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Supreme Court Blocks New York COVID-19 Restrictions On Religious Gatherings
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["WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court late on Wednesday backed Christian and Jewish houses of worship challenging New York state’s latest restrictions in novel coronavirus hot spots. The court on a 5-4 vote ...
Supreme Court To Hear Case Over Border Wall Funding
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["WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court ruling that it improperly diverted money to build portions of the border wall with Mexico. The high court ...
Supreme Court Rejects GOP Bid To Reverse Joe Biden’s Pennsylvania Win
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["WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected Republicans’ last-gasp bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the electoral battleground. The court without comment Tue...
Texas Supreme Court Denies Republican Effort To Toss Nearly 127,000 Ballots
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["DALLAS (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-thru voting places in the Houston area. The state’s all-Republican high court rejected th...
Supreme Court Orders Review Of California’s Coronavirus Restrictions For Churches
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["WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a lower federal court to reexamine California restrictions on indoor religious services in areas hard hit by the coronavirus in light of the justices’ recent r...
Justice Kagan Says Supreme Court ‘Failed’ To Protect Voters Amid Pandemic
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["Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan slammed the court’s decision not to extend the deadline to receive mail-in ballots in Wisconsin and said it would “disenfranchise” voters in a pandemic. In a Monday ruling, the Sup...
Trump Team Would Get Its ‘Clock Cleaned’ At Supreme Court, Scoffs Pennsylvania’s Lt. Gov.
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["Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman laughed off the “losing” legal challenges by President Donald Trump and his campaign and warned that they would get their “clock cleaned” if they get a case to the U.S. Supreme C...
Supreme Court Seems Skeptical Of Trump’s Census Plan
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["WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sounded skeptical Monday that President Donald Trump could categorically exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot seats among the sta...
Supreme Court Allows North Carolina To Receive Absentee Ballots After Election Day
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["WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will allow absentee ballots in North Carolina to be received and counted up to 9 days after Election Day, in a win for Democrats. The justices on Wednesday refused to disturb a de...
Supreme Court Will Take Up Case Against Trump’s ‘Remain In Mexico’ Asylum Policy
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["WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is agreeing to review a Trump administration policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings. As is typical, the court did not comment Monday in announcing...
Supreme Court Weighs Trump Bid To Bar Illegal Immigrants From Census Count
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["Erin Scott / Reuters A general view of the Supreme Court building at sunset in Washington, November 10, 2020. (REUTERS/Erin Scott) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Monday is set to take up President Donal...
Republicans Confirm Another One Of Trump’s Unqualified Court Picks
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["On a day when the United States surpassed a quarter of a million people dead from COVID-19, Senate Republicans were busy taking action on something else: confirming another one of President Donald Trump’s judicial n...
Supreme Court Blocks Wisconsin From Counting Mailed Ballots Received After Election Day
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["WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with Republicans to prevent Wisconsin from counting mailed ballots that are received after Election Day. In a 5-3 order, the justices on Monday refused to reinstate a lo...
Senate Advances Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court Nomination
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["The U.S. Senate voted Sunday in a rare weekend session to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, setting up a final vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s pick on Monday, a little over a mont...
Court Upholds Verdict That Smithfield Must Pay For Making Life Near Hog Operation Miserable
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["RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a 2018 jury verdict that led to awarding monetary damages to neighbors of a North Carolina industrial hog operation for smells and noise they said made...
Court Rules Tennessee Can Enforce Abortion Ban Based On Down Syndrome Diagnosis
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["Karen Pulfer Focht / Reuters Part of an anti-abortion law in Tennessee that bans abortion on the basis of race, sex or Down syndrome diagnosis is now in effect. A Tennessee law outlawing abortion based on a patient...