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Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone
The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion case since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.
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Supreme Court again confronts the issue of abortion, this time over access to widely used medication
The Supreme Court is considering a new abortion case affecting women across the U.S.
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Supreme Court Rules Maine's Tuition Assistance Program Can't Exclude Religious Schools
The Supreme Court has ruled that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education.
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Supreme Court Reimposes Boston Marathon Bomber's Death Sentence
The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The justices, by a 6-3 vote Friday, agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death a jury imposed on Tsarnaev for his role in the bombing that killed three people near the...
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Preview of ‘a Post-Roe World' in Texas Over Abortion Access
Texas offers a glimpse in real time of what would be a striking new national landscape if the Supreme Court drastically curtails abortion rights: GOP-led states allowing almost no access to abortion, and women traveling hundreds of miles to end their pregnancies.
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Marathon Bomber Tsarnaev Faces Revived Death Sentence in Supreme Court
The Biden administration will try to persuade the Supreme Court this week to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by arguing that a jury had no need to examine evidence that the government itself relied on at an earlier phase of the case. Tsarnaev’s guilt in the deaths of three people in the shocking...
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Supreme Court Allows 3-Day Extension for Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballots
The Supreme Court will allow Pennsylvania to count ballots received up to three days after the election, rejecting a Republican plea.
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Supreme Court: NY Can Subpoena Trump Taxes, Congress on Hold
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a New York grand jury can subpoena President Trump’s tax returns, but separately said lower courts needed to reconsider whether Congress could subpoena his financial records. The 7-2 ruling in the New York grand jury case, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, says “Article II and the Supremacy Clause do not categorically preclude,...
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Report: 5th Straight Year With Under 30 Executions in US
Fewer than 30 people were executed in the United States and under 50 new death sentences were imposed for the fifth straight year, part of a continuing decline in capital punishment that saw only a few states carry out executions, a new report issued Tuesday said. But even as death row populations were dropping in most of the 29 states…
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Supreme Court Keeps Federal Executions on Hold
The Supreme Court on Friday blocked the Trump administration from restarting federal executions next week after a 16-year break. The justices denied the administration’s plea to undo a lower court ruling in favor of inmates who have been given execution dates. The first of those had been scheduled for Monday, with a second set for Friday. Two more inmates...
