WASHINGTON – Differences between the Trump administration and the Obama administration are not difficult to find, but they will be front and center in the most important cases on the Supreme Court’s docket this fall. One is obvious: President Donald ...
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Domino’s sells more than 2.5 million pizzas every day, and the company says it offers at least 15 ways to order one. But Guillermo Robles, who is blind, said neither the company’s website nor its mobile app allowed him to ...
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The Supreme Court issued two long-awaited decisions Thursday morning involving how the government counts people and draws legislative districts around them. And for both major political parties, there was something to cheer and to jeer – loudly. Democrats and liberal ...
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday struck a section of a 1980s law that allows prosecutors to seek stiffer penalties for certain violent crimes involving firearms, finding that the provision does not give clear “fair warning” to would-be offenders. ...
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s liberal and conservative members clashed again Friday on respecting the court’s precedents, this time about when a property owner aggrieved by a local government’s restriction on her land can go to federal court. The issue ...
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Starting this week and spanning the next few weeks, the Supreme Court will decide more than two dozen cases. As The Washington Post reported, a sizable number of the cases carry political implications that could affect the 2020 election and ...
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday reaffirmed the long-established precedent that allows both state and federal authorities to prosecute a person for the same offense, a ruling that has implications for President Donald Trump’s pardon powers. The 7-2 ruling ...
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Monday passed up the chance to decide whether a baker’s religious objections to same-sex marriage means she can refuse to create a wedding cake for a gay couple when state law prohibits discrimination based ...
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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Virginia’s House Republicans did not have the legal right to challenge a decision that some of Virginia’s legislative districts were racially gerrymandered, which means fall elections will take place in districts more ...
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Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. began the Supreme Court’s term last fall seeking to assure the American public that his court does not “serve one party or one interest.” He will end it playing a pivotal role in two of ...
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WASHINGTON – Organizations challenging the decision to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census form asked the Supreme Court Wednesday night to put off a ruling on whether the Trump administration may do so. Lawyers for the American Civil ...
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WASHINGTON – The mere act of yelling an expletive at a police officer is constitutionally protected speech and not grounds for arrest, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The decision by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...
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