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joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a local ordinance to bar anyone without a permanent residency from sleeping outside does not amount to “cruel and unusual” punishment under the Eighth Amendment. The 6-3 opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch reversed an appeals court ruling that found an outdoor […]

Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A narrowly divided Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision struck down a hard-fought bankruptcy plan for OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma that would have awarded $6 billion to state and local governments to fight opioid addiction and payouts to more than 100,000 victims of opioid overdoses while also extending immunity to […]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling that will allow emergency abortion access in Idaho, for now, despite the state’s near-total ban on the procedure. The court dismissed the case without considering the core issues, instead sending it back to the lower courts for further proceedings. The move reinstates […]

Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a First Amendment challenge to the Biden administration’s communication with social media companies in an effort to remove misinformation on the platforms about COVID-19 and the 2020 election. The 6-3 opinion was authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and […]

Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday “inadvertently and briefly” uploaded what it said was a “document” about a ruling in a yet-to-be-released, high-profile case over Idaho’s ban on abortions that reportedly indicates the court is poised to require the state allow emergency access — for now. “The Court’s Publications […]

Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a First Amendment challenge to the Biden administration’s communication with social media companies in an effort to remove misinformation on the platforms about COVID-19 and the 2020 election. The 6-3 opinion was authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and […]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court, nearing the end of its term, is poised to soon deliver rulings in high-profile cases on everything from presidential power to abortion access. The justices will release opinions on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week. It will mark the first time in at least a decade the […]

Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will take up a constitutional challenge to state bans on gender-affirming care for minors in its next term. The case from Tennessee involves the 15-year-old transgender daughter of Samantha and Brian Williams of Nashville. The family alleges that Senate Bill 1, which prohibits […]

Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a longstanding federal ban on firearms for people under domestic violence restraining orders. The 8-1 opinion was authored by Chief Justice John Roberts. Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone dissenter. “When a restraining order contains a finding that an individual poses a […]

Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Trump-era tax on U.S. shareholders of some American-controlled foreign corporations, preserving a major source of government revenue while sidestepping the more controversial question of the constitutionality of the taxation of wealth. In a 7-2 decision, the court said a 2017 law […]