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Matt Cardy/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Are Facebook, Instagram and YouTube more like newspaper publishers or telephone companies? The Supreme Court on Monday was wrestling with that question in a pair of cases being called the most important tests of the First Amendment in the internet era. The justices’ answer could be critical to setting the […]
www.fuchieh.com/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Supreme Court will allow one of the nation’s top public schools to move forward with a new admissions policy that critics say has “racial balancing” at its core. The closely watched case from Fairfax County in northern Virginia involves Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. For […]
joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up a historic case challenging Donald Trump’s ability to hold office again over his role in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump is asking the justices to overturn an unprecedented Colorado Supreme Court decision deeming him ineligible to appear on the […]
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday will take up a historic case that could decide whether Donald Trump is ineligible for the 2024 ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The provision, ratified after the Civil War to keep insurrectionists out of government, has rarely been invoked over the […]
Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A narrowly divided Supreme Court on Monday sided with the Biden administration in a tense dispute over the Texas-Mexico border and razor wire fencing installed by the state that had prohibited federal border agents from performing their duties. The court, by a vote of 5-4, cleared the way for federal […]
Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court has denied special counsel Jack Smith’s request to immediately take up former President Donald Trump’s claims of immunity from prosecution in his federal election interference case. In a single-line order Friday, the court declined to grant a writ of certiorari before judgment — meaning it will allow […]
joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday granted petitions from the Food and Drug Administration and Danco Labs to hear their appeal of a ruling that would reinstate restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone and sharply roll back access nationwide. The court will likely hear oral arguments next spring and […]
Grant Faint/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday announced it will take up a major challenge to a felony obstruction statute the Justice Department has used against more than 300 defendants in their investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol. Any ruling against the use of the […]
joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has asked the Supreme Court to step in and decide the issue of presidential immunity regarding former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference charges. Hours after Smith filed his request Monday, the court said it would consider the request on an expedited basis. “Petitioner’s […]
Devin Dwyer/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — A historic multibillion-do7llar settlement with OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma hung in the balance at the Supreme Court on Monday as victims of the nation’s opioid epidemic urged the justices to approve the deal over opposition from the Biden administration, which warned it would let the company’s owners — the Sackler family […]
