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Supreme Court Rules for Transgender Boy in Bathroom Dispute

Par :Adam Liptak
The interim order came after a decision in June on medical care for transgender youths and as the justices prepare to hear arguments on transgender athletes.

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A 14-year-old student challenged South Carolina’s bathroom law, saying it violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause and Title IX.
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Trump’s Economic Agenda Hinges on the Supreme Court’s Tariff Ruling

Par :Tony Romm and Ana Swanson
For the president, the power to issue limitless tariffs is at the heart of his second-term vision, from trade to foreign policy.

© Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times

President Trump and his top aides have long been aware of the risks to their aggressive trade strategy.
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Fears Return for L.A. Immigrants After Supreme Court Allows Raids to Resume

Par :Jill Cowan and Ana Facio-Krajcer
Los Angeles residents are anxious once again following a Supreme Court ruling that allowed aggressive immigration raids to resume.

© Alex Welsh for The New York Times

“With this decision, we lost confidence in the courts,” Roberto Cordero said in East Los Angeles.
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Block Foreign Aid for Now

Par :Adam Liptak
Acting on his own, the chief justice issued an “administrative stay” pausing a trial judge’s ruling while the full court considers the matter.

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ordered both sides to file briefs by Friday in a convoluted case involving presidential power.
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Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump’s Sprawling Tariffs

Par :Ann E. Marimow and Adam Liptak
The justices moved quickly to schedule oral argument to consider the legality of the president’s signature economic initiative.

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The Port of Los Angeles in May.
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In New Book, Think Tank Behind Project 2025 Takes On the Constitution

Par :Adam Liptak
The Heritage Foundation’s clause-by-clause analysis, to be published next month, is an originalist manifesto and a showcase for aspiring Supreme Court nominees.

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The Heritage Foundation, founded in 1973, has long shaped the personnel and policies of Republican administrations.
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The Supreme Court Decision on ICE and Racial Profiling, Explained

Par :Charlie Savage
The ruling allowed immigration agents to stop people for reasons that lower courts had deemed likely unconstitutional.

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Civil rights organizations and several U.S. citizens accused federal agents of engaging in “blatant racial profiling” by carrying out “indiscriminate immigration operations” with no individualized basis for suspicion.
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Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

Par :Adam Liptak
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

Par :Adam Liptak
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

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

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

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

Par :Adam Liptak
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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Justice Amy Coney Barrett Argues Her Own Case, and the Court’s, in New Book

Par :Jodi Kantor
In a new book, Justice Amy Coney Barrett asks for faith in the Supreme Court but reveals very little.

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“My office doesn’t entitle me to align the legal system with my moral or policy views,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett writes in her new book, “Listening to the Law.”
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Removal of FTC Commissioner

Par :Ann E. Marimow
A federal appeals court had reinstated the commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, saying she was fired ‘without cause.’

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The Trump administration is trying again to remove Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from the Federal Trade Commission.
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Kavanaugh Acknowledges ‘Difficult Job’ of His Lower-Court Colleagues

Par :Mattathias Schwartz
Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court has repeatedly paused.

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Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh called trial-court judges “the front lines of American justice” while addressing the annual Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference in Memphis on Thursday.
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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow His Sweeping Tariffs

Par :Ann E. Marimow
A federal appeals court had invalidated a centerpiece of President Trump’s economic strategy, finding that a 1977 law did not authorize the tariffs.

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The Port of Baltimore in June.
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Judge Apologizes to Conservative Justices in Case Over N.I.H. Cuts

Par :Zach Montague
The display of contrition came after Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh issued a stern warning directing judges to heed their orders in August.

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The grants in question supported a wide variety of research at the National Institutes of Health.
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Trump Signals Imminent Supreme Court Appeal to Protect Tariffs

Par :Tony Romm and Ana Swanson
The president said he would seek expedited review of a federal appeals court’s ruling that found many of his administration’s tariffs to be illegal.

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President Trump has maintained that any erosion in his ability to impose levies using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act will inflict damage on the United States by robbing it of both revenue and leverage.
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Appeals Court Upholds Protections for Venezuelans, but to Little Effect

Par :Zach Montague
The decision affirmed a lower court’s ruling from March, but was overshadowed by a Supreme Court order that allowed the Trump administration to pursue deportations anyway.

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A Temporary Protected Status application clinic in New York in 2023.
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Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs Invalidated by Appeals Court

Par :Tony Romm and Ana Swanson
The decision is a big blow to President Trump’s trade policies, but the judges left the duties in place for now to allow time for a likely appeal to the Supreme Court.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

President Trump’s punishing slate of tariffs immediately drew legal challenges from small businesses and state governments.
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International Student Enrollments Stay Steady at Columbia and Princeton

Par :Troy Closson and Stephanie Saul
But Black student enrollment is lower at the two universities after years of turmoil in elite higher education.

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At Columbia, the number of international students largely held steady this year compared to last year.
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Emil Bove Continued to Work at Justice Dept. After Judicial Confirmation

Par :Devlin Barrett
The code of conduct for federal judges does not appear to apply to Mr. Bove, who has yet to be sworn in. But his continued presence at the department has raised eyebrows.

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Emil Bove III was narrowly confirmed last month to serve on a powerful appeals court judgeship.
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James E. Ferguson II, Rights Lawyer Who Defended Busing, Dies at 82

Par :Sam Roberts
He helped litigate a landmark school desegregation case before the U.S. Supreme Court and overturn wrongful convictions of Black defendants in North Carolina.

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James E. Ferguson II in 2000 in front of the Mecklenburg County Courthouse in Charlotte, N.C. “We weren’t practicing law in the abstract,” he said. “We were the legal arm of the civil rights movement in North Carolina.”
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Trump’s Push to Fire Lisa Cook Puts Fed Independence on Trial

Par :Adam Liptak
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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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Freeze on Foreign Aid

Par :Ann E. Marimow
The conservative majority has been largely receptive to the administration’s claims of executive power.

© Allison Robbert for The New York Times

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to lift an order from a federal judge that requires the administration to spend funds Congress already budgeted for foreign aid.
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Trump Again Escalates Power Grabs in Bid to Fire Fed Member

Par :Charlie Savage
President Trump claimed he has cause to remove a member of the independent board who has not obeyed his demands to vote for lower interest rates.
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Justice Alito Reports No Gifts, 1 Trip and an Active Stock Portfolio

Par :Ann E. Marimow
The annual financial disclosure reported no income as of yet from Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s recently reported book deal.

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As in past years, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. reported owning stock in more than two dozen individual companies, including Boeing, ConocoPhillips and Molson Coors.
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Some Programs for Black Students Become ‘Illegal D.E.I.’ Under Trump

Par :Dana Goldstein
Districts aiming to hire Black teachers, add Black history classes and talk about white privilege are increasingly under scrutiny, raising questions about what is legal, and also what works.

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President Trump’s administration has targeted school districts that have programs benefiting Black students.
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Trump’s Own Order on Flag Burning Concedes First Amendment Protections

Par :Charlie Savage and Luke Broadwater
The president wants to prosecute protesters who desecrate the American flag, but his order concedes that such protests are typically covered by the First Amendment.

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President Trump has railed for years against protesters who burn the American flag.
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Judge Allows Blocking of Funds to Maine Abortion Providers

Par :Zach Montague
In a blunt ruling, the federal judge wrote that he would not thwart Republican lawmakers’ bid to pull Medicaid funds from organizations that perform abortions.

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A lawsuit, brought by a group that operates 18 family planning clinics in Maine, was filed after Republicans moved to cut off the flow of Medicaid dollars to major abortion providers through legislation this summer.
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