’s capacity and restrict singing and...
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Justices: California Can't Enforce Indoor Church Service Ban
The Supreme Court is telling California it can’t enforce a ban on indoor church services because of the coronavirus pandemic
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Supreme Court Lifts California Ban on Indoor Religious Services
The Supreme Court has lifted California’s ban on indoor religious services. The justices ruled that Governor Gavin Newsoms’s strict orders violate the constitution’s protection of the free exercise of religion. Video broadcast Saturday Feb. 6, 2021 on Today in LA.
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Supreme Court Sides With Germany in Nazi-Era Art Dispute
The Supreme Court’s ruling in a multimillion-dollar dispute over a collection of religious artworks will make it harder for some lawsuits to be tried in U.S. courts over claims that property was taken from Jews during the Nazi era
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Biden Asks High Court to Put Off Wall, Asylum Cases
The Biden administration has asked the Supreme Court to put off arguments over two controversial Trump administration policies that have been challenged in court now that President Joe Biden has taken steps to unwind them.
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Biden Could Change Course in High Court Health Care Case
The pending Supreme Court case on the fate of the Affordable Care Act could give the Biden administration its first opportunity to chart a new course in front of the justices
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After Trump, Democrats Set Out on a Mission to ‘Repair the Courts'
President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are vetting civil rights lawyers and public defenders to nominate as judges, embarking on a mission to shape the courts after Republicans overhauled them in the last four years, according to senior party officials and activists. Democrats have a wafer-thin Senate majority that gives them control over appointments, NBC News reports. They believe they have two...
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Supreme Court Ends Trump Emoluments Lawsuits
The Supreme Court has brought an end to lawsuits over whether Donald Trump illegally profited off his presidency
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Harris to Be Sworn in by Justice Sotomayor at Inauguration
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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Justices Say Women Must Obtain Abortion Pill in Person
The Supreme Court has ordered that women must visit a doctor’s office, hospital or clinic in person to obtain an abortion pill during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Photos: Americans Mourn Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Thousands gathered at the Supreme Court to pay their respects to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who will lie in repose at the court for two days. Ginsburg, the feminist icon and leader of the court’s liberal bloc, served as a Supreme Court justice for 27 years.
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High Court Rules Challenge to Trump Census Plan Is Premature
The Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump’s plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot states seats in the House of Representatives
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear NCAA Athlete Compensation Case
The Supreme Court has agreed to review a court decision that the NCAA has said blurred “the line between student-athletes and professionals.”
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Biden Celebrates Win, Blasts Trump's Election Challenges
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday delivered remarks following the Electoral College’s certification of his victory over President Donald Trump. He commented on Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results. “It is my sincere hope that we never again see anyone subjected to the kinds of threats and abuse we saw in this election,” Biden said.