SUPREME COURT

Visitors wait to enter the Supreme Court as a winter snow storm hits the nation's capital making roads perilous and closing most Federal offices and all major public school districts, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. The Supreme Court is ruling unanimously that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to the states. The outcome Wednesday could help an Indiana man recover the $40,000 Land Rover police seized when they arrested him for selling about $400 worth of heroin. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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POLITICS
Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Constitutional Ban On High Fines Applies To States
By Mark Sherman, AP
The ruling could help efforts to rein in police seizure of property from criminal suspects.
From l-r., Supreme court Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts arrive for services for former President George H.W. Bush is carried by joint services military honor guard at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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POLITICS
Clarence Thomas Calls For Review Of Landmark New York Times Libel Case
By Sara Boboltz
The New York Times Co. v. Sullivan set an important standard on First Amendment rights a half-century ago.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in taking a new family photo with her fellow justices at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 1, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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POLITICS
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Returns To Supreme Court Bench For First Oral Arguments Since Surgery
By Marina Fang
She had missed a round of oral arguments in January, the first time she had been absent from them since her appointment to the court in 1993.
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U.S. NEWS
Virginia Wants To Ban Uranium Mining. The Supreme Court Will Decide If It Can.
By The Conversation US, Editorial Partner
The case flips traditional views of federal and state power.
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POLITICS
Supreme Court Will Hear Case Challenging Citizenship Question In 2020 Census
By Sam Levine
A federal judge in New York blocked the Trump administration from adding the question earlier this year.
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits during the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) naturalization ceremony at the New York Historical Society Museum and Library in Manhattan, New York, U.S., April 10, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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POLITICS
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Returns To Work At The Supreme Court
By Marina Fang
The Supreme Court associate justice had been working from home after receiving treatment for cancer.
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 24: On the 34th day of the partial government shutdown, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) speaks to journalists while walking to the Senate floor for votes on competing Republican and Democratic plans to end the government shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Thursday January 24, 2019. (Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Susan Collins Defends Brett Kavanaugh's Abortion Vote
By Igor Bobic
The senator said Kavanaugh took a “logical approach” when the Supreme Court justice voted to uphold an anti-abortion law in Louisiana.
FILE- In this Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, file photo, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, speaks with Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh at her office, before a private meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. The end of contentious confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh is shifting the focus to potential swing votes like Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, files)
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POLITICS
Democrats Come For Susan Collins After Brett Kavanaugh Backs Anti-Abortion Law
By Jennifer Bendery
Demand Justice is running ads reminding Maine voters that their senator, who claims to support abortion rights, voted to confirm Kavanaugh.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court upheld the manslaughter conviction of Michelle Carter, who used text messages to pressure her 18-year-old boyfriend to take his life. Watch the victim’s family speak out for the first time Friday on Dateline NBC.
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POLITICS
Michelle Carter's Texting-Suicide Case Is Aiming For The Supreme Court
By Lydia O'Connor
“This is an extremely important issue,” her lawyer told The Boston Herald.
FILE - This undated file photo from the Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Dominique Ray. A federal appeals court has stayed the execution of Ray, a Muslim inmate in Alabama who says the state is violating his religious rights by not allowing an imam at his lethal injection. The 11th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals granted the stay Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, a day before the scheduled lethal injection of Ray.(Alabama Department of Corrections via AP, File)
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POLITICS
Dominique Ray, Muslim Inmate, Executed After Appeal Over Spiritual Adviser Fails
By Kim Chandler, AP
Ray argued his religious rights were violated since Alabama law would not allow his imam to be present at the execution.
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POLITICS
Supreme Court Blocks Louisiana Abortion Clinic Law
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court's four liberals in putting a hold on the law.
President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019 at the Capitol in Washington, as Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, look on. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
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WOMEN
These Pending Cases Could Decide The Future Of Abortion Rights In America
By Sara Boboltz
At least 16 cases could come before the newly right-leaning Supreme Court, potentially wreaking havoc on Roe v. Wade.
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is seen during a public appearance hosted by the Museum of the City of New York at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York, NY, USA on December 15, 2018. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Sipa USA)
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POLITICS
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes First Public Appearance Since Surgery
By Sanjana Karanth
The outing was the Supreme Court justice's first public appearance since her successful cancer surgery in December.
Neomi Rao (C), the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, responds to applause from attendees as U.S. President Donald Trump announces that he is appointing her to replace Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals during a Diwali ceremonial lighting of the Diya at the White House in Washington, U.S. November 13, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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POLITICS
Trump's Pick To Replace Brett Kavanaugh Could Face An Ugly Confirmation Fight
By Jennifer Bendery
D.C. Circuit Court nominee Neomi Rao wrote articles denouncing "special treatment for minority students" and blaming women for date rape.
