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Abortion Rights Advocates Score a Supreme Court Win

Justices reject a legal challenge to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the US last year—the court's first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. The justices ruled that abortion opponents lacked the legal...

Progressive Filmmaker Secretly Records the Alitos
Progressive Filmmaker
Secretly Records the Alitos
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Jun 11, 2024 6:02 AM CDT

Progressive Filmmaker Secretly Records the Alitos

Supreme Court justice sounds skeptical that compromise between the left and right is possible

(Newser) - A self-described "advocacy journalist" and documentary filmmaker posed as a Catholic conservative and secretly recorded Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito at an exclusive court gala. In the tapes, Alito questions whether compromise between the left and right is possible in the US and agrees the nation should return to...

Supreme Court Backs Tribes in Health Care Case

Ruling involves billing costs for programs federal government no longer runs

(Newser) - The Supreme Court sided with Native American tribes Thursday in a dispute with the federal government over the cost of health care when tribes run programs in their own communities. The 5-4 decision means the government will cover millions in overhead costs that two tribes faced when they took over...

Roberts Rejects Senators' Request to Meet About Alito

Democratic lawmakers want the associate justice to recuse himself from Trump cases

(Newser) - Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday declined an invitation to meet with Democratic senators to talk about Supreme Court ethics and the controversy over flags that flew outside homes owned by Justice Samuel Alito. Roberts' response came in a letter to the senators a day after Alito separately wrote them...

Supreme Court Clears Way for NRA's Free-Speech Lawsuit

Gun-rights group sued a former New York state official, said she tried to get it blacklisted

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a National Rifle Association lawsuit against a former New York state official over claims she violated its free-speech rights. As the AP reports, the unanimous opinion reverses a lower court's decision tossing out the gun rights group's lawsuit...

Alito Rejects Calls to Sit Out Jan. 6 Cases
Alito Won't Be
Recusing Himself
May 29, 2024 4:51 PM CDT

Alito Won't Be Recusing Himself

Justice says he couldn't do anything about it when his wife flew the upside-down flag

(Newser) - Saying he lacks legal authority to lower flags flying at his Virginia house, Justice Samuel Alito announced Wednesday that he won't recuse himself from two Supreme Court cases connected to the attack on the Capitol. Flags flown at his house in Arlington and vacation house in New Jersey have...

Sonia Sotomayor: I've Wept Over SCOTUS Rulings

Liberal member of high court says she's cried after certain cases, likely will again

(Newser) - Even cowgirls and Supreme Court justices get the blues. Justice Sonia Sotomayor confirmed the latter on Friday, revealing that she's wept after certain rulings that she and her colleagues on the high court's bench have handed down, reports CNN . "There are days that I've come to...

Another Rioters' Flag Flew at Another Alito House

House Democrat introduces a censure resolution over 'Stop the Steal' symbol

(Newser) - The fallout continues for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito over the flying of a symbolic upside-down flag outside his house, a debate possibly complicated by a report of another flag carried by Jan. 6 rioters having been displayed at Alito's beach house. More:
  • Censure: House Democrat Steve Cohen of
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Alito Got Out of Bud Light After Political Boycott Started

Justice bought Molson Coors shares instead

(Newser) - About the same time Travis Tritt and Kid Rock were swearing off Bud Light for political reasons, Samuel Alito was dumping the brand as an investment. A transaction report shows the Supreme Court justice sold between $1,000 and $15,000 in Anheuser-Busch InBev stock on Aug. 14, 2023, CNBC...

SCOTUS Rejects Challenge to Maryland Gun Law

It leaves assault weapons ban with lower court

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to a law Maryland introduced after the Sandy Hook school massacre in 2012. The Maryland law bans what the state calls assault weapons, including the AR-15 rifle, NBC News reports. The justices rejected a challenge from gun rights groups, a gun...

Durbin Wants Alito Off All Election, Jan. 6 Cases

Justice's home reportedly displayed a symbol of the 'Stop the Steal' movement

(Newser) - The Senate Judiciary Committee chair has called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, whose home reportedly displayed an upside-down US flag shortly after the attack on the Capitol, to recuse himself from all cases concerning the 2020 election and Jan. 6 riot. "The Court is in an ethical crisis...

'Stop the Steal' Flag Flew at Alito's House

Justice says his wife displayed the symbol to respond to a neighbor's signs

(Newser) - The week after Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, some carrying an upside-down American flag to represent the "Stop the Steal" movement that contends the 2020 presidential election was rigged, the symbol was on display outside the home of a US Supreme Court justice. Samuel Alito's neighbors, as...

SCOTUS Sides With CFPB, Turns Back Conservative Attack

Reverses lower court's ruling on consumer bureau's funding

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reports the AP . The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the agency is funded doesn't violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court. The CFPB was created after the 2008 financial crisis...

Thomas: I'd Have Been Happier on DC Circuit

Justice criticizes 'the nastiness and the lies' he and his wife face

(Newser) - With oral arguments over for this term, Supreme Court justices fanned out across the country over the weekend, providing an unusual flurry of public comments. At an appearance in Texas, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the way to increase public faith in the judicial system is through consistency, transparency, and mutual...

Supreme Court Lets Producer Seek Damages Over Sample

Sherman Nealy filed copyright suit over Flo Rida track

(Newser) - The Supreme Court sided with a music producer in a copyright case Thursday, allowing him to seek more than a decade's worth of damages over a sample used in a hit Flo Rida song. The 6-3 decision came in a case filed by Sherman Nealy, who was suing over...

SCOTUS Has Bad News for Musk Over Tesla Tweets

High court rejects his appeal on mandate that he gets approval before posting online about his company

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Elon Musk over a settlement with securities regulators that requires him to get approval in advance of tweets related to Tesla. The justices didn't comment in leaving in place lower-court rulings against Musk, who complained that the requirement amounts to...

SCOTUS Case Looks Like Good News for Trump

Supreme Court seems likely to send immunity question back to lower court, delaying trial start for months

(Newser) - The "case is submitted." With those words, Chief Justice John Roberts wrapped up Thursday's historic testimony about absolute presidential immunity —and whether Donald Trump can be prosecuted for actions taken while he was in office, reports CNN . The gist of early coverage is that Trump will...

Trump Lawyer: Assassination 'Could Well Be' an Official Act

Key questions from the first hours of SCOTUS hearing

(Newser) - As Donald Trump sat in a different courtroom, the Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on whether the former president is immune from prosecution for acts committed while in office. The AP reports that at least five justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts, appeared skeptical of Trump's claims of "...

Trump's Immunity Case Gets Underway Today

In one scenario, he could be handed 'a get-out-of-jail-free card'

(Newser) - Supreme Court justices will hear oral arguments Thursday about whether former presidents are immune from criminal prosecution in a case that "could affect both Donald Trump's legal and political fates," per the BBC . Trump's lawyers claim a 1982 court decision that decided presidents are immune from...

SCOTUS Hears Case on Emergency Abortions
SCOTUS Appears Split on
Emergency Abortions Case
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Apr 24, 2024 1:15 PM CDT

SCOTUS Appears Split on Emergency Abortions Case

Solicitor general says Idaho law has left patients, doctors in an 'impossible position'

(Newser) - As pro- and anti-abortion rights protesters gathered outside, the Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case that pits Idaho's strict abortion law against a federal law on emergency treatment. The Washington Post reports that the court's conservative justices appeared skeptical of arguments that a 1986 federal law...

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