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268 articles shownof 268 totalLast updated 2026-11-06 13:26 UTC
us politics 9 9h ago 4 min read

Democrats Projected to Hold Both Chambers of Congress, With Supreme Court Changes, Subpoenas and Affordability Votes Ahead

Democrats are projected to hold at least 54 Senate seats and at least 250 House seats after Tuesday's midterms. Incoming Speaker-in-waiting Hakeem Jeffries is promising a 100-hour affordability push, aggressive oversight of the Trump administration and "dramatic" Supreme Court reform. Trump's veto and the Senate's 60-vote threshold stand between that agenda and law.
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us politics 8 1d ago 5 min read

Trump's DOJ Pursues Criminal Probes of Alaska Senate Recruitment and Supreme Court Leak as Courts Reject Its Election Suits

The Justice Department is running two criminal investigations with no charges so far: one into who leaked the Dobbs draft opinion in 2022, and one into whether Democrats recruited a same-named Alaska Senate candidate. Courts, meanwhile, have turned away DOJ's civil election cases in Alaska and California. The Alaska appeal and the approaching five-year limits on the leak case are the next tests.
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in health 3 2d ago 4 min read

Expert Panel Tells Supreme Court NMC Backs Rank-Based Merit List for NEET-PG, Ending Percentile Scores

A 12-member expert committee told India's Supreme Court on Tuesday that the National Medical Commission has given in-principle approval to scrap percentile scores for NEET-PG and NEET-SS in favor of ranks only. The regulation is not final, and the court is still weighing a challenge to the cut-off that fell from 276 to 103 for general candidates and to minus 40 for SC/ST/OBC candidates.
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us politics 9 4d ago 4 min read

Trump Closes Midterm Campaign at Reflecting Pool as Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Set Aside 20,000 California Ballots

Trump gave his closing pitch Monday, Nov. 2, spending 23 minutes on his monument renovations before mentioning the election. The Supreme Court denied the Justice Department's request over California mail ballots with no noted dissents, and Cook now rates Democrats favored for the Senate. Voters decide Tuesday, Nov. 3.
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us politics 7 5d ago 4 min read

Supreme Court to Hear Catholic Preschools' Challenge to Colorado's Universal Pre-K Rules on Tuesday

Since Colorado launched its universal preschool program in 2023, a fight over its nondiscrimination rule has moved through two lower courts that sided with the state and now reaches the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Nov. 3. The Archdiocese of Denver wants an exemption so its 34 preschools can keep admitting only families who support Catholic teaching, and the Trump administration backs the Church. A ruling is expected by the end of June 2027.
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us finance 7 6d ago 4 min read

CFTC Chair Selig Vows Supreme Court Fight Over Prediction Markets as Utah Fight Escalates

Days after the CFTC sued Utah over its enforcement push against Kalshi, Chair Michael Selig said on Oct. 30 the agency will fight state challenges "all the way up to the Supreme Court." The agency is now in 10 federal cases against states, appeals courts have not agreed with one another, and a New Jersey petition already sits before the justices.
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us politics 5 Oct 30 4 min read

5th Circuit Judge James Ho Says Supreme Court Should Have Upheld Trump's Birthright Order on 'Invasion' Grounds

In an Oct. 5 speech at the Museum of the Bible, Trump appointee Judge James Ho said the Supreme Court should have upheld Trump's birthright citizenship order in full, citing the president's invasion proclamation. The position sits uneasily with Ho's published writing that the 14th Amendment covers children of unauthorized immigrants. Ho is a name floated for a future Supreme Court seat.
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us health 7 Oct 30 3 min read

St. Louis Jury Rules for Monsanto in First Roundup Trial Since Supreme Court Decision

A St. Louis jury unanimously rejected claims by three women that Roundup caused their non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the first Roundup trial verdict since the Supreme Court's June ruling. Bayer is still waiting on a St. Louis judge to rule on its $7.25 billion settlement for tens of thousands of other cases, and the plaintiffs' lawyers say design-defect claims survive the high court's decision.
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us politics 4 Oct 29 3 min read

