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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...
Texas Republicans Ask State’s Supreme Court To Throw Out 100,000 Cast Ballots
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["Texas Republicans asked the state’s Supreme Court to throw out more than 100,000 ballots that have already been cast just days before the next U.S. presidential election. A lawsuit filed earlier this week by two GOP...
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 With Newly Installed Amy Coney Barrett Hears Major LGBTQ Rights Case
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["WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court, with its newly expanded conservative majority, is set on Wednesday to hear a dispute over the city of Philadelphia’s refusal to place children for foster care with a Ca...
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...
Trump’s Chances Of Getting Supreme Court To Intervene Are Getting Tiny
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["WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has repeatedly said there’s one place he wants to determine the outcome of the presidential election: the U.S. Supreme Court. But he may have a difficult time ever getting th...
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 ...
Obamacare Lawsuit Gets Skeptical Reception At The Supreme Court
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["A challenge to the Affordable Care Act got a relatively hostile reaction at a virtual Supreme Court hearing on Tuesday, offering hope for the millions of people who depend upon the law for their health care. In oral...
Supreme Court Tie Blocks GOP Effort To Limit Mail-In Voting In Pennsylvania
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["The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to Republicans on Monday with a split vote that effectively allows Pennsylvania to keep its extended mail-in voting period. The justices’ 4-4 tie leaves in place a lower court...
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 ...
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...
Sotomayor Calls Supreme Court’s N.Y. Pandemic Ruling A ‘Deadly Game’
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["Justice Sonia Sotomayor said in a withering dissent that the Supreme Court’s ruling blocking COVID-19 restrictions for religious services in New York “will only exacerbate the Nation’s suffering.” “Justices of this...
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...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Vows Revenge Over Slain Scientist
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["TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday demanded the “definitive punishment” of those behind the killing of a scientist who led Tehran’s disbanded military nuclear program, as the Islamic Republic blam...
Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett To The Supreme Court
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["Senate Republicans voted Monday night to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, tilting the balance of the court to a 6-3 conservative majority for years to come and handing President Donald Trump a victory...