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Posted Jun 21, 2022, 8:53 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
In a 6-3 ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court divided along ideological lines and said Maine violated the U.S. Constitution by stopping taxpayer money from funding religious schools within its tuition assistance program. ... Read more»
Posted May 4, 2022, 5:56 am
Jennifer Shutt
/Arizona Mirror
U.S. Senate Democrats pledged a new vote codifying the right to an abortion after publication of a draft court ruling that showed the Supreme Court on track to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision.... Read more»
Posted May 3, 2022, 11:59 am
Clay Jones
/Claytoonz
The citizens of this nation are about to lose a constitutional right.... Read more»
Posted Feb 2, 2022, 3:16 pm
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
The Supreme Court refused to take a single case during a between 2004 and 2018 before lower courts ruled on them. The justice have agreed to hear 14 since Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court in 2019.... Read more»
Posted Jan 20, 2022, 6:45 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
The Supreme Court on Wednesday night denied a last-ditch attempt from former President Donald Trump as he sought to keep his White House records out of the hands of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 13, 2022, 7:52 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
The government’s indefinite detention of immigrants waiting for deportation divided the Supreme Court during Tuesday’s argument session as the justices squabbled over how to apply their precedents to the case without creating chaos for the lower courts. ... Read more»
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Posted Dec 2, 2021, 8:13 am
Laura Olson & Ariana Figueroa/Arizona Mirror
The Supreme Court is weighing potentially sweeping changes to the right to an abortion, after two hours of arguments Wednesday morning on a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 4, 2021, 11:45 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
New York gun restrictions on who can qualify to get a concealed-carry license drew sharp questions Wednesday at Supreme Court oral arguments, suggesting similar laws across the country could soon find themselves in a cascade of dominoes. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 8, 2021, 9:21 am
Eric Ruben
/Southern Methodist University/The Conversation
The Supreme Court’s ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, expected by mid-2022, could declare a New York state restriction on carrying concealed handguns in public places unconstitutional - which could loosen gun regulations in many parts of the country.... Read more»
Posted Aug 26, 2021, 9:26 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
In a 6-3 order, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration's order extending a federal halt on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, writing that the CDC exceeded its authority by blocking the enforcement of evictions orders.... Read more»
Posted Aug 23, 2021, 10:52 am
Samantha Hawkins
/Courthouse News
The D.C. Circuit Court served defeat Friday to a group of landlords and realtors challenging the CDC’s fourth extension of the eviction ban - a decision that keeps the fourth extension of the moratorium alive pending a Supreme Court review primed to go a bit differently.
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Posted Aug 13, 2021, 1:20 pm
Samantha Hawkins
/Courthouse News
The federal eviction moratorium survived its latest challenge Friday, but the federal judge who declined to intervene and said her hands are tied also stated the Supreme Court will likely find the government's latest extension illegal.
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Posted Aug 9, 2021, 1:58 pm
Samantha Hawkins
/Courthouse News
A federal judge in Washington expressed skepticism over the extension of a federal moratorium on evictions meant to help prevent people from losing their homes as COVID-19 infection surge, but appellate rulings from earlier this year may leave her hands tied.... Read more»
Posted Aug 6, 2021, 12:04 pm
Samantha Hawkins
/Courthouse News
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked a federal judge Friday to enter an administrative stay of a case fighting its eviction moratorium, after a group of landlords asked the judge to immediately halt the new moratorium on Wednesday.
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Posted Jul 1, 2021, 12:34 pm
Cornell William Clayton & Michael Ritter/Washington State University/The Conversation
Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will make it harder for some residents to cast ballots, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.... Read more»
Posted Jul 1, 2021, 8:32 am
Samantha Hawkins
/Courthouse News
Eight years after the Supreme Court struck down key elements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, it broke on party lines with a split 6-3 vote to uphold Arizona election laws said to be racially discriminatory and to weaken the voting power of minorities.... Read more»