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Supreme Court rules for Michigan in its fight to shut down an aging energy pipeline
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with Michigan in ruling that the state's lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court that the Enbridge energy company waited too long to try to move the case to federal court.
Supreme Court seems inclined to keep Lisa Cook on Fed board despite Trump attempt to fire her
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed inclined to keep Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook in her job, casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s bid to wrest control of the nation's central bank. The justices heard arguments over Trump’s effort to fire Cook based on allegations she committed mortgage fraud, which she denies. No president has fired a sitting governor in the 112-year history of the Fed, which was structured to be independent of day-to-day politics.
Corte Suprema aborda caso político que decidirá independencia de la Reserva Federal
WASHINGTON (AP) — El intento sin precedentes del presidente Donald Trump de remodelar la junta de la Reserva Federal está colocando a la Corte Suprema en una posición familiar, sopesando una apelación de emergencia en un caso políticamente cargado. La corte está escuchando argumentos sobre el esfuerzo de Trump para destituir a Lisa Cook, una de las gobernadoras del banco central, basándose en acusaciones de que cometió fraude hipotecario, lo cual ella niega.
Supreme Court will decide on use of warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users
U.S. Supreme Court is seen, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) by: MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Posted: Jan 16, 2026 / 01:31 PM MST Updated: Jan 16, 2026 / 01:31 PM MST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the constitutionality of broad search warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes.
Supreme Court will decide on use of warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the constitutionality of broad search warrants that collect the location history of cellphone users to find people near crime scenes. The case involves what is a known as a “geofence warrant” that was served on Google in a police hunt for a bank robber in suburban Richmond, Virginia. Geofence warrants, an increasingly popular investigative tool, seek location data on every person within a specific location over a certain period of time.
Supreme Court will hear appeal by maker of popular Roundup weedkiller to block thousands of lawsuits
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an appeal from global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer to block thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer. The justices will consider whether the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of the Roundup weedkiller without a cancer warning should rule out the state court claims.
Supreme Court will take up Cisco’s bid to shut down lawsuit by Falun Gong
FILE – The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill, Nov. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) by: MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Posted: Jan 9, 2026 / 03:39 PM MST Updated: Jan 9, 2026 / 03:39 PM MST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up an appeal from tech giant Cisco seeking to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China.
Supreme Court will hear appeal of Black death row inmate over racial bias in Mississippi jury makeup
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a prosecutor with a history of dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons. A federal judge had previously overturned the murder conviction of the inmate, Terry Pitchford, but an appeals court reversed that ruling.
Corte Suprema de EEUU podría ampliar el poder presidencial de Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — El presidente de la Corte Suprema, John Roberts, ha encabezado a la mayoría conservadora del máximo tribunal en una marcha constante para aumentar el poder de la presidencia desde mucho antes de la época del presidente Donald Trump en la Casa Blanca. Los jueces podrían dar el siguiente paso en un caso que se argumentará el lunes, en el que se pide la revocación de un fallo unánime de hace 90 años que limita la autoridad ejecutiva.
Supreme Court will decide whether states can count late-arriving mail ballots, a Trump target
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump. The justices took up an appeal from Mississippi after a panel of three judges nominated by the Republican president on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the state law allowing ballots that arrive shortly after Election Day to be counted violated federal law.
Supreme Court weighs longshot appeal to overturn decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
WASHINGTON (AP) — A call to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide is on the agenda Friday for the justices' closed-door conference. Among the new cases the justices are expected to consider is a longshot appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
En tema de aranceles, ¿tratará la Corte Suprema a Trump como lo hizo con Biden?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Una gran pregunta se cierne sobre el caso de los aranceles del presidente Donald Trump que está debatiendo la Corte Suprema: ¿Mantendrá la mayoría conservadora al mandatario republicano bajo los mismos estándares exigentes que utilizó para limitar a su predecesor demócrata, Joe Biden?
How a 2018 Supreme Court decision paved the way for meteoric growth in legal sports betting
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial. That high-court ruling is back in the spotlight after the arrests on Thursday of more than 30 people, including an NBA player and coach, in two cases alleging sprawling criminal schemes to rake in millions by rigging sports bets and poker games involving Mafia families.
Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.
New Supreme Court term confronts justices with Trump's aggressive assertion of presidential power
WASHINGTON (AP) — A monumental Supreme Court term begins Monday with major tests of presidential power on the agenda along with pivotal cases on voting and the rights of LGBTQ people. The court's conservative majority has so far been receptive, at least in preliminary rulings, to many of President Donald Trump's aggressive assertions of authority.
Corte Suprema permite a Trump retirar protecciones a más de 300.000 migrantes venezolanos
WASHINGTON (AP) — La Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos permitió el viernes que el gobierno del presidente Donald Trump retire las protecciones legales a más de 300.000 migrantes venezolanos.
Supreme Court lets Lisa Cook remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Lisa Cook to remain as a Federal Reserve governor for now, declining to act on the Trump administration’s effort to immediately remove her from the central bank. In a brief unsigned order, the high court said it would hear arguments in January over Republican President Donald Trump’s effort to force Cook off the Fed board.
Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold restrictions he wants to impose on birthright citizenship
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump 's administration is asking the Supreme Court to uphold his birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The appeal, shared with The Associated Press on Saturday, sets in motion a process at the high court that could lead to a definitive ruling from the justices by early summer on whether the citizenship restrictions are constitutional.
