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States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules
South Carolina’s Republican Governor says no taxpayer money should go the organization.
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Supreme Court widens court options for vaping companies pushing back against FDA rules
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids called the majority decision disappointing.
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Attorneys want the U.S. Supreme Court to say Mississippi’s felony voting ban is cruel and unusual
Attorneys who sued Mississippi over voting rights say the authors of the state’s 1890 constitution based disenfranchisement on a list of crimes they thought Black people were more likely to commit.
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Feds file new indictment in Donald Trump Jan. 6 case, keeping charges intact but narrowing allegations
In a statement on his Truth Social platform, Trump called the new indictment ‘an act of desperation’ and an ‘effort to resurrect a ‘dead’ Witch Hunt.’’
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High court passes on case of Georgia man on death row who says Black jurors were wrongly purged
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissent, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, saying she would send the case back to the 11th Circuit to consider King’s claims under the Batson rule without deferring to the state court findings.
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Supreme Court orders Louisiana to use congressional map with additional Black district in 2024 vote
Louisiana has had two congressional maps blocked by federal courts in the past two years in a swirl of lawsuits that included a previous intervention by the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court allows Texas to begin enforcing law that lets police arrest migrants at border
The high court didn’t address whether the law is constitutional. The measure now goes back to an appellate court and could eventually return to the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court restores Donald Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack
The decision, which came the day before Super Tuesday, has national implications.
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Fani Willis’ testimony evokes long-standing frustrations for Black women leaders
‘When white power, particularly white men, are being held to account … the first thing to do is to disqualify the people that are holding them accountable.’
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Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire Texas installed on U.S.-Mexico border
‘This case is ongoing, and Governor Abbott will continue fighting to defend Texas’ property and its constitutional authority to secure the border.’