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US top court set to throw out race-based college admissions

Such a decision would jeopardise affirmative action at colleges and universities around the nation, particularly elite institutions, decreasing the representation of Black and Latino students

Donald Trump's company set for criminal trial in off-books pay scheme

More than three years after Manhattan prosecutors started investigating Donald Trump after going to the Supreme Court twice to gain access to his tax records the only criminal trial to arise from their efforts is about to begin. No, the former president isn't going on trial. His company is. The Trump Organisation, the holding company for Trump's buildings, golf courses and other assets, is accused of helping some top executives avoid income taxes on compensation they got in addition to their salaries, like rent-free apartments and luxury cars. Trump signed some of the checks at the centre of the case but he is not charged with anything and is not expected to testify or attend the trial, which starts on Monday with jury selection. If convicted, the Trump Organisation could be fined more than USD 1 million but that's not the only potential fallout. Trump's ardent supporters aren't likely to abandon him, no matter the outcome, but a guilty verdict could hamper his company's abilit

US Supreme Court rejects Trump's plea for legal fight into Mar-a-Lago case

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump's plea to step into the legal fight over the FBI search of his Florida estate. The justices did not otherwise comment in turning away Trump's emergency appeal. Trump had pressed the court on an issue relating to classified documents seized in the search authorized by a federal judge of Mar-a-Lago. The Trump team was asking the justices to overturn a lower court ruling and permit an independent arbiter, or special master, to review the roughly 100 documents with classified markings that were taken in the Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. A three-judge panel from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit last month limited the special master's review to the much larger tranche of non-classified documents. The judges, including two Trump appointees, sided with the Justice Department, which had argued there was no legal basis for the special master to conduct his own review of the classified records. Bu

Donald Trump asks US Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the US Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florida estate. The Trump team asked the court to overturn a lower court ruling and permit an independent arbiter, or special master, to review the roughly 100 documents with classified markings that were taken in the Aug. 8 search. A three-judge panel last month limited the special master's review to the much larger tranche of non-classified documents.

US Supreme Court welcomes back public to courtroom after abortion ruling

The Supreme Court is beginning its new term, welcoming the public back to the courtroom and hearing arguments for the first time since issuing a landmark ruling stripping away women's constitutional protections for abortion. Monday's session also is the first time new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the court's first Black female justice, will participate in arguments. And the public is back for the first time since the court closed in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. The court's overturning of the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade abortion decision is still reverberating in legal fights over state abortion bans and other restrictions. But a new stack of high-profile cases awaits the justices. Several cases the court has agreed to hear involve race or elections or both, and the court has also agreed to hear a dispute that returns the issue of free speech and LGBTQ rights to the court. Also hanging over the justices is some unfinished business from last term: the leak of a

Indiana becomes first state to approve abortion ban post Roe overturn

Indiana on Friday became the first state in the nation to approve abortion restrictions since the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade

Kansas first state to vote on abortion since SC overturned Roe vs Wade

Kansas is holding the nation's first test of voter feelings about the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade, with people statewide

US Supreme Court certifies month-old ruling ending Trump border policy

The Supreme Court has certified its month-old ruling allowing the Biden administration to end a Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in US immigration court

US President Joe Biden signs order on abortion access, condemns SC's ruling

The actions Biden outlined are intended to head off some potential penalties that women seeking abortion may face after the ruling, but his order cannot restore access to abortion

Rule of law, anyone?

Negotiated and reciprocal agreements between communities are vital to underpin any law

Texas clinics halt abortion services after state high court ruling

The Friday night ruling stopped a three-day-old order by a Houston judge who said clinics could resume abortions up to six weeks into pregnancy

Biden vows to protect women travelling for abortions after SC's ruling

US President Joe Biden said that women travelling for abortions across the country will be protected by the federal government as millions of women have lost their constitutional reproductive right

Ketanji Jackson becomes first African-American woman judge in US top court

Jackson, in a statement, said that she will administer justice "without fear or favour"

Biden terms US top court's ruling in climate case 'devastating decision'

This statement comes after the Supreme Court curbed the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to broadly regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants

US top court limits federal power to curb carbon emissions: Report

The Supreme Court's conservative majority has signaled ongoing skepticism toward expansive federal regulatory authority

Justice Jackson sworn in, becomes 1st Black woman on US Supreme Court

The 51-year-old Jackson is the court's 116th justice and she took the place Thursday of the justice she once worked for

US clinics scramble to redirect patients after states ban abortion

The top court's ruling has set off a travel scramble across the country, with a growing number of states mostly banning the procedure

Top US court declines Apple's hearing bid over 2 Qualcomm patents

A case in front of the US Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board continued and Apple argued the two patents should be invalid

Instagram and Facebook remove posts offering abortion pills in US

Memes and status updates explaining how women could legally obtain abortion pills in the mail exploded across social platforms which were immediately removed by Instagram and Facebook

Roe v Wade: US SC's abortion ruling has set off new fights in other courts

The US Supreme Court's decision Friday to end constitutional protection for abortion opened the gates for a wave of litigation, as one side sought quickly to put statewide bans into effect