WASHINGTON — Oklahoma will not be able to launch the nation’s first ever religious public charter school after the Supreme Court on Thursday deadlocked 4-4 in a major case on the separation of church and state. The decision by the […]
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WASHINGTON — The death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in May 2020 gave momentum to a cross-ideological effort to reform the legal defense known as “qualified immunity,” which can protect cops even when they have
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday gave the Trump administration the green light to revoke special legal protections for thousands of Venezuelan immigrants, which could pave the way for them to be deported. The high court granted an emergency
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday dealt a blow against the Trump administration’s attempt to send Venezuelans it says are gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador, saying the detainees must have a proper chance to raise
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the mother of a Black man killed following a routine traffic stop in Houston to pursue an excessive force claim against the police officer who shot him. The justices faulted a lower
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday weighs whether to allow President Donald Trump’s radical reinterpretation of the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship to go into effect, at least in part, while litigation continues. In an unusual move, the court
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court could give a major boost to the Trump administration’s muscular use of executive power when it hears arguments Thursday over his plan to end birthright citizenship. The court is not actually using a trio of
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a bid by top Republican donor and former casino magnate Steve Wynn to undermine legal protections for news companies facing defamation suits. Wynn asked the court to overturn the 1964 Supreme
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to intervene over a Texas death row inmate’s claim that his murder conviction should be thrown out because DNA evidence used at trial was later found to be flawed. The justices turned
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to narrow nationwide injunctions that have blocked the president’s plan to end automatic birthright citizenship. Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris said in three concurrently filed emergency applications in different
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