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News Articles: Supreme Court

Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows speaks with reporters at the White House, Oct. 21, 2020, in Washington. Meadows is trying to avoid having to testify before a Georgia special grand jury that's investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to influence the state's 2020 election. A lawyer for Meadows on Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, argued in a court filing in South Carolina that Meadows shouldn't have to go to Atlanta to testify.

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  • News

Supreme Court rejects push to move Georgia case against ex-Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows

The Supreme Court has refused to let former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows move the election interference case against him in Georgia to federal court, where he would have argued he was immune from prosecution.

November 12, 2024
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  • Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a case involving provisional ballots in Pennsylvania.

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  • Law

Supreme Court sides with Democrats in Pennsylvania voting case

It is hard to estimate how many ballots will be affected by the decision or whether it will ultimately impact the outcome of the presidential election.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Ilana Dutton
Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump shake hands during their debate on Sept. 10. Whoever wins the election could shape the Supreme Court for years.

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  • Law

What could happen at the Supreme Court under Harris and Trump

Depending on who wins the presidential election and the Senate, the conservative supermajority could remain the same, be trimmed or expand to an even larger and more lopsided conservative majority.

October 31, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court put on hold a lower court order that stopped Virginia from purging its voter rolls.

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  • Law

Supreme Court allows Virginia to purge individuals from voter rolls

The U.S. Supreme Court put on hold a lower court order that stopped Virginia from purging its voter rolls. The order comes less than a week before Election Day.

October 30, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Ilana Dutton
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case involving judge shopping.

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  • Law

A frustrated Supreme Court to look at one version of judge shopping

Both liberal and conservative lawyers have judge-shopped, but in recent years, some conservative-leaning groups have been laser focused on bringing their challenges in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

October 21, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court declined — for now — to hear a challenge to the structure of the CPSC.

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  • Law

Supreme Court declines challenge to CPSC's structure, for now

The court left in place a 90-year old landmark decision that declared that presidents cannot fire members of a multi-member independent agency, except in cases of bad behavior.

October 21, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the EPA's emission rules to continue while litigation continues in the lower courts.

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  • Law

Supreme Court refuses to interfere in EPA litigation, for now

Justice Clarence Thomas dissented while two other conservatives wrote that they may be sympathetic to the case were it to be brought after a lower court ruling.

October 16, 2024
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  • Ilana Dutton
At Supreme Court arguments Wednesday, it was not clear that there were five votes for a new trial for a man who has spent 25 years on death row. It may well be that his chance to avoid execution is in the hands of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

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  • Law

Okla. AG seeks new trial for death row inmate, but Supreme Court seems split

At issue is whether the state court wrongly refused to accept the attorney general’s findings that a death row inmate is entitled to a new trial.

October 10, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
Anti-death penalty activists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 29, 2015, in an attempt to prevent the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip. Glossip has been on death row for more than 25 years, always insisting he is innocent. His case is back at the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

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  • Law

True crime drama at Supreme Court pits Oklahoma against its top criminal court

Richard Glossip has had nine execution dates set over the years. He's eaten his last meal three times. He was tried twice and has had multiple appeals, including one at the Supreme Court.

October 09, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed inclined Tuesday to side with the government in a case brought by gun kit manufacturers who say the ATF exceeded its authority by classifying the kits as guns.

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  • Law

Supreme Court majority may embrace ATF's ghost gun rule

The ATF classifies the kits as firearms under the 1968 Gun Control Act, but kit manufacturers and sellers challenged the rule in court, asserting that the ATF had exceeded its authority.

October 08, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Tuesday on the the regulation of "ghost guns" — firearms made from kits.

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  • Law

Can ghost guns be regulated as firearms? The Supreme Court will decide

The government contends that ghost guns kits count as a firearm under a 1968 law. But those challenging the rule contend “a kit of parts is not a weapon.”

October 08, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
The new Supreme Court term started Monday, but it also declined to intervene several controversial cases.

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  • Law

Supreme Court ducks cases involving everything from abortion to Elon Musk

The  justices also left in place a Michigan state constitutional amendment that barred the use of public funds for private schools.

October 07, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court begins a new term this week, with public opinion of the court at near record lows.

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  • Law

Guns, transgender rights, porn: The Supreme Court begins another term

For the most part, the justices still try to portray the court as amicable, but you don’t have to be a genius to see that they are not exactly happy campers.

October 07, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Ilana Dutton
A view of the U.S. Supreme Court building

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  • Law

Supreme Court refuses, for now, to block new EPA rules to fight climate change

The justices, in a break from the way they have handled most such cases in the recent past, told the challengers to first litigate their claims in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

October 04, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court denied Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s request to be put on the ballot in New York.

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  • Law

Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr's appeal to be put on the New York ballot

In New York major party candidates automatically appear on the ballot, but minor party candidates must collect 45,000 voter signatures by petition in order to qualify. Kennedy, who has withdrawn from the race and backed Donald Trump, gathered more than 100,000 valid signatures.

September 27, 2024
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  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Ilana Dutton
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