Florida and Texas sought to prevent social media companies from deciding which posts can be promoted, demoted or blocked. The Supreme Court said the tech companies can moderate as they please.
President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Jan. 6, 2021, before the Capitol insurrection.
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The dissenting judges argued that the Supreme Court’s decision will dramatically expand the president’s powers while in office.
Two fishing companies challenged regulations that required Atlantic herring fishers to pay some costs for observers on their boats.
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A widely anticipated Supreme Court ruling will sharply limit federal agencies’ power to interpret the laws that they execute and decide how best to carry them out.
People on June 24, 2022, in Washington, D.C., protest the Supreme Court overturning the federal right to an abortion.
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In a major homelessness ruling, the Supreme Court holds that cities and municipalities can punish people for sleeping outside, even when they have nowhere else to go.
Activists protest outside the Supreme Court before arguments in Grants Pass v. Johnson on April 22, 2024, in Washington, D.C.
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The Supreme Court conceded that it should not have taken up the case to begin with.
Grace Bisch, whose stepson died as a result of an overdose, protests outside the Supreme Court in December 2023.
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Critics are decrying the long time the Supreme Court has taken to rule in a crucial Trump case, charging that it’s politically motivated to help Trump. A scholar of the court says they’re wrong.
Is political polarization ripping America apart? Two Supreme Court justices have very different answers.
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Lawyers, advocacy groups and think tanks are soliciting historians’ expertise on the history underlying certain Supreme Court cases. Yet this history-for-hire approach raises questions.
Activists on both sides of the abortion battle are gearing up for it to be a major issue in the 2024 election.
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The Supreme Court drastically reduced federal protection for wetlands in 2023. Two environmental lawyers explain how private businesses and nongovernment organizations can help fill the gap.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., left, and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, photographed in 2018.
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Secret recordings raise questions about Justice Alito’s impartiality, but they also reveal the weak state of legal protections against the misuse of the microphones and cameras everyone carries.
Individual rules against activities such as camping or just resting on a ledge may not seem like a big deal. But taken together, they make life more difficult for people without shelter.
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