SUPREME COURT

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Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled that the armed forces do not have to advise civilian police when they make an arrest

Honduran lawmakers will begin choosing the 15 members of a new Supreme Court this week in a process with implications for the administration of President Xiomara Castro, who promised a sharp break with her predecessor’s “dictatorship.”

India’s highest court will hear arguments on whether to legalize same-sex marriage on March 13, a landmark for the country of 1.4 billion people and for the global movement for LGBTQ rights. A ruling that finds gay marriages are allowed under India’s constitution would run counter to the socially conservative sentiment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as wide swaths of the country’s Muslim community. But younger Indians tend to be more accepting

The court issued its first opinion in a case argued earlier in the term, but it is off to a historically slow pace in announcing decisions.

At stake is the constitutionality of Florida and Texas laws that restrict platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube from blocking or limiting speech.

Court ruling could return sanity to the school bathroom battle over gender identity and return Title IX meaning to its origin protecting biological sex.

Wham-O Manufacturing Co. of California produced its first Frisbees on this day in history, Jan. 23, 1957. The beach toy began as a 19th-century campus activity and is now a worldwide sport.

On the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's ruling on Roe vs. Wade, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris Harris is rallying supporters against efforts in Washington and in Republican-led states to restrict abortion. (Jan. 22)

The dismissal is seen as a potential threat to the stability of the Netanyahu administration because Aryeh Deri, the fired health and interior minister, is head of an ultra-orthodox coalition partner.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired a key Cabinet ally, heeding a Supreme Court ruling commanding him to do so and deepening a rift over the power of the courts.

How federal elections are run across the U.S. could be upended if the Supreme Court adopts even a limited version of a once-fringe idea known as the "independent state legislature theory."

On this day in history, Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court made its decision in the historic abortion regulation court case — Roe v. Wade. The 7-2 ruling stood for nearly 50 years.

The landmark decision never gave women the rights that people wanted to believe it did.

Latin America's largest country is grappling with the question of how to address the rapid rise of disinformation, hate speech and incitement.

The "Justice" filmmakers said at the Sundance Film Festival they kept the Brett Kavanaugh documentary a secret and used codenames for their subjects.

The court marshal clarified Friday that she spoke with the Supreme Court justices about the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade for her recent report. The justices were not asked to sign affidavits.

Unlike court employees who were questioned in the leak probe, the justices and their spouses were not asked to sign affidavits.

Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley said in a statement that justices were part of the investigation into who leaked the draft opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Debra Todd will officially be installed as chief justice on Friday, making her the first female to serve as the court’s top-ranking jurist.

Though the report stated it couldn't determine who leaked the draft opinion that overturned Roe, it seemed to arrive at another, pretty significant conclusion without providing evidence.

The fight over nationwide abortion rights is only just beginning.

Pro-lifers are set to rally in the nation’s capital Friday for the 50th March for Life, which will mark the first time the event took place since the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

Thousands of protesters poured into Peru’s capital Thursday, clashing with police amid tear gas and smoke and demanding the ouster of President Dina Boluarte

The Supreme Court says its internal investigation has failed to find out who leaked its draft abortion ruling last year.

Chief Justice John Roberts asked the marshal of the Supreme Court to investigate the leak.

The leak of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s draft opinion was an extraordinary breach of decorum and practice at the court.

The Supreme Court says an eight-month investigation has failed to find who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights.

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly gave a final, bipartisan push Thursday to a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it harder for violent criminals to get out of jail on bail.

As anti-abortion protesters prepare for this year’s March for Life, a current of uncertainty ripples beneath the surface of the movement.

A national limit on abortion has become one of the new focal points for march organizers and other antiabortion leaders.

Israel’s attorney general has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he must fire a key Cabinet ally following a court ruling disqualifying the minister from serving in government

The Supreme Court is off to a historically slow start in failing to resolve any cases in which it has heard arguments since early October.

Israel’s attorney general has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu he must fire a key Cabinet ally following a court ruling disqualifying the minister from serving in government.

The Supreme Court of Alabama ruled in favor of extending the time needed to carry out death sentences after a trio of troubled executions in the state since July 2022.

A top state lawyer has urged the Indiana Supreme Court to uphold the state’s Republican-backed abortion ban.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from New York gun dealers on Wednesday to block a slew of gun control laws implemented by the state's legislature last year.

The Supreme Court will hear a case to determine the fate of a federal law guaranteeing disabled students, such as Miguel Luna Perez of Michigan, education relevant to their needs.

A new report indicated that legal experts and lawmakers are concerned about school boards shutting down or limiting public comments from concerned parents.

The Supreme Court agreed that Aryeh Deri was ineligible to hold public office.

Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that a key member of the country’s new government cannot serve as a Cabinet minister

A Japanese court has found three former utility company executives not guilty of negligence over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster and the subsequent deaths of more than 40 elderly residents during their forced evacuation.

India’s highest court will hear arguments on whether to legalize same-sex marriage on March 13, a landmark for the country of 1.4 billion people and for the global movement for LGBTQ rights. A ruling that finds gay marriages are allowed under India’s constitution would run counter to the socially conservative sentiment of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, as well as wide swaths of the country’s Muslim community. But younger Indians tend to be more accepting

Turkey’s Halkbank says it is shielded from prosecution by sovereign immunity, but the United States says that law doesn’t apply to to the bank’s activities.

Republican Wisconsin lawmakers on Tuesday rejected calls from Gov. Tony Evers and other Democrats to ask voters whether the state should continue to ban abortions, opting instead to advance a ballot question on welfare eligibility. The advisory referendum on welfare proposed by top Republicans is nonbinding, meaning it wouldn't change state law, but supporters said they want the public's feedback on the issue. Democrats argued that Republicans were just trying to increase GOP turnout for a pivotal state Supreme Court race that will determine the ideological balance of the court and is also on the April ballot.