Trump Says He Would Nominate Ted Cruz to Supreme Court if a Seat Opens. No Vacancy Exists, and Cruz Has Said No

At a Lubbock rally on Tuesday, Oct. 27, Trump said Ted Cruz would be his pick for the next Supreme Court vacancy and would win 100% of Senate votes because both parties want him gone. No justice has announced a retirement, and Cruz says he has turned Trump down three times already.
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us politics 6 Oct 27 4 min read

Supreme Court Rejects Cities' Emergency Bid to Revive Biden-Era Rule on Pausing Deportation Cases

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Oct. 27, denied an emergency application from Baltimore, Columbus and New Haven to revive the 2024 rule letting immigration judges pause deportation cases. The one-line order gave no reasons and noted no dissents. The underlying fight over whether the Justice Department and Texas could scrap a federal rule through a same-day consent judgment is still in the lower courts.
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in politics 5 Oct 27 4 min read

Supreme Court Gives Petitioners 10 Days to Answer Election Commission Denial of Unilateral Voter-Roll Decisions

India's Supreme Court on Tuesday, Oct. 27, adjourned petitions accusing Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of making voter-roll decisions without his two colleagues, after the Election Commission swore in a counter-affidavit that every decision was unanimous. The next hearing is tentatively set for Nov. 17, and whether the commission's internal file notings get preserved is still open.
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us politics 7 Oct 25 5 min read

Kagan Accuses Supreme Court Majority of Weakening Democracy Two Weeks Before Midterms

Justice Elena Kagan said in a Tuesday speech that her conservative colleagues' voting and campaign finance rulings have made the country more polarized and less democratic. The Honest Elections Project called her claims "political spin," and the same court has also ruled against President Trump on mail ballots. Election Day is Nov. 3, and the maps and money rules are already set.
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br politics 8 Oct 25 4 min read

Brazil's Supreme Court Extends Runoff Voting by Two Hours After Lula and Bolsonaro Both Ask

Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin ordered polls in Brazil's presidential runoff to stay open until 7 p.m. Brasília time, minutes after the scheduled 5 p.m. close. Lula's campaign cited transit disruptions and Flávio Bolsonaro's cited heavy rain, and the count was paused after briefly starting. The margin of the Oct. 4 first round was 2 points, so every vote counts.
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us politics 7 Oct 24 4 min read

Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Federal Switchblade Restrictions as Supreme Court Readies Dec. 2 AR-15 Argument

A federal appeals court and a New York federal judge extended Second Amendment protection to switchblades and body armor this week, weeks before the Supreme Court hears Viramontes v. Cook County on Dec. 2. Gun-rights groups say the outcome will shape every other challenge to restrictions on defensive gear. Cook County's top prosecutor says the AR-15 ban is constitutional and necessary.
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us finance 7 Oct 23 4 min read

Kalshi CEO Says Fight With States Over Sports Contracts Could Reach Supreme Court

Kalshi co-founder Tarek Mansour says the fight with dozens of states over sports-related event contracts could end at the Supreme Court. Federal appeals courts have split, New Jersey has asked the justices to take its case, and Kalshi's lobbying spending rose 40.4% in the third quarter. The question of whether sports contracts are federally regulated derivatives or state-regulated gambling is still unsettled.
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us politics 7 Oct 23 4 min read

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to lift injunction halting Big Bend border wall construction

Since Judge Kathleen Cardone froze construction across Texas' Big Bend region on Oct. 2, the administration has gone straight to the Supreme Court, filing an emergency application on Oct. 21. The government says the freeze costs more than $460,000 a day and leaves a gap cartels can exploit. Opponents say Big Bend sees little illegal crossing and that only Congress can authorize walling it off. The injunction stays in place until the justices act.
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us politics 7 Oct 22 4 min read

Supreme Court Lets New Hampshire Bar Student IDs as Voter Evidence Before Nov. 3 Election

The Supreme Court on Thursday, Oct. 22, paused a federal order that had let New Hampshire poll workers weigh student IDs as supporting evidence of identity. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. The stay holds while the First Circuit hears the state's appeal, with the election 12 days away and a Senate seat in play.
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us politics 7 Oct 22 4 min read

