Nina Totenberg
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Law & Courts
The Supreme Court has rejected the independent state legislature theory
The court rules that state constitutions can protect voting rights in federal elections and state courts can enforce those provisions, a key opinion that should safeguard 2024 election integrity.
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National
Supreme Court upholds Indian Child Welfare Act, handing tribes a major victory
The court rejects all of the challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act, "some on the merits and others for lack of standing," Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in her majority opinion.
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Law & Courts
The Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact
The case pit prospective adoptive parents and Texas against the act, a federal law aimed at preventing Native American children from being separated from their extended families and their tribes.
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Politics
Supreme Court unexpectedly upholds provision prohibiting racial gerrymandering
The Supreme Court has ruled against Alabama's defense of an electoral map drawn by the state's Republican-dominated legislature. Black voters had challenged the law as racially discriminatory.
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Law & Courts
Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports
Justice Clarence Thomas' disclosure form had been eagerly awaited in the wake of news reports that he accepted luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
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Politics
Supreme Court vetoes efforts to limit anti-fraud law aimed at government contractors
The cases involve allegations that major retail pharmacies knowingly overcharged Medicaid and Medicare by overstating what their "usual and customary prices" are.
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Law & Courts
Supreme Court will hear a subpoena case that — surprise — Trump and Biden agree on
The case dates back to then-citizen Trump's 2013 agreement with the GSA to lease the Old Post Office Building in Washington for conversion into the Trump International Hotel.
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Law & Courts
Dueling narratives at the Senate hearing on the Supreme Court
Democrats' avowed purpose was to get the Supreme Court to write a code of conduct for itself, or in the absence of that, for Congress to write one. The Republicans avowed purpose was quite different.
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Law & Courts
Senators hear testimony on Supreme Court ethics
There are, however, no witnesses presenting the central players in the current drama over high court ethics — no member of the court.
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National
Chief Justice Roberts declines Senate invite to testify on Supreme Court ethics
Chief Justice John Roberts released a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin declining his invitation to testify about the ethical standards maintained by the Supreme Court.