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ELENA KAGAN


'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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Graham says he'll vote 'no' on Jackson for Supreme Court

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says he won’t vote for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.

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How Clarence Thomas’s recusal controversy compares to others

Running through the recent history of justices weighing whether to step aside — and then deciding against it.

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Justices decide for themselves when to step aside from cases

Reports that the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas implored Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff to act to overturn the 2020 election results have put a spotlight on how justices decide whether to step aside from a case.

High court nominee says she'd skip Harvard race case

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says that if confirmed to the Supreme Court she’d sit out an affirmative action lawsuit over Harvard’s admission policies because she sits on the board of her college alma mater.

Supreme Court tosses Wisconsin legislative voting maps

The Supreme Court has thrown out Wisconsin state legislative maps that were preferred by the state’s Democratic governor and selected by Wisconsin’s top court, a win for Republicans that also makes it unclear what boundaries will be in place for the fall election.

A closer look at the women who’ve served on the Supreme Court

In the wake of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement announcement in January, President Joe Biden has nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to be his replacement.

Supreme Court decides the definition of ‘occasion,’ and a defendant benefits

The justices agree that William Dale Wooden's prison sentence was too long.

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High court narrows reach of law targeting career criminals

The Supreme Court is narrowing the reach of a federal law that strengthens penalties for career criminals found to illegally have a gun.

Supreme Court sides with defendant in Armed Career Criminal Act case

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of a criminal defendant who the justices found had been handed an overly harsh sentence based on lower courts' mistaken application of a law. The crux of the case turned on how many criminal "occasions" occurred one night in 1997 when William Dale Wooden and three others entered a single-building storage facility in Georgia, smashed through the drywall separating different storage areas within and stole...

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Supreme Court reimposes death sentence for Boston bomber

The Supreme Court was reviewing the decision of a federal appeals court in Boston that overturned the death sentence imposed on Dzokhar Tsarnaev. The 2013 attack killed three people.

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High court sides with government in Gitmo state secrets case

The Supreme Court has sided with the U.S. government and dismissed a case involving a Guantanamo Bay detainee seeking what the government said is secret information.

Checking in? Notorious hotel the setting of high court case

A bed-and-breakfast on the U.S.-Canada border that officials say is a magnet for illegal border crossings, was the setting of a case heard Wednesday at the Supreme Court.

EXPLAINER: What's ahead for Biden's Supreme Court nominee

President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court has launched what Democrats hope will be a quick, bipartisan confirmation process for the court’s first Black woman.

Supreme Court considers whether Biden administration properly ditched Trump immigration rule

I’m questioning the ease with which a decision in your favor will make it for an incoming administration to avoid notice-and-comment review,” the chief justice said to Deputy Solicitor General Brian H. Fletcher, representing the Biden administration. AdvertisementFletcher told the court the incoming Biden administration thought the rule was wrong, as well as ineffective. The Biden administration acquiesced to the Illinois judge’s decision, and moved to dismiss the remaining cases around the country. Why can’t a new administration simply comply with an adverse lower court ruling if it thinks the rule is incorrect? “This case can be resolved on that straightforward basis alone.”Meanwhile, Fletcher said the Biden administration is at work on a new version of the immigration rule.

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High court wades into clash over Trump-era immigration rule

The Supreme Court is wading into a political clash between the Biden administration and Republican-led states seeking to defend a signature Trump-era immigration rule that the new administration has abandoned.

Supreme Court hears dispute over Biden's rejection of Trump-era 'public charge' immigration rule

Ex-President Donald Trump's DHS reinterpreted when a non-U.S. citizen is likely to become a 'public charge' and therefore ineligible for permanent residency.

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For high court nominees 'When's your birthday?' matters

If President Joe Biden’s search for a nominee to the Supreme Court could be summed up by a Help Wanted ad it might read: “Seeking a well-respected liberal jurist.

Biden quest for judicial diversity goes beyond race, gender

President Joe Biden has already made history by nominating more public defenders, civil rights attorneys and nonprofit lawyers to the federal bench during his first year in office than past presidents.

High court's Alabama ruling sparks alarm over voting rights

The Supreme Court’s decision to halt efforts to create a second mostly Black congressional district in Alabama for the 2022 election has sparked fresh warnings that the court is eroding the Voting Rights Act and reviving the need for Congress to intervene.

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Supreme Court halts redraw of Alabama's Congressional map

A lower court had ordered the GOP legislature to draw a second Black-majority district.

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Supreme Court halts redraw of Alabama's Congressional map

A lower court had ordered the GOP legislature to draw a second Black-majority district.

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Supreme Court shouldn't be covered in Ivy, 2 lawmakers say

Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham say it'd be good if the person named to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer doesn’t have an Ivy League degree.

Leondra Kruger, potential Biden Supreme Court nominee, stunned justices with position on religious liberty

Leondra Kruger, who is on President Biden's Supreme Court shortlist, argued on behalf of the Obama administration in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC

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Who's who among some possible top Supreme Court contenders

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement gives President Joe Biden a chance to make his first nomination to the high court.

Biden: Ready for 'long overdue' pick of Black female justice

President Joe Biden has strongly affirmed that he will nominate the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Breyer: a pragmatic approach searching for a middle ground

Multiple sources say Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is planning to retire.

Biden pledged to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court—meet 5 who could be up for the job

President Biden promised during his campaign to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Now, he may have the chance.

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At least 3 judges eyed as Biden mulls Supreme Court pick

President Joe Biden is eyeing at least three judges for an expected vacancy on the Supreme Court, and each of them would fulfill his campaign pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the nation’s highest court.