Lucas Indictment's Bribery Count Likely to Face Supreme Court's Narrow Corruption Standard, MS NOW Analysis Says

Hours after the Justice Department unsealed a five-count indictment against Virginia state Sen. Louise Lucas, the legal fight is taking shape around the honest services fraud count, which depends on proving bribery. Lucas calls the case political. Her arraignment is set for Nov. 16, and defense motions to dismiss are expected to test how far the Supreme Court's narrowed corruption rulings reach.
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us politics 7 Oct 22 4 min read

Supreme Court Hears Colorado Catholic Preschool Funding Case Nov. 3

Two Catholic parishes and the Archdiocese of Denver are suing over Colorado's rule that preschools in its universal pre-K program may not turn families away over sexual orientation or gender identity. Both lower courts sided with the state, but the Supreme Court has ruled against Colorado in its last three LGBTQ-versus-religion cases. Oral argument in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy is set for Nov. 3.
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us politics 7 Oct 21 3 min read

Supreme Court Denies Trump Administration Stay on Federal Prison Gender-Dysphoria Policy, 7-2

The Supreme Court on Oct. 21 denied the administration's emergency request to enforce a Bureau of Prisons policy ending hormone therapy and social accommodations for gender dysphoria. Only Justices Thomas and Alito said they would have granted it, and no written opinion explains the vote. The injunction stays in place while the government's appeal continues.
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us politics 7 Oct 21 4 min read

Supreme Court Refuses to Let Trump Administration Enforce Prison Limits on Transgender Treatment, Thomas and Alito Dissenting

In a one-line order on Wednesday, Oct. 21, the Supreme Court denied the administration's emergency request to enforce a Bureau of Prisons policy ending hormone therapy and other treatment for inmates with gender dysphoria. Only Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would have granted it. The order says nothing about the merits, so the injunction stays while the case continues in lower courts.
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us politics 6 Oct 19 5 min read

Mahmoud Khalil Asks Supreme Court to Hear Detention Appeal as Justices Fill Docket With Federal-Power Cases

Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers filed a petition Monday, Oct. 19, asking the Supreme Court to let a federal judge hear his First Amendment retaliation claim before his immigration case ends. The filing arrives as the Court's new grants, including a home-distilling ban and a Maryland school-admissions case, put limits on government power in front of the justices. Khalil stays free until the Court decides whether to take the case.
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us politics 7 Oct 19 4 min read

Supreme Court Adds Maryland Magnet School Lottery and Federal Home-Distilling Ban to Its Docket

The justices' Oct. 19 order list also granted review in Association for Education Fairness v. Montgomery County Board of Education and Department of Justice v. McNutt. Both cases will be argued in 2027, with decisions due by late June or early July. One could set the evidence standard for challenging race-neutral school admissions rules; the other could define the limits of Congress's power under the Necessary and Proper Clause.
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us politics 6 Oct 19 4 min read

Four Justices Sit Out Music Copyright Case, Leaving Supreme Court Without a Quorum and Songwriter's Win Intact

Justices Sotomayor, Gorsuch, Barrett and Jackson took no part in BMG Rights Management v. Vetter, so the Court affirmed the 5th Circuit's ruling returning "Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)" rights to its songwriter. The same order list granted review in a Montgomery County, Maryland, disparate impact case. Separately, the Court's conservative justices pressed both sides in the Boulder climate case argued Oct. 5, with a decision expected next year.
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us politics 6 Oct 19 4 min read

Supreme Court Declines Chicago Car-Forfeiture Case as Sotomayor and Gorsuch Voice 'Serious Concerns'

The Supreme Court turned away O'Donnell v. City of Chicago today, Oct. 19, but Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, wrote that she has serious concerns about letting a city seize and sell a car over parking tickets and owe the owner nothing. It is the second time in a week the two have issued a joint statement flagging a constitutional problem in a case the Court would not hear. The circuit split they describe stays unresolved.
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in tech 7 Oct 18 4 min read

India's Supreme Court Declares Internet Access a Fundamental Right for Children, Rejects Blanket Ban

