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Supreme Court extends pause on order curbing Biden officials' social media contacts
Administration officials were accused in a lawsuit of unlawfully helping suppress conservative-leaning constitutionally protected speech on major social media platforms.
Justice Elena Kagan says Supreme Court ethics code would be 'a good thing'
The liberal justice weighed in on the debate over whether the Supreme Court should adopt a code of ethics similar to the one lower court judges are required to follow.
Appeals court takes up trans health coverage case likely headed to Supreme Court
Attorneys representing the transgender people denied coverage in West Virginia and North Carolina argued the exclusion is a violation of the 14th Amendment.
Justice Jackson urges Americans to confront 'uncomfortable lessons' about race
“I know that atrocities like the one we are memorializing today are difficult to remember and relive,” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said Friday in Birmingham, Alabama. “But I also know that it is dangerous to forget them.”
Supreme Court freezes ruling that would curb government contact with social media companies
Lower courts have ruled that some government agencies and officials should be restricted from communicating and meeting with social media companies to moderate content.
DOJ asks Supreme Court to end abortion pill legal challenge that threatens widespread access
The appeal by the Biden administration could lead to a final decision in the contentious legal fight over the FDA's approval of mifepristone.
Samuel Alito refuses to step aside from case involving lawyer who interviewed him on ethics for WSJ
In the interviews, the conservative justice pushed back on claims of ethics violations and questioned whether Congress could legislate on the issue.
Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh predicts ‘concrete steps soon’ to address ethics concerns
Brett Kavanaugh said all nine justices recognize that public confidence in the high court is important, particularly now.
High school football assistant fired for praying on field, then backed by the Supreme Court, resigns
Joe Kennedy lost his coaching job at Bremerton High School in Washington in 2015 after he prayed following games. The Supreme Court ruled last year he had the right to pray on the field.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse files ethics complaint over Justice Samuel Alito interview
The Rhode Island Democrat asked Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate Alito's comments in a Wall Street Journal interview.
After years of fighting, a praying football coach got his job back. Now he’s unsure he wants it
On Friday night, Joe Kennedy is due to coach his first game since 2015, when he last pressed his knee to the turf at Bremerton High School in Washington. Everyone will be watching for him to pray again, he said.
