When Georgia lawmakers announced legislation to prevent voters waiting in line from being provided food or drinks, the outrage was swift and severe.
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Supreme Court conservative majority flexed its muscle on God, guns and abortion
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court flexed its muscle this term, delivering a blockbuster series of rulings that bend decades of jurisprudence to the right on everything from God and guns to abortion and climate change.
Court rolls back precedent, experimentation in rulings on abortion and guns
The Constitution became a little simpler with last week’s decisions on guns and abortion, as the Supreme Court’s conservative wing pared back decades of legal rulemaking and declared the founding document means pretty much what it says — and only that.
Supreme Court rules religious schools can access taxpayer dollars
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Maine’s tuition program allowing state funds to go only to nonreligious schools runs afoul of the First Amendment.
Elite schools’ admissions policies pit minorities against each other
When the country’s top-ranked public high school changed its admissions policy two years ago, it insisted the goal wasn’t to hurt Asian Americans.
Dems on defense, slam GOP for claims Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is soft on crime, child porn
Democrats lashed out at Republicans Wednesday over their probing questions of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying the GOP was trying to tarnish the Supreme Court nominee and Black Harvard-trained woman with “conspiracy theories and culture war th…
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson pushes back on scrutiny over light sentencing in child porn cases
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson vehemently rejected accusations of leniency toward child pornography offenders, telling senators Tuesday that she was following Congress’ instructions when she habitually delivered sentences well below what guidelines …
Ketanji Brown Jackson’s records on weak child-porn sentencing hidden by Democrats, GOP says
Republicans accused Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee of hiding documents from them during the confirmation hearing Tuesday for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson related to her sentencing of felons convicted of child porn crim…
Ketanji Brown Jackson says having women on Supreme Court ‘supports public confidence’
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Tuesday it would be “extremely meaningful” for four women to sit on the Supreme Court should she be confirmed. “One of the things of having diverse members of the court does is it…
Ketanji Brown Jackson refuses to weigh in on court packing
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson refused Tuesday to weigh in on whether there should be more than nine justices on the high court, a move progressive activists have advocated for in recent years. “My North Star is the consideration of …