A two-judge bench of India's Supreme Court held in an October 15 order that every individual, children included, has a fundamental right to access the internet, and said blanket restrictions on minors are unproven and disproportionate. The court also ordered a national database to detect and remove child sexual abuse material. The ruling lands as the Centre says it plans to revise IT rules to limit access for under-18s.
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us politics 7 Oct 15 4 min read

Supreme Court Lets FCC Skip Deadline on Party Ad Discounts, Keeps Policy Alive for Nov. 3 Midterms

In an unsigned order on Wednesday, Oct. 14, the Supreme Court lifted a 4th Circuit deadline that would have forced the FCC to rule on Democrats' challenge to cheaper broadcast ad rates for party committees. The discounts stay in place for the final 20 days before the election, and the FCC still has not decided the petition Democrats filed in April.
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us politics 6 Oct 14 4 min read

Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Whether a Newsletter Subscriber Can Sue Under the 1988 Video Privacy Law

The justices heard arguments today, Oct. 14, in Salazar v. Paramount Global, which asks whether subscribing to a non-video product makes someone a protected "consumer" under the Video Privacy Protection Act. Thomas pressed toward a video-related reading while Kagan stressed that consent is easy to get. The ruling will settle a split among four federal appeals courts and decide how far $2,500-per-person damages claims can reach.
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us politics 6 Oct 13 4 min read

Supreme Court Takes Up Whether Cooking for a Nigerian Militant Group Counts as 'Material Support' for Terrorism

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday, Oct. 13, to hear the Trump administration's appeal in the case of Izuchukwu Ozurumba, a Nigerian man who says he was held captive and forced to cook for the Unknown Gunmen. The justices will decide how far the federal terrorism bar on asylum reaches. Arguments are expected next year, with a ruling due by summer.
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us politics 7 Oct 13 4 min read

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Trump Administration Appeal in DOGE Records Case

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Oct. 13, took up the administration's second appeal in CREW's FOIA fight over DOGE, with arguments likely in early 2027 and a ruling by summer. Granting review does not decide the merits. The case will determine how far a court can probe whether DOGE was an advisory body or an agency, and CREW's discovery requests stay frozen until then.
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in politics 5 Oct 13 4 min read

Supreme Court Stays Rahul Gandhi's Criminal Defamation Trial Over 'Chowkidar Chor Hai' Remarks

The Supreme Court on Tuesday, Oct. 13, froze the trial court proceedings against Lok Sabha opposition leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The stay is interim and says nothing on the merits. The court will take the case up again after four weeks.
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in health 4 Oct 13 3 min read

Supreme Court asks India's government why the 30% trade-margin cap covers only cancer drugs

On Monday, Oct. 12, India's Supreme Court told the Centre its new 30% trade-margin cap on anti-cancer drugs is not enough and asked why all non-patented medicines and medical consumables aren't covered. The government says the cap will save patients about Rs 2,500 crore a year and argues that blanket limits could thin out supply in rural areas. The matter returns to court on Oct. 27.
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us politics 7 Oct 12 4 min read

Supreme Court Justices Split on Boulder's Climate Suit Against Exxon and Suncor After Oct. 5 Argument

In the term's opening argument on Oct. 5, the justices pressed both Boulder and the oil companies over whether state courts can hear climate damage suits. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh voiced concern about a flood of local lawsuits, but no majority has emerged. A decision is expected next year and could reach dozens of similar cases.
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us politics 7 Oct 12 5 min read

Supreme Court Asks Government to Answer Challenge to Warrantless Border Phone Searches

On Sept. 29 the Supreme Court asked the federal government to respond to an immigration lawyer's petition over warrantless border phone searches, after the government had waived a response. The 2nd Circuit ruled Sept. 17 that agents need no warrant and no suspicion, deepening a split among the appeals courts. Whether the justices take the case will decide if a traveler's Fourth Amendment protection depends on the airport he flies into.
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in politics 7 Oct 12 3 min read

Opposition Marches on India's Supreme Court Over Voter-Roll Purge as Police Stop Crowds 600 Meters Short and Drop Jantar Mantar as Protest Site

