The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that states can require presidential electors to back their states’ popular vote winner in the Electoral College.
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Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics
The decision was a surprising defeat for abortion opponents, who thought that a new conservative majority with two of President Trump’s appointees on board would start chipping away at abortion access.
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Supreme Court appears likely to reject Trump’s immunity claim
However, the justices appear divided over the president’s effort to prevent his accounting firm and 2 banks from handing over his tax and business records to House committees and the Manhattan district attorney.
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Chief Justice Roberts chides Schumer for ‘dangerous’ remarks on 2 justices
John Roberts was responding to Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer’s remarks at a rally outside the court while a high-profile abortion case was being argued inside.
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Supreme Court considers legal protections for gay, transgender workers
The word ‘transgender’ made its first appearance in a high court argument, as well as ‘cisgender’ and the gender-ambiguous character Pat’ from 1990s ‘Saturday Night Live’ skits.
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Supreme Court will consider high-profile cases in new term
The focus will be especially intense in June, just a few months before the 2020 election.
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Abortion, immigrants, LGBT rights top Supreme Court’s new term
The court also could be front and center in the presidential campaign itself, especially with health concerns surrounding 86-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Court to mull transgender, gay rights in workplace
Gay rights leaders say that in more than half of the country, there is no specific protection for gay or transgender workers.
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Marc A. Thiessen: Senate Democrats make unprecedented threat against Supreme Court
They want to restructure the court if the justices do not rule as they see fit. Talk about ‘disdain for an independent judiciary.’
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Federal judges can’t stop partisan gerrymandering, Supreme Court rules
They ‘have no license to reallocate political power between the two major political parties,’ Chief Justice John Roberts says in a landmark 5-4 decision joined by the court’s other conservatives.