SUPREME COURT

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seem sympathetic to Sen. Ted Cruz in his challenge to a provision of campaign finance law that limits the repayment of federal candidates’ loans to their campaigns.

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( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (Jose Luis Magana)The sweeping elections bill being considered by the Senate is about far more than voting. The bill would make interfering with the vote count or failing to accurately report the results of that count a violation of the Voting Rights Act. On campaign finance, the bill requires any entity that spends more than $10,000 on elections to disclose its major donors. The bill allows states to offer matching funds for small-dollar donations to races for seats in the House of Representatives. It would strengthen provisions of the Voting Rights Act to counter a Supreme Court decision last year that made it harder to sue over laws that hamper minority voting.

The sweeping elections bill now in the Senate deals with much more than voting changes.

CEO Mark Valade said an unvaccinated workforce is a "business risk that our company is unwilling to take."

Cruz, a Texas Republican, has argued that the regulation violates the First Amendment's free speech protection.

The director of Orange County's Department of Health has been put on administrative leave by the state after criticizing his own staff's vaccination rate against...

The National Archives plans to release four pages on Wednesday despite the former president’s pending request at the Supreme Court to block the handover.

Supreme Court Stolen Painting David Cassirer, the great-grandson of Lilly Cassirer, poses for a photo outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. The Supreme Court is hearing the case about the stolen artwork now in the collection of a Spanish museum in Madrid. The case itself is not directly about ownership of the painting but about how to decide the case, which has been going on since 2005. On the other side is San Diego resident David Cassirer. The case is David Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation, 20-1566.

The Supreme Court has heard arguments from lawyers for a California man and a Spanish museum locked in a dispute over an impressionist masterpiece stolen by the Nazis.

Carhartt CEO Mark Valade said company policy on "an unvaccinated workforce" remains unchanged, prompting some to swear they would no longer buy the brand's products.

Supreme Court justices seem to have little doubt that Boston was wrong to refuse to fly a banner described as a Christian flag outside City Hall.

Supreme Court justices seemed to have little doubt Tuesday that Boston was wrong to refuse to fly a banner described as a Christian flag outside City Hall. Arguments at the high court appeared to unite justices on the left and right in favor of Harold Shurtleff, a conservative activist. Shurtleff wanted to fly a white banner with a red cross on a blue background in the upper left corner, called the Christian flag.

Gorsuch's refusal to wear a mask has led Sotomayor, who has diabetes and is at a higher risk from Covid, to attend proceedings remotely, the report said.

In what likely will be one of the most-controversial issues of the 2022 legislative session, a House panel next week will take up a bill...

A nationwide standard of voting rights now seems like a pipe dream.

A nationwide standard of voting rights now seems like a pipe dream.

Pivotal elections, referendums, reforms and geopolitical tensions could shape the economic trajectory across emerging markets this year.

The court's majority opinion leaves open a surprisingly straightforward way for the administration to protect the health of American workers.

Biden President Joe Biden walks towards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, to travel to Wilmington, Del. However, it did leave in place a vaccination requirement for health care workers. Meanwhile, the White House announced Friday that the federal website where Americans can request their own free COVID-19 tests will begin accepting orders next Wednesday. “It’s now up to the states and individual employers to put in place vaccination requirements,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday. “The Court has ruled that my administration cannot use the authority granted to it by Congress to require this measure," Biden said.

The White House is pushing ahead with efforts to prod people to get COVID-19 shots after the Supreme Court put a halt to the administration’s sweeping vaccinate-or-test plan for large employers.

Biden President Joe Biden walks towards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, to travel to Wilmington, Del. However, it did leave in place a vaccination requirement for health care workers. Meanwhile, the White House announced Friday that the federal website where Americans can request their own free COVID-19 tests will begin accepting orders next Wednesday. “It’s now up to the states and individual employers to put in place vaccination requirements,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday. “The Court has ruled that my administration cannot use the authority granted to it by Congress to require this measure," Biden said.

The Supreme Court says it will hear the case of a former Seattle-area football coach who was removed from his job because he refused to stop praying on the field.

On Thursday, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., spoke about the select House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot during a Zoom call hosted by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. He said the insurrection hearings will be compared to the Watergate inquiry.

Britons on Friday described revelations of further parties taking place at Number 10 Downing Street during lockdown periods as an "absolute disgrace" and "hypocritical". (Jan. 14)

The court found the enacted congressional and state legislative maps flew in the face of redistricting reforms that passed in 2015 and 2018.

Biden President Joe Biden begins to speak about the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law at the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. While some in the business community cheered the defeat of the mandate, Biden insisted the administration effort has not been for naught. However, it did leave in place a vaccination requirement for health care workers. “It’s now up to the states and individual employers to put in place vaccination requirements,” said White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Friday. “The Court has ruled that my administration cannot use the authority granted to it by Congress to require this measure," Biden said.

