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NW Roanoke shooting leaves three teens hospitalized

Three teens were hospitalized after a shooting in Northwest Roanoke Friday night, according to the Roanoke Police Department.

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NW Roanoke shooting leaves three teens hospitalized

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Will Sotomayor or Kagan open a seat on the Supreme Court for Democrats?

With Democrats' hold on the Senate tenuous, some argue that at least one of the liberal justices should retire. If they did, it would be extraordinarily unusual.

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The Supreme Court Justices Do Not Seem to Be Getting Along

Collegiality is scarce, and tensions are apparent.

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Supreme Court debates union tactics in spoiled concrete case

The Supreme Court is debating the lengths unions can go to when exerting pressure during a strike.

Chief justice: Judges' safety 'essential' to court system

Chief Justice John Roberts is praising programs that protect judges, saying that “we must support judges by ensuring their safety.”.

The Extremely Muddled G.O.P. Logic Behind Moore v. Harper

In the oral arguments, anyway, it looked like the Four Seasons Total Landscaping of legal cases.

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Supreme Court upholds California ban on sale of flavored tobacco products

The Supreme Court clears the way for California to enforce a ban on the sale of most flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes.

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North Carolina speaker of the House says state courts violated constitution by drawing new congressional maps

North Carolina state Speaker Timothy Moore said state courts were doing the legislature's job when it drew congressional maps used in the 2022 midterms.

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The Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of the Worst Version of the Independent State Legislature Theory

But a better version is proving difficult to figure out.

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The Supreme Court thrives on hypotheticals. Alito’s latest sparked a backlash.

In a case about LGBTQ and religious protections, Justice Samuel A. Alito found himself musing about children in KKK outfits and Black shopping mall Santas.

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Justices acknowledge difficult balancing between free speech, discrimination during complicated oral arguments

The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a case pitting free speech against Colorado's anti-discrimination law, with justices peppering both sides with hypotheticals.

foxnews.com

Here’s how federal judges think about diversity in hiring law clerks

As the Supreme Court weighs whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions, a study says most appeals court judges consider race when hiring clerks.

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Supreme Court allows Jan. 6 committee subpoena for phone records of Arizona GOP chief Kelli Ward

The Supreme Court denial of Kelli Ward's request sets the stage for the Jan. 6 House committee to get her phone records.

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High court rules against Arizona GOP leader in records fight

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to get phone records belonging to the leader of the Arizona Republican Party.

High court rules against Arizona GOP leader in records fight

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to get phone records belonging to the leader of the Arizona Republican Party. The high court on Monday rejected GOP state chair Kelli Ward's request to halt the turnover of records while a lawsuit proceeds. The court lifted a temporary order that had been put in place by Justice Elena Kagan that had paused anything from happening while Ward's appeal was at the Supreme Court.

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Supreme Court divided on adoption law that keeps Native American kids in tribal homes

The Supreme Court sounded split on a federal child custody law that sends Native American children to be adopted by tribal families.

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High court to hear water dispute between Navajo, government

The Supreme Court will hear a water dispute involving the U.S. government and the Navajo Nation.

Supreme Court more diverse than lawyers who argue before it

The Supreme Court looks more like America than it ever has.

High court told jurors were misled in Arizona death row case

A lawyer for a man on Arizona’s death row has told the U.S. Supreme Court that jurors in the case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure the man would never walk free was to sentence him to death.

Supreme Court Hears Hours Of Affirmative Action Arguments

The Supreme Court's hearing went longer than scheduled, with justices hearing about five hours of arguments.

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Supreme Court’s conservatives appear ready to end college affirmative action

Supreme Court conservatives sounds ready to forbid use of race in college admissions.

latimes.com

Affirmative action in jeopardy after justices raise doubts

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education.

Justices’ past affirmative action views, in their own words

A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the use of affirmative action in higher education.

From Bakke to Fisher, evolution of affirmative action cases

When the Supreme Court takes up the issue of affirmative action again Monday, it'll be for the second time in six years.

Arizona GOP chair Kelli Ward asks Supreme Court to block Jan. 6 committee subpoena for phone records

Ward called the dispute over a subpoena from the House select committee a "first-of-its-kind situation" with "profound" implications.

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Arizona GOP leader wins temporary halt to record turnover

Supreme Court justice Elena Kagan is temporarily blocking the turnover of phone records belonging to the leader of the Arizona Republican Party to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Arizona GOP leader asks high court to halt record turnover

The leader of the Arizona Republican party on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to step in and halt a lower court decision requiring her phone records to be turned over to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. State party chair Kelli Ward has said her First Amendment rights would be chilled if investigators were able to learn whom she spoke with while trying to challenge former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election defeat. A federal appeals court panel ruled 2-1 against Ward over the weekend and said the committee should get records of calls Ward made and received from just before the November 2020 election to Jan. 31, 2021.

