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PoliticsSupreme Court Lets Trump Resume Border Wall Construction Across Big Bend
In an unsigned order, the justices lifted a Texas judge's injunction covering more than 500 miles of the border, including land around Big Bend National Park. Justice Jackson would have denied the request.
PoliticsSupreme Court Weighs Whether Federal Officers Can Be Sued for Rights Violations
A Hawaii prisoner's lawsuit could decide whether people can seek damages from federal agents, including immigration officers accused of beating migrants.
PoliticsTrump Tells CBS He Has 'Tremendous Powers' Even if Democrats Win Congress
In a phone interview before polls closed, the president cited the Supreme Court's Slaughter ruling and called his veto the 'ultimate power' against a Democratic-led House or Senate.
PoliticsSupreme Court Conservatives Lean Toward Catholic Preschools in Colorado Case
Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett pressed Colorado at argument, while Chief Justice Roberts asked hard questions of both sides and may decide the outcome.
WatchPoliticsSupreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to Set Aside 20,000 California Ballots, With No Dissents
A one-line, unsigned order on the eve of the midterms denies the Justice Department's emergency request to force California to quarantine mail ballots from voters it calls noncitizens.
WatchPoliticsTrump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Set Aside 20,000 California Ballots on Eve of Election
The Justice Department filed an emergency appeal Monday after a 9th Circuit panel refused to make California segregate mail ballots from people on a government list of suspected noncitizens.
PoliticsSupreme Court Hears Catholic Challenge to Colorado's Universal Pre-K Program Tuesday
The Denver Archdiocese says it should be exempt from a state ban on discrimination against gay and trans families while taking public preschool money. The ruling could reshape church-state law.
WorldBolsonaro Won't Concede to Lula as Party Accepts Result and Trump Calls Vote 'Rigged'
Lula won just over 51% in Sunday's runoff. Flávio Bolsonaro now says he will seek to have the victory disqualified, and a court has ordered him to surrender his passports.
PoliticsSupreme Court Lets New Hampshire Ban Student IDs at the Polls in the Midterms
An unsigned order cited the Purcell principle against late changes to election rules; Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, and the ruling comes less than two weeks before a tight Senate race.
PoliticsFederal Appeals Court Hears Trump's Claim That White House Papers Belong to Him, Not the Public
Administration lawyers argue the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional, a case that critics say could end the public's access to presidential records.
PoliticsTrump Sets Nov. 5 White House Hearing on Firing Fed Governor Lisa Cook
A three-member 'committee of inquiry' will weigh mortgage-fraud allegations behind closed doors two days after the midterms. Cook's lawyers say they have 'grave doubts' the process is genuine.
Top NewsNFL Asks Supreme Court to Settle Whether States or Washington Regulate Prediction Markets
The league wants a ruling before the season ends in January, saying delay brings consumer harm and risks to game integrity as at least 10 states fight the platforms.
Top NewsCurtis Flowers, Mississippi Man Tried Six Times for a 1996 Murder Spree, Dies at 56
The Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 2019 after finding prosecutors tried to purge Black jurors. His attorney said he died at home in Winona.
WatchPoliticsSupreme Court Skeptical of Boulder's Climate Suit Against Exxon and Suncor on Term's First Day
Conservative justices warned of 'chaos' if states can sue oil companies over climate change, while Kagan and Jackson pressed the companies. Justice Alito sat out the case.
PoliticsAlito, 76, Says Same-Sex Marriage Won't Be Overturned and He Isn't Retiring Yet
In a CBS News interview, the justice stood by Dobbs, said he feared assassination after the leak, and blamed Trump-era emergency appeals on a stalled Congress.
PoliticsSupreme Court Opens Term Monday With Climate, AR-15, Religion and Deportation Fights
A docket loaded with politically charged cases begins with a six-justice conservative majority and the likelihood of more election disputes arriving on the emergency docket.
PoliticsSupreme Court Agrees to Decide Whether Immigrants Get Bond Hearings Before Detention
The justices take up Trump's policy of holding anyone who entered illegally without a hearing, a fight the ACLU says could affect millions of people.
PoliticsTrump Says He Regrets Nominating Gorsuch, Barrett and Kavanaugh: 'They Voted Against Me Too Often'
In a TIME interview, the president says he put all three justices on the Supreme Court and doesn't want loyalty from them, just 'good decisions.'
WatchPoliticsSupreme Court Lets Trump Resume Deportations to Countries Migrants Have Never Lived In
The court's three liberal justices dissented from an unsigned order that pauses a ruling requiring notice and a chance to object. Full arguments are set for December.
PoliticsTrump Asks the Supreme Court to Let Prisons Cut Off Care for Transgender Inmates
The Justice Department filed an emergency appeal after a federal judge and the D.C. Circuit kept a Bureau of Prisons policy on hold. The rules would end hormone therapy and items like wigs and chest binders.
PoliticsJustice Alito Drops Out of the Supreme Court's Big Climate Case, Raising a 4-4 Risk
A one-line letter Monday said Alito will not take part in the Exxon and Suncor fight with Boulder, Colorado, a week before arguments. He owns stock in two other oil companies.
