The U.S. Supreme Court

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Some familiar names to the Supreme Court in a death row case over racial bias in jury makeup

WASHINGTON (AP) — Certain names will be familiar to the Supreme Court in the latest case involving a Black death row inmate from Mississippi, with arguments set for Tuesday.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-mississippi-death-row-black-jurors-9659f62345fdbd24b3b10f476272692d?

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The 14th Amendment speaks for itself

On April 1, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the ACLU’s challenge to President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. Here’s the deal: The president’s executive order violates the Constitution, Supreme Court precedent and federal statute. Learn more. Supreme Court rules against Colorado ban on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice. https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-conversion-therapy-colorado-92b34295f9ef497a4a1cbeb56c9b74c6? 🧑‍⚖️ The Supreme Court sided with a Christian talk therapist who argued that a Colorado law banning the discredited practice of conversion therapy violated her First Amendment rights. Go deeper.

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Birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today on President Donald Trump's executive order attempting to end automatic birthright citizenship — the constitutional guarantee that anyone born in the US is a citizen. The case comes more than a year after Trump signed the order. He has since repeatedly argued that the right was originally intended for the babies of slaves after the Civil War and should no longer apply. Political experts say this case will not be easy to win — a ruling for Trump would upend a long-standing tenet of constitutional law and have significant implications for US citizens, who could face new hurdles in documenting newborns.

WATCH: Trump says he'll attend Supreme Court arguments on birthright citizenship ps:What so we can intimidate the Judges?????

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Supreme Court seems poised to reject Trump’s birthright citizenship limits as he attends arguments

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to reject President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship in a momentous case that was magnified by his unparalleled presence in the courtroom.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-birthright-citizenship-immigrants-4dca3a4e06f58d4378412ed711fab3a8?

Supreme Court seems likely to rule for a Black death row inmate in Mississippi

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to rule for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-race-discrimination-mississippi-jury-selection-c5cbadb5ab451dea7f4dc96d9b60ef59?

Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship as he attends arguments

The Supreme Court is casting doubt on the Trump administration’s restrictions on birthright citizenship in a consequential case that was magnified by the Republican president’s unparalleled presence in the courtroom. Conservative and liberal justices on Wednesday questioned whether Trump’s order declaring that children born to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily are not U.S. citizens comports with either the Constitution or federal law. Trump, the first sitting president to attend arguments at the nation’s highest court, spent just over an hour inside the courtroom for arguments. Read more.

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Steve Bannon wins Supreme Court order likely to lead to dismissal of contempt of Congress conviction

WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, on Monday won a Supreme Court order that is expected to lead to the dismissal of his criminal conviction for refusing to testify to Congress.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-capitol-riot-bannon-trump-4a4cf324096fc1bfed204d42b54d191e?

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🧑‍⚖️ The Supreme Court struck down a lower-court ruling blocking Texas from using its new congressional map that favors Republicans.

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US Supreme Court weighs how far police investigations can go in using cellphone location data

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday appeared likely to allow law enforcement to continue seeking warrants for the location history of cellphones near crime scenes, even as the justices wrestled with how far the government must go to protect Americans’ privacy.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/04/27/repub/us-supreme-court-weighs-how-far-police-investigations-can-go-in-using-cellphone-location-data/?

US Supreme Court to hear case on legal status of more than 350,000 Haitians and Syrians

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will hear oral arguments on the Trump administration’s efforts to strip temporary legal status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians, a move that could open them up to deportation.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/04/27/repub/us-supreme-court-to-hear-case-on-legal-status-of-more-than-350000-haitians-and-syrians/?

US Supreme Court hears arguments on cancer warning labels for Roundup weedkiller

The U.S. Supreme Court could be ready to overturn a Missouri state court verdict that favored a man who sued the manufacturer of the popular herbicide Roundup for lacking any warning that the product carried a risk of cancer after oral arguments in the case Monday.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/04/27/repub/us-supreme-court-hears-arguments-on-cancer-warning-labels-for-roundup-weedkiller/?

Supreme Court weakens the Voting Rights Act and aids GOP efforts to control the House

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere, striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana and opening the door for more redistricting across the country that could aid Republican efforts to control the House.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-voting-rights-congressional-redistricting-louisiana-aa5d7dbde7c13654f341d152c2ad5229?

ps:And I thought that we were all created equal!!!!!

