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Supreme Court takes up dispute over how far government can go to combat controversial social media posts on topics like COVID-19 and election security

The justices are hearing arguments in a lawsuit filed by Louisiana, Missouri and others accusing administration officials of leaning on social media...

18.03.2024 40

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Mark Sherman

Supreme Court could rule Monday on Trump's 2024 election fate

The former president faces 91 criminal charges in four prosecutions.

04.03.2024 9

Fortune

Mark Sherman

Supreme Court takes up case on whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution

The court will consider “whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct...

29.02.2024 4

Fortune

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Supreme Court casts doubt on Republican-led states' push to regulate social media platforms as 'protection against the Silicon Valley elites'

Several justices questioned aspects of laws adopted by Republican-dominated legislatures and signed by Republican governors in Florida and Texas in...

27.02.2024 10

Fortune

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Trump warns 'the Presidency as we know it will cease to exist' in appeal to Supreme Court on his immunity claims

Donald Trump is saying he is immune from prosecution on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 election loss.

13.02.2024 3

Fortune

Mark Sherman

8 out of 9 Supreme Court justices sound open to Trump lawyer's arguments that he shouldn't be kicked off the ballot

Only Justice Sonia Sotomayor sounded like she might vote to uphold the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that Trump “engaged in insurrection.”

08.02.2024 1

Fortune

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West Point can keep taking race into account in admissions—for now, Supreme Court order says

The military academy was explicitly left out of the court’s decision in June that ended affirmative action almost everywhere in college...

03.02.2024 3

Fortune

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Years after Trump's White House vowed to destroy the administrative state, 2 of his Supreme Court appointees look poised to strike a big blow

Gorsuch and Kavanaugh seem skeptical of the crucial "Chevron doctrine" unanimously decided 40 years ago, which vastly empowers federal agencies.

18.01.2024 5

Fortune

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Supreme Court takes up case of  fisherman challenging government regulation that could give ‘convulsive shock’ to decades of rules

Lawyers for the fishermen are asking the justices to overturn a 40-year-old decision.

17.01.2024 10

Fortune

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The Supreme Court will rule on whether Donald Trump can be on the 2024 ballot

The court will consider for the first time a provision of the 14th Amendment that bars people who “engaged in insurrection” from public office.

06.01.2024 40

Fortune

Mark Sherman

John Roberts' annual report for the Supreme Court is obsessed with the 'latest technological frontier' of AI—not Trump or ethics

Harking back to his analogy of judges to baseball umpires, the Chief Justice compared tech's impact on the courts to advances in refereeing tennis.

02.01.2024 5

Fortune

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Supreme Court punts on special counsel's plea to rule on Donald Trump's prosecution over attempt to overturn 2020 election

The justices turned down special counsel Jack Smith's request in a single-sentence order. As is customary, the court gave no explanation.

23.12.2023 7

Fortune

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Supreme Court looks like it will punt on a wealth tax while upholding levy on foreign income

After two hours of arguments, there seemed to be a consensus that "there is room for some narrow ground” to decide the case, as Justice Neil Gorsuch...

06.12.2023 10

Fortune

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Supreme Court justices agonize over Purdue Pharma settlement that would let Sackler family walk away with billions: 'There is no other deal'

The justices seemed by turns reluctant to break up an exhaustively negotiated agreement, but also leery of somehow rewarding the Sacklers.

05.12.2023 20

Fortune

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'A lot of the tax code would be unconstitutional if that thing prevailed': Former GOP speaker Paul Ryan warns the Supreme Court on the wealth tax

Senate Democrats, meanwhile, have asked Justice Samuel Alito to step aside because of a potential conflict of interest, which he rejected outright.

05.12.2023 10

Fortune

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OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma heads to Supreme Court in case over whether $6bn payoff can shield Sackler owners from future lawsuits

The issue for the justices is whether the legal shield that bankruptcy provides can be extended to people such as the Sacklers, who have not declared...

04.12.2023 10

Fortune

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Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, has died at age 93

O'Connor came to define the voice of moderate conservatism on the court, once saying: “Our obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to...

01.12.2023 5

Fortune

Mark Sherman

Should accused fraudsters face a jury instead of the SEC? The Supreme Court seems open to it

A majority of the nine-member court suggested that the accused should have the right to have their cases heard in federal court, instead of by the...

30.11.2023 8

Fortune

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Supreme Court adopts ethics code after Clarence Thomas failed to disclose gifts from a billionaire—but there's no way to enforce the new rules

The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to impose any significant new requirements and leaves compliance entirely to each justice.

14.11.2023 10

Fortune

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As Supreme Court ponders 'Trump too small' IP request, John Roberts says people could trademark 'Trump too this, Trump too that'

The justices repeatedly invoked the phrase as they questioned whether the government was justified in denying the trademark.

01.11.2023 5

Fortune

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Justice Clarence Thomas’ billionaire benefactor Harlan Crow will be hauled in front of Senate Democrats over undisclosed travel gifts

Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo organized and funded undisclosed private travel for conservative Supreme Court justices.

31.10.2023 6

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New ethics questions swirl around Clarence Thomas after report says his $267,000 loan for a luxury RV seems to have been forgiven

A friend of Thomas who made the loan, forgave the debt after nine years of what he called interest-only payments, says the report by Senate Democrats.

26.10.2023 9

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Supreme Court case over $15k IRS bill could decide the future of a billionaire wealth tax

The Moores are the public face of a high court case backed by business and conservative political interests that could call into question other parts...

16.10.2023 6

Fortune

Mark Sherman

Constitutionality of wealth tax at issue in dispute over $15,000 bill backed by business, conservative interests

“There really was no reason for the court to take it on, other than to send a signal to warn off the Congress from passing a billionaire tax."

15.10.2023 10

Fortune

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A giant piece of marble nearly crushed Supreme Court justices last year, sources say

The incident, which the court still fails to acknowledge publicly, took place in the tense spring of 2022, as the justices were overturning Roe v....

13.10.2023 10

Fortune

Mark Sherman

Even the Supreme Court's conservative justices seem to be siding with Elizabeth Warren's baby, the CFPB

Three years ago, the court ruled that the CFPB's director could be replaced by the president at will, after Donald Trump sacked its chief.

04.10.2023 1

Fortune

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Supreme Court to review Texas, Florida laws that social networks say would stop them from removing hate speech

Backers of the laws want to prevent platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and X from censoring users based on their viewpoints.

29.09.2023 6

Fortune

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The War on Drugs is on trial at the Supreme Court and its fate could hinge on the meaning of the word 'and'

Federal courts nationwide disagree about the wording of the bipartisan 2018 criminal justice overhaul. One appellate panel calls it “perplexing.”

24.09.2023 8

Fortune

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