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News Articles: Supreme Court

Issue 1 supporters celebrate at a watch party, Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to abortion and other forms of reproductive health care. The outcome of Tuesday's intense, off-year election was the latest blow for abortion opponents.

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  • Politics

Abortion rights win big in 2023 elections, again

Voters in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky signaled support for abortion rights, even where it wasn't directly on the ballot, more than a year after the Supreme Court rolled them back.

November 08, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah McCammon
The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case where two local school board members in Poway, Calif., blocked two persistently critical parents from their social media pages.

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  • Law

At the Supreme Court, 'First Amendment interests all over the place'

At issue were cases that test the ability of public officials to block critics from their "personal" social medial pages, a practice that Donald Trump often engaged in when he was president.

October 31, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Janet Paulsen shows a photo of some of the dozens of guns that police seized from her estranged husband days before he ambushed her at their home in 2015. Paulsen still lives in the home in Acworth, Ga., Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. “Every step of the way it seemed like his rights were more important … than mine and my children’s,” she says.

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  • News

Abuse victims say gun surrender laws save lives. Will the Supreme Court agree?

Domestic violence victims believe that 'red flag' laws that remove firearms from people in crisis can save lives. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider the issue in a Texas case next month. Former Georgia prosecutor April Ross has been a quadriplegic since her estranged husband shot her before killing himself in 2014. She says what's lost in the argument is the value of human life — including his.

October 31, 2023
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By:
  • Associated Press
The Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday that test the ability of public officials to block critics from their personal social media pages.

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  • Law

Can public officials block you on social media? It's up to the Supreme Court

The cases — from Michigan and California — echo issues raised in a now-defunct suit against then-President Donald Trump for blocking his critics on Twitter.

October 31, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Government watchdog Accountable.US launches a campaign to call for recusals from allegedly conflicted Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas on Oct. 2, 2023.

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  • Law

New Clarence Thomas ethics questions about forgiveness on luxury RV loan

In August, The New York Times reported that Anthony Welters, a wealthy friend of Thomas's, loaned him $267,000 to buy the RV.

October 25, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Abortion protest

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  • News

Georgia Supreme Court sends abortion law challenge back to lower court, leaving access unchanged

The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected a lower court ruling that the state's restrictive abortion law was invalid, leaving limited access to abortions unchanged for now.

October 24, 2023
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By:
  • Associated Press

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  • Law

Supreme Court to hear court ban on government contact with social media companies

The case has profound implications for almost every aspect of American life, especially at a time when there are great national security concerns about false information online.

October 20, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court leaves Missouri gun law blocked and in limbo

The high court left the lower court decisions in place, effectively preventing the Missouri's law from going back into effect, at least for now.

October 20, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Annie Gersh
The Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court ducks, leaving Louisiana redistricting stuck in uncertainty

The case has been widely watched, not just because it could produce an additional Democratic House seat, but because the Fifth Circuit's actions are seen as a challenge to the high court's authority.

October 20, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Annie Gersh
Ghost guns are unassembled and unmarked guns that can be bought online, and then assembled into fully operative guns. In August 2022, ATF issued regulations that required any such disassembled gun parts to carry serial numbers and required anyone buying them to pass a background check.

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  • Law

Supreme Court tells 5th Circuit to stop its defiance in ghost gun case

The order voids the lower court orders and allows ATF regulations to go into effect pending further litigation.

October 17, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court considers a redistricting case from South Carolina.

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  • Law

South Carolina redistricting case could add Democratic House seats

At issue is the way the Republican-dominated state legislature equalized the population of its congressional districts.

October 12, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court conservatives not likely to rule for Democrats in S.C. redistricting

The six conservative members of the Supreme Court seemed likely to dash Democratic hopes for a chance to win a second congressional seat in South Carolina.

October 12, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Edward Blum, a longtime opponent of affirmative action and founder of the American Alliance for Equal Rights, at the U.S. Supreme Court last year. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled in Blum's favor against a venture capital fund that awards grants to Black female entrepreneurs.

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  • Law

A federal appeals court blocks a grant program for Black female entrepreneurs

The suit was brought by Edward Blum, the man behind the case against Harvard College that led to the Supreme Court dismantling affirmative action in higher education in June.

October 03, 2023
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By:
  • Kristin Wright
The fate of the CFPB, and other agencies that are similarly funded, is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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  • Business

Consumer watchdog agency's fate at Supreme Court could nix other agencies too

Payday lenders argue that the CFPB's funding structure is unconstitutional because it's not funded by money appropriated by Congress. The argument threatens the existence of other agencies, too.

October 03, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
California Gov. Gavin Newsom shakes hands with Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, D-Los Angeles County, after signing Gabriel's bill that raises taxes on guns and ammunition in Sacramento on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2023.

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  • Law

California is first state to levy a tax on guns and ammo to fund safety programs

New law will impose an additional 11% in addition to federal tax. It's one of nearly two dozen gun laws signed into law on Tuesday. but Newsom acknowledges some might not survive legal challenges.

September 26, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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