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SCOTUS ruling could change U.S. voting forever

Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision today limiting the Voting Rights Act could reshape voting across the South and boost Republicans' House majority, Axios' Josephine Walker reports. Writing for the majority in Louisiana v. Callais, Justice Samuel Alito found that Louisiana's use of race in creating a new majority-minority district was an "unconstitutional racial gerrymander." 🙅 The ruling effectively narrows Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits gerrymandering along racial lines. The Court rewrote the Section 2 test in such a way that protects gerrymandering along partisan lines. 🗳️ VRA opponents have argued that using it to remedy racially discriminatory maps is itself a form of racial gerrymandering limited by the 14th Amendment. Partisan gerrymandering was already a shield in racial gerrymandering cases: Republican lawmakers have argued that their maps are pro-GOP, not anti-Black. The Callais decision goes further, saying that outright partisan goals can protect maps from VRA challenges. 📝 Alito writes in his opinion: "Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it." "Unfortunately, lower courts have sometimes applied this Court's precedents in a way that forces States to engage in the very race-based discrimination that the Constitution forbids." 👩‍⚖️ Justice Elena Kagan dissented, arguing that the ruling "threatens a half-century's worth of gains in voting equality." 🎰 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was betting on the court's decision to aid his own redistricting push. Almost immediately after SCOTUS' decision came down, the Florida House approved a new congressional map that could add four more Republicans to the U.S. House. Go deeper ... Dems react: "Devastating blow."

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Supreme Court weakens a landmark Civil Rights-era law and aids GOP efforts to control the House

The Supreme Court on Wednesday weakened a landmark Civil Rights-era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere, striking down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana and opening the door for more redistricting across the country that could aid Republican efforts to control the House. Read more.   Big decision In a major ruling that could shape the midterm elections, the Supreme Court limited the reach of the Voting Rights Act. The conservative majority tossed out Louisiana’s congressional map as unconstitutional. ➕ Court signals it will side with President Donald Trump on Haitian and Syrian migrants.

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Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a lower-court ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortions are provided across the nation.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-mifepristone-supreme-court-louisiana-0533e83d67148fdfec53b1d0d30c1e8a?

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Supreme Court temporarily extends women’s access to a widely used abortion pill

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is leaving women’s access to a widely used abortion pill untouched until at least Thursday, while the justices consider whether to allow restrictions on the drug, mifepristone, to take effect.

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-mifepristone-supreme-court-louisiana-5cb02123db6e8e5520cd995efc751b82?

Democrats ask the Supreme Court to halt a Virginia ruling blocking new congressional districts

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on Monday filed an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a Virginia ruling invalidating a ballot measure that would have given their party an additional four winnable U.S. House seats.

https://apnews.com/article/virginia-democrats-redistricting-congress-supreme-court-ceb7d76e5a39ac87e67cb165f5447835?

Supreme Court halts order for Alabama to use US House map with 2 largely Black districts

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set the stage for Alabama to eliminate one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year’s midterm elections, creating an opening for Republicans to gain an additional U.S. House seat in a partisan battle for control of the closely divided chamber.

https://apnews.com/article/alabama-redistricting-supreme-court-congress-ba371351585b79c2965f9efb0332f33d?

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Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is beginning to hand down opinions in key cases for the 2025-2026 term that will have far-reaching implications for millions of Americans. Most of the biggest decisions are typically released in May and June before the justices break for the summer, though the court has already issued a few major rulings this year. Read more.

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Supreme Court rejects Virginia’s bid to restore congressional map favoring Democrats

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the closely divided House of Representatives.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-virginia-redistricting-democrats-republicans-fdd33b89ac29cf2806f790f9b22ee2e9?

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US Supreme Court’s uneven rulings in election lead-up causing chaos, experts say

When the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Texas’ gerrymandered congressional map to take effect in December, its conservative majority wrote that a lower court had “improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign” when it blocked the map more than three months before the election.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2026/05/19/repub/us-supreme-courts-uneven-rulings-in-election-lead-up-causing-chaos-experts-say/?

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Supreme Court won't intervene in discrimination suit led by Black ex-head coach Flores against NFL

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to intervene in a discrimination lawsuit led by former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores against the NFL, allowing the case to proceed toward trial. The justices rebuffed an appeal from the league, which wanted the case handled through its arbitration process rather than open court in New York. Read more.

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