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Supreme Court Rules Maine's Tuition Assistance Program Can't Exclude Religious Schools
The Supreme Court has ruled that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education.
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Supreme Court Reimposes Boston Marathon Bomber's Death Sentence
The Supreme Court has reinstated the death sentence for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The justices, by a 6-3 vote Friday, agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court was wrong to throw out the sentence of death a jury imposed on Tsarnaev for his role in the bombing that killed three people near the...
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Marathon Bomber Tsarnaev Faces Revived Death Sentence in Supreme Court
The Biden administration will try to persuade the Supreme Court this week to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by arguing that a jury had no need to examine evidence that the government itself relied on at an earlier phase of the case. Tsarnaev’s guilt in the deaths of three people in the shocking...
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Supreme Court Allows 3-Day Extension for Pennsylvania Mail-In Ballots
The Supreme Court will allow Pennsylvania to count ballots received up to three days after the election, rejecting a Republican plea.
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Supreme Court: NY Can Subpoena Trump Taxes, Congress on Hold
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a New York grand jury can subpoena President Trump’s tax returns, but separately said lower courts needed to reconsider whether Congress could subpoena his financial records. The 7-2 ruling in the New York grand jury case, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, says “Article II and the Supremacy Clause do not categorically preclude,...
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Report: 5th Straight Year With Under 30 Executions in US
Fewer than 30 people were executed in the United States and under 50 new death sentences were imposed for the fifth straight year, part of a continuing decline in capital punishment that saw only a few states carry out executions, a new report issued Tuesday said. But even as death row populations were dropping in most of the 29 states…
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Supreme Court Keeps Federal Executions on Hold
The Supreme Court on Friday blocked the Trump administration from restarting federal executions next week after a 16-year break. The justices denied the administration’s plea to undo a lower court ruling in favor of inmates who have been given execution dates. The first of those had been scheduled for Monday, with a second set for Friday. Two more inmates...
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Supreme Court to Decide If 2020 Census Can Ask About Citizenship
The Supreme Court will decide whether the 2020 census can include a question about citizenship that could affect the allocation of seats in the House of Representatives and the distribution of billions of dollars in federal money. The justices agreed Friday to a speedy review of a lower court ruling that has so far blocked the Trump administration from adding...
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Abortion Case Shows Roberts Firmly at Supreme Court's Center
Chief Justice John Roberts broke with the Supreme Court’s other conservative justices and his own voting record on abortion to block a Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Roberts didn’t explain his decision late Thursday to join the court’s four liberal justices. But it was the clearest sign yet of the role Roberts...
