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Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban

The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld a law requiring TikTok’s China-based parent company to divest from the app, teeing up a ban set to...

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Supreme Court decision on TikTok ban could come Friday

The Supreme Court has signaled it will release at least one opinion Friday, a hastily scheduled announcement that comes as TikTok’s divest-or-ban...

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TikTok ban: Here are the Supreme Court's options

All eyes are on the Supreme Court this week as the justices mull whether to step in and block a potential TikTok ban from going into effect Sunday. ...

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Trump asks full appeals court to review E. Jean Carroll jury verdict 

President-elect Trump on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to reconsider a jury’s verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming...

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Supreme Court turns away challenge to Maryland handgun license regime 

The Supreme Court let stand Maryland’s handgun licensing regime, turning away a long-running Second Amendment challenge in a brief order issued...

13.01.2025 1

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Supreme Court to hear ObamaCare no-cost preventive care dispute

The Supreme Court will hear a case determining the fate of free preventive services under the Affordable Care Act. In a brief order issued Friday,...

11.01.2025 30

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TikTok gets frosty reception at Supreme Court in fight to stave off ban

TikTok received a frosty reception in its fight to save the platform at the Supreme Court, which during oral arguments Friday expressed sympathy with...

10.01.2025 4

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TikTok’s future hangs in balance at Friday’s Supreme Court arguments 

TikTok’s future will hang in the balance Friday when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments over a federal law that could ban the video-sharing...

10.01.2025 10

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Trump declines to criticize Supreme Court after justices greenlight sentencing  

President-elect Trump responded to the Supreme Court’s decision allowing his hush money criminal case sentencing to move forward by not criticizing...

10.01.2025 10

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Supreme Court refuses Trump’s request to block Friday’s criminal sentencing 

The Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision on Thursday refused President-elect Trump’s request to halt his criminal sentencing, now just hours away,...

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Trump makes final stand in criminal cases as inauguration nears 

President-elect Trump is making a final stand in his criminal cases as his White House return approaches, hoping to diminish what is left of his...

09.01.2025 1

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Trump asks Supreme Court to block New York criminal sentencing 

President-elect Trump asked the Supreme Court to block his sentencing on Friday on 34 New York felony counts of falsifying business records....

08.01.2025 8

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More battles over transgender rights await Supreme Court  

Cases implicating transgender rights are piling up at the Supreme Court as it begins drafting its opinion on whether states can ban...

29.12.2024 6

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Lawmakers, former officials weigh in on TikTok ban as case heads to Supreme Court  

Top lawmakers, First Amendment advocacy groups and President-elect Trump weighed in Friday on a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S., as the...

28.12.2024 10

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Biden takes heat for vetoing bill that would add new judgeships 

Federal judiciary leadership and some lawmakers are criticizing President Biden for vetoing a bill that would’ve added 66 new federal judgeships...

24.12.2024 4

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Gaetz's legal team slams 'unprecedented' release of ethics report, drops bid to block it 

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) dropped his eleventh-hour lawsuit seeking to block the release of his House Ethics Committee report since the...

24.12.2024 8

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Gaetz sues Ethics Committee in last-minute bid to block release of report

Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Monday filed a lawsuit against the House Ethics Committee in a last-minute attempt to block the panel from...

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Senate Democrats condemn Supreme Court ethics in new report 

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee condemned the Supreme Court for an “ethical crisis of its own making” in a new report released...

21.12.2024 5

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Fani Willis disqualification may doom Trump’s Georgia case

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s (D) disqualification from the state’s election interference case against President-elect Trump and...

20.12.2024 30

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Federal prosecutors bring 4 charges against Luigi Mangione 

Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, faces four new federal charges, newly unsealed court documents...

19.12.2024 5

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Supreme Court takes up challenge to TikTok ban

The Supreme Court announced it will take up whether a law that could ban TikTok nationwide violates the First Amendment, setting the stage for a...

18.12.2024 4

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Judge violated code of conduct with critical Alito op-ed: Ruling 

A federal judge apologized after he was found to have violated the judiciary’s code of conduct for publishing an op-ed earlier this year...

18.12.2024 3

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Trump sues Des Moines Register, pollster 

President-elect Trump sued the Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer on Monday over a poll released just before Election Day indicating...

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Judge rules Trump's conviction withstands Supreme Court immunity decision

A New York judge upheld a jury’s verdict that made President-elect Trump a felon, ruling the conviction in the hush money case can withstand the...

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TikTok asks Supreme Court to delay divest-or-ban law 

TikTok filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court on Monday seeking to delay a law that would ban the video sharing platform nationwide if...

17.12.2024 40

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ABC settles Trump’s defamation suit for $15M

ABC News and anchor George Stephanopoulos agreed to settle a defamation suit brought by President-elect Trump by issuing a public apology and...

