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GOP bullish on dismantling Voting Rights Act

Republicans are increasingly bullish they can whittle away at the Voting Rights Act (VRA) as Democrats renew a long-shot effort to broaden the...

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Trump’s tariffs back in court 

An appeals court may soon get in the way of President Trump’s trade agenda as his Aug. 1 deadline approaches to impose so-called 'reciprocal’...

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Justice Department files formal complaint against Judge Boasberg 

The Justice Department filed a formal complaint on Monday, accusing U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of misconduct and demanding that he be removed...

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Ghislaine Maxwell pleads with Supreme Court, Trump to intervene in criminal case

Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, urged the Supreme Court on Monday to overturn her sex trafficking conviction as her...

28.07.2025 4

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Trump notches winning streak in Supreme Court emergency docket deluge 

President Trump is on a winning streak at the Supreme Court with conservative-majority justices giving the green light for the president to resume his...

26.07.2025 40

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Supreme Court halts ruling that limits Voting Rights Act enforcement 

The Supreme Court on Thursday halted an appeals ruling that prevents private groups from challenging election maps under the Voting Rights Act in...

24.07.2025 3

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Second court blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide after Supreme Court ruling 

A second court ruled that President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship still cannot go into effect anywhere in the country following...

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Supreme Court lets Trump fire federal product safety commissioners, liberal justices dissent

The Supreme Court on Wednesday paved the way for President Trump to fire three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) — the second...

24.07.2025 30

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Judges pave way for Abrego Garcia's return to Maryland

The Trump administration must release Kilmar Abrego Garcia on his criminal charges in Tennessee, and immigration authorities must allow him to return...

23.07.2025 2

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Trade group asks Supreme Court to limit Mississippi’s social media law 

An internet trade group asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to block Mississippi from enforcing its age-verification law against nine major social media...

23.07.2025 3

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Appeals court hands Mike Lindell win in fight over $5M election fraud contest

A federal appeals court ruled in favor of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Wednesday in his bid to avoid paying $5 million to a software developer, who...

23.07.2025 3

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Todd Blanche takes the helm of Ghislane Maxwell talks

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is phoning a friend as the administration deals with fallout over the Epstein files. President Trump’s former...

23.07.2025 30

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Judge reinstates credit union agency members fired by Trump 

A federal judge reinstated two Democratic appointees at the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) on Tuesday whom President Trump purported to...

23.07.2025 10

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Trump’s long-stalled suit against Bob Woodward dismissed 

A federal judge on Friday dismissed President Trump’s lawsuit against famed Watergate journalist Bob Woodward for publishing audio tapes of...

19.07.2025 60

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Trump sues after Wall Street Journal’s Epstein story 

President Trump sued The Wall Street Journal for defamation on Friday after the newspaper published a story detailing an alleged letter Trump sent...

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Supreme Court allows Trump to resume Education Department layoffs

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Trump to resume efforts to dismantle the Department of Education in an apparent 6-3 vote along...

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ICE official says no plan yet on Abrego Garcia deportation  

A senior Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official on Thursday testified under oath that the agency has not yet decided where Kilmar Abrego...

11.07.2025 5

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Nearly 200 Democrats file legal brief challenging Trump’s emergency tariff powers

Nearly 200 Democratic lawmakers have filed a legal brief supporting a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s use of emergency powers to impose...

10.07.2025 50

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Supreme Court greenlights layoffs: What it means for federal employees

Federal agencies can resume implementing President Trump’s mass layoff directive following Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling, greenlighting agencies...

10.07.2025 50

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Supreme Court allows Trump to resume mass layoffs; Jackson dissents from 'senseless' decision

The Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a judge’s order preventing the Trump administration from conducting mass layoffs across the federal bureaucracy,...

09.07.2025 60

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Judge temporarily blocks Planned Parenthood ‘defunding’ in Trump megabill

A federal judge on Monday granted Planned Parenthood’s request to temporarily halt Medicaid funding cuts to the group’s health centers under a...

08.07.2025 40

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Judge demands DOJ explain Abrego Garcia plans: 'It’s like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall’

A federal judge on Monday scrutinized the Trump administration’s plan for Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he’s released from criminal custody as soon...

07.07.2025 2

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Supreme Court takes up transgender school athlete bans

The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide whether states can ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s school sports teams. ...

03.07.2025 30

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These Founders Just Opened a Brick-and-Mortar Front in the Streaming Wars

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Judge blocks Trump’s asylum ban at southern border

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Trump’s asylum ban at the southern border, determining it ran afoul of immigration laws protecting...

02.07.2025 3

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Judge blocks Trump effort to dismantle African development agency

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Trump’s appointment of a new head of the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF), indefinitely...

