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Supreme Court OKs completion of Mountain Valley gas pipeline

The case involved an emergency challenge to the final stages of development of the 303-mile pipeline, which is to span from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia.

July 27, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Meghanlata Gupta
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor addresses attendees of an event in 2019 promoting her new children's book in Decatur, Ga.

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Justice Sotomayor's staff urged schools and libraries to buy her memoir or kid's books

The works have earned Sotomayor $3.7 million since she joined the court in 2009. Her taxpayer-funded staffers have been deeply involved in organizing speaking engagements intended to sell the books.

July 11, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A view of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 5.

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  • Law

Supreme Court dissents and rejoinders, with respect and disrespect

Feelings seem raw at the court, certainly for the court's three liberal justices, who were on the losing end of some of the court's biggest cases this term, but also for the conservatives.

July 10, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg

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  • Law

Chief justice takes back the reins at the Supreme Court this term

Chief Justice Roberts kept a firm grip on the court. He assigned himself four of the seven most important opinions, including affirmative action, and he won some more nuanced outcomes.

July 06, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court to consider whether domestic abusers can own guns

At issue is a 1994 amendment to the Federal Firearms Act that prohibits those who are actively subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms.

June 30, 2023
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By:
  • Meghanlata Gupta

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  • Law

Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and the crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court

The problem for the justices is that all the recent ethics stories — and more — are a corrosive drip, drip, drip, eroding public confidence in the court.

June 28, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
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Supreme Court rulings could lead to redrawn congressional maps for Georgia

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that Louisiana's new congressional map reduces Black voting strength in violation of the U.S. Civil Rights Act.

June 27, 2023
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By:
  • Donna Lowry

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  • Law

Supreme Court declines case challenging school's skirts-only dress code for girls

The decision lets stand a lower court ruling that the North Carolina charter school's dress code violated federal law.

June 26, 2023
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By:
  • Meghanlata Gupta
Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building in Washington on Nov. 16, 2022.

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The Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact

The case pitted prospective adoptive parents and Texas against the act, a federal law aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their extended families and their tribes.

June 16, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Meghanlata Gupta

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  • Law

Supreme Court sides with Jack Daniel's in trademark dispute with dog toy maker

Jack Daniel's, the famous Tennessee whiskey company, tried to stop production and marketing of a dog toy shaped and decorated like a Jack Daniel's bottle but with the name "Bad Spaniels" on the label.

June 08, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Of the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, only Justice Clarence Thomas (seated second from left) and Justice Samuel Alito (seated fourth from left) did not file their financial disclosures. They asked for — and were granted — extensions.

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Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports

Justice Clarence Thomas' disclosure form had been eagerly awaited in the wake of news reports that he accepted luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

June 07, 2023
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  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court has about four weeks left to release opinions for more than two dozen cases it heard this term.

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Here are the major Supreme Court decisions we're still waiting for this term

The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to issue opinions in 27 cases that it heard this term, and has about four weeks left to release them. Here are the major cases NPR is watching.

June 06, 2023
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  • Washington Desk
The Supreme Court as seen on April 21.

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Supreme Court vetoes efforts to limit anti-fraud law aimed at government contractors

The cases involve allegations that major retail pharmacies knowingly overcharged Medicaid and Medicare by overstating what their "usual and customary prices" are.

June 01, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
By an 8-to-1 vote, the high court ruled against unionized truck drivers who walked off the job, but it preserved the rights of workers to time their strikes for maximum effect.

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  • Law

Unions are relieved as the Supreme Court leaves the right to strike intact

The high court ruled against truck drivers who walked off the job, leaving their trucks loaded with wet concrete, but it preserved the rights of workers to time their strikes for maximum effect.

June 01, 2023
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Michael Luttig, a retired federal judge who was an adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, testifies at a Jan. 6 committee hearing in June 2022.

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  • Law

He followed strict rules as a judge and wants Supreme Court justices to do the same

Retired federal Judge Michael Luttig says he wouldn't even accept baseball tickets in his years on the bench: "I believe that federal judges should essentially live like priests or saints or monks."

May 09, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
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