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Alabama Justices mull latest challenge to landmark voting rights law By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press – 10/04/22
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared open Tuesday to making it harder to create majority Black electoral districts, in an Alabama case that could have ...
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Alabama Supreme Court takes up key voting rights case from Alabama By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press – 10/03/22
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up an Alabama redistricting case that could have far-reaching effects on minority voting power across the United States. The justices are hearing ...
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Politics Jackson sworn in, becomes 1st Black woman on Supreme Court By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press – 6/30/22
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to the Supreme Court on Thursday, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court. The 51-year-old ...
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Environment Supreme Court limits EPA in curbing power plant emissions By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press – 6/30/22
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blow to the fight against climate change, the Supreme Court on Thursday limited how the nation’s main anti-air pollution law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide ...
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Abortion Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press – 6/24/22
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday stripped away women’s constitutional protections for abortion, a fundamental and deeply personal change for Americans’ lives after nearly a ...
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Politics Supreme Court: Religious schools must get Maine tuition aid By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press – 6/21/22
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine can’t exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious ...
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Politics Justices rule against detained immigrants seeking release By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press – 6/13/22
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders. In two cases decided Monday, the ...
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Abortion 30 cases in a month: Abortion, guns top justices’ to-do list By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press – 6/07/22
WASHINGTON (AP) — Curbing abortion rights and expanding the right to be armed in public are long-sought goals of the conservative legal movement that the Supreme Court seems poised to deliver ...
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Abortion Poll: High court approval drops after abortion opinion leak By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press – 5/25/22
WASHINGTON (AP) — Public approval of the Supreme Court has fallen following the leak of a draft opinion that would overturn the Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing abortion rights nationwide, ...
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Biden High court could free Biden to end Trump asylum policy By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press – 4/26/22
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned lower-court orders that have blocked the Biden administration from ending a controversial Trump-era immigration program for asylum-seekers. ...
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