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Chief Justice Roberts says judicial independence is key to checking Congress and the president

Chief Justice Roberts says judicial independence is key to checking Congress and the president

BUFFALO (AP) -- Amid attacks on federal judges who have slowed President Donald Trump's agenda, Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday defended judicial independence as necessary to "check the excesses of the Congress or the executive."

Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers

Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal workers

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for the Trump administration to return to work thousands of federal employees who were let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing the federal government.

Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador

Chief Justice Roberts pauses deadline for return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chief Justice John Roberts agreed Monday to pause a midnight deadline for the Trump administration to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

Supreme Court seems likely to OK $8 billion phone and internet subsidy for rural, low-income areas

Supreme Court seems likely to OK $8 billion phone and internet subsidy for rural, low-income areas

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to preserve the $8 billion a year the government spends to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas.

Supreme Court takes up $8 billion phone and internet subsidy for rural and low-income areas

Supreme Court takes up $8 billion phone and internet subsidy for rural and low-income areas

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a major legal fight over the $8 billion a year the federal government spends to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas, in a new test of federal regulatory power.

Supreme Court seems in no hurry to rule on Trump plea to rein in judges over birthright citizenship

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court seems to be in no hurry to address an issue that has irritated Republican and Democratic administrations alike: the ability of a single judge to block a nationwide policy.

2 senior judges, appointed by Republicans, speak out about threats against federal judiciary

2 senior judges, appointed by Republicans, speak out about threats against federal judiciary

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two senior federal judges, both appointed by Republican presidents, spoke out Tuesday against threats of violence and impeachment against their colleagues in the judiciary.

2 senior judges, appointed by Repubicans, speak out about threats against federal judiciary

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two senior federal judges, both appointed by Republican presidents, spoke out Tuesday against threats of violence and impeachment against their colleagues in the judiciary.

Supreme Court seems likely to rule for Ohio woman claiming job bias because she's straight

Supreme Court seems likely to rule for Ohio woman claiming job bias because she's straight

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court seemed likely Wednesday to side with an Ohio woman who claims she suffered sex discrimination from her employer because she is straight.

Supreme Court that Trump helped shape could have the last word on his aggressive executive orders

Supreme Court that Trump helped shape could have the last word on his aggressive executive orders

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump will need the Supreme Court, with three justices he appointed, to enable the most aggressive of the many actions he has taken in just the first few weeks of his second White House term.

Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months' pay in effort to shrink size of government

Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months' pay in effort to shrink size of government

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House on Tuesday began offering buyouts worth seven months of salary to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by Feb. 6 -- part of President Donald Trump's unprecedented overhaul of the U.S. government.

Supreme Court will weigh in on new mostly Black Louisiana congressional district, after election
Supreme Court's conservative justices allow Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations

Supreme Court's conservative justices allow Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Wednesday allowed Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting.

The Supreme Court opens its new term with election disputes in the air but not yet on the docket

The Supreme Court opens its new term with election disputes in the air but not yet on the docket

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Transgender rights, the regulation of "ghost guns" and the death penalty highlight the Supreme Court's election-season term that begins Monday, with the prospect of the court's intervention in voting disputes lurking in the background.

Supreme Court refuses to order New York to include RFK Jr. on the presidential ballot

Supreme Court refuses to order New York to include RFK Jr. on the presidential ballot

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Friday refused an emergency appeal from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign seeking to have his name added to New York's ballot.

Supreme Court justices have a job for life. But some left the court to make their lasting mark

Supreme Court justices have a job for life. But some left the court to make their lasting mark

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the summer of 1941, James F. Byrnes became a Supreme Court justice. Little over a year later, he had had enough and left the court to take a key role in planning the nation's wartime economy.

Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have broad immunity, dimming chance of a pre-election Trump trial

Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have broad immunity, dimming chance of a pre-election Trump trial

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday ruled for the first time that former presidents have some immunity from prosecution, extending the delay in the Washington criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss and all but ending prospects the former president could be tried before the November election.

Supreme Court sends Trump immunity case back to lower court, dimming chance of trial before election

Supreme Court sends Trump immunity case back to lower court, dimming chance of trial before election

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Monday extended the delay in the Washington criminal case against Donald Trump on charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss, all but ending prospects the former president could be tried before the November election.

Supreme Court makes it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, charge Trump faces

Supreme Court makes it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, charge Trump faces

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Friday made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a charge that also has been brought against former President Donald Trump.

To recuse or refuse? A look at Supreme Court justices' decisions on whether to step aside in cases

To recuse or refuse? A look at Supreme Court justices' decisions on whether to step aside in cases

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In declining to step aside from two high-profile Supreme Court cases, Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday provided a rare window on the opaque process by which justices decide to step aside from cases.