Two rulings reveal just how hard-conservative the core of the Court is.

President Joe Biden said he would urge businesses to implement the rules voluntarily.

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision hinges on a new and alarming embrace of the right-wing culture war against vaccination.

The conservative justices say that vaccine policy is Congress’s or the states’ job, but in practice they’re the ones calling the shots now.

"Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly."

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the Biden administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, is seated at right. (Dana Verkouteren via AP) (Dana Verkouteren)WASHINGTON — (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nation's COVID-19 vaccination rate, a requirement that employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job. At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S. A separate vaccine mandate for federal contractors, on hold after lower courts blocked it, has not been considered by the Supreme Court. __This story corrects that four justices noted dissents in the health care vaccine case, not just Alito and Thomas.

The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination rate, a requirement that employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job.

Hours after Brett Kavanaugh joined the Supreme Court’s five other conservative judges and struck down Joe Biden employer vaccine mandate, Tucker Carlson blasted him as a “cringing little liberal” because he and Chief Justice John Roberts upheld a mandate for medical workers.The moment came after Carlson’s guest, Harmeet Dhillon, CEO of the Center for American Liberties, said that “ten million health care workers do need to get vaccinated if they wish to keep their jobs, which is unfortunate give

The Supreme Court struck down the president’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large private companies. So where does that leave us?

The federal vaccine mandate would have required workers at large private companies be vaccinated against Covid-19 or be regularly tested for the virus.

President Biden urged companies to voluntarily impose Covid vaccination rules on workers after the Supreme Court blocked a government order to do that.

The conservative majority ruled the administration overstepped its authority by seeking to impose the OSHA's vaccine-or-test rule on U.S. businesses.

The conservative majority ruled the administration overstepped its authority by seeking to impose OSHA's vaccine-or-test rule on U.S. businesses.

The Supreme Court ruled against the Biden administration's rule for OSHA, saying it did not have the power to require vaccination for millions of Americans.

Many Republicans involved in the process acknowledged it for what it was -- a pretty brazen attempt at holding on to power. GOP state Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor punctuated that.

The number of Democrats citing abortion rights as a top priority for the federal government to address jumped from less than 1% in 2021 to 13% in a new poll.

The number of Democrats citing abortion rights as a top priority for the federal government to address jumped from less than 1% in 2021 to 13% in a new poll.

Attorneys for a woman who left her Alabama home to join the Islamic State terror group plan to continue fighting for her and her young son even though the Supreme Court declined to consider her lawsuit seeking to re-enter the United States, one of the lawyers said Wednesday. Hoda Muthana and her 4-year-old child, the son of a man she met while with IS, have been living in a Syrian refugee camp for nearly the entire life of the child, and it's unclear what steps might come next to argue for their admittance into the United States, said Christina Jump, who represents the woman's family. “We intend to stand by Hoda and her son and their rights to citizenship,” she said.

Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick will fill Florida's vacant U.S. House seat. Cherfilus-McCormick defeated Republican Jason Mariner during a special election Tuesday. (Jan. 12)

Two justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer, appeared remotely due to apparent concerns about Covid-19 as Neil Gorsuch did not wear a mask.

We’ve combed through the lawsuits and countersuits to identify the key provisions that are under dispute in four states — and why.

The potential ramifications of West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency are profound.

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a revised transcript of oral arguments over a Biden administration vaccine rule that clarified a statement Justice Neil Gorsuch made about the number of annual flu deaths.The original, uncorrected transcript quotes Gorsuch as saying he believes the flu kills "hundreds of thousands of people every year."This erroneous transcription prompted legions of tweets and at least one media report that tut-tutted Gorsuch...

Justices will soon rule on the president's vaccine-or-testing requirement for large employers and a separate vaccine mandate for health care workers.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Shurtleff v. Boston, on the display of the Christian flag, similar to secular organizations.

Florida continues to break its records as the number of daily COVID-19 cases continues to rise.

Virus Outbreak Vaccine Mandates The Supreme Court shown Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. The court also was hearing arguments on a separate vaccine mandate for most health care workers. Barrett and Kavanaugh also had tough questions for Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, the administration's top Supreme Court lawyer. The trade group is not involved in the Supreme Court cases. It covers health care providers that receive federal Medicare or Medicaid funding, potentially affecting 76,000 health care facilities as well as home health care providers.

Justices are hearing arguments over the vaccine-or-testing requirement for large employers and a separate vaccine mandate for health care workers.

President Biden issued the rules before the omicron variant drove Covid infection rates to new highs around the country.

This could be the start of a major dismantling of the federal government.

Supreme Court conservatives express skepticism of President Biden's mandate that employees be vaccinated for COVID-19.

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority appears skeptical of the Biden administration’s authority to impose a vaccine-or-testing requirement on the nation’s large employers.

