SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Reporters predicted the wrong outcome in the census case. Did Ginsburg telegraph the actual outcome?
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Supreme Court to review program protecting young undocumented immigrants
Lower courts have said that President Trump’s decision to terminate the Obama-era DACA program was based on faulty legal reasoning.
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Federal judges can’t stop partisan gerrymandering, Supreme Court rules
They ‘have no license to reallocate political power between the two major political parties,’ Chief Justice John Roberts says in a landmark 5-4 decision joined by the court’s other conservatives.
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Court rejects challenge to regulation of gun silencers
The Supreme Court rejected the challenge just days after a gunman used one in a shooting rampage that killed 12 people in Virginia.
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Supreme Court abortion agenda may crystallize in coming weeks
Any case granted review in the coming weeks would be heard in the term that starts in October and be decided during the 2020 election campaign.
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Supreme Court to take up LGBT job discrimination cases
The Supreme Court will decide whether the main federal civil rights law that prohibits employment discrimination applies to LGBT people
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Jared Golden vows to defend transgender military personnel
Maine’s new congressman, 2nd District Democrat Jared Golden, said Tuesday he is opposed to President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict transgender people from military service. “I believe anyone who loves America and has the courage to serve should be given that opportunity and respected for it,” Golden said in a statement on Twitter. Golden, who […]
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Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg undergoes cancer surgery
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, has 2 malignant growths removed from a lung, the court announces.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eighty-five-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs in a fall in her office at the Supreme Court and is in the hospital, the court said Thursday. The court’s oldest justice fell Wednesday evening, the court said. She went to George Washington University Hospital in Washington early Thursday after experiencing discomfort overnight. […]
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Sandra Day O’Connor announces likely Alzheimer’s diagnosis
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, announced Tuesday in a frank and personal letter that she has been diagnosed with “the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease.” The 88-year-old said doctors diagnosed her some time ago and that as her condition has progressed she is “no longer […]