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POLITICS
How Liberals Learned To Love Scalia-Style Constitutional Originalism
By Paul Blumenthal
Progressives lean into the Constitution with the new conservative Supreme Court.
*** EXCLUSIVE - VIDEO AVAILABLE *** WASHINGTON DC - JANUARY 20: Collect image of Hayden Brown with his military comrades at the presidential inauguration briefing at the Washington Redskins stadium on January 20, 2017 in Washington DC. A TRANSGENDER solider says he was told, days after President Trump banning transgender people from the military, that he must carry out the rest of his military career as a woman if he wants to keep his job. Hayden Brown says that just days after Donald Trump tweeted he was to ban all transgender people from the military, he received a call from his unit telling him he must revert back to female to continue his service. The 23-year-old from Pennsylvania has been in the armed forces for four and a half years, initially identifying as a woman. PHOTOGRAPH BY Barcroft Images London-T:+44 207 033 1031 E:hello@barcroftmedia.com - New York-T:+1 212 796 2458 E:hello@barcroftusa.com - New Delhi-T:+91 11 4053 2429 E:hello@barcroftindia.com www.barcroftmedia.com (Photo credit should read Barcroft Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
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QUEER VOICES
Transgender Military Personnel In Limbo Over Trump's Ban Plan Speak Out
By David Crary, AP
“We have optimism that we’re going to win the war,” one activist said.
VIDEOS
Iowa Abortion Law Ruled Unconstitutional
Iowa's "fetal heartbeat" law, the strictest abortion ban in the nation, has been ruled unconstitutional by a state court.
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VIDEOS
Supreme Court Approves President Trump’s Transgender Military Ban
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce transgender military restrictions.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., questions Andrew Wheeler as he testifies at a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing to be the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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POLITICS
Senator Tammy Duckworth Slams Transgender Military Ban, Recalling Near-Death Experience
By Amy Russo
Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran, denounced the Supreme Court decision allowing President Donald Trump's ban as "disheartening."
ADDS NAMES OF OTHERS WITH CUOMO - In this photo provided by the Office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Cuomo, right, signs Reproductive Health Act Legislation during a ceremony, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in the Red Room at the State Capitol in Albany, N.Y. With the new law, New York state enacts one of the nation's strongest protections for abortion rights, a move that state leaders say was needed to safeguard those rights should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. Also pictured are attorney Sarah Weddington, front left, who successfully argued Roe v Wade before the Supreme Court; New York State assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, back left; New York State Senate Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, standing center; and Democratic Lt. Gov Kathy Hochul, back right. (Darren McGee/Office of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo via AP)
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U.S. NEWS
Andrew Cuomo Signs Abortion Bill Into Law, Codifying Roe v. Wade
By Amy Russo
The law will protect the landmark decision in the event that it is overturned by the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, USA - MARCH 5: Demonstrators raise their fists in protest of President Trump's attempts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an executive action made by President Obama that protected minors known as Dreamers who entered the country illegally from deportation, outside of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, USA on March 5, 2018. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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U.S. NEWS
Supreme Court Leaves DACA Alone, Giving Democrats Little Incentive To Compromise
President Donald Trump proposed extending protections for certain Dreamers as part of a compromise to end the government shutdown.
Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 30, 2018. - Seated from left: Associate Justices Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Samuel Alito. Standing from left: Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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POLITICS
Supreme Court Agrees To Hear A Second Amendment Case For The First Time In 9 Years
The appeal was filed by three New York residents and New York’s National Rifle Association.
U.S. Supreme Court justices pose for their group portrait at the Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., November 30, 2018. Seated (L-R): Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. Standing behind (L-R): Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Elena Kagan and Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh REUTERS/Jim Young
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POLITICS
Supreme Court Permits Trump's Transgender Military Ban To Move Forward
By Marina Fang
The 5-4 ruling temporarily reinstates the ban, but several lawsuits in lower courts are still pending.
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MEDIA
'Fox & Friends' Apologizes For Airing Graphic That Implied Ruth Bader Ginsburg Died
By Hayley Miller
Fox News' Steve Doocy blamed a "technical error" for the image, which incorrectly suggested that the Supreme Court justice had died.
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POLITICS
Supreme Court Was Set To Meet Over Mueller Foreign Mystery Corporation
By Mary Papenfuss
Company wants to file appeal under secret seal; reporters are arguing that case should be made public.
Roe V. Wade protest
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POLITICS
How To Prepare For The End Of Roe v. Wade
By Melissa Jeltsen
It's time to face the very real possibility that the Supreme Court could make it nearly impossible to get an abortion.
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