Supreme Court to hear important climate change-related case when its new term begins on Oct. 5 (more details here www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...)
Andrew Chung
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US Supreme Court correspondent at Reuters 2021 Pulitzer Prize for ‘Shielded’ http://reut.rs/2U4JtRj
Between the lines of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling defending the Federal Reserve from political interference there was growing unease among the justices about the use of their emergency docket to usher in vast changes to the law and even alter the court's precedents www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
US Supreme Court supercharges its 'shadow docket,' dividing the justices
The docket lets the justices render decisions before lower courts have decided the legal merits of a case, generally bypassing the Supreme Court's regular procedures that involve extensive briefing, o...
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In May 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Colorado measure that had denied gay people protections against discrimination, heralding several other decisions by the court expanding LGBT rights in the decades to come. Thirty years later, the tide has turned. - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Transgender people finding it hard to win at US Supreme Court
In May 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a voter-passed Colorado measure that had denied gay people legal protections against discrimination. It was a landmark ruling under the U.S. Constitutio...
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On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ended Donald Trump's quest to narrow who can be a citizen, a harsh loss. But just one day before, it handed him a form of power that the dissenting justices said even English monarchs of the past did not possess. - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Despite some big losses, Supreme Court rewards Trump's assertion of power
The court expanded presidential power, ditching a 1935 precedent.
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"The Trump administration has turned the immigration system into a deportation machine” - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
On immigration, Supreme Court accedes to Trump's restrictive agenda
Since Donald Trump returned to the presidency promising to aggressively crack down on immigration and pursue a campaign of mass deportation, the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court has, for the m...
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The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump's administration to strip hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants of a humanitarian status that protects them from deportation, another boost to his hardline approach toward immigration. www.reuters.com/world/suprem...
Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protections for Haitians and Syrians
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for President Donald Trump's administration to strip hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants of a humanitarian status that protects th...
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The U.S. Supreme Court reined in thousands of lawsuits pursued in state courts accusing Bayer of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, handing a major legal victory to the German company. www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...
US Supreme Court scales back Roundup cancer suits in win for Bayer
The U.S. Supreme Court reined in thousands of lawsuits pursued in state courts accusing Bayer of failing to warn users that the active ingredient in its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, handing a maj...
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U.S. Supreme Court sides 5-4 with Black death row inmate in Mississippi who accused prosecutors of racial discrimination in blocking four Black potential jurors from 2006 murder trial. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
US Supreme Court sides with death row inmate who claimed racial bias in jury selection
The U.S. Supreme Court sided on Thursday with a Black death row inmate in Mississippi who accused prosecutors of racial discrimination in blocking Black potential jurors for a trial in which he was ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear Meta's bid to avoid a Vermont lawsuit accusing the company of designing its Instagram social media app to be addictive to young users. Big tech is facing mounting legal risks over child and teen safety. www.reuters.com/business/med...
US Supreme Court won't hear Meta's challenge to Vermont social media addiction lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a lawsuit brought by Vermont's attorney general accusing the company of designing its Instagram social media app to...
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US Supreme Court lets abortion pill mail delivery continue
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ensured that the abortion pill can continue to be prescribed through telemedicine and dispensed by mail, as the justices restored for now a 2023 federal rule challen...
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Andrew Chung@andrewchung.bsky.social · 3mo agoDespite blown deadline, U.S. Supreme court lifts judicial decision that blocked mail distribution of abortion pill mifepristone. Mail delivery continues.
Despite blown deadline, U.S. Supreme court lifts judicial decision that blocked mail distribution of abortion pill mifepristone. Mail delivery continues.
SCOTUS deadline to extend pause on ruling that bars abortion pill mail delivery passed on Thursday with no public action by the court
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts expressed concern on Wednesday about the public perception of the Supreme Court as an institution driven primarily by political outcomes rather than the law www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Chief Justice Roberts laments public perception of US Supreme Court as 'political actors'
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts expressed concern on Wednesday about the public perception of the Supreme Court as an institution driven primarily by political outcomes rather than the law at a time ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily reinstates a federal rule allowing the abortion pill to be prescribed through telemedicine and dispensed through the mail, lifting a judicial decision that had blocked the regulation and narrowed access to the medication nationwide. www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...
US Supreme Court lets abortion pill mail delivery restart for now
The stay gives the justices more time to review emergency requests by two manufacturers of mifepristone to ensure that the drug can be provided via telehealth and the mail.