The Supreme Court says all nine justices have received COVID-19 booster shots.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says the federal judiciary needs to do more to ensure judges don’t participate in cases where they have financial conflicts of interest.

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol says the Supreme Court should let stand an appeals court ruling that the National Archives turn over documents from former President Donald Trump that might shed light on the events.

A court in Moscow has granted a request to shut down another prominent human rights organization amid a sweeping crackdown on Russia’s rights groups, independent media and opposition supporters.

New Jersey's Supreme Court has thrown out the 2016 conviction of a Florida woman convicted of killing her 5-year-old son 25 years earlier.

Former President Donald Trump has turned to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to keep documents away from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

The Supreme Court says it will hold a special session in just over two weeks to hear arguments on the Biden administration’s vaccine or testing requirement for large employers and a separate vaccine requirement for health care workers.

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block lower court orders that are keeping President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for health care workers from going into effect in about half of the states.

U.S. health regulators are lifting long-standing restrictions on how women obtain the abortion pill.

States and the federal government carried out 11 executions this year.

Arizona has asked the Supreme Court to allow enforcement of a ban on abortions performed solely because of Down syndrome and other genetic abnormalities.

The Supreme Court has refused to halt a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons.

The Supreme Court has turned away a request by Johnson & Johnson to halt a Mississippi lawsuit over its talcum power products.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a conservative think tank over Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ decision to exclude the group’s writers from press briefings.

North Carolina’s highest court has delayed the state’s planned March 8 primary until May so state courts can review lawsuits claiming illegal gerrymandering.

The Supreme Court appears ready to rule that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education.

If the Supreme Court decides to overturn or gut the decision that legalized abortion, some fear that it could undermine other precedent-setting cases, including civil rights and LGBTQ protections.

Vulnerable Democrats from Nevada to New Hampshire are promising to make abortion a centerpiece of their political strategy heading into the midterm elections.

It's a crowded scene outside the Supreme Court, where hundreds of abortion debate partisans are trading chants while justices hear highly anticipated arguments inside.

Supreme Court justices considering a major abortion case Wednesday will hear from just three lawyers: one representing the state of Mississippi, another representing Mississippi’s only abortion clinic and the last representing the Biden administration.

Catholic bishops and evangelical pastors are prominent leaders in the anti-abortion movement, but not all believers think abortion should be illegal.

Both sides are telling the Supreme Court there’s no middle ground in Wednesday’s showdown over abortion.

A unanimous Supreme Court has rejected a claim that the Memphis, Tennessee, area has been taking water that belongs to Mississippi from an underground aquifer that sits beneath parts of both states.

On both sides of America’s abortion debate, activists are convinced that the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion is imperiled as never before.

The Supreme Court could rule as soon as Monday on Texas’ ban on abortion after roughly six weeks.

It's been more than two weeks since the Supreme Court’s extraordinarily rushed arguments over Texas’ unique abortion law, and still no word from the justices.

Officials have released the inmate who was central to a Supreme Court case that extended the possibility of freedom to hundreds of people sentenced to life without parole as juveniles.

In recent years, hundreds of people once destined to spend the rest of their lives in prison after being convicted of crimes as juveniles have gone free.

The Supreme Court has turned away appeals from Volkswagen that sought to stop state and local lawsuits related to the 2015 scandal in which the automaker was found to have rigged its vehicles to cheat U.S. diesel emissions tests.

The Supreme Court appears reluctant to rule for a resident of Puerto Rico who claims it’s unconstitutional to be excluded from a welfare program that’s available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

The Supreme Court seems ready to strike down a restrictive New York gun permitting law.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a former business partner of presidential son Hunter Biden who was seeking to overturn his criminal conviction for securities fraud.

The Supreme Court is declining to wade into a case involving transgender rights and leaving in place a lower court decision against a Catholic hospital that wouldn’t allow a transgender man to have a hysterectomy there.

A majority of the Supreme Court are signaling that they would allow abortion providers to pursue a court challenge to a Texas law that has virtually ended abortion in the nation’s second-largest state after six weeks of pregnancy.

In only a handful of cases has the Supreme Court moved as quickly as it is in the fight over the Texas law that bans most abortions.

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal from health care workers in Maine to block a vaccine mandate that went into effect Friday.

One of several legal challenges to North Carolina’s contentious voter ID law is on hold amid a dispute over whether two justices on the state Supreme Court should recuse themselves.

A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay detainee says the Supreme Court should wait to decide a case involving his client until it’s clear what the Biden administration will let the man say about his torture abroad by the CIA.

A death investigation is underway after a child was found unresponsive in a Titusville home Sunday, according to the police department.

A man died after being shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting Friday afternoon, according to the Eatonville Police Department.

The Supreme Court has rejected a plea from South Carolina to reimpose the death penalty on a South Carolina inmate whose death sentence stood for two decades until a federal appeals court threw it out in August.