Two days after Delhi Police detained thousands to block a Cockroach Janta Party rally, Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders led a march to the Supreme Court on Monday, Oct. 12, and filed a petition demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's removal. Police also announced that Jantar Mantar, the capital's traditional protest ground, is no longer a designated rally site. The Election Commission and the BJP deny any manipulation of the 130 million-plus deletions.
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us finance 7 Oct 11 4 min read

NFL Tells Supreme Court Prediction Markets Are Sports Gambling, Backs New Jersey Against Kalshi

The NFL filed a friend-of-the-court brief Thursday, Oct. 8, urging the Supreme Court to let states regulate sports contracts on prediction markets. The league says $1.8 billion of the roughly $3.3 billion traded on the season's first Sunday was NFL-related. The justices have not agreed to hear the case, and the CFTC and Kalshi say the league's account is wrong.
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us finance 6 Oct 10 4 min read

Supreme Court Justices Sound Skeptical of Intel 401(k) Suit at Oct. 6 Arguments

The Supreme Court heard Anderson v. Intel on Oct. 6, and justices from both wings appeared unconvinced that workers can sue over a retirement fund's underperformance without a comparable "meaningful benchmark." A ruling may not come until spring. Until then, plan sponsors and Labor Department rules on private investments in 401(k)s are in limbo.
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us politics 7 Oct 8 4 min read

Supreme Court lets third-country deportations continue while it hears the case in December

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court stayed a lower-court ruling that had blocked the administration's deportations to countries other than a migrant's own, with arguments set for December. The program has sent about 25,000 people abroad and carries at least $410 million in authorized or pledged spending across 31 countries. The justices will decide what notice and chance to object migrants must get before removal.
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us sports 7 Oct 8 4 min read

NFL Files Supreme Court Brief Backing New Jersey Against Kalshi, Joining 39 States

The NFL filed an amicus brief Thursday, Oct. 8, urging the Supreme Court to take New Jersey's case against Kalshi and let states regulate sports event contracts as gambling. Attorneys general from 39 states and D.C. filed their own brief a day earlier. Kalshi's response is due Nov. 9, and the justices are not expected to decide whether to hear the case before December.
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us tech 7 Oct 7 4 min read

Supreme Court to Hear Case Over Meta's Secret Video Tracking on October 14

The Supreme Court takes up Salazar v. Paramount Global on October 14 to decide who can sue under a 1988 video privacy law now being used against Meta Pixel tracking on modern websites. The law carries $2,500-per-violation damages with no cap on class size and no requirement to prove actual harm, which is why Meta, the Chamber of Commerce, and major retailers are fighting to keep the law narrow while a privacy group pushes the other way.
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us politics 8 Oct 6 4 min read

Supreme Court's New Term Opens With Three Immigration Wins for Trump in a Single Week

In the first week of its new term, the Supreme Court cleared the way for Trump to end TPS for Venezuelans, let third-country deportations continue, and paused a block on expanded citizenship checks for voter rolls. The justices also agreed to referee a fourth immigration fight, over detention without bond hearings, with arguments expected later this term.
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in politics 8 Oct 6 4 min read

India's Supreme Court Demands Answers as Voter Roll Purge Hits 130 Million Names, Protests Widen

Since the Special Intensive Revision of India's voter rolls began in Bihar last year, the Election Commission says it has removed some 130 million names nationwide, and the Supreme Court issued notices Monday to Modi's government, the commission and its chief Gyanesh Kumar demanding answers. Protests over the purge have merged with unrelated anger over a Delhi gang-rape case and a student suicide tied to alleged caste harassment, turning a bureaucratic voter-list fight into the broadest street movement Modi has faced since returning to office.
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us politics 8 Oct 5 4 min read

Supreme Court Opens New Term Hearing Big Oil's Bid to Kill Boulder's Climate Damages Lawsuit

The Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, where ExxonMobil and Suncor are trying to shut down a 2018 Colorado lawsuit seeking climate damages before it even reaches trial. Justice Samuel Alito sat this one out over his oil stock holdings, and the Trump administration is backing the companies, arguing no single state gets to regulate a global problem through its own courts.
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us politics 7 Oct 5 4 min read