Supreme Court keeps in place Trump funding freeze that threatens billions of dollars in foreign aid
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday extended an order that allows President Donald Trump's administration to keep frozen nearly $5 billion in foreign aid, handing him another victory in a dispute over presidential power. With the three liberal justices in dissent, the court's conservative majority granted the Republican administration’s emergency appeal in a case involving billions of dollars in congressionally approved aid.
Greenspan, Bernanke y Yellen instan a Corte Suprema a mantener a Lisa Cook como gobernadora de Fed
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen y otros ex altos funcionarios económicos designados por presidentes de ambos partidos instaron el jueves a la Corte Suprema a preservar la independencia política de la Reserva Federal y permitir que Lisa Cook permanezca como gobernadora del banco central por ahora.
Greenspan, Bernanke and Yellen urge Supreme Court to let Lisa Cook keep her job as a Fed governor
WASHINGTON (AP) — Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Janet Yellen and other former top economic officials appointed by presidents of both parties urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to preserve the Federal Reserve's political independence and allow Lisa Cook to remain as a central bank governor for now. The justices are weighing an emergency appeal from the administration to remove Cook while her lawsuit challenging her firing by Republican President Donald Trump proceeds through the courts.
Kavanaugh says no one has too much power in US system. Critics see Supreme Court bowing to Trump
WACO, Texas (AP) — Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the genius of the American system of government is that no one should have too much power, even as he and other conservatives on the Supreme Court are facing criticism for deferring repeatedly to President Donald Trump. Invoking the list of grievances against King George III that the nation’s founders included in the Declaration of Independence, Kavanaugh said Thursday the framers of the Constitution were set on avoiding the concentration of power.
Trump asks Supreme Court for emergency order to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid frozen. The crux of the legal fight is over nearly $5 billion in congressionally approved aid that President Donald Trump last month said he would not spend, invoking disputed authority that was last used by a president roughly 50 years ago.
Louisiana urges Supreme Court to bar use of race in redistricting, in attack on Voting Rights Act
WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana on Wednesday abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act.
Takeaways from the Supreme Court's term: largely good news for Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has been very good to President Donald Trump lately. Even before he won a new term in the White House, the court eliminated any doubt about whether Trump could appear on presidential ballots, then effectively spared him from having to stand trial before the 2024 election on criminal charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election.
The 'state secrets privilege' sounds mysterious. Here's what it is and how it works
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is invoking a powerful tool in seeking to cut off a judge's inquiry into whether it defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants who were being deported from the United States. The Justice Department said in court papers Monday that it was invoking the “state secrets privilege” in refusing to provide details demanded by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg about flights that carried the migrants to El Salvador earlier this month.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Wednesday left in place Virginia's purge voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting. One Virginian, whose registration was canceled despite living in the state her entire life, called the purge "a very bad October surprise." The high court, over the dissents of the three liberal justices, granted an emergency appeal from Virginia's Republican administration led by Gov.
Supreme Court again confronts the issue of abortion, this time over access to widely used medication
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will again wade into the fractious issue of abortion this week when it hears arguments over a medication used in the most common way to end a pregnancy, a case with profound implications for millions of women no matter where they live in America and, perhaps, for the race for the White House. Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
The Supreme Court seems likely to preserve a gun law that protects domestic violence victims
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to preserve a federal law that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. In their first guns case since last year’s expansion of gun rights, the justices suggested that they will reverse a ruling from an appeals court in New Orleans that struck down the 1994 ban on firearms for people under court order to stay away from their spouses or partners. Already a Subscriber?
The Supreme Court fight over an abortion pill: What’s next?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court initially gave itself a deadline of Wednesday to decide whether women seeking access to a widely used abortion pill would face more restrictions while a court case plays out. But on the day of the highly anticipated decision the justices had only this to say: We need more time. In a one-sentence order, the court said it now expects to act by Friday evening. There was no explanation of the reason for the delay.
Justices’ past abortion views, in their own words and votes
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a month ago, a stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that the Supreme Court was prepared to take the momentous step of overruling the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade from 1973 and stripping away women’s constitutional protections for abortion. And that’s just what the court’s conservative majority ended up doing Friday in a ruling likely to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
By MARK SHERMAN WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Breaking: Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade; States Can Ban Abortion
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. Idaho is among the states that will now ban virtually all abortions.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; States can ban abortion
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Poll: High Court Approval Drops After Abortion Opinion Leak
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Public approval of the Supreme Court has fallen following the leak of a draft opinion that would overturn the Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing abortion rights nationwide, according to a poll.
Ginni Thomas’ emails deepen her involvement in 2020 election
WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a conservative political activist, urged Republican lawmakers in Arizona after the 2020 presidential election to choose their own slate of electors, arguing that results giving Joe Biden a victory in the state were marred by fraud. The revelations first published by The Washington Post on Friday show that Thomas was more involved than previously known in efforts, based on unsubstantiated claims...
Justices Limit Federal Court Review of Some Deportations
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday ruled that federal courts are powerless to review immigration officials' decisions in some deportation cases, even when they have made what a dissenting justice called “egregious factual mistakes.” The court ruled 5-4 against Georgia resident Pankajkumar Patel, who checked a box indicating he was a U.S. citizen when renewing his Georgia driver’s license in 2008.
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