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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship
The justices blocked President Trump’s executive order that banned birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and some temporary foreign visitors.
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Supreme Court upholds transgender bans in girls’ and women’s sports
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Delivering another major blow to LGBTQ rights, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws that ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's sports.
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'Confusion' at the Supreme Court after NPR retracts story on Alito’s retirement
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not announce his retirement, despite reporting from National Public Radio on Friday. CNN's Paula Reid commented that the "wonderful colleagues at NPR have erroneously put a story out saying that Justice Alito plans to retire." "Editors Note: Earlier today we erroneously published a story saying that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. He has not announced his retirement, and we have retracted the story," the NPR story now reads. Politico's Josh Gerstein cited a statement from the Supreme Court spokesperson Patricia McCabe saying, "NPR's reporting regarding Justice Alito is inaccurate. And their reporting that there was any kind of court statement is inaccurate."There have been rumors about Alito and colleague Justice Clarence Thomas, suggesting that the two men would want to retire under a presidency that more closely matches their ideology, so that they would be replaced by like-minded judges. However, nothing has been announced or set in stone. Alito wasn't on the bench Tuesday as his colleagues read opinions. He, along with Justice Neil Gorsuch, skipped the final day of the High Court's session, leaving only Thomas present to read the group's dissents. Thomas refrained, however. David Daley wrote for The Nation on Tuesday that a "strategic Alito retirement" would be a "democratic disaster." It would put a nail in the coffin of the claim by Chief Justice John Roberts that the Court "isn't political.""Yet now, as a term that has demonstrated the Court’s centrality to the Republican political project approaches its end, attention has turned to a question that strips any remaining pretense of judicial neutrality away," he wrote. Alito was hospitalized in March. The court announced several weeks later that he was taken to the hospital "after becoming ill ... at a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia.”He was given fluids and sent home. The 76-year-old justice, nominated by former President George W. Bush, has been on the Court for 20 years this year and is consistently among the most far-right. He and his wife were caught on tape by liberal documentarian Lauren Windsor saying that the right must "win" on all of the culture war issues and that he cannot compromise with the political left. He went on to agree that the United States must return to a "place of godliness," which sparked concern about whether or not he is truly an impartial justice.
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Five sharpest barbs in new Supreme Court ruling as the justices turn on each other
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that states can bar transgender girls from female school sports, upholding laws in West Virginia and Idaho — and the justices spent much of the opinion going at one another.Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, holding that neither Title IX nor the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause stops states from limiting girls' teams to students who are female at birth. The decision reversed lower-court wins for Becky Pepper-Jackson, the 15-year-old West Virginia student at the center of the case, and Boise State athlete Lindsay Hecox, whose cases the justices heard in January. Justice Sonia Sotomayor agreed the Title IX claim failed but dissented on the rest, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.Here are the five sharpest lines the justices aimed at each other.Sotomayor opened fire on the majority's reasoning, writing that it ruled "in an opinion unencumbered by fact or law." She also accused the majority of "moving the goalposts set by precedent," and said its equal protection analysis rested on "contorted logic."Justice Clarence Thomas answered the dissent's premise head-on in a concurrence, writing: "A man does not have a legal right to compete against women just because he believes that he is a woman."Kavanaugh used a section of his opinion answering the dissent of his opinion to fire back at Sotomayor, writing that the court does "not accept the dissent's assumed monopoly on understanding the effects on individuals involved in disputes over transgender athletes." Of her word choices, he added flatly: "that rhetoric is misdirected."Justice Neil Gorsuch, meanwhile, took his own shot in a footnote that opened "Contra JUSTICE JACKSON," rejecting her reading of the court's sex-stereotyping cases.The clash lands a year after the same conservative majority used similar reasoning to let Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors stand, a decision Sotomayor leans on throughout her dissent to argue the court applied the wrong test. It also caps a term of sharply divided decisions, including another 6-3 ruling a day earlier that drew its own Sotomayor dissent.
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Supreme Court Voids Political-Party Spending Caps in GOP Win
The US Supreme Court threw out longstanding federal limits on spending by political parties in coordination with candidates, in a ruling likely to help Republicans in the November midterms.
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Supreme Court rules Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions are unconstitutional
The Supreme Court shut the door on President Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions on Tuesday, ruling that his banner immigration policy is unconstitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by all three liberal justices and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, wrote that the 14th Amendment guarantees automatic citizenship for nearly all children born on U.S. soil, even those born…
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Crowds outside Supreme Court cheer at birthright citizenship decision
NBC News’ Julia Ainsley reports from outside the Supreme Court where crowds cheered and celebrated after the court rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship.
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Supreme Court Allows States to Bar Transgender Athletes From Girls’ Sports
The court’s decision involving laws from West Virginia and Idaho has implications for 25 other states with similar restrictions on transgender female athletes joining women’s sports teams.
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US supreme court rules states can exclude trans athletes from female sports
Justices voted to overturn judgments issued by lower courts in favor of trans students who sued after being barred from competing in West Virginia and IdahoSupreme court decisions – live updatesSign up for the Breaking News US emailThe US supreme court has upheld laws in two conservative states excluding transgender girls and women from competing in female sports in a far-reaching ruling likely to pave the way for similar bans throughout the US and handing Donald Trump a key “culture war” victory.The court voted to overturn previous judgements issued by lower courts in favor of two trans students who had sued after being barred from competing in West Virginia and Idaho respectively. Continue reading...
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