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  • Supreme CourtPolitics

    The War on Drugs is on trial at the Supreme Court and its fate could hinge on the meaning of the word ‘and’

    By Mark Sherman and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Thomas is acknowledging that he took three trips last year aboard a private plane owned by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow. It’s the first time in years that Thomas has reported receiving hospitality from Crow. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Finance

    Clarence Thomas, faced with new guidelines, discloses 3 trips taken aboard GOP megadonor’s plane last year

    By Mark Sherman and The Associated Press
  • Supreme CourtLeadership

    Biden’s DOJ doesn’t think the Sackler family should get released from opioid liability and the Supreme Court agrees—for now

    By Mark Sherman and The Associated Press
  • Samuel AlitoPolitics

    Alito to Congress: You can’t regulate the Supreme Court

    By Mark Sherman and The Associated Press
  • upporters march during a rally in support affirmative action policies outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on October 31, 2022Politics

    As Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action, Clarence Thomas rips ‘rudderless, race-based preferences designed to ensure a particular racial mix in their entering classes’

    By Mark Sherman and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Lorie Smith, a Christian graphic artist and website designer in Colorado, right, accompanied by her lawyer, Kristen Waggoner of the Alliance Defending Freedom, second from left, speaks outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, after her case was heard before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is hearing the case of Smith, who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, that’s the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)Politics

    Supreme Court will release 10 opinions in the next week on major issues from student loans to affirmative action

    By Jessica Gresko, Mark Sherman, and others
  • Politics

    Conservative Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch calls COVID lockdowns the ‘greatest intrusions on civil liberties’ in U.S. peacetime history

    By Mark Sherman and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Abortion-rights and anti-abortion demonstrators gather outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. Confidence in the Supreme Court sank to its lowest point in at least 50 years in 2022, in the wake of the Dobbs decision that led to state bans and other restrictions on abortion. That’s according to the General Social Survey, a long-running and widely respected survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago that has been measuring confidence in the court since 1973, the same year that Roe v. Wade legalized abortion nationwide.(AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)Politics

    Just 18% of Americans have a great deal of confidence in the Supreme Court after it overturned Roe marking a 50-year low

    By Mark Sherman, Emily Swanson, and others
  • Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, John RobertsFinance

    The Supreme Court seems sympathetic to a 94-year-old woman whose condo was seized over a $2,300 tax bill and sold for $40,000

    By Mark Sherman and The Associated Press
  • People walk in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 21, 2023. – The US Supreme Court was poised Friday to wade into the legal battle over the abortion drug mifepristone with a ruling on lower court-ordered restrictions on the widely used pill. The nation’s highest court has until midnight Friday (0400 GMT Saturday) to decide how it will handle the most significant abortion case since it tossed out the constitutional right to the procedure last year. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    Access to most common abortion pill is preserved—for now—by Supreme Court emergency ruling

    By Mark Sherman and The Associated Press
  • The Supreme Court is seen, Friday, April 21, 2023, ahead of an abortion pill decision in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)Politics

    The Supreme Court will decide the fate of short-term abortion pill access today while the bigger battle rages on

    By Mark Sherman and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. The Supreme Court is deciding whether women will face restrictions in getting a drug used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, while a lawsuit continues. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)Politics

    The Supreme Court just temporarily extended access to the abortion pill until it decides whether or not to allow states to ban it entirely

    By Mark Sherman and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 16, 2022. A federal appeals court has ruled that the abortion pill mifepristone can still be used for now but reduced the period of pregnancy when the drug can be taken and said it could not be dispensed by mail. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)Politics

    A drugmaker just put in an emergency request to the Supreme Court to settle the abortion pill fight

    By Mark Sherman, Jessica Gresko, and others
  • FILE – Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Thomas said Friday, April 7, that he was not required to disclose the many trips he and his wife took that were paid for by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow. The nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica reported Thursday that Thomas, who has been a justice for more than 31 years, has for more than two decades accepted luxury trips from Crow nearly every year.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Politics

    Justice Clarence Thomas defends luxury trips with a Republican megadonor as ‘hospitality from close personal friends’

    By Mark Sherman and The Associated Press
  • Clarence ThomasPersonal Finance

    ‘The crushing weight of all my student loans’: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has already spoken about his own debt struggle

    By Mark Sherman, Jessica Gresko, and others