Recent Updates
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Court: Ban seafood caught with nets that harm tiny porpoises
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/22/2018A judge has ordered the U.S. government to ban imports of seafood caught by Mexican fisheries that use a net blamed for killing off the vaquita, the world's smallest and most-endangered porpoise.Judge Gary Katzmann, of The U.S. Court of International...
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Trump enjoys 'suspense' ahead of Supreme Court announcement
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/09/2018President Donald Trump is going down to the wire as he makes his choice on a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, but he says with his final four options "you can't go wrong."Trump spoke to reporters Sunday afternoon before...
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Supreme Court adopts new rules for cell phone tracking
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/24/2018The Supreme Court says police generally need a search warrant if they want to track criminal suspects’ movements by collecting information about where they’ve used their cellphones. The justices’ 5-4 decision Friday is a victory for...
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Supreme Court strikes down Minnesota's voter clothing law
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/14/2018shirts and pins to the polls.Minnesota had defended its law as a reasonable restriction that keeps order at polling places and prevents voter intimidation. But the justices ruled 7-2 that the state's law is too broad, violating the free speech clause...
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Supreme Court allows Ohio, other state voter purges
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/13/2018The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can clean up their voting rolls by targeting people who haven't cast ballots in a while.The justices rejected, by a 5-4 vote Monday, arguments in a case from Ohio that the practice violates a federal law int...
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High Court Rules in Dispute Over Immigrant Teen's Abortion
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/08/2018The Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case about a pregnant immigrant teen who obtained an abortion with the help of the ACLU, siding with the Trump administration and wiping away a lower court decision for the teen but rejecting a suggestion her lawye...
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Supreme Court allows Arkansas to enforce abortion restrictions
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/03/2018The Supreme Court is allowing Arkansas to put into effect restrictions on how abortion pills are administered. Critics of a challenged state law say it could effectively end medication abortions in the state. The justices did not comment Tuesday in r...
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Justices allow Arkansas to enforce abortion restrictions
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/01/2018The Supreme Court is allowing Arkansas to put in effect restrictions on how abortion pills are administered. Critics of a challenged state law say it could effectively end medication abortions in the state.The justices did not comment Tuesday in reje...
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The Latest: Colorado governor announces Supreme Court pick
U.S. Supreme Court News 05/28/2018Gov. John Hickenlooper has named Carlos Samour to the Colorado Supreme Court, filling a vacancy left by Chief Justice Nancy Rice's imminent retirement.Samour, a judge in the 18th Judicial District in Arapahoe County, is best known for presiding over ...
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Supreme Court makes sports betting a possibility nationwide
U.S. Supreme Court News 05/12/2018The Supreme Court on Monday gave its go-ahead for states to allow gambling on sports across the nation, striking down a federal law that barred betting on football, basketball, baseball and other sports in most states.The justices voted 6-3 to strike...
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Supreme Court to hear appeal of Missouri death row inmate
U.S. Supreme Court News 04/27/2018The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review the case of a Missouri death row inmate who says his rare medical condition could cause him to choke on his own blood during an execution.The justices said they would hear the appeal of inmate Russell Bucklew...
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Justice Gorsuch confirms conservatives' hopes, liberals' fears
U.S. Supreme Court News 04/18/2018Neil Gorsuch became the Supreme Court’s newest member a year ago this Tuesday. President Donald Trump’s pick for the high court, its 113th justice, has now heard more than 60 cases on issues including gerrymandering, fees paid to unions a...