PoliticsSupreme Court Blocks Missouri's Trump-Backed House Map for the Third Time
In an unsigned order with no noted dissents, the justices said Missouri's election 'has already started' and ordered the 2022 district lines used on Nov. 3, preserving Democrat Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City seat.
PoliticsSupreme Court Lets Trump Revive the SAVE Citizenship Database for Voter Roll Checks
In a 6-3 emergency order, the justices lifted a ruling that found the expanded system broke federal privacy laws. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned eligible voters could be burdened or disenfranchised.
WatchPoliticsCalifornia Supreme Court Orders Sheriff to Return 650,000 Ballots He Seized
The justices ruled unanimously that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco broke state election law when he took the ballots from a 2025 redistricting vote, and broke it again when he ignored the attorney general.
PoliticsTrump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Revive Fast Third-Country Deportations
Lower courts ruled migrants must get notice and a chance to object before being sent to countries where they have no ties. The government says that already grounded a flight of 70 deportees.
PoliticsA Federal Appeals Court Ruled That DHS Cannot Put a Migrant on a Plane to a Country He Was Never Told About
Judge Seth Aframe wrote that the government's reading of the law 'would deny access to that protection to a substantial swath of noncitizens.' DHS general counsel James Percival said the policy stays in force because the ruling has not taken effect, and the case is expected to go back to the Supreme Court.
PoliticsTodd Blanche Took the White House Podium and Said Trump 'Has Every Right' to Weigh In on Prosecutions and to Berate the Justices
The attorney general said the Supreme Court's mail-ballot ruling changes nothing about the DOJ's election work, citing 11 illegal-voting charges in ten days. 'We're prosecutors, not regulators,' he said of AI.
WatchPoliticsThe Supreme Court Refused to Let the Postal Service Screen Mail Ballots Before the Midterms
An unsigned, one-paragraph order Monday left in place a Massachusetts judge's injunction against the USPS rule born of Trump's March executive order. Twenty-three states and D.C. had sued, and Justice Kavanaugh wrote that election officials 'do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.'
WatchPoliticsA Trump-Appointed Judge Froze the Postal Service's Mail Ballot Rule at 3:30 A.M. Sunday
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols wrote that the rule's key portions 'exceed any conception of the outer bounds' of the Postal Service's authority. It is the second injunction in eight days against a regulation whose voter portal still does not work.
PoliticsThe Supreme Court Blocked Missouri's New Map Minutes After the State Called a Change 'Extraordinarily Burdensome'
The unsigned order, with no noted dissents, sends Missouri into November on its 2022 lines and saves Emanuel Cleaver's seat for now.
PoliticsThe Supreme Court Restored the GOP's Discounted Broadcast Ad Rates Sixty Days Before the Midterms
An unsigned order Friday froze a Fourth Circuit ruling that had stripped party committees of the cheapest political ad rates. Republican committees say broadcasters had already started pulling the discounts.
PoliticsMissouri Asked the U.S. Supreme Court to Restore Its Republican House Map Days Before the Ballot Deadline
The state's own Supreme Court threw the map out and ordered a referendum. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway called that a constitutional crisis and went straight to Washington.
PoliticsThe Supreme Court Just Handed Republicans Cheaper Campaign Ads Nine Weeks Before the Midterms
The justices stayed a Fourth Circuit ruling that had blocked political parties from buying broadcast time at the discounted rate reserved for candidates. Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only noted dissent.
PoliticsMissouri's Supreme Court Threw Out the New House Map Unanimously. Voters Get to Decide It in November
The court ruled that a congressional redistricting bill is an 'act' of the legislature like any other, so it can be put to a referendum. The 2020-census map stays in force for the midterms.
PoliticsThe Justice Department Skipped the Appeals Court and Went Straight to the Supreme Court on Mail Ballots
The emergency application landed Thursday afternoon, one day before midterm ballots begin going out. The challengers have until 10 a.m. Tuesday to respond.
PoliticsThe House Voted 212-206 on Locking the Supreme Court at Nine Justices. That Was Nowhere Near Enough
Andy Biggs's constitutional amendment needed a two-thirds majority. Democrats argued Congress has changed the court's size seven times since 1789 and should keep the power to do it again.
PoliticsThe Government Has Handed Back $100 Billion in Tariffs. Apple Got $2.2 Billion of It
A court filing shows the Treasury has refunded about 60% of the duties the Supreme Court struck down in February — almost all of it to corporate importers, not households.
Top NewsThe White House Gave Lisa Cook Until Aug. 26 to Answer. Then Trump Can Try to Fire Her Again
A letter from deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, dated Aug. 5, is the administration's attempt to satisfy the due-process requirement the Supreme Court imposed when it blocked the Fed governor's removal in June.
WatchPoliticsTrump Signed Two More Birthright Citizenship Orders Four Weeks After the Supreme Court Struck Down the First One
One order targets commercial "birth tourism." The other expands the list of babies the administration says the 14th Amendment never covered. The ACLU says both will die the same way the last one did.
PoliticsKansas Voters Killed the Republican Plan to Elect Supreme Court Justices, 62% to 38%
A deep-red state rejected a GOP-backed constitutional amendment by 24 points after $12.8 million, much of it dark money, was spent on the fight over a 68-year-old selection system.
