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News Articles: Supreme Court

Former Trump White House senior adviser Stephen Bannon speaks to journalists after leaving federal court in Washington, D.C., after being sentenced in 2022. Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison after a federal jury found him guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress.

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  • Law

Steve Bannon loses his appeal of his contempt of Congress conviction

A three-judge panel upheld the former Trump adviser's conviction for criminal contempt of Congress. The case is related to Bannon's refusal to cooperate with a House panel probe of the Jan. 6 riot.

May 10, 2024
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  • Washington Desk
The Nathan Deal Judicial Center, home of Georgia's Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, is seen, Feb. 11, 2020, in Atlanta. Georgia's highest court on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, threw out an indictment that charged a former police chief and a top aide with felonies for failing to investigate allegations of misconduct within their department.

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  • News

Georgia Supreme Court declines to rule on whether counties can draw their own electoral maps

The Georgia Supreme Court has declined to rule, at least for now, on whether county commissioners can override state legislators and draw their own electoral districts. All nine justices on Thursday voted to dismiss a lawsuit brought by two Cobb County residents.

May 10, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
Missouri law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they're pregnant — and state judges won't finalize divorces during a pregnancy.

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  • National

Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence

The state's law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they're pregnant — and state judges won't finalize divorces during a pregnancy. Texas and Arkansas have similar laws on the books.

May 03, 2024
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump attends a news conference with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., on April 12, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla.

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  • Politics

Trump may get another chance to be president. He's planning an aggressive second term

In a new interview with TIME Magazine, Trump promises to prosecute President Biden, unleash the National Guard on immigrants and says it's "irrelevant" if he's comfortable criminalizing abortions.

May 01, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
The conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Trump's immunity arguments and the experiences of the justices who might support it

Five of the six conservatives spent much of their lives in the Beltway, working in the White House and Justice Department, seeing their administrations as targets of unfair harassment by Democrats.

April 26, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday about whether a president enjoys broad immunity from criminal prosecution after leaving office.

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  • Law

Supreme Court appears skeptical of blanket immunity for a former president

A majority of justices appeared skeptical of granting a president blanket immunity from prosecution for criminal acts, but it is unclear whether the court would act swiftly to resolve the case.

April 25, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case examining a federal-state conflict over emergency abortions.

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  • Law

Heated arguments at the Supreme Court in newest abortion case

At issue is a clash between federal and state law about how pregnant women must be treated in the emergency room.

April 25, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case from Idaho that centers on abortion rights.

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  • Law

Supreme Court to examine a federal-state conflict over emergency abortions

The case comes from Idaho, where the law banning abortions is sufficiently strict that the state's leading hospital system says its patients are at risk.

April 24, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court will hear another case about abortion rights on Wednesday. Protestors gathered outside the court last month when the case before the justices involved abortion pills.

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  • Health Care

What's at stake as the Supreme Court hears Idaho case about abortion in emergencies

The Supreme Court will consider the question: Should doctors treating pregnancy complications follow state or federal law if the laws conflict? Here's how the case could affect women and doctors.

April 23, 2024
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Florentino Escobar (second from right) and the six other Starbucks employees known together as the Memphis 7 stand in front of a Memphis, Tenn., mural that honors the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike.

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  • Business

What the Starbucks case at the Supreme Court is all about. Hint: It's not coffee

Starbucks and some of its baristas have been in a contentious fight over unionizing since 2021. Now, the Supreme Court considers a case that could have implications for unions far beyond Starbucks.

April 23, 2024
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  • Andrea Hsu
A group of volunteers check on homeless people living in a park in Grants Pass, Ore., on March 21.

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  • Law

Supreme Court weighs whether cities can punish unhoused people for sleeping outside

Lower courts ruled it's "cruel and unusual" to fine or jail people on public land if no shelter is available. An Oregon city says that's hamstrung efforts to keep public spaces safe and open to all.

April 22, 2024
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  • Jennifer Ludden
The Supreme Court will review part of a federal obstruction law that has been used to prosecute some of those individuals involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

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  • Law

Supreme Court hears challenge to law used to prosecute hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants

The case tests the statute used to prosecute hundreds of defendants charged with invading the Capitol to stop the counting of electoral ballots for president in 2020.

April 16, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
Shalela Dowdy, a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging Alabama's congressional districts, poses for a portrait on Government Street in Mobile, Ala., on April 1.

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  • Politics

In new congressional district, Black voters weigh what representation really means

Alabama could soon have a U.S. House delegation that more closely matches its diversity after a redistricting lawsuit. For Black voters, the change has greater significance than who holds the seat.

April 15, 2024
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  • Stephen Fowler
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022.

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  • News

Justice Thomas misses Supreme Court session Monday with no explanation

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was absent from the court Monday with no explanation.

April 15, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Packages of mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Md.

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  • Politics

Why anti-abortion advocates are reviving a 19th century sexual purity law

The Comstock Act is the latest front in the fight over reproductive rights. Here's what you need to know about the 1873 law and the consequences if it's enforced the way some conservatives would like.

April 10, 2024
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  • Danielle Kurtzleben
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