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US Justice Dept asks Supreme Court to block Texas abortion law
The Justice Department filing is the latest legal manoeuvre in the fight over the controversial Texas law known as Senate Bill 8 (SB8), which bans abortions...
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US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Obamacare
In a 7-2 decision, the court upheld the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare, maintaining health insurance for tens of millions of Americans.
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US Supreme Court to take up gun rights case
It will be the first major case involving the Second Amendment constitutional right to bear arms heard by the nation's highest court in more than a decade.
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Facebook fails in bid to derail $15 bn privacy suit
The nation's top court issued an order denying a request by the leading social network to review a California federal court's decision to allow the litigation accusing Facebook of violating wiretap laws.
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US Supreme Court allows release of Trump tax records to prosecutors
Trump, 74, has been waging a protracted legal battle to prevent his tax records from being handed over to New York prosecutors probing hush payments to women and possible fraud.
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US Supreme Court hears attack on Obamacare as COVID-19 pandemic widens
The high court opened arguments in the long-brewing case over the constitutionality of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, under which then-president Barack Obama's government sought to extend health insurance to people who could not afford it.
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What Biden’s win means for race relations, US foreign policy & the Supreme Court
Joe Biden’s victory presents an opportunity to reset the White House agenda and put it on a different course.
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Trump's Supreme Court pick faces Senate hearings
By law, the Republican-led Senate has to approve the nomination to the country's highest court, where conservatives currently occupy five of the nine seats.
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Ginsburg lies in state in US Capitol, first woman so honored
Ginsburg's flag-draped casket was carried up the Capitol east steps and brought to Statuary Hall, where the justice's relatives, US lawmakers, and dignitaries including Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, were in attendance.
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Ginsburg to lie in repose as US Republicans eye quick replacement
Democratic opponents, led by presidential candidate Joe Biden, however, are demanding that the process wait until after the 3 November election, when it will be known whether Trump is getting a second term.
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Trump confirms will announce Supreme Court pick on Saturday
US President Donald Trump confirmed he will announce his pick for the Supreme Court seat left open by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday.
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US Supreme Court justice Ginsburg (87) hospitalised
Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore early Tuesday after first going to her regular Washington hospital with fever and chills.
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US Supreme Court allows first federal executions in 17 years
Four federal executions were scheduled but a district court judge had suspended them to allow for legal challenges to the lethal injection that was to be used.
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Supreme Court orders Trump financial records released to NY prosecutors
In a 7-2 ruling, the court said the president does not have absolute immunity from criminal investigation.
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US Supreme Court rejects key challenge to abortion rights
The conservative-leaning court split 5-4 in the decision overruling a state law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
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US top court in landmark ruling to protect LGBT workers
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights activists, as well as Democratic politicians and several major businesses, had been demanding that the court spell out that the community was protected by the law.
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Future of abortion at stake in US Supreme Court case
At issue is a state law in Louisiana which requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
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US Supreme Court takes on workplace gay and transgender rights
A sharply divided US Supreme Court heard arguments on whether employers can fire workers because they are gay or transgender.
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US anti-abortion groups plot course from state capitals to Supreme Court
The momentum has picked up since Republican President Donald Trump appointed two justices to the nine-member Supreme Court in the past two years.
