CHICAGO (AP) — National Guard troops won’t be deploying in the Chicago area anytime soon unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes because a judge on Wednesday extended her temporary restraining order ...

WASHINGTON − Are pot smokers drug users only when they're high? And can they and other drugs users legally own guns? The Supreme Court on Oct. 20 agreed to decide this question, accepting the Justice ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to allow the deployment of National Guard troops in the Chicago area, escalating President Donald Trump’s conflict with ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority signaled it could upend a central pillar of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The question at the heart of arguments is whether lawmakers can use race as a factor ...

The Supreme Court is on the verge of further limiting voting rights, thanks in part to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s unfounded insistence that considering race can only be legal for a certain amount of ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A ruling for the Trump administration would permit Republican-led states to redraw the congressional districts of ...

Washington — Members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared open Wednesday to raising the bar for successfully challenging voting maps under a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, a ...

During oral arguments on Wednesday in Louisiana v. Callais, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson forcefully rebuked an attorney defending Louisiana’s congressional map, interrupting his claim that plaintiffs ...

The Supreme Court appear poised to limit the use of the Voting Rights Act after hearing extended arguments in a case challenging Louisiana’s newly drawn congressional map, which included a second ...

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