WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld, for now, President Trump’s decision to fire two agency officials who had fixed terms that were set by Congress. By a 6-3 vote, the justices set aside rulings that would have reinstated Gwynne Wilcox […]
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court dealt an unexpected blow Thursday to the conservative drive for religious charter schools. The justices announced they were split 4-4 in a test case heard last month from Oklahoma, which blocks the new Catholic charter school
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday told conservative judges in Texas they must offer a hearing to detained Venezuelans whom the Trump administration wants to send to a prison in El Salvador. The justices, over two dissents, rebuked Texas judges and
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court gave a skeptical hearing Thursday to a lawyer for President Trump who was appealing rulings that blocked his plan to deny citizenship to newborns whose parents were in this country illegally or temporarily. None of the justices
WASHINGTON — President Trump has pressed for quickly deporting hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran men who are said to belong to a foreign crime gang. Those deportations have been challenged as illegal — and last week, blocked by the Supreme Court —
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared poised Wednesday to rule that church-run schools have a right to operate as public-funded charters. If so, the decision could transform K-12 education and public schooling nationwide. Since the early 1990s, charter schools have
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to remove thousands of active-duty members of the military because they are transgender. The justices on Tuesday granted an appeal from President Trump’s lawyers and set aside orders for
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WASHINGTON — Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, the shy and frugal small-town New Englander who was touted as a conservative but surprised his Republican backers and nearly everyone else by becoming a staunch liberal on the high court, has died,
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WASHINGTON — President Trump’s lawyers urged the Supreme Court on Monday to block a judge’s order requiring the government to “immediately” rehire 16,000 federal employees. In an emergency appeal, they argued that U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco had no
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WASHINGTON — The growing clash between President Trump and the federal courts escalated Tuesday, when Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. rebuked the president’s call for impeaching a judge for ruling against him. Roberts issued a rare statement a few hours after
