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Supreme Court Won’t Revive Aggressive Florida Immigration Law

The law, enacted this year, made it a crime for unauthorized migrants to enter the state. Challengers say immigration is a federal matter.

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At least six other states have similar laws. Every court to consider them has blocked them, relying on a 2012 Supreme Court decision endorsing broad federal power over immigration.

Supreme Court Insists on Reams of Paper for Case Briefs in Digital Age

The court’s rules require many litigants to submit 40 copies of their briefs, resulting in millions of pages printed each term. Critics call the process outdated and wasteful.

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During the pandemic, the court eased the printing rules, but soon reinstated them.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Makes Herself Heard, Prompting a Rebuke

In solo dissents this term, the justice accused the conservative majority of lawless bias. On the term’s last day, Justice Amy Coney Barrett fired back.

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has emerged as a forceful critic of her conservative colleagues and, lately, their approach to the Trump agenda.

Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan

The court’s order followed a broader one last month allowing removals to countries with which migrants have no connections.

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The United States has held eight migrants at a military base in Djibouti while court cases played out. But an official said the Trump administration would now promptly send the men to South Sudan.

Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan

The court’s order followed a broader one last month allowing removals to countries with which migrants have no connections.

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The United States has held eight migrants at a military base in Djibouti while court cases played out. The federal government sought to deport them to South Sudan.

Trump Asks Justices to Let Him Fire Consumer Product Safety Regulators

In an interim ruling in a similar case in May, the Supreme Court ruled that the president could terminate leaders of two other independent agencies.

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President Trump asked the Supreme Court to let him fire three out of five members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Why Trump Had So Many Supreme Court Wins

The New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak recaps this Supreme Court term, which was defined by a disproportionate amount of emergency docket cases. Liptak explains why these cases tended to go in the Trump administration’s favor.

A Triumphant Supreme Court Term for Trump, Fueled by Emergency Rulings

Using truncated procedures, the six-justice conservative majority gave a green light to many of the president’s most assertive initiatives.

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The Trump administration filed 19 emergency applications in the first 20 weeks of the president’s second term, the same number the Biden administration filed over four years and more than the eight applications filed over the 16 years of the George W. Bush and Barack Obama presidencies.

Supreme Court Upholds Texas Law Requiring Age Verification on Pornography Sites

The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are at least 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds.

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Supreme Court Requires Schools to Allow Opting Out From LGBTQ Stories

Maryland parents have a religious right to withdraw their children from classes on days that stories with gay and transgender themes are discussed, the court ruled.

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Supporters of parents seeking the ability to withdraw their children from classes with storybooks with L.G.B.T.Q. themes, seen outside the Supreme Court in April.

Supreme Court Blocks Planned Parenthood From Suing Over Medicaid Funds

The question for the justices was whether Medicaid beneficiaries may sue to receive services under a law that lets them choose any qualified provider.

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The Supreme Court has said that federal laws like Medicaid, which give money to states but only if they accept certain conditions, must “unambiguously confer individual federal rights” to give affected individuals the right to sue.

Returning to Supreme Court, Trump Accuses Judge in Migrant Case of Defiance

After the justices let the administration deport migrants to countries with which they had no connection, a federal judge blocked the removal of eight men.

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President Trump’s solicitor general suggested in a filing that the Supreme Court might want to rein in the judge.

Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Migrants to Countries Other Than Their Own

The ruling applies immediately to a group of men the government has sought to send to South Sudan.

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Camp Lemonnier, an American military base in Djibouti where migrants were sent after the Trump administration sought to deport them to South Sudan.

Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Migrants to Countries Other Than Their Own

The ruling applies immediately to a group of men the government has sought to send to South Sudan.

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Camp Lemonnier, an American military base in Djibouti where migrants were sent after the Trump administration sought to deport them to South Sudan.

Supreme Court to Hear Rastafarian Prisoner’s Suit Over Shaved Dreadlocks

Damon Landor, whose faith requires him to let his hair grow long, said guards threw a court ruling in the trash before holding him down and shaving his head to the scalp.

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The question the justices agreed to decide is whether a 2000 religious freedom law allows suits against prison officials for money.
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