02.07.2025 20

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Amy Coney Barrett lands back in MAGA’s good graces 

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is regaining her footing with the MAGA movement after falling from its graces. The most junior conservative...

01.07.2025 20

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Supreme Court to hear Vance, GOP effort to strike down campaign finance provision 

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up Vice President Vance and GOP committees’ bid to strike down federal limits on political parties’...

30.06.2025 40

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Supreme Court refuses American Airlines’ bid to validate JetBlue alliance 

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away American Airlines’ bid to reverse a lower court ruling invalidating the carrier’s alliance with JetBlue in...

30.06.2025 9

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Supreme Court declines fired teacher’s free speech challenge over anti-transgender TikToks

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Massachusetts teacher’s First Amendment challenge concerning her termination for making and reposting...

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Kavanaugh objects as Supreme Court turns away California pig welfare law challenge

The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a second bite at the apple to review California’s law requiring pork sold in the state to come from pigs...

30.06.2025 10

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Roberts rebuffs some criticism of Supreme Court decisions as 'venting' 

Chief Justice John Roberts on Saturday said some public criticism of the Supreme Court’s work is “not terribly helpful,” dismissing it as...

28.06.2025 7

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Birthright citizenship plaintiffs make new push to block Trump’s order nationwide 

A group of plaintiffs challenging President Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions quickly made a new push to block it nationwide, following...

27.06.2025 7

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Supreme Court allows Trump to partially enforce birthright citizenship order 

The Supreme Court on Friday in a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines allowed President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to...

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Supreme Court turns to backlog of transgender cases after Tennessee ban ruling

The Supreme Court on Thursday will confront the next frontiers of the legal battles surrounding transgender rights now that the justices have signed...

26.06.2025 10

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Trump administration accuses judge of defying Supreme Court with South Sudan flight  

The Trump administration accused a federal district judge of defying the Supreme Court’s new deportation ruling by insisting the administration...

24.06.2025 8

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Birthright citizenship, redistricting among 10 cases left at Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is set for a momentous week as the justices enter the homestretch of decision season, racing to finish their work by their...

24.06.2025 10

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Florida AG asks Supreme Court to pave way for new immigration law 

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the state to enforce its new immigration law as an appeal plays...

23.06.2025 10

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Supreme Court to consider if forcibly shaven inmate can seek damages

The Supreme Court took up Monday a case on whether a former Louisiana inmate can receive damages from prison officials for forcibly shaving his...

23.06.2025 10

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Supreme Court turns away Virginia’s appeal in felon voting ban lawsuit 

The Supreme Court turned away Virginia’s appeal on Monday that sought to quash a challenge to the state’s lifetime felon voting ban, allowing the...

23.06.2025 10

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Judge blocks Trump administration effort to bar international students at Harvard

A federal judge indefinitely blocked a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) effort to revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international...

21.06.2025 20

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Appeals court allows Trump to keep National Guard deployed, for now 

A federal appeals court panel late Thursday allowed President Trump to keep the National Guard deployed in Los Angeles, for now. The three-judge 9th...

20.06.2025 20

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Appeals court won’t let Justice Department step in for Trump in E. Jean Carroll's $83M verdict

A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday refused the Justice Department’s effort to put itself on the hook for an $83.3 million defamation award...

18.06.2025 8

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Supreme Court upholds Tennessee’s youth transgender care ban  

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments for transgender minors in a 6-3 decision along...

18.06.2025 9

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Supreme Court called on to take up legality of Trump’s tariffs 

A group of plaintiffs suing President Trump over his reciprocal “Liberation Day” tariffs said they asked the Supreme Court to leapfrog a lower...

17.06.2025 2

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Minnesota suspect hit with federal murder, stalking charges 

Federal prosecutors unveiled murder and stalking charges Monday against the man suspected of shooting two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses,...

16.06.2025 7

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Zach Schonfeld

Supreme Court to review New Jersey AG’s subpoena to anti-abortion clinics 

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin’s (D) subpoena seeking donor records from a network of...

16.06.2025 4

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Appeals court rejects Trump’s bid to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict

A federal appeals court in an 8-2 vote Friday declined President Trump’s bid to rehear his appeal of a jury verdict finding him liable for sexually...

13.06.2025 10

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Zach Schonfeld

Appeals court temporarily lifts judge’s block on Trump’s National Guard deployment 

A federal appeals court panel late Thursday temporarily lifted a judge’s order ruling President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard illegal,...

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Judge invokes monarchy talk while mulling Trump’s National Guard deployment

A federal judge warned at a Thursday hearing that accepting the Trump administration’s assertion he has no authority to review the president’s...

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