KETANJI BROWN JACKSON

The Supreme Court is being warned about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex couples.

Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger, Herschel Walker, are pivoting to a second and decisive round of their Senate race in Georgia.

If justices side with plaintiffs, it would diminish the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.

The case involved an Ohio man on death row for the 1989 murder of Bryan Jones.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion, a short dissent Monday in support of a death row inmate from Ohio. Jackson wrote that she would have thrown out lower court rulings in the case of inmate Davel Chinn, whose lawyers argued that the state suppressed evidence that might have altered the outcome of his trial. Jackson, in a two-page opinion, wrote that she would have ordered a new look at Chinn's case “because his life is on the line and given the substantial likelihood that the suppressed records would have changed the outcome at trial.”Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only other member of the court to join Jackson's opinion. The two justices also were allies in dissent Monday in Sotomayor's opinion that there was serious prosecutorial misconduct in the trial of a Louisiana man who was convicted of sex trafficking. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.

New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion.

New Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued her first Supreme Court opinion, a short dissent Monday in support of a death row inmate from Ohio. Jackson wrote that she would have thrown out lower court rulings in the case of inmate Davel Chinn, whose lawyers argued that the state suppressed evidence that might have altered the outcome of his trial. Justice Sonia Sotomayor was the only other member of the court to join Jackson's opinion.

The Supreme Court will hear a water dispute involving the U.S. government and the Navajo Nation.

The Supreme Court looks more like America than it ever has.

Plus: The plastic-recycling conundrum

Reddit users criticized Republicans and the Supreme Court after legal experts suggested that the Justices may vote to end affirmative action in colleges.

A lawyer for a man on Arizona’s death row has told the U.S. Supreme Court that jurors in the case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure the man would never walk free was to sentence him to death.

The Court’s newest member wanted to know what fairness looks like if you take race out of the equation.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The fate of affirmative action for college admissions is now in the hands of the United States Supreme Court. Opponents of affirmative action argue it gives an unfair advantage to some minority students. “The fact that affirmative action could be overturned, and we could regress to a campus that is more predominantly white- which it already is- but being even more so is honestly scary,” UNC student Sarah Zhang said. Conservative justices on the Supreme Court appeared to question the legality of affirmative action during Monday’s arguments. The Supreme Court, which currently has a conservative majority, is expected to hand down a ruling in the case by the summer.

Justice Clarence Thomas, the court's second Black justice who has a long record of opposition to affirmative action programs, noted he didn't go to racially diverse schools. The Supreme Court has twice upheld race-conscious college admissions programs in the past 19 years, including just six years ago. In 2020, California voters easily rejected a ballot measure to bring back affirmative action. A Gallup Poll from 2021 found 62% of Americans in favor of affirmative action programs for racial minorities. A decision in the affirmative action cases is not expected before late spring.

Today, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments that will likely result in its overturning of affirmative action in education. The plaintiffs allege that race-conscious school admissions are a form of discrimination against White and Asian students. It’s bad! But there are actually two separate arguments today about the constitutionality about affirmative action, because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from one due to a potential conflict of interest. Justice Clarence Thomas is seein

The Supreme Court has twice upheld race-conscious college admissions programs in the past 19 years, including just six years ago.

Eighty-two major U.S. companies have called on the Supreme Court to uphold race-based college admissions, as the Court is set to hear oral arguments.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — The future of affirmative action in higher education is on the table as the Supreme Court wades into the admissions programs at the nation's oldest public and private universities. The Supreme Court has twice upheld race-conscious college admissions programs in the past 19 years, including just six years ago. The group argues that the Constitution forbids the use of race in college admissions and calls for overturning earlier Supreme Court decisions that said otherwise. In 2020, California voters easily rejected a ballot measure to bring back affirmative action. A Gallup Poll from 2021 found 62% of Americans in favor of affirmative action programs for racial minorities.

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education.

A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the use of affirmative action in higher education.

Two Black justices, one Latina and an ascendant conservative bloc take up race-based college admissions policies that have splintered previous courts.

“Diversity on college campuses is good, but it shouldn’t come at the expense of fairness,” said James, the chairman of UNC College Republicans. But she is taking part in the North Carolina case, which strongly suggests the court would use that case if it ends up making a major pronouncement on affirmative action. In California, the same electorate that gave President Joe Biden a 5-million-vote margin over Trump in 2020 handily rejected a proposal to revive affirmative action. A Gallup Poll from 2021 found 62% of Americans in favor of affirmative action programs for racial minorities. A decision in the affirmative action cases is not expected before late spring.

