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Supreme Court Justice Thomas is hospitalized with infection

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was hospitalized Friday evening with flu-like symptoms and treated with intravenous antibiotics for an infection, the U.S. Supreme Court said.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson has one last obstacle to the Supreme Court: Those hearings

WASHINGTON — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s mission is simple as her confirmation hearings to become the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court start Monday: Don’t fall for the traps.

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Contentious fringe legal theory could reshape state election laws

The U.S. Supreme Court this month left open the possibility that it could endorse a fringe conservative legal theory that would give state legislatures unchecked powers over election rules before the 2024 presidential election.

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SC Sen. Tim Scott says Supreme Court vote on Judge Jackson won’t be based on skin color

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson prepares to begin her confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court, South Carolina’s junior senator said Friday that he won’t make his decision to vote for her based on the color of her skin.

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GOP appeal seeks to curb state court power over US House map

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to curtail the powers of state courts to intervene in the drawing of congressional districts

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NC lawmakers want Supreme Court to hear case that could change elections nationwide

North Carolina legislators are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on a legal theory that could have massive implications for elections around the country — and that several justices have already said they’re open to.

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As abortion pills take off, some states move to curb them

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to weaken or topple its nearly 50-year-old abortion rights decision, Roe v. Wade, giving states wide latitude to restrict the procedure.

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Justice Thomas slams cancel culture, 'packing' Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says he's worried efforts to politicize the court or add additional justices

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Maryland House votes to add abortion rights to state constitution, expand access to abortion

BALTIMORE — Legislation to expand access to abortions in Maryland and mandate that most health insurance plans cover the procedure cost-free for patients easily passed the House of Delegates on Friday, a step toward broadening access in Maryland even as the U.S. Supreme Court mulls allowing severe restrictions on abortion…

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North Carolina GOP pushes legal theory that would change elections nationwide. Why it might work.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican lawmakers lost their recent U.S. Supreme Court appeal to stop the 2022 elections from being held using district maps the lawmakers didn’t get to draw themselves. But some in the party hope Monday’s ruling is just the first step in a coming legal fight, and not…

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s latest redistricting decisions

Welcome to the Wednesday, March 9, Brew.

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Disclosure Digest: Washington AG announces settlement in campaign finance case

Welcome to The Disclosure Digest! Keep an eye out for new editions published on Tuesdays through June 2022.

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Democrats get a new worry in Supreme Court wins on congressional maps

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Democrats a short-term win on congressional voting maps — and fresh cause for worry about the future of the country’s election laws.

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Nicholas Goldberg: Another thing that makes Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination special

Over the years, many former prosecutors have become justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Earl Warren, for instance, served as Alameda County's district attorney and California's attorney general. Sonia Sotomayor worked at the Manhattan district attorney's office. Samuel A. Alito Jr. worked for the U.S. attorney in New Jersey.

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Biden administration turns to Supreme Court in Navy vaccine case

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene on an emergency basis in a clash with 35 Navy special operations forces who are refusing on religious grounds to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

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Supreme Court rejects GOP challenges to congressional maps in Pa., NC

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court turned away Republican challenges to congressional maps drawn for this year’s election by state courts in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.

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US Supreme Court Declines To Revisit The Bill Cosby Case

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge brought by prosecutors in Pennsylvania regarding a state court ruling that overturned comedian Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction.

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US Supreme Court declines to hear push to reinstate Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider reinstating Bill Cosby’s 2018 sexual assault conviction, effectively ending a nearly two-decade legal saga that briefly saw the 84-year-old comedian incarcerated.

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Supreme Court deals setback to Muslims suing FBI over spying on a California mosque

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a setback Friday to three Muslim men in Orange County, California, who have been suing the FBI for spying on their mosques in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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SCOTUS won’t hear two public-sector union cases

The U.S. Supreme Court recently rejected petitions in two cases related to public-sector union policy. The last such case the court heard was Janus v. AFSCME in 2018.

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Florida poised to limit abortions as Supreme Court mulls Roe

Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign a 15-week abortion ban into law after Florida’s legislature joined the trend of Republican-led states anticipating a U.S. Supreme Court decision that could sharply limit abortion rights in America

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Supreme Court reinstates Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev’s death sentence

A divided U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man who set off one of the bombs that killed three people at the 2013 Boston Marathon.

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Commentary: Affirmative action is under attack

The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear two cases, one against Harvard and the other against the University of North Carolina. Filed by the conservative activist group Students for Fair Admissions, the cases challenge the legality of affirmative action, which allows colleges and universities to consider racial disparities —…

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Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar expects bipartisan backing for Ketanji Brown Jackson in Supreme Court confirmation

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar met with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday, as the U.S. Supreme Court nominee made the rounds on Capitol Hill in advance of confirmation hearings later this month.

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Community college district won't take disability case to Supreme Court following protests

LOS ANGELES — Responding to intense protests from the disability community, the Los Angeles Community College District's Board of Trustees has backed down from appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court over a lawsuit filed by two blind students claiming they were denied equal access to education.

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