Collegiality is scarce, and tensions are apparent.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear the case of a Guatemalan transgender woman seeking to avoid deportation from the U.S. after a lower court denied her claim.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government plans to charge ahead with an overhaul of the country’s judicial system.

Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in central Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest plans to overhaul the legal system and weaken the Supreme Court.

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv say government plans to overhaul the judiciary would be an attack on democracy.

Thousands of Israelis have gathered in central Tel Aviv for a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the country’s legal system and weaken the Supreme Court

Tens of thousands of Israelis have gathered in central Tel Aviv to protest plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the country’s legal system and weaken the Supreme Court.

Eight new cases, including one focused on a worker refusing to work on the Sabbath, should complete current term

The Supreme Court is adding eight new arguments to its calendar.

The justices voted to hear an appeal from a former U.S. postal worker and evangelical Christian who was disciplined and eventually quit because he refused to deliver packages on Sundays.

The natural gas industry may have its eyes trained on the wrong adversary.

Law professors say Biden's student loan forgiveness plan is unlawful but that the Supreme Court should still reject the faulty lawsuit brought against it.

The chief justice of Israel’s Supreme Court has sharply attacked the sweeping changes to the country’s justice system planned by the new conservative government, lending her voice to a growing outcry against the proposed overhaul.

House Republicans are taking early action on abortion now that they are in the majority.

Brazil’s capital is bracing for the possibility of more violent demonstrations by people seeking to overturn the presidential election

New York's Concealed Carry Improvement Act was the state's answer to the Supreme Court's June decision invalidating its permitting regime for concealed carry.

The Supreme Court is allowing New York to continue to enforce for now a sweeping new law banning guns from “sensitive places” such as schools, playgrounds and Times Square and increasing training requirements.

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

The Supreme Court has revived claims by a Texas inmate who has the rare support of the state prosecutor’s office that put him on death row.

Authorities have reestablished control of Brazilian government buildings in the capital several hours after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his electoral defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace.

Police say the mother of Ashli Babbitt, the woman fatally shot by police inside the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, has been arrested in Washington after refusing to get out of the street during a demonstration on the two year anniversary.

The South Carolina Supreme Court has struck down a ban on abortion once cardiac activity is detected — typically around six weeks.

President Joe Biden says the U.S. will immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s justice minister has unveiled the new government’s long-promised overhaul of the judicial system that aims to weaken the Supreme Court.

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

President Joe Biden’s administration has finalized regulations that protect hundreds of thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways, repealing a Trump-era rule that federal courts had thrown out and that environmentalists said left waterways vulnerable to pollution.

The White House and Senate Democrats are closing out the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency having installed more federal judges than his two immediate predecessors.

In courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes juries found they didn’t commit.

A confessed French serial killer, Charles Sobhraj, has been released from prison in Nepal after serving most of his sentence for killing American and Canadian backpackers.

New Vanderbilt University polling has found that most registered voters in Tennessee want exceptions for rape or incest in the state’s sweeping abortion ban.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal arising from a murder-for-hire ordered by the onetime leader of a violent international crime ring.

The Supreme Court is restoring another pre-pandemic tradition, announcing decisions in a public session in the courtroom.

The Supreme Court has refused a request from tobacco companies to stop California from enforcing a ban on flavored tobacco products that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November.

A son of Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has returned home after four years in London to face corruption charges that were filed against him in 2020.

The law would require all states to recognize same-sex marriages if the Supreme Court were to overturn its 2015 decision to legalize gay marriage. That includes states with laws on the books banning same-sex marriage.

A judge has dismissed criminal charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder over the Flint water crisis.

The House has given final approval to protections for same-sex marriages.

The Supreme Court is about to confront a new elections case that could dramatically alter voting in 2024 and beyond.

The Supreme Court is being warned about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex couples.

The Senate passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday to protect same-sex marriages, an extraordinary sign of shifting national politics on the issue and a measure of relief for the hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples who have married since the Supreme Court's 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage nationwide.

The Senate has passed landmark bipartisan legislation to protect same-sex marriages.

Poland’s Supreme Court has reinstated a judge who was suspended for two years.

The Supreme Court is wrestling with a politically tinged dispute over a Biden administration policy that would prioritize deportation of people in the country illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.

The Senate is set to vote Tuesday on legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages, putting Congress one step closer to ensuring that such unions are enshrined in federal law.

The Supreme Court says in a letter to Congress that there is “nothing to suggest” that Justice Samuel Alito violated ethics standards following a report that a 2014 decision he wrote was leaked in advance of its announcement.

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that Scotland does not have the power to hold a new referendum on independence without the consent of the British government.

The Supreme Court says it will hear a dispute over a dog toy that got whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s barking mad.

New Zealand lawmakers will take a vote on whether to lower the nation’s voting age from 18 to 16.

The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman is among those urging action in response to a report that a former anti-abortion leader knew in advance the outcome of a 2014 Supreme Court case involving health care coverage of contraception.

The company that makes Jack Daniel’s is howling mad over a squeaking dog toy that parodies the whiskey’s signature bottle.

An Afghan Supreme Court official says 19 people were lashed in the country's northeast after being convicted of adultery, theft and running away from home.

Democrats celebrated winning North Carolina's lone toss-up race for the U.S. House this month as Wiley Nickel won the 13th District seat.

The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the president’s student debt cancellation plan, according to a legal filing.

The nation’s Catholic bishops continue to signal their hardline opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.

Legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriages has crossed a major Senate hurdle, putting Congress on track to take the historic step of ensuring that such unions are enshrined in federal law.