Supreme Court Hears Case on Whether Veterans Can Sue Over Benefits Laws in Federal Court

The Supreme Court heard arguments today in Johnson v. United States Congress, a case asking whether veterans can challenge the constitutionality of benefits laws directly in federal district court or must go through the VA's own appeals system first. The case centers on a Florida veteran whose PTSD disability rating was slashed to 10 percent after he went to prison, and the ruling could reshape how thousands of veterans challenge benefit cuts.
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us politics 6 Oct 4 3 min read

Georgia Supreme Court Says State Police Are Not Immune From Paying for Property They Destroy

A unanimous Georgia Supreme Court ruling tossed 60 years of precedent that let police dodge compensation claims by invoking vague police power. The case started when state helicopters allegedly wrecked $37,000 of legal hemp crops during a 2021 drug raid near Dahlonega. The farm's lawsuit isn't won yet, it just gets to proceed.
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il politics 7 Oct 3 4 min read

Israel's Supreme Court Reinstates Arab Parties for Oct. 27 Vote, But Pressures One Leader Into Quitting

Israel's Supreme Court unanimously overturned a Central Elections Committee ban on four Arab-majority parties and lawmaker Ofer Cassif, but judges indicated a majority was prepared to uphold the disqualification of Balad leader Sami Abu Shehadeh over a 2023 article about the October 7 attack, leading him to withdraw. Far-right parties accused of inciting violence against Palestinians were cleared by the same committee without a fight.
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us politics 7 Oct 2 4 min read

Supreme Court Takes Up Kentucky Church's Prayer Grotto Case, Teeing Up Nationwide Zoning Fight

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a Park Hills, Kentucky church's fight to build a small Marian shrine on its own property after state courts blocked it. The case could reshape how far local zoning boards can go in restricting religious land use nationwide, and it pits a federal religious-liberty law against neighbors who say the board broke its own rules.
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us politics 8 Oct 1 4 min read

Louisiana, Alabama and Arkansas Sue New York, California and Massachusetts at Supreme Court Over Abortion Pill Shield Laws

Three Republican-led states asked the Supreme Court directly to strike down blue-state laws shielding abortion pill providers from prosecution, while also suing more than 30 providers and organizations in federal court in Louisiana. It's the first time states have sued other states over shield laws, according to law professor Mary Ziegler, and the case lands six weeks before the midterms.
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us politics 8 Oct 1 3 min read

Supreme Court Agrees to Decide If Trump Can Detain Immigrants Without Bond Hearings

The Supreme Court said Thursday it will rule on whether the Trump administration can hold immigrants in detention indefinitely during deportation proceedings without a bond hearing. Nine of eleven federal appeals courts have ruled against the policy, and advocates say roughly 70% of those detained have no criminal convictions, though unlawful presence itself is a civil immigration violation, not a crime. The justices limited the case to a narrower statutory question and skipped the bigger due process fight for now.
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us politics 8 Sep 30 4 min read

Legal Immigration From Muslim-Majority Nations Drops 96% as Supreme Court Lets Third-Country Deportations Resume

The White House is touting a 96% drop in legal immigration from Muslim-majority countries, built on numbers from the libertarian Cato Institute whose own analyst calls the policy illegal and harmful. Separately, the Supreme Court cleared the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to third countries like South Sudan and Uganda while the case proceeds, part of a $410 million deportation network the Washington Post says is run out of a State Department office most Americans have never heard of.
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us politics 6 Sep 30 4 min read

6th Circuit Halts Christa Pike's Execution an Hour Before Scheduled Death, Tennessee Appeals to Supreme Court

Tennessee came within about an hour of executing Christa Pike on Wednesday before the 6th Circuit stepped in on a 2-1 vote to review whether her childhood sexual abuse claims were properly weighed at sentencing. The state's attorney general immediately appealed to the Supreme Court, which had already rejected an earlier stay request, leaving the case in limbo with witnesses still waiting at the prison.
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us politics 8 Sep 30 4 min read

