All posts tagged "Supreme Court"

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  Supreme Court rejects Trump over ‘Dreamers’ immigrants

  President's action would have begun rescinding protections in March

  • Posted February 26, 2018
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  Supreme Court conservatives on rise as important term begins

  Important cases remain, such as gay rights, religious freedoms and the polarized American electorate

  • Posted October 1, 2017
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  Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate travel ban

  Also wants to be able to suspend the refugee program for 120 days

  • Posted June 2, 2017
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  AP EXPLAINS: What is the Senate’s ‘nuclear option’?

  Republicans and Democrats collide over Trump's Supreme Court nominee

  • Posted March 27, 2017
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  Supreme Court limits president’s power to fill temporary posts

  By Sam Hananel WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court on Tuesday limited the president’s power to temporarily fill vacant government posts while nominations are tied up in partisan political fights. The 6-2 ruling said a former top...

  • Posted March 21, 2017
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  Supreme Court skeptical of sex offender social media ban

  WASHINGTON — With a nod to the importance of social media in American life, the Supreme Court signaled Monday it could strike down a North Carolina law that bars convicted sex offenders from Facebook, Twitter and other...

  • Posted February 27, 2017
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  Gorsuch often sided with employers in workers’ rights cases

  The case tugs at the heartstrings: A popular Kansas State University professor battles breast cancer, then leukemia. The school won’t extend her six-month sick leave, she loses her job and she cannot get rehired. She sues for...

  • Posted February 27, 2017
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  Supreme Court could decide transgender case. Or not.

  WASHINGTON — Both the transgender teen who sued to use a boys’ bathroom and the Virginia school board that won’t let him still want the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling in their ongoing dispute, even...

  • Posted February 24, 2017
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  Arkansas Supreme Court strikes city’s LGBT protections

  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a city’s ordinance banning discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, but it stopped short of saying whether a state law aimed...

  • Posted February 23, 2017
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  Justice Ginsburg praises media and the role of free press

  WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is praising the media at a time when the Trump administration has accused reporters of being dishonest and delivering “fake news.” Ginsburg told the BBC’s “Newsnight” program in an...

  • Posted February 23, 2017