Conservative Justices Extend ‘Colorblind Constitution’ Embrace

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has embraced the concept of a “colorblind Constitution” in ending the use of race in college admissions, and now in reshaping how electoral maps are drawn acr...

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Judge Presses Jackson on ‘Mystifying’ Emergency Docket Orders

A federal judge pressed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on how lower courts are supposed to interpret the Supreme Court’s increasingly common and often unexplained emergency orders.

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Bang bang! Eric Haase hits two home runs as Giants embrace the grind in LA

The Giants remembered that baseball is a form of family entertainment then went out and beat the Dodgers again Tuesday night.

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Gorsuch Pitches Kids Book to Right, Insisting Court Nonpartisan

Three conservative Supreme Court justices, including Neil Gorsuch, insisted this week that they’re not political actors while defending an institution they claim is wrongly viewed through a partisan l...

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Supreme Court Sniping Heats Up as Justices Near Opinion Season

Tensions are starting to boil over at the US Supreme Court.

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Scalia Clerks Argued in Half the Supreme Court Cases This Term

Former clerks to the late Justice Antonin Scalia argued in nearly three dozen cases—or 52% of the docket— before the US Supreme Court this term, far more than clerks from any other chambers.

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Trump DOJ Curbs Efforts to Safeguard States From Election Crimes

The Justice Department is curtailing election year coordination aimed at protecting state-run voting processes, increasing risks of the Trump administration interfering in the November midterms or unw...

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Sotomayor Faults Kavanaugh Over Immigration Stops Concurrence

Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticized a fellow member of the US Supreme Court for failing to grasp the real-world effects of an unsigned order last year that allowed immigration enforcement sweeps in Los...

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Judges Flip Unitary Executive Theory on Trump Over Immigration

Federal trial judges are starting to invoke President Donald Trump’s vision of a unitary executive against him in cases linked to his administration’s immigration crackdown.

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Maduro Capture Unlikely to Hinder US Prosecution, Experts Say

Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is unlikely to escape prosecution in Manhattan federal court on drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges, even if his overnight capture by US forces breached inter...

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Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches

Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...

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Agency Litigation Powers May Be in Trump’s Sights, Official Says

The Trump administration may target the independent litigation authority of federal agencies if the Supreme Court grants the president the power he seeks to fire executive branch employees at will, a ...

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Blog Posts Help Spur Trump Tariffs Challenge at Supreme Court

A blog post attacking the legal basis behind President Donald Trump’s tariffs helped set in motion a lawsuit central to the dispute over presidential power that will be considered by the US Supreme Co...

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Toymaker Gears Up for Supreme Court Fight Over Trump’s Tariffs

A Chicago-area toy company is among the businesses arguing to the justices this week that most of the president’s tariffs should be struck down.

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Katyal to Argue Supreme Court Trump Tariff Case After Coin Toss

Small businesses are turning to prominent litigator Neal Katyal to argue at the Supreme Court that the bulk of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are unlawful after a coin toss landed in his favor.

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ICE Apprehension of US Citizens Derided as ‘Kavanaugh Stops’

“Kavanaugh Stops” is a reference to conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who wrote in a case last month that encounters with immigration agents for legal residents are “typically brief”...

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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Let Him Deploy Troops in Chicago

President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court to let him immediately deploy National Guard troops in Chicago.

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Kavanaugh Floats Time Limit in Another Landmark Civil Rights Law

Justice Brett Kavanaugh raised the prospect of extending the Supreme Court’s logic that affirmative action in college admissions needed an “end point” to race-based redistricting.

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Justice Department Loses a Third of Career Leaders Under Trump

At least a third of senior career leaders have left the Justice Department since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, taking with them centuries of combined expertise, according to a Blo...

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Trump DOJ Said to Unwind Apolitical Civil Rights Career Hiring

The Justice Department is consolidating civil rights attorney hiring authority with a handful of Trump-aligned supervisors, departing from practices that were designed to avoid politicization, accordi...

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Supreme Court Emergency Orders For Trump Sow Cracks in Judiciary

The Supreme Court’s repeated grants of emergency relief to the Trump administration is creating fissures in the judiciary, while empowering the president to fight any lower court judge’s intervention.

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DOJ Charges for Officer Assaults Clash With Trump Jan. 6 Pardons

US prosecutors have charged numerous people with assaulting or resisting federal officers since mid-August in cases leveling allegations mirroring those brought against Jan. 6 defendants that Presiden...

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Who Wins and Who Loses in the Google Antitrust Ruling

It’s good news for Apple and Microsoft among others. Plus: Are companies doing AI all wrong?

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New Jersey Judges’ Pick for Top Prosecutor Challenges Firing

The former deputy for New Jersey’s US attorney claims she was fired in “direct retaliation” for judges appointing her as the state’s top federal prosecutor.

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Democrats Propose Removing US Marshals From Executive Branch (1)

House Judiciary Democrats plan to introduce legislation that would move the federal agency tasked with protecting federal judges out of the Justice Department and into the judicial branch, amid rising...

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