Justice David H. Souter, who died last week at age 85, made few public appearances after he retired from the Supreme Court in 2009. When he did, he stayed away from politics. But a seemingly bland question from an audience […]
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The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block a ruling from a federal judge in California ordering it to rehire thousands of fired federal workers who had been on probationary status. The emergency application is one of
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The 1952 law under which the Trump administration seeks to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident who helped organize protests at Columbia University, is largely untested. Largely, but not entirely. It was ruled unconstitutional in 1996 — by President
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The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a Chicago politician’s conviction for making statements to bank regulators that were misleading but not false. The case concerned Patrick Daley Thompson, a former Chicago alderman who is the grandson of one former mayor,
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Over the weekend, the Trump administration ignored a federal judge’s order not to deport a group of Venezuelan men, violating an instruction that could not have been plainer or more direct. Justice Department lawyers later justified the administration’s actions with
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Just hours after President Trump called for the impeachment of a judge who sought to pause the removal of more than 200 migrants to El Salvador, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. issued a rare public statement. “For more than
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The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will hear a First Amendment challenge to a Colorado law banning professional counseling services engaged in conversion therapy intended to change a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation. More than 20 states
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The first case cited as precedent in the first Supreme Court brief filed by lawyers for President Trump since he took office this year was Trump v. United States, the July decision that gave him substantial immunity from prosecution. That
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett is the junior member of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, having served just three full terms. But her vote may be decisive as the justices consider whether and how hard to push back against President Trump’s
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected President Trump’s emergency request to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid as part of his efforts to slash government spending. The court’s brief order was unsigned, which is typical when the justices act
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