Tag: Supreme Court (US)

Supreme Court Lets Public Office Ban Stand for ‘Cowboys for Trump’ Founder

The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a request on Monday to hear an appeal from a former New Mexico county commissioner who was removed from office after taking part in the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol. Couy Griffin, formerly a commissioner in New Mexico’s Otero County and the founder of “Cowboys for Trump,” was […]

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Chief Justice Roberts Rejects Peter Navarro’s Last-Ditch Bid to Avoid Prison

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ruled on Monday that Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to Donald J. Trump during his presidency, must start serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress while he pursues an appeal. The order will make Mr. Navarro, who refused to comply with a subpoena seeking information about the Jan. […]

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Supreme Court Seems Likely to Side With NRA in First Amendment Case

A majority of the Supreme Court appeared on Monday to embrace arguments by the National Rifle Association that a New York State official violated the First Amendment by trying to dissuade companies from doing business with it after a deadly school shooting. The dispute, which began after a gunman opened fire in 2018 at Marjory […]

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What’s Next After Putin’s Win, and Why U.S. Home Prices May Start to Drop

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Justice Breyer, Off the Bench, Sounds an Alarm Over the Supreme Court’s Direction

Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s Supreme Court chambers are not quite as grand as those he occupied before he retired in 2022, but they are still pretty nice. As before, they include a working fireplace, which was crackling when I went to visit him on a temperate afternoon in late February to talk about his new […]

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White House’s Efforts to Combat Misinformation Face Supreme Court Test

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday on whether the Biden administration violated the First Amendment in combating what it said was misinformation on social media platforms. It is the latest in an extraordinary series of cases this term requiring the justices to assess the meaning of free speech in the internet era. The […]

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Supreme Court Stays Out of Dispute Over Drag Show at Texas University

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from an L.G.B.T.Q. student group at a public university in Texas to let it put on a drag show on campus over the objections of the university’s president, who had refused to allow it. In an emergency application, the students said the president’s action violated the First […]

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Supreme Court Sides With Government on Reduced Sentencing Law

The Supreme Court sided with the government on Friday, narrowly interpreting a provision of a landmark criminal justice law in a decision likely to limit the number of federal prisoners who are eligible for reduced sentences for nonviolent drug crimes. The decision, by a vote of 6 to 3, did not split along ideological lines. […]

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Supreme Court Sets Rules for Blocking Citizens From Officials’ Accounts

The Supreme Court, in a pair of unanimous decisions on Friday, added some clarity to a vexing constitutional puzzle: how to decide when elected officials violate the First Amendment by blocking people from their social media accounts. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for the court in the lead case, said two things are required before […]

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Appeals Court Denies Peter Navarro’s Motion to Remain Out of Prison

Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to Donald J. Trump during his presidency, will be required to report to prison after a federal appeals court on Thursday denied his all-but-final bid to remain free while appealing his conviction for contempt of Congress. The ruling meant that, barring an 11th-hour intervention by the Supreme Court, which his […]

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On the Supreme Court, Disagreeing Without Being Disagreeable

A week after Justice Amy Coney Barrett chastised Justice Sonia Sotomayor for choosing “to amplify disagreement with stridency” in a Supreme Court decision on former President Donald J. Trump’s eligibility to hold office, the two women appeared together on Tuesday to discuss civics and civility. They gave, for the most part, a familiar account of […]

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In Death Penalty Cases, a Texas Court Tests the Supreme Court’s Patience

After a Texas prosecutor’s extraordinary concession that his office had used false evidence to secure a death sentence, the Supreme Court told a Texas appeals court last year to have another look at the case. It is not every day that a prosecutor “confesses error,” as lawyers say, and joins a defendant in asking that […]

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Democrats Need to Stop Playing Nice

There is a moment in the 2008 HBO movie “Recount” that illuminates an essential difference between Republicans and Democrats. The film was a fictionalized account of the mayhem that followed the 2000 presidential election in Florida. Warren Christopher, a courtly former secretary of state, represents the Democratic candidate Al Gore. “The world is watching,” he […]

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‘Biden Brought the Heat’: Our Columnists on the State of the Union

Welcome to Opinion’s coverage of President Biden’s State of the Union address. In this special feature, Times Opinion writers rate Biden’s performance on a scale of 1 to 10: 1 means the night was a disaster; 10 a triumph. Here’s what our columnists and contributors thought of the event. Best Moment Binyamin Appelbaum In a […]

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After Super Tuesday, Trump Is Stronger Than He’s Ever Been

About 18 months ago, Donald Trump suffered one of his worst political defeats, when many of his loyalists and handpicked candidates were defeated in a midterm landscape that clearly favored the Republicans. A lot of people — I was one of them — thought that this might be the beginning of the end for him, […]

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If They Can’t Make a Federal Case Out of Trump …