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Supreme Court justices spar over court legitimacy comments

Supreme Court justices tend to wipe the slate clean at the start of a new term and their summer break can help bruised feelings from tough cases.

Supreme Court justices spar over court legitimacy comments

Supreme Court justices tend to wipe the slate clean at the start of a new term, the bruised feelings occasioned by tough cases eased by a summer break. The latest comments came Tuesday night from conservative Justice Samuel Alito, the author of the June decision that took away women’s constitutional protections for abortion. On Tuesday, Alito was answering a question at a forum at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington when he said that “someone also crosses an important line" when saying "that the court is acting in a way that is illegitimate.”

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Justice Kagan: 'Time will tell' if court finds common ground

Justice Elena Kagan says “time will tell” whether the Supreme Court can get back to “finding common ground” after a term in which the court’s six conservatives and three liberals split over major issues including abortion and gun rights.

Warhol, Prince and a Supreme Court debate over ‘fair use’

The court is evaluating whether Andy Warhol violated copyright law by basing his art on an image of Prince used without the photographer’s permission.

washingtonpost.com

Court rejects Black Texas death row inmate's race bias claim

A divided Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn’t get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage.

In her own words: Justice Jackson speaks volumes from bench

Ketanji Brown Jackson said before the Supreme Court's term began that she was “ready to work.”.

Loud and clear: New Justice Jackson speaks volumes at bench

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court and its newest justice, said before the term began that she was “ready to work.” For now, Jackson's approach seems less like Justice Clarence Thomas, who once went 10 years without asking a question, and more like Justice Neil Gorsuch, who in his first year was one of the more active questioners. “I can’t think of a time where you’ve seen a junior justice take hold of the arguments” to the same extent, Feldman said using the court’s shorthand title for the newest justice.

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Supreme Court's new 'class photo' includes number of firsts

The Supreme Court’s nine members have posed for their first formal group photo following the addition of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The Supreme Court Considers What May Be the Final Blow to the Voting Rights Act

Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Sonia Sotomayor warn of what’s really at stake in Merrill v. Milligan.

newyorker.com

Supreme Court’s liberals mount defense of Voting Rights Act, but outcome of challenge is unclear

Alabama's Republicans say they should not be required to draw a second congressional district likely to elect a Black Democrat.

latimes.com

The Supreme Court will begin a new term with more contentious cases on its docket

The fate of affirmative action programs in college admissions, redistricting, and elections are in the hands of the justices as the U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term.

npr.org

Supreme Court Poised To Keep Marching To Right In New Term

The court is diving back in with an aggressive agenda that seems likely to split its six conservative justices from its three liberals.

newsy.com

Supreme Court poised to keep marching to right in new term

The Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday at a time of diminished public confidence and justices sparring openly over the institution’s legitimacy.

Justice Jackson says she has 'a seat at the table'

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she has “a seat at the table now and I’m ready to work,” leaning into her history-making role as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Justice Alito Pushes Back after Kagan Questions Supreme Court’s Legitimacy

Supreme Court justices have taken to publicly bickering over whether recent conservative majority decisions have undermined the credibility and reputation of the institution.

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Supreme Court, dogged by questions of legitimacy, is ready to resume

A new Supreme Court term opens with public approval at historic lows, and even the justices debating what its rightward turn means for institutional integrity.

washingtonpost.com

Supreme Court keeping live audio as it opens again to public

The Supreme Court says it will continue providing live audio broadcasts of arguments in cases.

Breyer: Supreme Court leaker still appears to be a mystery

The Supreme Court doesn’t appear to have found the person who leaked a draft of the court’s major abortion decision last spring.

Justices Kagan, Gorsuch hint Supreme Court leak update could come by end of September

Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch have suggested there could soon be an update into the Dobbs v. Jackson leak investigation. The inquiry has lasted months.

foxnews.com

Republican power grab in the judiciary warps midterm election dynamic

Jen Psaki, former Biden White House press secretary and new member of the MSNBC family, talks with Alex Wagner about how Republicans overreach through courts stacked by Donald Trump has made them the target of midterm voters who might otherwise be focused on President Biden and congressional Democrats.

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Justice Elena Kagan warns Supreme Court can forfeit legitimacy when overturning precedent

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is cautioning that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to.

cbsnews.com

Justice Kagan cautions Supreme Court can forfeit legitimacy

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is cautioning that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to.