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Trump's Justice Department makes a broader argument that could doom Temporary Protected Status challenges going forward: Courts cannot second-guess its decisions in the first place. - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
In Supreme Court fight against deportation shield, Trump says judges have no role
Among President Donald Trump's main arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court defending his moves to rescind humanitarian protections that shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants from deportation, one st...
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US Supreme Court's Sotomayor apologizes to Justice Kavanaugh for 'hurtful' comments - www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Supreme Court's Sotomayor apologizes to Justice Kavanaugh for 'hurtful' comments
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued an apology on Wednesday for her recent criticism leveled at fellow Justice Brett Kavanaugh, an unusual public mea culpa that underscores the continui...
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In the fight over birthright citizenship, a great-grandson hears echoes of 1898 - www.reuters.com/world/us/sup...
In Supreme Court fight over birthright citizenship, a great-grandson hears echoes of 1898
In the late 19th century during a wave of anti-Chinese sentiment, the Supreme Court toppled U.S.' effort to keep Wong Kim Ark, an American, from re-entering the country. His great-grandson worries tha...
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How Donald Trump is pushing the Supreme Court to weaken federal judges - www.reuters.com/world/us/how...
How Donald Trump is pushing the Supreme Court to weaken federal judges
Since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office last year, he and his allies have derided federal judges who ruled against his policies as "rogue," "crooked," "lunatic" and more, casting their ac...
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The conservative majority sides with the parents on religious free exercise and due process (parental rights) grounds. Liberal Justice Elena Kagan says on due process, the decision induces "whiplash" given the 2022 ruling that ended the right to abortion:
Andrew Chung@andrewchung.bsky.social · 5mo agoUS Supreme Court blocks California privacy protections for transgender students The court blocked laws that can limit the sharing of information with parents about the gender identity of transgender public school students without the child's permission www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Supreme Court blocks California privacy protections for transgender students The court blocked laws that can limit the sharing of information with parents about the gender identity of transgender public school students without the child's permission www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Supreme Court blocks California privacy protections for transgender students
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked on Monday a series of California laws that can limit the sharing of information with parents about the gender identity of transgender public school students without the...
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Supreme Court reasserts power to check Trump with tariffs ruling - www.reuters.com/world/us/wit...
With tariffs ruling, Supreme Court reasserts its power to check Trump
After siding with President Donald Trump in two dozen cases in the past year in ways that boosted his power and let him quickly transform U.S. policies on immigration, military service, federal employ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies, handing a stinging defeat to the Republican president in a landmark opinion on Friday with major implications for the global economy. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
US Supreme Court strikes down Trump's global tariffs
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies, handing a stinging defeat to the Republican president in a landmar...
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Supreme Court arguments set for April, including Bayer's bid to limit lawsuits related to the company's Roundup weedkiller
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US Supreme Court allows pro-Democratic California voting map
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed California on Wednesday to use a new electoral map designed to give Democrats five more congressional seats, improving the party's chances of regaining control of the U....
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Andrew Chung@andrewchung.bsky.social · 6mo agoBREAKING - U.S. Supreme Court allows California to use a new electoral map designed to give Democrats five more congressional seats. Court denies Republican bid to halt use of the map.
BREAKING - U.S. Supreme Court allows California to use a new electoral map designed to give Democrats five more congressional seats. Court denies Republican bid to halt use of the map.
Supreme Court to hear Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship on April 1; Republican bid to limit counting of mail-in ballots on March 23
Republicans ask US Supreme Court to block California voting map - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Republicans ask US Supreme Court to block California voting map
California Republicans asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in a bid to prevent the state from using a new congressional map designed to give the Democrats five more seats in the U.S. ...
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Wednesday's case, which could imperil the independence of the Federal Reserve, prominently tests whether Trump had adequate "cause" to remove Cook. But it also is a fight over whether the way Trump sought to oust her was fair. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Supreme Court weighs Trump's firing of the Fed's Lisa Cook by social media
In the battle over President Donald Trump's effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook that is set to go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, the justices may focus on the president's us...
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Supreme Court to decide legality of Trump move to limit birthright citizenship
The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of President Donald Trump's directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, a contentious part of his efforts to curb immig...
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Andrew Chung@andrewchung.bsky.social · 8mo agoBREAKING - U.S. Supreme Court agrees to decide legality of Trump's order to restrict birthright citizenship