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Liberal justice says recent decisions on redistricting and campaign finance have undermined democracy and polarized US even moreUS politics live – latest updatesElena Kagan criticized rulings made by the US supreme court’s conservative majority this we…
Read MoreAgreement would have spared Mohammed risk of execution in exchange for guilty plea and life in prisonThe supreme court on Monday rejected an effort to revive a plea deal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the accused mastermind of the attacks on 11 September …
Read MoreUS president renews his efforts to oust Cook despite supreme court ruling that her firing was unconstitutionalDonald Trump announced on Friday that he is establishing a committee to investigate Lisa Cook, the US Federal Reserve governor, over allegatio…
Read MoreFlowers, tried six times over 1996 murders of four people, faced execution before supreme court tossed his convictionCurtis Flowers, a Black man who spent more than 22 years in prison and was on death row in Mississippi before the US supreme court thre…
Read MoreCourt starts new term hearing Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil’s attempt to stop lawsuits at state levelThe US supreme court begins its new nine-month term hearing arguments Monday in a high-stakes case in which big oil companies are attempting to strike a…
Read MoreCourt will review practice of indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants living in the US The US supreme court agreed on Thursday to take up a case challenging the Trump administration’s practice of indefinite detention for undocumented immigrant…
Read MoreConservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from rulingThe Trump administration may deport immigrants to a “third country”, or a country other than their homeland, without providing them an opportunity to di…
Read MoreTrans inmates sued the administration over the policy and, so far, two lower courts have blocked implementationThe Trump administration asked the US supreme court, on Monday, to allow it to deny gender-affirming care to transgender inmates in federal p…
Read MoreDecision from conservative justice comes before court hears case on whether fossil-fuel firms deceived US publicSupreme court justice Samuel Alito recused himself Monday from a major climate-change case after facing calls to step aside due to stock hol…
Read MoreTrump tries to dominate at the UN as his approval ratings plummet and even some Republicans stray from the scriptDonald Trump stood before the United Nations on Tuesday and threatened to “annihilate” Iran. Yet even as the most powerful man on the plane…
Read MoreThe justice called out her colleagues in a speech she made at the UDC school of law, hours after Trump filed his latest requestUS supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson acknowledged serious concerns about her colleagues’ handling of emergency requ…
Read MoreTrump and officials claimed database combats noncitizen voting but critics said it could disenfranchise eligible votersThe US supreme court has lifted restrictions on a controversial federal database of voters as Donald Trump seeks to impose tougher re…
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