Justice Kagan cautions Supreme Court can forfeit legitimacy

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Monday cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to. Speaking less than three months after a five-justice conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade's constitutional guarantee of abortion access, Kagan said the public's view of the court can be damaged especially when changes in its membership lead to big changes in the law. “Judges create legitimacy problems for themselves ... when they instead stray into places where it looks like they’re an extension of the political process or when they’re imposing their own personal preferences,” Kagan said at Temple Emanu-El in New York.

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Obama tells Harvard team, basketball was about more than me

Former President Barack Obama told the Harvard men’s basketball team that the sport taught him “it wasn’t just about me.”.

AP-NORC poll: 2 in 3 in US favor term limits for justices

About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices.

Supreme Court move allows Jackson to take part in race case

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.

Justice Kagan gives pointed warning about the 'legitimacy' of the court, seemingly calling out justices with 'political social preferences'

Justice Elena Kagan warned that the court losing connection with the public is 'a dangerous thing for democracy.'

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Kagan says questions of legitimacy risky for Supreme Court

Speaking in Montana, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said it's problematic for the court when longstanding precedent is discarded.

washingtonpost.com

Supreme Court won't let Biden implement immigration policy

The Supreme Court won’t allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.

Supreme Court Justice Breyer has options as a retiree

Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer had a rigorous, intellectually challenging job with the highest of stakes.

'Revolutionary' high court term on abortion, guns and more

Abortion, guns, religion.

The Supreme Court's EPA ruling is a big setback for fighting climate change, but not a death knell

The Supreme Court limited the ability of the EPA in a landmark decision released Thursday. But the EPA and state governments still have many tools in their arsenal.

cnbc.com

The Supreme Court Prefers Climate Policy to Be Expensive

The EPA is no longer allowed to provide the kind of systemwide regulation that could efficiently lower greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants.

washingtonpost.com

Anti-Roe justices a part of Catholicism's conservative wing

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

Supreme Court Has Taken Control of Climate Policy

The good news is the justices sidestepped the famous Chevron doctrine. But they articulated what is in effect a new doctrine of administrative law.

washingtonpost.com

Jackson to be sworn in as Breyer retires from Supreme Court

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is set to be sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday.

Jackson sworn in, becomes 1st Black woman on Supreme Court

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.

Justice Elena Kagan says Supreme Court 'does not have a clue about how to address climate change' as it limits EPA's authority on greenhouse gases

The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down a major ruling that narrowed the EPA's power to combat climate change.

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Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to combat climate change

Placeholder while article actions loadThe Supreme Court on Thursday sharply cut back the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to reduce the carbon output of existing power plants, a blow to President Biden’s commitment to battle climate change. AdvertisementThe court was considering the powers granted by the Clean Air Act, which was written decades ago, before climate change was widely recognized as a worldwide crisis. The Supreme Court in 2016 stopped the Obama administration’s plan to drastically reduce power plants’ carbon output. For that reason, the administration and environmentalists were stunned when the Supreme Court took the case. Apple, Tesla and other major tech and retail firms investing in renewable energy, meanwhile, told the court that “stable, nationwide rules” are needed to avert climate disaster.

washingtonpost.com

Supreme Court rules for inmates seeking reduced prison terms

The Supreme Court has made it easier for certain prison inmates to seek shorter sentences under a bipartisan 2018 federal law aimed at reducing racial disparities in prison terms for cocaine crimes.

Roe ruling shows complex relationship between court, public

The Supreme Court ruling to overturn its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision is unpopular with a majority of Americans — but did that matter.

Pro-Lifers Should Hold Off on Seeking National Abortion Ban

Making a federal law a priority would divert conservatives’ attention from pressing political battles in the states. It would also divide them.

washingtonpost.com

Supreme Court justices' past abortion views, in their own words and votes

More than a month ago, a stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that the Supreme Court was prepared to take the momentous step of overruling the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and stripping away women's constitutional protections for abortion.

cbsnews.com

What GOP-named justices had said about Roe to Senate panel

The nine justices of the Supreme Court made clear in their landmark ruling Friday whether they stand on abortion.

Supreme Court conservatives flex muscle in sweeping rulings

Sweeping Supreme Court rulings on guns and abortion this past week have sent an unmistakable message.

Supreme Court abortion ruling is 'catastrophic,' liberal justices write in furious dissent

The majority overruled Roe and Casey "because it has always despised them," wrote Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in a joint dissent.

cnbc.com

After Supreme Court gun decision, what’s next?

The Supreme Court issued its biggest gun rights ruling in more than a decade.

Supreme Court rules for death row inmate asking to die by firing squad

The court also found that law enforcement officers cannot be sued for failing to inform criminal suspects about their Miranda rights.

washingtonpost.com

Supreme Court rules out suing police for Miranda violations

The Supreme Court has ruled law enforcement officers can’t be sued for money damages when they violate the rights of criminal suspects by failing to provide the familiar Miranda warning before questioning them.

