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Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

A federal judge had ordered agents not to make indiscriminate stops relying on factors like a person’s ethnicity or that they speak Spanish.

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Aggressive enforcement operations in Los Angeles — including encounters captured on video that appeared to be roundups of random Hispanic people by armed agents — have set off protests and clashes in the area.
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Trump Administration, Again, Asks Supreme Court to Let It Block Foreign Aid

The court has been largely receptive to the administration’s claims of executive power.

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In an earlier iteration of the foreign aid case this year, the Supreme Court rejected President Trump’s request to freeze nearly $2 billion while the case continued in the lower courts.
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Trump Administration, Again, Asks Supreme Court to Let It Block Foreign Aid

The court has been largely receptive to the administration’s claims of executive power.

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In an earlier iteration of the foreign aid case this year, the Supreme Court rejected President Trump’s request to freeze nearly $2 billion while the case continued in the lower courts.
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Justice Breyer Defends Judge Accused of Defying Supreme Court Order

The justice’s comments reflected tensions within the judiciary, as trial judges struggle to interpret the Supreme Court’s often cryptic emergency orders.

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Former Justice Stephen Breyer in 2021.
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Trump’s Push to Punish Flag Burning Puts Landmark Free Speech Ruling at Risk

The Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that burning an American flag is speech protected by the First Amendment. President Trump says it should be punished.

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Gregory Johnson displayed a flag he has used in protests, in Venice, Calif., in 2021. Mr. Johnson won a landmark Supreme Court case in 1989 protecting political expression that is now being challenged by President Trump.
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Trump’s Push to Fire Lisa Cook Puts Fed Independence on Trial

The Supreme Court has said the Federal Reserve Board’s independence warrants protection. President Trump’s effort to fire a member will test that commitment.

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Until Monday, no president had tried to fire a Federal Reserve governor.
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Can Trump Fire a Fed Governor? What to Know About the Legal Arguments.

The Supreme Court has indicated that there are distinctive reasons to shield the Federal Reserve from political interference.

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Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, at her swearing-in ceremony in June 2023.
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Administration Cut N.I.H. Grants for Disfavored Research

The court’s order was fractured, with the justices splitting over whether individual cancellations and the policy behind them could be challenged in a federal trial court.

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A library building on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
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