WorldSotomayor Refuses to Pause a $656 Million Judgment Against the PLO and the Palestinian Authority
Palestinian officials argued the payout would destabilize government services in the West Bank. The case dates to attacks in Jerusalem in the early 2000s that killed 33 people.
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London Police Arrest 117 Outside the First Palestine Action Court Hearings
The Metropolitan Police said most were detained for expressing support for a proscribed organization. More than 3,000 people have been arrested since the ban took effect, and the Supreme Court has now agreed to hear a challenge.
PoliticsTrump Asks the Supreme Court to Unblock His Mail-In Ballot Order 14 Weeks Before the Midterms
Solicitor General D. John Sauer wants the justices to lift a Massachusetts judge's injunction covering 23 states and D.C. An appeals court warned the order 'would sow confusion and threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters.'
PoliticsJudge Freezes Trump's Bid to End Deportation Shield for South Sudanese, and DHS Calls It 'Open Defiance'
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris put the termination of South Sudan's Temporary Protected Status on hold weeks after the Supreme Court told lower courts to stay out of TPS decisions.
PoliticsFederal Appeals Court Strikes Down New Jersey's Assault Weapons Ban in Landmark Ruling
The 3rd Circuit's 10-5 en banc decision is the first time a federal appeals court has voided a state ban on semiautomatic rifles, opening a split with a court that upheld Illinois' ban days earlier.
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Appeals Court Upholds Illinois Assault-Weapons Ban, Setting Up a Supreme Court Showdown
A divided Seventh Circuit ruled the state's ban on semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines is consistent with the nation's history of firearm regulation, reversing a lower court as the issue barrels toward the justices.
PoliticsKagan and Barrett Tell Congress Threats Against Judges Are 'Really High' as Court Seeks Security Funds
In a rare Capitol Hill appearance, two Supreme Court justices pressed lawmakers for a nearly 10% budget increase, citing a sharp rise in threats against the federal judiciary.
WorldNetanyahu Government Vows to Defy Israel's Supreme Court, Igniting a Constitutional Crisis
For the first time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition says it will not comply with a court ruling, prompting all of Israel's living former chief justices to warn of the end of the rule of law.
WorldIndia's Supreme Court Throws Out 'Foreigner' Rulings Against 27 Assam Residents, Demanding a Fair Process
A bench led by Justice Vikram Nath set aside Gauhati High Court orders and sent the citizenship cases back to tribunals, holding that declaring someone a foreigner must follow a 'fair, lawful and reasonable' process.
WatchPoliticsTrump Vows to Force the Supreme Court to Rehear Birthright Citizenship — a Long Shot Not Won Since 1965
Days after the justices ruled 6-3 that his order defied the 14th Amendment, the president said his lawyers will 'immediately' petition for a rehearing, a maneuver the court has not granted in a decided case in six decades.
WorldSouth Korea's Top Court Locks In Yoon's Seven-Year Sentence in First Martial-Law Verdict
The Supreme Court dismissed all appeals Thursday, finalizing a seven-year prison term for former President Yoon Suk Yeol for obstructing his own arrest and falsifying the martial-law decree he sprang on the nation in December 2024.
PoliticsSupreme Court Lets Texas Force App Stores to Verify Every User's Age, Dealing Apple and Google a Defeat
In an unsigned order with no noted dissents, the justices refused to block Texas's App Store Accountability Act, the first law of its kind requiring age checks and parental consent before minors can download apps.
PoliticsSupreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship 6-3, Handing Trump a Stinging Defeat on Immigration
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion striking down Trump's executive order, joined by two conservatives and the court's three liberals.
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Judge Orders $5.8 Million Released to E. Jean Carroll After Trump's Last Appeal Fails
A federal appeals court refused to block the payout from the 2023 jury verdict that found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer.
PoliticsSupreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship, Blocking Trump's Order in Landmark Ruling
The justices affirmed that children born on U.S. soil are citizens regardless of their parents' status — a decision researchers say protects a group projected to add trillions to the economy.
PoliticsSupreme Court Disclosures Reveal Book Payouts, Rare Gifts and Donor-Funded Travel for the Justices
The annual financial reports show the justices' outside income is driven largely by book deals, while only two members reported gifts and Chief Justice John Roberts reported none at all.
PoliticsSupreme Court Agrees to Decide Whether the Second Amendment Protects the AR-15
The justices took up challenges to assault-weapons bans in Illinois and Connecticut — the first time the court will directly rule on the constitutionality of such laws.
PoliticsA Federal Law Bars Late Voter-Roll Purges. Republicans Are Asking the Supreme Court to Read It Differently
An Arizona case headed to the justices in October could reshape a decades-old protection that bans systematic voter removals within 90 days of a federal election.
PoliticsSupreme Court Strikes Down Limits on Party Spending Coordinated With Candidates, 6-3
Writing for the majority in NRSC v. FEC, Justice Kavanaugh said decades-old caps on coordinated party expenditures violate the First Amendment — unleashing party money months before the midterms.
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