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U.S. Supreme Court

Oct 18, 2021

Biden team asks Supreme Court to pause Texas abortion law

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure's constitutionality plays out in the courts.

Oct 15, 2021

High court rejects natural gas company’s pipeline appeal

Chief Justice John Roberts has rejected a Supreme Court appeal by the St. Louis-based natural gas company Spire Inc. to allow it to keep operating a pipeline through Illinois and Missouri.

Oct 12, 2021

Justice Department again presses to halt Texas abortion law

The Biden administration is again urging the courts to step in and suspend a new Texas law that has banned most abortions since early September, as clinics hundreds of miles away remain busy with Texas patients making long journeys to get care.

Oct 12, 2021

Justices’ views on abortion in their own words and votes

Abortion already is dominating the Supreme Court's new term, months before the justices will decide whether to reverse decisions reaching back nearly 50 years. Not only is there Mississippi's call to overrule Roe v. Wade, but the court also soon will be asked again to weigh in on the Texas law banning abortion at roughly six weeks.

Oct 5, 2021

US Supreme Court allows lawsuit against troopers to proceed

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by two state police officers accused of failing to protect a woman from a man who went on a deadly rampage, allowing a civil lawsuit to proceed.

Oct 5, 2021

Biden lifts abortion referral ban on family-planning clinics

The Biden administration reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family-planning clinics, lifting a Trump administration restriction as political and legal battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Oct 1, 2021

Justice Kavanaugh tests positive for COVID, has no symptoms

The U.S. Supreme Court says Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for COVID-19.

Sep 24, 2021

US Supreme Court sets Barrett ceremonial swearing-in for Oct. 1

The U.S. Supreme Court says it will hold a ceremonial swearing-in for Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Oct. 1, delayed by nearly a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Sep 20, 2021

Supreme Court sets arguments in big abortion case

The Supreme Court will hear arguments Dec. 1 in Mississippi's bid to have the landmark Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion overturned.

Sep 20, 2021

The Supreme Court has overturned precedent dozens of times in the past 60 years, including when it struck down legal segregation

It is a central principle of law: Courts are supposed to follow earlier decisions – precedent – to resolve current disputes. But it's inevitable that sometimes, the precedent has to go, and a court has to overrule another court, or even its own decision from an earlier case.

Sep 8, 2021

US Supreme Court hanging up phone, back to in-person arguments

The justices are putting the "court" back in U.S. Supreme Court.

Aug 27, 2021

Supreme Court allows evictions to resume during pandemic

The conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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