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The Supreme Court Is Taking Up A Big Gun Rights Case For The First Time In More Than A Decade
The court’s conservative justices have signaled an interest in revisiting the scope of the Second Amendment.
Zoe Tillman
Biden Announced An Aggressive First Push To Diversify The Federal Courts
The White House announced judicial nominees who would break barriers if confirmed.
Zoe Tillman
Biden Is Considering History-Making Nominees For The Federal Courts
The FBI recently did a background check for a lawyer who would be the first American Muslim federal district judge, according to a source familiar with the process.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Has Now Officially Lost All Of His Postelection Challenges In The Supreme Court
Trump argued a case he’d filed in Wisconsin wasn’t moot even after Biden took office. The Supreme Court refused to hear it.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Says New York Can Get Eight Years Of Trump's Tax Returns
In a one-line order, the justices refused to pause a lower court decision that cleared the way for prosecutors to enforce a grand jury subpoena.
Zoe Tillman
Anti-Abortion Group Wants To Send Undercover Tapes To Supreme Court
An anti-abortion group wants to send secretly taped conversations from abortion clinic doctors to the Supreme Court. A restraining order now bars their release.
Dan Vergano
This Is How Families Are Reacting To The Supreme Court's Ruling On Spousal Visas
The judges' decision to back the government on minimum income thresholds was greeted with dismay, but there was some optimism among families with children.
Emily Dugan
Biden Was Against Packing The Supreme Court. A New Progressive Group Wants To Change His Mind.
A new coalition wants to build momentum on the left to add seats to the Supreme Court and undo Trump’s legacy on the bench.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Won't Face Legal Consequences For Holding Onto His DC Hotel And Other Business Interests While President
The Supreme Court dismissed cases accusing Trump of violating the US Constitution by refusing to divest from his businesses because he's no longer in office.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Refused To Interfere In The Election Before Biden Is Sworn In
The justices denied requests by Trump and his supporters to take up a group of failed election challenges before Inauguration Day.
Zoe Tillman
The President Actually Has Enormous Power To Pardon Basically Whomever He Wants
President Donald Trump's talk of pardons has raised a lot of questions about what he could do. But the reality is pretty clear: Presidential pardon power is expansive, with few limits established over time and courts generally siding with the president in any challenges to pardons issued.
Chris Geidner
Trump Forecast The Capitol Attack In A Warning To The Supreme Court In December
Trump and his allies have used the courts over the past two months to push voter fraud conspiracy theories that fueled Wednesday’s assault on the Capitol.
Zoe Tillman
Supreme Court Justices Can Get Vaccinated Now. The Rest Of The Courts Are On Their Own.
Judges across the country are urging state officials to consider the federal courts for vaccine priority lists.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Put Off Ruling On Trump’s Final Push To Use The Census To Target Undocumented Immigrants
The court’s conservative justices agreed with the administration that a legal challenge was “premature.” The liberal justices dissented.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Transformed The Federal Courts. Here’s What Biden Could Do.
Biden will inherit far fewer judicial vacancies than Trump did when he takes office, but liberals are pinning their hopes on a wave of Clinton-appointed judges stepping down.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Rejected Texas’s Last-Ditch Legal Challenge To Biden’s Win
The justices found that Texas lacked standing to sue other states that President-elect Joe Biden won.
Zoe Tillman
Here Are The Names Of 126 Members Of The House Who Refuse To Accept That Biden Won
These 126 House Republicans threw their support behind a Texas attempt to overturn the election results in key battleground states.
Stephanie K. Baer
The Supreme Court Denied A Republican Challenge To Joe Biden's Pennsylvania Win In A One-Sentence Order
The one-sentence order from the justices marked the latest in the string of defeats for Trump and his supporters in Pennsylvania.
Zoe Tillman
The Republican Lawsuit To Overturn Obamacare Seems Doomed At The Supreme Court
Liberal and conservative justices alike took shots at the GOP lawsuit Tuesday. Chief Justice John Roberts said it’s “not our job” to overturn the law.
Paul McLeod
Judges Are Rejecting Trump’s False Claims Of Shady Poll Practices After Looking At The Evidence
The lawsuits filed by Trump’s campaign since Election Day have bolstered the president’s false claims that it’s unlawful for states to keep counting ballots after Election Day.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Cannot Just “Go” To The Supreme Court To Fight Election Results. Here’s What Would Need To Happen To End Up There.
It took a month for Bush v. Gore to make its way through lower courts and reach the justices in 2000.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Made It Clear He Wants The Supreme Court To Shut Down Vote-Counting After Election Day
In his first rally of the last weekend of his reelection campaign, Trump insisted there would be “bedlam” if a winner is not decided on election night.
Kadia Goba
The Supreme Court Rejected Trump’s Efforts To Force North Carolina To Toss Out Ballots That Arrive After Election Day
The court’s newest member, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was sworn in this week, did not participate in the decision.
Kendall Taggart
His Victory Was Major For Progressives. Now He Wants To Keep It Going By Expanding The Supreme Court.
Progressive candidate Mondaire Jones wants Democrats to add four new justices to the Supreme Court. “This is a constitutional crisis that has existed for years now.”
Addy Baird
The Supreme Court’s Conservative Justices Warned Of “Serious Post-Election Problems” In Pennsylvania
The court denied a request by state Republicans to rush a decision in the latest challenge to the state’s Nov. 6 deadline to accept absentee ballots.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Gave Republicans A Win In Wisconsin, Ruling That Ballots That Arrive After Election Day Won’t Count
The court voted 5–3 to leave in place Wisconsin’s Election Day deadline for absentee ballots to come in. Democrats argued that would disenfranchise potentially tens of thousands of voters.
Zoe Tillman
Republicans Have Succeeded In Putting Amy Coney Barrett On The Supreme Court
Barrett deepens the court’s conservative wing to 6–3. She was sworn in Monday night at the White House.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Will Let Alabama Ban Drive-Up Voting For People With Disabilities During The Pandemic
Justice Sonia Sotomayor accused her conservative colleagues of getting in the way of local election officials “ready and willing to help vulnerable voters.”
Zoe Tillman
Republicans Moved Amy Coney Barrett One Step Closer To The Supreme Court After Democrats Boycotted The Vote
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve Barrett’s nomination. The final vote on her confirmation is expected Monday.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Will Let Pennsylvania Count Ballots Received After Election Day, Rejecting A Republican Challenge
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. joined with the court's more liberal wing in rejecting a challenge by Republicans to a longer absentee voting timeline.
Zoe Tillman