The University of North Carolina was once a bastion of segregation.

University of Florida faculty members have expressed their displeasure with Nebraska U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse being named as the lone finalist for the school’s presidency.

Women are the most powerful voting bloc in the nation, and we have the power and the determination to shape the future of this country on Election Day.

Over eight oral arguments, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dominated questioning and commentary, speaking twice as much as her next most loquacious colleague.

Andy Warhol and Prince held center stage in a copyright case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that veered from Cheerios and “Mona Lisa” analogies to Justice Clarence Thomas’ enthusiasm for the “Purple Rain” showman.

A divided Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn’t get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court and its newest justice, said before the term began that she was "ready to work." In three of the four cases the court heard this past week, she was the most active speaker among the justices. Monday was the court's opening day and Jackson's first on the Supreme Court bench. In her Library of Congress appearance, Jackson talked about the attention on her as the first Black woman to be a justice. We see you and we are with you.’”___Follow AP’s coverage of the Supreme Court at https://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-courtCopyright 2022 The Associated Press.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court and its newest justice, said before the term began that she was "ready to work." In three of the four cases the court heard this past week, she was the most active speaker among the justices. Monday was the court's opening day and Jackson's first on the Supreme Court bench. In her Library of Congress appearance, Jackson talked about the attention on her as the first Black woman to be a justice. We see you and we are with you.’”___Follow AP’s coverage of the Supreme Court at https://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-courtCopyright 2022 The Associated Press.

Ketanji Brown Jackson said before the Supreme Court's term began that she was “ready to work.”.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court and its newest justice, said before the term began that she was “ready to work.” For now, Jackson's approach seems less like Justice Clarence Thomas, who once went 10 years without asking a question, and more like Justice Neil Gorsuch, who in his first year was one of the more active questioners. “I can’t think of a time where you’ve seen a junior justice take hold of the arguments” to the same extent, Feldman said using the court’s shorthand title for the newest justice.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — The group photo of the Supreme Court's nine members is a long-standing ritual. The new image includes Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black female justice, who joined the court in June. It's also the first time the court has had two Black justices. The justices sit in order of seniority with the longest-serving justice, Justice Clarence Thomas, sitting on Roberts’ right. A new class photo generally won't be taken until another justice joins the court.

The Supreme Court’s nine members have posed for their first formal group photo following the addition of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

The group photo of the Supreme Court's nine members is a long-standing ritual. The new image includes Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black female justice, who joined the court in June. Friday's formal photo captured by news photographers is sometimes called the group's “class photo.”

Alabama's Republicans say they should not be required to draw a second congressional district likely to elect a Black Democrat.

Participating in her second day of oral arguments on Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tangled with Alabama's solicitor general in a case challenging Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting policies. The order was frozen by the Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the state's appeal. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gives a mini history lesson during oral arguments in the Voting Rights Act case. pic.twitter.com/FsrzWpkbqU — Dylan Stableford (@stableford) October 4, 2022She said that the framers themselves adopted the equal protection clause “in a race conscious way.”“The entire point of the amendment was to secure rights of the freed former slaves,” Jackson said. A decision is expected to come later this term.

The court’s newest justice and first Black woman participated in oral arguments Tuesday in a case involving Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which bars racial discrimination in voting policies.

The justices heard two hours of arguments in the latest showdown over the federal Voting Rights Act, with lawsuits seeking to force Alabama to create a second Black majority congressional district. Justice Samuel Alito asked Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration's top Supreme Court lawyer who was arguing against Alabama. Two appointees of President Donald Trump were on the three-judge panel that unanimously held that Alabama likely violated the landmark 1965 law by diluting Black voting strength. Alabama's Black population is large enough and geographically compact enough to create a second district, the judges found. ___Follow AP’s coverage of the Supreme Court at https://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-courtCopyright 2022 The Associated Press.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears open to making it harder to create majority Black electoral districts.

First day of new Supreme Court term features a clash between environmental protection and property rights, joined by new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took her seat Monday as the newest justice and first Black woman ever to sit on its bench. It was the first time the general public was allowed inside the Supreme Court since the pandemic began. It is also the first time in U.S. history that white men are not in the majority on the Supreme Court. On Friday, Biden attended Jackson's historic investiture at the Supreme Court, and celebrated fulfilling one of his campaign promises. "I told you all I was going to appoint a black woman to the Supreme Court," Biden later told supporters at a fundraiser.

