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Idaho Hospitals Must Provide Emergency Abortions, for Now

Supreme Court issues a procedural ruling and could get the case back again

(Newser) - Hospitals in Idaho must provide emergency abortions, at least for the time being, based on a Supreme Court ruling released Thursday. The ruling is a procedural one that doesn't address key questions in the case, meaning it could end up back before the court again in the not-too-distant future,...

Supreme Court Tosses Controversial Opioid Settlement

5-4 ruling blocks nationwide deal with Purdue Pharma over opioid epidemic

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would have shielded members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids but also would have provided billions of dollars to combat the opioid epidemic. After deliberating...

Biden Administration Scores a Supreme Court Win

White House may continue to urge social media companies to take down posts

(Newser) - The remainder of the week will be big in terms of Supreme Court decisions, and Wednesday brought what CNN calls "a technical if important election-year victory" for the Biden administration. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court said the White House may continue to push social media companies to...

Supreme Court Won't Hear Vaccination Challenges

Two cases were tied to RFK Jr.'s organization

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state's longstanding religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges, and daycare facilities. The justices did not comment in leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the contentious law,...

Supreme Court Delivers Bad News to Josh Duggar

Justices reject his appeal on his child pornography charges

(Newser) - It's been a busy day for news out of the Supreme Court, with the biggest development being the justices' decision to take up whether states can restrict transgender medical treatments for minors. Also, via the AP:
  • Josh Duggar: The court rejected an appeal from Josh Duggar, a former reality-television
...

SCOTUS Takes Up Rare Transgender-Rights Case

High court will look at state bans on gender-affirming care for minors

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Monday jumped into the fight over transgender rights, agreeing to hear an appeal from the Biden administration seeking to block state bans on gender-affirming care. The justices' action comes as Republican-led states have enacted a variety of restrictions on health care for transgender people, school sports...

Supreme Court Upholds Gun-Control Law

Measure is designed to protect victims of domestic violence

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun-control law intended to protect victims of domestic violence, per the AP . In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled in favor of a 1994 ban on firearms for people under restraining orders to...

Rift Is Emerging Among Conservatives on SCOTUS
Rift Is Emerging Among
Conservatives on SCOTUS
THE RUNDOWN
Jun 20, 2024 11:38 AM CDT

Rift Is Emerging Among Conservatives on SCOTUS

Barrett breaks with Thomas on 'history and tradition' approach

(Newser) - Last week's decision on a man's attempt to trademark the slogan "Trump too small" wasn't exactly the most momentous issue the Supreme Court has dealt with lately, but it exposed what appears to be a growing rift between the court's conservatives. Justice Amy Coney Barrett...

Supreme Court Rejects a Challenge to Trump-Era Tax

Provision on tax on foreign income saw pushback from business, anti-regulatory interests

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a tax on foreign income over a challenge backed by business and anti-regulatory interests, declining their invitation to weigh in on a broader, never-enacted tax on wealth. The justices, by a 7-2 vote, left in place a provision of a 2017 tax law that'...

Supreme Court Flips Trump-Era Ban on Bump Stocks

A 6-3 ruling on gun accessory says Trump administration didn't follow federal law

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns and was used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. The high court found 6-3 that the Trump administration didn't follow...

SCOTUS: 'Trump Too Small' Can't Be Trademarked

Ruling on slogan was unanimous but opinions differed

(Newser) - If you want to create merchandise with the slogan "Trump too small," the Supreme Court is not going to stand in your way. In a unanimous ruling issued Tuesday, the court sided with the Biden administration in a trademark case involving the slogan, CNN reports. Steve Elster, a...

Op-Ed: Alito Said Nothing Wrong to Filmmaker
Op-Ed: Alito Said Nothing
Wrong to Filmmaker
OPINION
Jun 13, 2024 2:20 PM CDT

Op-Ed: Alito Said Nothing Wrong to Filmmaker

Catholic University law professor defends the justice's remarks as non-controversial

(Newser) - Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito has taken much criticism this week after a progressive filmmaker posed as a conservative Christian and secretly recorded his comments. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, for example, called Alito an "extremist who is out of touch with mainstream America" after he agreed in the recorded...

Kavanaugh Wrote Decision in Favor of Abortion Pill
Kavanaugh Wrote Decision
in Favor of Abortion Pill
the rundown
Jun 13, 2024 1:10 PM CDT

Kavanaugh Wrote Decision in Favor of Abortion Pill

But narrow ruling on legal standing doesn't mean the fight over mifepristone is over

(Newser) - Advocates of abortion rights won a significant Supreme Court victory on Thursday in a unanimous ruling that means a widely used abortion pill will remain accessible. But the decision was a narrow one—on legal standing, not on the merits of the argument—and it leaves the door open for...

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
the rundown
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...

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