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3 days ago

'Revolutionary' high court term on abortion, guns and more

Abortion, guns and religion _ a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term.

3 days ago

What Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Can Do on a Radical-Right Court

Can the liberal Justices hold the conservatives back—by appealing to shame or the Constitution—as the consequences of the majority’s recklessness become even more dangerous for American democracy?

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Anti-Roe justices a part of Catholicism's conservative wing

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

Jackson sworn in, becomes 1st Black woman on Supreme Court

Ketanji 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.

Jackson to be sworn in as Supreme Court justice as Breyer retires

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is set to be sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday.

What the Gorsuch-Sotomayor factual dispute in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District is about

In a dissent, Sotomayor said Gorsuch's summary "misconstrues the facts." The dispute echoes what what happened at the appeals-court level.

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Supreme Court Sides With Coach Who Sought To Pray After Game

The court ruled 6-3 for the coach with the court's conservative justices in the majority and its liberals in dissent.

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Justice Gorsuch called a high school football coach's on-field prayer 'quiet' and 'personal' as the Supreme Court sided with religious rights. Sotomayor said that description 'misconstrues the facts.'

Justice Sotomayor said the Supreme Court's decision siding with a praying football coach will force states to "entangle themselves with religion."

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Justice Gorsuch called a high school football coach's on-field prayer 'quiet' and 'personal' as the Supreme Court sided with religious rights. Sotomayor said that description 'misconstrues the facts.'

Justice Sotomayor said the Supreme Court's decision siding with a praying football coach will force states to "entangle themselves with religion."

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Supreme Court rules for inmates seeking reduced prison terms

The 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.

Roe ruling shows complex relationship between court, public

The Supreme Court ruling to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is unpopular with a majority of Americans — but did that matter.

Supreme Court justices' past abortion views, in their own words and votes

More than a month ago, a stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that the Supreme Court was prepared to take the momentous step of overruling the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and stripping away women's constitutional protections for abortion.

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What GOP-named justices had said about Roe to Senate panel

The nine justices of the Supreme Court made clear in their landmark ruling Friday whether they stand on abortion.

Supreme Court conservatives flex muscle in sweeping rulings

Sweeping Supreme Court rulings on guns and abortion this past week have sent an unmistakable message.

Supreme Court abortion ruling is 'catastrophic,' liberal justices write in furious dissent

The majority overruled Roe and Casey "because it has always despised them," wrote Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in a joint dissent.

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After Supreme Court gun decision, what’s next?

The Supreme Court issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade Thursday.

Supreme Court rules for GOP lawmakers in voter ID case

The Supreme Court is giving Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win in an ongoing fight over the state’s latest photo identification voting law.

Supreme Court says Maine cannot deny tuition aid to religious schools

The case involves an unusual program in a small state that affects only a few thousand students. But it could have greater implications as the more conservative court relaxes the constitutional line between church and state.

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Sonia Sotomayor says Clarence Thomas 'cares deeply about the Court' as some Democrats call for his resignation over his wife's push to overturn the 2020 election

Sotomayor defended Thomas the same day that a House Democrat demanded the "corrupt jurist who has poisoned the High Court" resign.

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Ginni Thomas’s emails with Trump lawyer add to tumult at Supreme Court

Each day seems to bring a new controversy for the court, and Thursday’s was the additional revelations about Thomas, the wife of its longest serving member, Justice Clarence Thomas.

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Justices rule for American woman in bitter custody dispute

The 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 rules against detained immigrants facing deportation

The rulings came as the court begins a sprint to try to clear its docket by the end of the month or early July.

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Supreme Court Makes Immigration Lockup Harder to Escape

Alito’s opinion suggests, without saying so, that the conservative justices may not be very sympathetic when the case returns to them.

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Justices rule against detained immigrants seeking release

The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.

Justices rule against detained immigrants seeking release

The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders. In two cases decided Monday, the court said that the immigrants, who fear persecution if sent back to their native countries, have no right under a federal law to a bond hearing at which they could argue for their freedom no matter how long they are held. The justices also ruled 6-3 to limit the immigrants ability to band together in court, an outcome that Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote “will leave many vulnerable noncitizens unable to protect their rights.”

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Kavanaugh incident could lead to more security for judges

A man armed with a machete once broke into Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s vacation home in the Caribbean and took $1,000.

Justice Barrett's $425K tops among Supreme Court's authors

Supreme Court financial disclosures reveal that the justices took in $800,000 in book royalties last year, a lucrative supplement to their judicial salaries.

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Amy Coney Barrett received $425,000 book payment, records show

Annual financial-disclosure reports released by the Supreme Court show the justices were paid thousands to teach at law schools and give speeches.

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Terrified law clerks at the Supreme Court are lawyering up as the investigation into the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade fuels hostility: report

A source told NPR clerks act as diplomats for justices, but the fear that their professional lives are under threat is straining the Supreme Court.

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Supreme Court shields Border Patrol agent from excessive-force claim

In a 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority reinforced protections for government officials who are generally immune from civil lawsuits.

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High court limits suing officials over rights violations

The Supreme Court is limiting when someone can sue for a violation of their rights by a federal official.

Supreme Court blocks Texas law on social media censorship

A 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

The 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 restricts federal intervention in ineffective counsel cases

Court’s conservatives made it harder for federal courts to hear such claims from state convictions, prompting stinging dissent.

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Supreme Court makes it tougher for inmates to win release from prison due to bad lawyering claims

A Supreme Court ruling related to inmates on Arizona's death row was called "perverse" by Justice Sotomayor in a dissent joined by two other liberal justices.

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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.

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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.

npr.org

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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Washington briefs

JUSTICES UPHOLD ruling TO EXCLUDE PUERTO RICANS FROM PROGRAM

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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.

cnbc.com

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.

cnbc.com

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.

washingtonpost.com

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.

washingtonpost.com

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.

TAMIU alumna to serve as law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Alejandra Ávila, a Texas A&M International University alumna, has been selected for...

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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.

theatlantic.com

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.

Justice Breyer confirms he is retiring from Supreme Court

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

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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?

“Whom have I helped today?”.

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.

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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San Antonio's new Sotomayor High School has announced mascot

Go Wildcats!

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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.

cnbc.com

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, 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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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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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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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.

cnbc.com

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.

latimes.com

Legal experts warn Supreme Court action on Texas abortion law could lead to copycats

'Every constitutional right is now at risk': Legal experts warn Supreme Court action on Texas abortion law could lead to copycats

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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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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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'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.

cnbc.com
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