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Supreme Court Questions Prosecutors’ Focus on Sex in Capital Case

The court instructed an appeals court to reconsider whether lurid evidence tainted the trial of Brenda Andrew, the only woman on Oklahoma’s death row.

Supreme Court to Hear Case on Religious Objections to L.G.B.T.Q. Storybooks

Parents in Maryland said a school board’s refusal to notify them and to excuse their children from discussions of the storybooks violated the First Amendment.

¿Qué pasa con TikTok? La Corte Suprema respalda la venta o prohibición

La empresa argumentaba que la ley violaba sus derechos de libertad de expresión y los de sus 170 millones de usuarios estadounidenses.

Supreme Court Backs Law Requiring TikTok to Be Sold or Banned

The company argued that the law, citing potential Chinese threats to the nation’s security, violated its First Amendment rights and those of its 170 million...

Supreme Court Seems Ready to Back Texas Law Limiting Access to Pornography

The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are 18, was challenged on First Amendment...

Cookies, Cocktails and Mushrooms on the Menu as Supreme Court Hears Bank Fraud Case

In trying to find the line between false statements and misleading ones in the case of a Chicago politician, members of the Supreme Court posed...

Supreme Court to Hear New Affordable Care Act Case on Preventative Care

Lower courts ruled that a task force that determines which treatments must be covered at no cost had not been validly appointed.

Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Could Shut Down TikTok

The justices are expected to rule quickly in the case, which pits national security concerns about China against the First Amendment’s protection of free speech.

Supreme Court Rebuke of Trump on Sentencing Shows Its Divisions

Two Republican appointees, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett, joined the court’s three liberals in ordering the president-elect to face sentencing on Friday.

TikTok Case Before Supreme Court Pits National Security Against Free Speech

The court, which hears arguments on Friday in a challenge to a law banning the app, has issued varying rulings when those two interests clashed.

Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing

The justice said that the call was a job reference for one of his former clerks and that the request to stay the president-elect’s sentencing...

Courts in ‘State of Disarray’ on Law Disarming Felons

The Supreme Court has repeatedly ducked Second Amendment challenges to the law. Starkly differing decisions from federal appeals courts last month may change that.