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Supreme Court to review bans on AR-15s

Gun advocates have doggedly petitioned the Supreme Court for a review of assault weapons bans despite the justices’ reluctance to put the issue on their docket until now.

Supreme Court won’t redefine American citizenship at Trump’s request

“The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. “We keep that promise today.”

SCOTUS shatters party-candidate spending limits for GOP 

The Trump administration had vowed not to enforce coordinated expenditure limits, but a relic of the vice president’s Senate tenure gave Republicans an opportunity to nix the regulation for good.

Supreme Court sides with GOP states on anti-trans sports ban

As Republican states and the federal government passed more restrictive laws, the high court set itself as the final arbiter of transgender rights.

Supreme Court won’t help Roy Moore preserve $8.2M defamation award

Roy Moore sued a Democratic super PAC over running an ad falsely implying he solicited sex from a 14-year-old during an unsuccessful Senate campaign the Republican politician launched after being booted from Alabama’s high court for the second time.

Trump impeachment lawyer snubbed by SCOTUS in challenge to press freedom ruling

The justices shut down a request by Alan Dershowitz to hear his claim that CNN deliberately misconstrued the attorney's remarks about impeachable offenses.

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