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Abortion opponents eye priorities as high court ruling looms

Opponents of abortion rights insist their work won't end even if the Supreme Court decides to dismantle the Roe v.

Supreme Court won't speed challenge to Texas abortion limits

In the latest setback for abortion rights in Texas, the Supreme Court has refused to speed up the ongoing court case over the state’s ban on most abortions.

Campaign finance law challenged by Ted Cruz met with skepticism at Supreme Court

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the Supreme Court in a friend-of-the-court brief to use Cruz's case as a vehicle to scrap the entire 2002 campaign finance law.

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Justices seem sympathetic to Cruz in campaign finance case

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seem sympathetic to Sen. Ted Cruz in his challenge to a provision of campaign finance law that limits the repayment of federal candidates’ loans to their campaigns.

Campaign finance law challenged by Ted Cruz met with skepticism at Supreme Court

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the Supreme Court in a friend-of-the-court brief to use Cruz's case as a vehicle to scrap the entire 2002 campaign finance law.

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Justices suggest Boston should have flown 'Christian flag'

Supreme Court justices seem to have little doubt that Boston was wrong to refuse to fly a banner described as a Christian flag outside City Hall.

Supreme Court justices aren't 'scorpions,' but not happy campers either

Anybody who regularly watches Supreme Court arguments is used to seeing testy moments But you don't have to be a keen observer these days to see that something out of the ordinary is happening.

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High court confirms justices have received COVID-19 booster

The Supreme Court says all nine justices have received COVID-19 booster shots.

Justices asked to let Arizona enforce ban on some abortions

Arizona has asked the Supreme Court to allow enforcement of a ban on abortions performed solely because of Down syndrome and other genetic abnormalities.

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Court suggests religious schools OK to get Maine tuition aid

The Supreme Court appears ready to rule that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education.

What the Supreme Court justices have said about abortion and Roe v. Wade

On Dec. 1, the Supreme Court will consider a Mississippi law that could overturn Roe v. Wade — the 1973 ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion. Here's what we know about where each justice stands on the issue.

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Boston Bomber case: Kavanaugh, Kagan clash in rare testy exchange over mitigating evidence

The Supreme Court is considering whether to uphold an appeals court's decision to overturn Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence.

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We're watching the implosion of the Supreme Court in real time

The Supreme Court is having a credibility crisis as fewer and fewer Americans believe that it is a nonpartisan, unbiased institution.

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Supreme Court will resume in-person arguments this fall after switching to phones during Covid

The return to in-person proceedings was announced more than a year after the coronavirus pandemic forced the Supreme Court to hear cases over the phone.

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Trump's Supreme Court nominees are showing their true colors

There can be no more doubts how Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett feel about abortion rights

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Chief Justice Roberts, 3 other dissenters slam colleagues for hastily rewarding Texas 'bounty hunter' abortion ban scheme

Chief Justice Roberts, 3 other dissenters slam colleagues for hastily rewarding Texas 'bounty hunter' abortion ban scheme

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The Court chooses a side in the struggle for democracy

What many regard as the most important civil rights law in American history has been left a mocking, hollow shell.

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The Court chooses a side in the struggle for democracy

What many regard as the most important civil rights law in American history has been left a mocking, hollow shell.

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Supreme Court rules against inmate in death penalty case

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against an Alabama inmate whose lawyers argued that his trial counsel should have done more to try to show he is intellectually disabled and therefore he should be spared a death sentence. In an unsigned 6-3 opinion, the conservative majority on Friday reversed an 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals finding and said that a state court had correctly rejected claims that Matthew Reeves had ineffective counsel at trial because they did not hire a neuropsychologist to present evidence he is intellectually disabled. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Elena Kagan, said the majority’s decision continues a “troubling trend in which this Court strains to reverse summarily any grants of relief to those facing execution.”

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Justice Elena Kagan decries the Supreme Court's 'tragic' voting rights decision in scathing dissent

Justice Elena Kagan decries the Supreme Court's 'tragic' voting rights decision in scathing dissent

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Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Voting Restrictions

The court, by a 6-3 vote, reversed a lower court ruling in deciding that Arizona’s limits on who can return early ballots.

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The Supreme Court Deals A New Blow To Voting Rights, Upholding Arizona Restrictions

The justices, in a 6-3 opinion, narrowed the only major section of the landmark Voting Rights Act that remains in effect.

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Supreme Court balks at automatic warrantless searches when police are in 'hot pursuit' for lesser crimes

The Supreme Court refused Wednesday categorically to extend the "hot pursuit" exception to the warrant requirement to misdemeanor crimes.

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Supreme Court Restricts Police Powers To Enter A Home Without A Warrant

The court has long held that police may do this when pursuing a fleeing felon. The question in this case was whether they can do the same thing when pursuing someone suspected of a minor offense.

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The Supreme Court's Newest Justices Produce Some Unexpected Results

WASHINGTON — The arrival of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in October seemed to create a 6-3 conservative juggernaut that would transform the Supreme Court. Instead, judging by the 39 signed decisions in argued cases so far this term, including two major rulings Thursday, the right side of the court is badly fractured and its liberal members are having a surprisingly good run. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times That picture may change, as the court has yet to issue the term’s

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Supreme Court Makes Several Major Decisions

June continues to be a busy month for the Supreme Court. The court ruled on programs for immigrants, draft eligibility & the FDA's power over vapes.

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Supreme Court Rules Against Immigrants With Temporary Protected Status

There are 400,000 people from 12 countries with a TPS designation.

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Supreme Court rules against immigrants with temporary status

A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents. Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the court that federal immigration law prohibits people who entered the country illegally and now have Temporary Protected Status from seeking “green cards” to remain in the country permanently. There are 400,000 people from 12 countries with TPS status.

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