While the Supreme Court ruling on Monday that states cannot bar Donald Trump from appearing on their presidential ballots garnered a lot of attention, the more politically consequential decision came on Feb. 28, when the court set a hearing on Trump’s claim of presidential immunity for the week of April 22. That delay is both […]

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In Trump Cases, Supreme Court Cannot Avoid Politics

In major cases concerning former President Donald J. Trump, the Supreme Court has tried to put some distance between itself and politics. That fragile project does not seem to be succeeding. “If the court is trying to stay out of the political fray, it is failing miserably,” said Melissa Murray, a law professor at New […]

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Amy Coney Barrett’s Opinion in Trump Ballot Case Sends a Distinct Message

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s opinion was just a page long, all of two paragraphs. But in distancing herself from both blocs in Monday’s nominally unanimous Supreme Court decision rejecting a constitutional challenge to former President Donald J. Trump’s eligibility to hold office, she staked out a distinctive role. Justice Barrett was the third of Mr. […]

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Trump’s on the Ballot for Super Tuesday, and France Puts Abortion in Its Constitution

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Trump Ballot Eligibility Ruling Elicits Mixed Reactions Ahead of Super Tuesday

The U.S. Supreme Court brought certainty on Monday to a primary season muddled by confusing and divergent state-level rulings by deciding unanimously that the 14th Amendment did not allow states to disqualify former President Donald J. Trump. But reaction to the ruling showed that the challenges to Mr. Trump’s candidacy had hardened political dividing lines […]

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The Supreme Court Just Erased Part of the Constitution

As of Monday, March 4, 2024, Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution is essentially a dead letter, at least as it applies to candidates for federal office. Under the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that reversed the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision striking Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, even insurrectionists who’ve violated […]

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Trump Stays on Colorado Ballot After Supreme Court Rules on 14th Amendment Case

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that states may not bar former President Donald J. Trump from running for another term, rejecting a challenge from Colorado to his eligibility that threatened to upend the presidential race by taking him off ballots around the nation. Though the justices provided different reasons, the decision’s bottom line was […]

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Highlights of the Supreme Court’s Opinions on Trump’s Ballot Eligibility

Ultimately, under the guise of providing a more “complete explanation for the judgment,” ante, at 13, the majority resolves many unsettled questions about Section 3. It forecloses judicial enforcement of that provision, such as might occur when a party is prosecuted by an insurrectionist and raises a defense on that score. The majority further holds […]

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A Potential Answer on Trump’s Eligibility, and Harris Calls For a Gaza Cease-Fire

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Supreme Court Poised to Rule on Monday on Trump’s Eligibility to Hold Office

The Supreme Court announced on Sunday that it would issue at least one decision on Monday, a strong signal that it would rule then on former President Donald J. Trump’s eligibility for Colorado’s primary ballot. The announcement said Monday’s opinion or opinions would be posted online starting at 10 a.m. “The court will not take […]

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Why ‘Fetal Personhood’ Is Roiling the Right

In vitro fertilization creates life, in the most literal sense. The procedure offers a chance to make a baby, with eggs that are fertilized and develop into embryos in a lab. I.V.F. has helped countless people have children, including couples struggling with infertility and an increasing number of L.G.B.T.Q. parents. In a sense, it’s the […]

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Racial Turnout Gap Has Widened With a Weakened Voting Rights Act, Study Finds

When the Supreme Court knocked down a core part of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. argued that some of the law’s protections against racial discrimination were no longer necessary. He wrote that the once-troubling turnout gap between white and Black voters in areas with histories of discrimination at […]

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Trump’s Trial-Delay Strategy Yields Results Even He Did Not Expect

As former President Donald J. Trump was indicted a first time, a second, a third and a fourth last year, he and his legal team cycled through disbelief, anger and a recognition that he would have to spend much of 2024 facing juries as he campaigned to return to the White House. But even as […]

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Mitch McConnell Ends an Era for the Senate, the GOP, and Himself

Mitch McConnell has confessed over the years that as a junior member of the Senate, he longed to be the one whom reporters chased down for information as he jealously watched his more senior colleagues being pursued by the media while he was ignored. “The truth is, when I got here, I was just happy […]

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Election Shadows Supreme Court in Trump’s Immunity Case

“There comes a point,” Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote in 1949, “where this court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.” The Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday to schedule arguments in April to consider former President Donald J. Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution seemed colored by the lack […]

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Trump Should Lose. But the Supreme Court Should Still Clarify Immunity.

The Supreme Court has never squarely resolved whether a president’s in-term conduct is immune from criminal prosecution because, before Donald Trump, there were no indicted ex-presidents. But there are four such indictments now, including Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution in Washington, D.C. — a case built around Mr. Trump’s fraudulent attempt to subvert the 2020 […]

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