Justices rule against detained immigrants seeking release

The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.

Terrified law clerks at the Supreme Court are lawyering up as the investigation into the leaked draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade fuels hostility: report

A source told NPR clerks act as diplomats for justices, but the fear that their professional lives are under threat is straining the Supreme Court.

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Supreme Court blocks Texas social media law from taking effect

In a 5-to-4 vote, the court granted a request from Big Tech industry trade groups, which argued the law would unleash a flood of racist, hateful and other extremist content on social media platforms.

npr.org

Supreme Court blocks Texas law on social media censorship

A divided Supreme Court has blocked a Texas law, championed by conservatives, that aimed to keep social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their viewpoints.

Supreme Court puts Texas social media law on hold while legal battle continues

The law would bar social media companies from removing posts based on a user’s political ideology.

washingtonpost.com

Justices to rule in gun case with US raw from mass shootings

With mass shootings in Texas, New York and California fresh in Americans’ mind, the Supreme Court will soon issue its biggest gun ruling in more than a decade.

Supreme Court rules against inmates in right-to-counsel case

The Supreme Court has ruled along ideological lines against two Arizona death row inmates who had argued that their lawyers did a poor job representing them in state court.

Former Iowa Taco Bell worker wins at U.S. Supreme Court in wage-theft lawsuit

Robyn Morgan, who sued over unpaid overtime, had sought to stop Taco Bell franchisee Sundance Inc. from taking her case to arbitration.

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Supreme Court sides with Sen. Ted Cruz in campaign finance case

At issue was a federal law that has been on the books for 20 years that barred federal candidates from raising more than $250,000 to repay loans made to their campaigns.

npr.org

Supreme Court agrees with Cruz, strikes campaign contribution restriction

The Supreme Court split along ideological lines and agreed with Sen. Ted Cruz’s challenge to a law limiting post-election political contributions to repay a candidate’s loan to his campaign.

washingtonpost.com

Supreme Court rules for Sen. Cruz in campaign finance case

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has sided with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and struck down a provision of federal campaign finance law.

Justices hold 1st meeting since leak of draft Roe opinion

The Supreme Court’s nine justices met in private for the first time since the leak of a draft opinion that would overrule Roe v.

Supreme Court Notebook: Roberts pays tribute to Breyer

The fertile mind of Justice Stephen Breyer has conjured a stream of hypothetical questions through the years that have, in the words of a colleague, “befuddled” lawyers and justices alike.

AP-NORC poll: Many support Jackson court confirmation

More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided.

High court rules for state in case of man shackled at trial

The Supreme Court says that a federal appeals court was wrong to order Michigan to retry or release a convicted murderer because his rights were violated when he was shackled at trial.

Supreme Court rules against shackled prisoner seeking new trial

The justices decide other low-profile cases as well, including the proper venue for a legal fight over Impressionist art turned over to the Nazis.

washingtonpost.com

Supreme Court revives fight over painting stolen by Nazis

The Supreme Court is keeping alive a California man’s hope of reclaiming a valuable impressionist masterpiece taken from his family by the Nazis and now on display in a Spanish museum.

Supreme Court rules California law will decide case involving French painting, Nazis and Spanish museum

The Cassirer family says that it, not a museum in Madrid, Spain, owns a Camille Pissarro painting surrendered to the Nazis before World War II.

cnbc.com

Court hears case over deputy who didn't read Miranda rights

You have the right to remain silent.

Cheers for Jackson, who declares, 'We've made it, all of us'

Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America.

Jackson will join more diverse and conservative high court

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will join a Supreme Court that is both more diverse than ever and more conservative than it’s been since the 1930s.

Jackson confirmed as first Black female high court justice

The Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, shattering a historic barrier by securing her place as the first Black female justice and giving President Joe Biden a bipartisan endorsement for his effort to diversify the court.

Supreme Court reinstates Trump-era water rule for now

The Supreme Court has reinstated for now a Trump-era rule that curtails the power of states and Native American tribes to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways.

Supreme Court reinstates Trump-era rule on water pollution

Conservatives on the Supreme Court Wednesday reinstated for now a Trump-era environmental rule that limited the ability of states to block projects that could pollute rivers and streams, a decision more notable because Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined liberals in calling it an abuse of the court’s emergency powers.

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Supreme Court reinstates Trump-era water rule, for now

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated for now a Trump-era rule that curtails the power of states and Native American tribes to block pipelines and other energy projects that can pollute rivers, streams and other waterways. The high court's action does not interfere with the Biden administration's plan to rewrite the rule. Work on a revision has begun, but the administration has said a final rule is not expected until the spring of 2023. The court’s three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented.

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