15.12.2024 100

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Trump, Stephanopoulos to sit for depositions next week in defamation case

President-elect Trump and anchor George Stephanopoulos will sit for depositions next week in Trump’s defamation case against ABC News, a judge...

14.12.2024 20

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Supreme Court to hear dispute over Catholic group, Wisconsin tax exemption  

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a Catholic charitable group’s quest to qualify for Wisconsin’s religious exemption from the...

13.12.2024 3

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Trump team rejects Bragg's 'Dark Dream Scenario' for hush money case

President-elect Trump’s attorneys condemned Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) suggested alternatives to dismissing Trump’s hush...

13.12.2024 5

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Supreme Court unveils pilot program for public to reserve courtroom seats

The Supreme Court on Thursday announced a pilot program that will allow members of the public to enter a lottery for reserved courtroom seats...

12.12.2024 3

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Former FBI informant accused of fabricating Biden claims agrees to plead guilty

A former FBI informant has agreed to plead guilty to four federal charges after being accused of falsifying statements that in part spurred a GOP...

12.12.2024 40

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Judge to decide fate of Trump’s New York hush money conviction

The fate of President-elect Trump’s New York hush money case is now in the hands of Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the first historic conviction...

12.12.2024 4

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Cornyn warns Hegseth faces 'unpleasant' confirmation hearing

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) says that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick to head the Department of Defense, faces a nasty Senate...

11.12.2024 4

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Supreme Court dismisses Nvidia’s appeal in securities lawsuit 

The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal from Nvidia in a securities lawsuit against the chipmaking giant, allowing the case to move...

11.12.2024 4

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Bragg lays out alternatives to dismissing Trump's hush money conviction

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) office opposes dismissing President-elect Trump’s hush money charges but would accept halting the...

10.12.2024 3

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UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting person of interest to make first court appearance Monday 

Luigi Mangione, the person of interest being questioned by police for the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, will make his first...

10.12.2024 4

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Supreme Court turns away Boston school admissions policy challenge as Alito, Thomas dissent

The Supreme Court turned away a group of white and Asian parents’ challenge to a temporary admissions policy at Boston’s prestigious “exam...

09.12.2024 3

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Supreme Court turns away challenge to Hawaii handgun license law 

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a defendant’s Second Amendment challenge to Hawaii laws that make it a crime to carry handguns or...

09.12.2024 4

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Trump names Alina Habba as counselor to president 

President-elect Trump named Alina Habba, one of his personal attorneys and fiercest media surrogates, as counselor to the president on Sunday. ...

09.12.2024 40

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Judge upholds Naval Academy's race-conscious admissions policy

A federal judge upheld the Naval Academy’s race-conscious admissions policy on Friday, rejecting a challenge from the group that succeeded at the...

06.12.2024 30

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Patel has threatened legal action over remarks, former Pence aide says 

Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, has threatened legal action against a former aide to ex-Vice President Pence over her...

05.12.2024 3

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Trump moves to toss Georgia criminal case as president-elect

President-elect Trump on Wednesday asked to throw out his criminal election interference charges in Georgia following his election victory....

04.12.2024 2

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Supreme Court leans toward upholding Tennessee's restrictions on gender-affirming care

The Supreme Court’s conservatives on Wednesday appeared to lean toward upholding Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors in a...

04.12.2024 3

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Trump's hush money dismissal motion invokes Hunter Biden pardon

President-elect Trump’s attorneys laid out their arguments for why his criminal conviction in New York should be dismissed entirely in a new...

04.12.2024 40

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Supreme Court wrestles with Hungary’s effort to end Holocaust survivor lawsuit

The Supreme Court on Tuesday probed the international consequences of allowing a group of Holocaust survivors and their heirs to leverage U.S....

03.12.2024 2

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Groups urge Congress to rein in federal bureaucracy after Supreme Court slashes agency authority

A coalition of 19 conservative and libertarian groups sent a letter to congressional leaders Wednesday urging them to act after a major Supreme...

03.12.2024 4

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Hunter Biden asks judges to dismiss criminal cases after pardon 

Hunter Biden asked the federal judges overseeing his criminal tax and gun cases to dismiss them after President Biden pardoned his son on Sunday. ...

02.12.2024 10

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X claims ownership of Infowars accounts 

X, the social platform owned by Elon Musk, is getting involved in the pending bankruptcy sale of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars to the...

27.11.2024 2

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Trump team asks NY attorney general to dismiss business fraud case 

President-elect Trump has asked New York Attorney General Letitia James to (D) drop her multimillion-dollar civil fraud case against him, citing a...

27.11.2024 20

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Here's where Trump's criminal cases stand

President-elect Trump’s legal strategy of delay is paying off, with his election victory changing the trajectory of his four criminal...

26.11.2024 2

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