Supreme Court Revives Trump Third-Country Deportations, 6-3, on Emergency Docket

The Supreme Court's conservative majority let the Trump administration resume deporting migrants to countries that aren't their own, staying a lower court block while the case heads to full arguments in December. It's the latest in a record run of emergency-docket wins for the administration, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is publicly fed up with how the court is doing it.
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us politics 7 Sep 29 4 min read

DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Let Federal Prisons Cut Off Hormone Therapy and Surgery for Transgender Inmates

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday, September 28, to lift a lower-court order that has kept a Bureau of Prisons policy restricting transgender inmates' medical care on hold. Two courts have already blocked the policy, and the Bureau of Prisons says a 3,200-page review found the standards it used to rely on were unreliable. The justices gave the inmates' lawyers until October 8 to respond.
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us politics 8 Sep 29 4 min read

Supreme Court Lets Trump's Voter Database Expand While Third-Country Deportation Fight Sits Unresolved

The Supreme Court gave Trump a 6-3 win on his DHS voter-citizenship database this week, but a separate fight over deporting migrants to random third countries is still pending after the First Circuit blocked it on September 18. UN human rights experts demanded Monday that the practice end entirely, while the Justice Department says the ruling has already cost it a deportation flight and diplomatic goodwill.
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us politics 7 Sep 29 4 min read

Supreme Court Opens October Term 2026 With Gun Rights, Climate Lawsuits and Religious School Cases on the Docket

The Supreme Court's October Term 2026 begins Monday, October 5, with cases on AR-15 bans, climate lawsuits against energy companies, and parochial school funding already teed up. The justices met today for the Long Conference to sort through cert petitions that piled up over the summer, and the full order list drops next Monday.
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in health 6 Sep 28 4 min read

India's Supreme Court Calls Recent Delhi-NCR Rape Cases a 'Systematic Failure' of Law Enforcement

India's Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance Monday of a string of rape cases in Delhi-NCR, saying they expose a systemic failure by police and public administrators to guarantee basic safety. The bench invoked the 2012 Nirbhaya case and bluntly told authorities that 'expressing solidarity is not a solution.' Fourteen years after Nirbhaya triggered nationwide protests and new laws, the same failures, no CCTV, no patrols, no police checkpoints, are showing up again.
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in finance 5 Sep 27 3 min read

Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to India's New UPI Merchant Fee on Monday, September 28

India's Supreme Court will hear a plea Monday against the government's decision to end six years of free UPI payments by charging merchants a 0.4% fee on transactions over Rs 2,000, starting October 15. The petitioner says the fee was imposed by notification and FAQs, not law, and treats RuPay debit cards more favorably than UPI, no different classes of card, same public rulebook, applied differently.
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us politics 7 Sep 26 4 min read

Democrats Narrow GOP's Voter Registration Lead in Alaska as Supreme Court Backs Trump's Voter Database, 38 Days Out

New voter rolls show Democrats have shaved the Republican registration advantage in Alaska and other red states with competitive Senate races, while the Supreme Court let the Trump administration's revamped SAVE eligibility database keep running for now. Neither development guarantees an outcome in November, but both are shaping how the fight over the electorate itself is playing out before Election Day.
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il politics 8 Sep 26 4 min read

Israel Election Committee Votes to Bar Joint List and Ra'am From October 27 Vote, Supreme Court to Review

Israel's Central Elections Committee voted to disqualify the Joint List and Ra'am, the two main Arab-majority parties, from next month's Knesset election, along with two individual lawmakers. The Supreme Court, which has overturned similar bans before, is set to review the decisions next week, and the vote drew support from some opposition figures alongside the ruling coalition.
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us politics 8 Sep 26 4 min read

Supreme Court Kills Missouri's GOP Redistricting Map for Good, Third Loss for Trump-Backed Plan This Month

The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Missouri must use its 2022 congressional map in November, not the Trump-backed 2025 version that would have given Republicans a shot at a seventh House seat. It's the third time this month the justices have shot down the GOP map, and the unsigned opinion made clear the fight is over: absentee ballots are already out under the old lines.
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