Donald Trump on Monday objected to a Justice Department request for an expedited ruling in the special master case involving documents seized by the FBI in an August search of the former president's Florida home.

Clean Water ActOn Monday, the court will hear arguments about whether to limit the scope of the Clean Water Act of 1972. According to the lower court, the redistricting map violated the Voting Rights Act by concentrating the electoral clout of Black voters into one district. Affirmative action admissionsA group is appealing lower court rulings that upheld race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The web designer tried to get an exemption from the law but lost her bid in a lower court ruling. Andy Warhol artThe court will hear a copyright dispute concerning a 1984 painting by Andy Warhol of the rock star Prince.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, on her first day as a Supreme Court Justice, pushed back on a lawyer trying to gut the Clean Waters Act. In Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, the extent of the EPA’s regulations will be affected, especially in regards to wetlands. If the court rules in favor of the Sackett’s, the couple that brought the case to the Supreme Court when they were ordered by the EPA to not build on their purchased wetlands in Idaho, then the EPA could be limited in the kinds of wetlands and streams that the Clean Waters Act protects from pollution.

The Supreme Court is siding with a Russian oil company in a dispute with Ukraine worth millions, a win for the company as Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine.

The Supreme Court says it won’t take up two cases that involved challenges to a ban enacted during the Trump administration on bump stocks.

A new stack of high-profile cases awaits. The court has agreed to hear cases involving race, elections, free speech and LGBTQ rights, among others.

The Supreme Court begins its new term Monday, Oct. 3.

Monday's session also is the first time new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court's first Black female justice, will participate in arguments. And the public is back for the first time since the court closed in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. But Jackson also joins the court at a time of declining public support for the court. Polls following the court's abortion decision have shown a sharp drop in the court's approval rating and in people's confidence in the court as an institution. On Monday, the court is considering an important water rights case that could limit federal regulation under the nation's main water pollution law, the Clean Water Act.

The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with a new justice on the bench, the public back in the courtroom and a spirited debate in a case that pits environmental protections against property rights.

The court is diving back in with an aggressive agenda that seems likely to split its six conservative justices from its three liberals.

The Supreme Court will begin its new term Oct. 3.

A Supreme Court decision for the couple could strip environmental protections from 45 million acres and threaten water quality for millions of people, said Sam Sankar, senior vice president of the Earthjustice environmental group. We’re in a scary place where we are relying on Justice Roberts,” Archer said. “It’s a sordid business, this divvying us up by race,” Roberts wrote in a 2006 redistricting case from Texas. Last term, the court moved "firmly in a rightward direction,” said Irv Gornstein, executive director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown University’s law school. “There is no reason to think this coming term or any term in the foreseeable future will be any different.”___Follow AP's coverage of the Supreme Court at https://apnews.com/hub/us-supreme-courtCopyright 2022 The Associated Press.

The Supreme Court opens its new term Monday, hearing arguments for the first time after a summer break and with new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. A look at some of the cases the court has already agreed to hear. In previous cases from Michigan and Texas, the court reaffirmed the validity of considering college applicants' race among many factors. The case the justices are hearing involves Alabama, where just one of the state's seven congressional districts has a Black majority. ___BACON LAW BACKLASHAlso on the menu for the justices: a California animal rights law.

The Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday and will hear arguments for the first time after a summer break and with new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson among its nine members.

The Supreme Court begins a new term on Monday at a time of diminished public confidence and justices sparring openly over the institution’s legitimacy.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday she has "a seat at the table now and I'm ready to work," leaning into her history-making role as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts wished the 52-year-old Jackson a “long and happy career in our common calling,” the traditional welcome for a new justice. She is only the third Black justice in the court's history, along with her new colleague Justice Clarence Thomas and the late Justice Thurgood Marshall. Jackson is the first justice appointed by a Democratic president since Justice Elena Kagan joined the court in 2010. Former President Donald Trump eventually chose Justice Neil Gorsuch, the first of his three Supreme Court appointees, to fill Scalia's seat.

During the ceremony Jackson followed the custom of every other new justice since 1972.

Investiture ceremony marks the first time that Jackson, the first Black woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, has taken her place on the bench.

President Biden, Vice President Harris and several White House officials Friday attended a formal investiture ceremony for Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Newly-confirmed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was welcomed to the Supreme Court Friday with a traditional investiture ceremony.

