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News Articles: U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has found that former President Donald Trump is partially immune from prosecution.

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  • Law

Supreme Court says Trump has absolute immunity for core acts only

The decision likely ensures that the case against Trump won’t be tried before the election, and then only if he is not reelected.

July 03, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Atlanta City Hall (Screenshot).

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  • News

Atlanta City Council approves $2M for eviction diversion program

The Atlanta City Council approved legislation at Monday’s meeting to donate $2 million to the city’s eviction diversion program.

July 02, 2024
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By:
  • Collin Kelley
 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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  • Politics

U.S. Supreme Court immunity ruling likely further delays Fulton racketeering case

A U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday establishing a legal standard for presidential immunity could further slow down Georgia’s 2020 presidential election interference case, several legal experts predict.

July 02, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
The Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court halts EPA’s 'Good Neighbor Plan'

In a 5-4 decision, the court granted the states' application to put the rule on hold while the case proceeds in the lower courts.

June 27, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The Supreme Court

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  • Law

Supreme Court allows White House to request removal of misinformation on social media

The court by a vote of 6-3 ruled that those challenging the government’s interaction with social media companies lacked legal standing to sue.

June 26, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg and
  • Jordan Thomas
The Supreme Court of the United States.

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  • Law

Supreme Court to weigh in on laws banning treatments for trans minors

The justices have agreed to hear only the claim that Tennessee’s law denies trans minors the equal protection of the law.

June 24, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a major offshore tax on investors.

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  • Law

The Supreme Court leaves a Trump-era offshore tax in place on investors

The case had potentially trillions of dollars in tax consequences for the federal budget, and the court's decision could have severely limited congressional options in enacting tax policy.

June 21, 2024
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By:
  • Nina Totenberg
Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 7, 2022.

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  • Law

Clarence Thomas discloses trips paid for by GOP donor as justices report financials

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas belatedly acknowledged more travel paid by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow, while several colleagues reported six-figure payments as part of book deals.

June 08, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
 On Tuesday, June 4, 2024, U.S. Senate Democrats held a hearing on abortion access and House Democrats introduced legislation that would guarantee people throughout the country the right to contraception. U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, an Atlanta Democrat, speaks about the legislation during the press conference in front of the Capitol. Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom

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  • Politics

U.S. Senate Dems decry limits on abortion access, House Dems unveil contraception bill

The national debate over whether laws or patients should determine abortion access dominated a U.S. Senate committee hearing Tuesday, when a panel of six experts testified about the complicated nature of treating pregnancies and miscarriages.

June 05, 2024
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  • Jennifer Shutt
Pills

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  • Health Care

Who wants the U.S. Supreme Court to limit abortion pill access? Here’s the list.

Anti-abortion groups, attorneys general from 25 states and more than 140 members of Congress have signed on to dozens of briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court during the past two weeks, encouraging the justices to revert use and prescribing of the medication abortion pill mifepristone to what was in place prior to 2016.

March 05, 2024
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By:
  • Jennifer Shutt
A banner is displayed in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday as justices prepared to hear arguments in a case about whether former President Donald Trump can be disqualified from state ballots. The case has profound implications for the 2024 presidential election.

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  • Politics

Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of effort to remove Trump from a state ballot

The dispute comes from Colorado — but it could have national implications for Donald Trump and his political fate.

February 08, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could imperil the ability of federal agencies to make rules.

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  • Law

Case brought to Supreme Court by herring fishermen may gut federal rulemaking power

Several of the court's conservative justices expressed deep skepticism of the current framework. But all three left-leaning justices offered support for keeping the system in place.

January 17, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
The U.S. Supreme Court has thrust itself firmly in the middle of the 2024 presidential cycle.

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  • Law

Supreme Court takes up Colorado's decision to kick Trump off its primary ballot

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a dispute about whether Donald Trump should be disqualified from the ballot after the Capitol riot three years ago.

January 05, 2024
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By:
  • Carrie Johnson
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump's actions on and around Jan. 6 disqualify him from the presidency and from appearing on the state's 2024 primary ballot.

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  • Elections

Colorado's Supreme Court disqualified Trump from the state ballot. What happens now?

Trump's team vowed to appeal the decision. If it's in front of the U.S. Supreme Court by Jan. 5, Trump's name will stay on the ballot. Legal experts say the question is likely to keep coming up.

December 20, 2023
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Mourners look at a portrait of O'Connor as her body lies in the Great Hall at the U.S.  Supreme Court on Monday.

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  • Politics

Sandra Day O'Connor's legacy extends far beyond the Supreme Court, her son says

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whose funeral is Tuesday, is being remembered as a Supreme Court trailblazer. After retiring from the bench in 2006, she worked to expand civics education in schools.

December 20, 2023
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  • Rachel Treisman
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