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News Articles: Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday against the Green Party's bid to put its presidential candidate, Jill Stein, on the Nevada ballot.

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  • Law

Supreme Court rejects Green Party's appeal to put Jill Stein on Nevada ballot

The court’s action upheld a decision of the Nevada Supreme Court.

September 20, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Ketanji Brown Jackson talks with <em>All Things Considered</em> co-host Juana Summers.

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  • Law

Ketanji Brown Jackson gets personal with NPR about family and the Supreme Court

In a new interview with NPR, Ketanji Brown Jackson talks about ethics in the Supreme Court, as well as stories about family, marriage and parenthood.

September 03, 2024
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  • Juana Summers,
  • Ashley Brown,
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The Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington, Nov. 6, 2020.

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  • Education

Supreme Court rebuffs Biden administration plea to restore SAVE student debt plan

The justices rejected an administration request to put most of the latest multibillion-dollar plan back into effect while lawsuits make their way through lower courts.

August 28, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The<strong> </strong>U.S. Supreme Court refused to partially limit two lower-court orders that had previously blocked the Biden administration’s new rules barring sex discrimination in schools that get federal aid.<br>

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  • Law

Supreme Court blocks Biden administration rules against sex discrimination in schools

The court’s action effectively bars the federal government from enforcing any portion of its new anti-discrimination rules while legal challenges are litigated in the lower courts.

August 17, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Jordan Thomas
Front row, from left: Venezuela's attorney general, Tarek William Saab; President Nicolás Maduro; Supreme Court President Caryslia Rodríguez; National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez; and the president of the National Electoral Council, Elvis Amoroso. They are attending a ceremony in the Supreme Court building in Caracas on Jan. 31.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: Want to reform the Supreme Court? These strongmen can show a thing or two

The champions of U.S. Supreme Court reform should first consider the record of nations that wound up packing and purging their judiciaries.

August 13, 2024
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By:
  • Mac Margolis
The Supreme Court rejected Missouri’s attempts to halt former President Donald Trump’s sentencing and gag order in his New York hush money case.

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  • Law

Supreme Court rejects Missouri's bid to halt Trump’s sentencing in N.Y. hush money case

Missouri had argued that the rights of Missouri voters to hear from presidential candidates were being violated by the New York criminal proceeding.

August 05, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Jordan Thomas
 President Joe Biden speaks at an event commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, Monday, July 29, 2024, at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas.

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  • Politics

Biden calls for term limits, enforceable ethics rules for Supreme Court justices

The president also backed a constitutional amendment that would limit the broad immunity presidents now enjoy after a recent Supreme Court decision.

July 29, 2024
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  • NPR Washington Desk
President Biden is expected to announce his support for changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including term limits and a mandatory ethics code.

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  • Law

Biden is eyeing big changes for the Supreme Court. But he needs Congress to make them

The president is preparing to back term limits and an enforceable ethics code for U.S. Supreme Court justices. But these changes would require Congressional backing, and that won't be easy to get.

July 17, 2024
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Environmental activists rally in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 after it ruled against the Obama administration's plan to cut climate-warming emissions at the nation's power plants. The Supreme Court has since further limited the power of federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.

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  • Climate

Why the next president's judicial appointments will impact climate action

The Supreme Court's recent term illustrates the judiciary's outsized role in government's ability to address climate change. The coming election could shape the judicial landscape for decades to come.

July 13, 2024
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By:
  • Nathan Rott
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision that presidents have absolute immunity for their core constitutional powers.

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  • Law

How the Supreme Court's immunity decision affects Trump's legal cases

The Supreme Court found presidents have absolute immunity for exercising core constitutional powers. The team at Trump's Trials podcast broke down how the decision could affect Trump’s legal cases.

July 08, 2024
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  • Tyler Bartlam
A small group gathers at the steps of the Georgia State Capitol protesting the overturning of Roe v. Wade on Sunday, June 26, 2022.

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  • Health Care

New Supreme Court ruling amplifies confusion over abortion access

Georgia’s abortion law, the so-called “LIFE Act,” allows for abortions after the detection of what the law describes as “fetal heartbeat.” It’s exceptions like these that were at the center of the Supreme Court’s latest hearing on abortion.

July 05, 2024
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By:
  • Sofi Gratas
Attorney General Merrick Garland drafted some of the policies that guarantee the Justice Department's independence from the White House in his first big job after law school. Those policies are now in peril.

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  • Law

Supreme Court's immunity ruling could hurt Justice Department

The Supreme Court suggests a president's conversations with Justice Department officials are out of bounds for prosecutors -- even when he may be pressing them about investigations of his rivals.

July 03, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
The Supreme Court is seen, April 21, 2023, in Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, July 2, 2024, declined to consider the case of a man on death row in Georgia whose lawyers argue that a prosecutor improperly excluded Black jurors during his trial.

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  • News

High court passes on case of Georgia man on death row who says Black jurors were wrongly purged

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider the case of a Black man on death row in Georgia who says his trial was unfair because the prosecutor improperly excluded Black jurors. A jury found Warren King guilty of murder and other crimes and sentenced him to die for the September 1994 shooting death of convenience store clerk Karen Crosby during a robbery in southeastern Georgia.

July 03, 2024
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  • Associated Press
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  • Health

In just a few years, half of all states passed bans on trans health care for kids

The Supreme Court will hear a case on gender-affirming care in the next term after a flurry of legislation. Lower courts have come to conflicting conclusions when these bans were challenged.

July 03, 2024
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin and
  • Hilary Fung
 Booking photos from the Fulton County conspiracy case charging Donald Trump and allies with trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. Top row, from left Jeffrey Clark, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Michael Roman, Ray Smith, David Shafer, Sen. Shawn Still. Center row, from left, Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, John Eastman, Kenneth Chesebro. Bottom row from left, Robert Cheeley, Harrison Floyd, Stephen Lee, Scott Hall, Misty Hampton, Cathleen Latham, Trevian Kutti

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  • News

SCOTUS granted Donald Trump immunity for official acts. What does that means for his Georgia case?

The Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump could be immune from prosecution for certain acts that lower courts deem "official acts." All Things Considered host Peter Biello spoke with Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis about the decision and what it means for the former president's prosecution in Georgia.

July 02, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
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