Ahead of the Supreme Court's term beginning next week, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson participated in a short, formal investiture ceremony on Friday.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made her first appearance on the Supreme Court bench in a brief courtroom ceremony Friday, three days before the start of the high court's new term. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses attended the invitation-only ceremonial investiture for Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Biden had pledged during his presidential campaign that he would nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Jackson is the first justice appointed by a Democratic president since Justice Elena Kagan joined the court in 2010. Former President Donald Trump eventually chose Justice Neil Gorsuch, the first of his three Supreme Court appointees, to fill Scalia's seat.

WASHINGTON — Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will be welcomed to the U.S. Supreme Court in a ceremonial investiture held Friday morning. In a description of the chronology of the ceremony, the Supreme Court said Jackson will sit in the same chair used by Chief Justice John Marshall during the early 19th century. According to the Supreme Court, the chief justice typically administers the constitutional oath privately to the new justice. The commission is then presented and read aloud in the courtroom, and the chief justice administers the judicial oath in the courtroom. This will be the first time in the court’s 233-year history that the investiture ceremony includes a Black woman.

The Supreme Court will begin its new term Oct. 3.

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is trying to solidify support and boost turnout by Black men in her governor's race against incumbent Republican Brian Kemp.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is making her first appearance on the Supreme Court bench in a brief courtroom ceremony three days ahead of the start of the high court's new term. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses are expected Friday at the invitation-only ceremonial investiture for Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Biden had pledged during his presidential campaign that he would nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Jackson is the first justice appointed by a Democratic president since Justice Elena Kagan joined the court in 2010. Former President Donald Trump eventually chose Justice Neil Gorsuch, the first of his three Supreme Court appointees, to fill Scalia's seat.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she has “a seat at the table now and I’m ready to work,” leaning into her history-making role as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.

Jackson took the constitutional and judicial oaths at the end of June.

Jackson took the constitutional and judicial oaths at the end of June.

The White House says President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses will attend the ceremonial investiture for Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has become the honorary co-chairman of a nonpartisan group devoted to education about the Constitution.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer effectively became the leader of the U.S. Senate on the morning of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.

About 2 in 3 Americans say they favor term limits or a mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court justices.

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.

The Supreme Court won’t allow the Biden administration to implement a policy that prioritizes deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who pose the greatest public safety risk.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed the nomination of South Carolina jurist Michelle Childs to sit on the federal court typically seen as a proving ground for the nation’s highest bench.

A federal appeals court has narrowed the range of documents House Democrats are entitled to in their years-long investigation of Donald Trump’s finances.

Until last week when he swore in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, his successor on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer had a rigorous, intellectually challenging job with the highest of stakes.

Abortion, guns and religion _ a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term.

The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade at a time when it has an unprecedented Catholic supermajority.

The first Black woman confirmed for the Supreme Court, Ketanji Brown Jackson, is set to be sworn in as the court's 116th justice on Thursday.

Ketanji Brown Jackson has been sworn in to the Supreme Court, shattering a glass ceiling as the first Black woman on the nation’s highest court.

More Americans approve than disapprove of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as its first Black female justice, a new poll finds, but that support is politically lopsided.

Democrats have spent years pledging to address the gun violence that plagues communities across the U.S. But a surge of mass shootings over the weekend served as a reminder of how little has been accomplished.

The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a lawsuit filed by four New York City public school employees over a policy that they be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Utah Sen. Mike Lee worked on early efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, helping push legally dubious schemes to keep then-President Donald Trump in power, before he shifted course and quickly backed away.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski continues to have a substantial cash advantage over her opponent backed by former President Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden's sweeping domestic agenda is on hold and images of horror in Ukraine dominate the headlines.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court last week and will become its first Black female justice.

Republican Kelly Tshibaka has filed to run as a candidate for the U.S. Senate race.

A milestone Supreme Court confirmation that endured a flawed process.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's speech at the White House went to the heart of both the triumphs and struggles of Black Americans in her lifetime.

Tearfully embracing a history-making moment, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday her confirmation as the first Black woman to the Supreme Court shows the progress of America.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will join a Supreme Court that is both more diverse than ever and more conservative than it’s been since the 1930s.

Lawmakers erupted in cheers after Vice President Kamala Harris announced the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

Moments before the Senate began Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation vote to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, the chamber filled with the swell of history.

A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government’s COVID-19 defenses has stalled in the Senate.