Supreme Court

Tribal tribulation

Supreme Court split over challenge to Indian Child Welfare Act

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Harold Maass

What happens if the Supreme Court guts affirmative action?

Defend Diversity sign outside Supreme Court

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affirmative inaction?

Supreme Court hears arguments for cases concerning affirmative action

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target on the back

Alito: Roe leak made justices 'targets for assassination'

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Briefing

How much can KBJ accomplish in the minority?

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access denied

SCOTUS denies Trump's documents request in Mar-a-Lago case

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when pigs fly

Supreme Court divided over case regarding animal cruelty

View of the execution chamber at Huntsville Correctional Center in Texas.

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SCOTUS Says No

Supreme Court declines death row inmate's appeal over prejudiced jurors

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Briefing

What is the Supreme Court doing with the Voting Rights Act?

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Briefing

The Supreme Court and the future of the internet

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Harold Maass

Is the Supreme Court's legitimacy at stake?

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SCOTUS

Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago documents review

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Court Says No

SCOTUS declines to hear bump stock cases

A view of the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.

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Court in Session

Supreme Court to hear arguments over YouTube's liability in terrorist attack

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Streaming issue

The Supreme Court could limit federal protection against water pollution

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Briefing

What the conservative Supreme Court spells for America

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'pending further order'

Sotomayor pauses order for Yeshiva University to recognize LGBT club

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Stick to your guns

Court vacates decision blocking CA ban on rifle sales

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Congress

House approves bill that would federally protect same-sex marriages

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the post-Roe world

Multiple lawmakers arrested during abortion rights protest

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Brigid Kennedy

The debate over Kavanaugh's dinner protesters

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no dessert for Brett

Morton's defends Kavanaugh's 'right' to 'eat dinner' without being 'harassed' by protesters

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Peter Weber

How bad was the Supreme Court's EPA ruling, really?

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Harold Maass

Should Democrats end the filibuster?

Abortion rights protesters march in front of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' house in Maryland.

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action requested

Supreme Court marshal urges states to stop protests at justices' homes

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Briefing

8 highly-consequential SCOTUS rulings this term, explained

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running out of options

By limiting EPA's power, the Supreme Court hit Biden with another climate blow

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historic

Ketanji Brown Jackson sworn in as 1st Black woman to serve on Supreme Court

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this just in

Supreme Court issues rulings on greenhouse gas emissions, 'Remain in Mexico' policy

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handed down

SCOTUS backs Oklahoma in case regarding crimes on tribal lands

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Brigid Kennedy

What it means if Americans lose trust in the Supreme Court

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handed down

SCOTUS reinstates previously-blocked Louisiana congressional map

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roe-ing against the tide

56 percent of Americans oppose the Supreme Court's abortion decision

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an answer to prayer

SCOTUS rules in favor of football coach fired for postgame prayers

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next to go?

Thomas: Court should 'reconsider' rulings on contraceptives, same-sex marriage

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bombshell

The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade