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Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court…

John McCarthy October 20, 2025

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In win for Trump, Supreme Court limits judges’ power to block birthright citizenship order

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major victory today by curbing the power of federal judges to impose nationwide rulings impeding his policies but it left unresolved the…

John McCarthy June 27, 2025

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Trump team mulls suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus to speed deportations. Can it?

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally.…

John McCarthy May 10, 2025

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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to end humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from four countries, setting them up…

John McCarthy May 9, 2025

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The FBI mistakenly raided their Atlanta home. Now the Supreme Court will hear their lawsuit

ATLANTA (AP) — Before dawn on Oct. 18, 2017, FBI agents broke down the front door of Trina Martin’s Atlanta home, stormed into her bedroom and pointed guns at her…

John McCarthy April 27, 2025

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US Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportations of Venezuelan migrants under wartime law

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelan migrants it accused of being gang members under a rarely…

John McCarthy April 19, 2025

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Trump officials’ defiance over Abrego Garcia’s deportation is ‘shocking,’ appeals court says

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s claim that it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S. “should be…

John McCarthy April 17, 2025

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Roberts rejects Trump’s call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an extraordinary display of conflict between the executive and judiciary branches, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rejected calls for impeaching federal judges shortly after President…

John McCarthy March 18, 2025

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Divided Supreme Court reinstates order requiring Trump administration to release frozen foreign aid

WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday reinstated a lower-court order for the Trump administration to release frozen foreign aid, but it was not clear how quickly money would…

John McCarthy March 5, 2025

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Supreme Court allows Virginia to purge voter rolls ahead of the election

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Republican officials in Virginia to revive a plan aimed at removing noncitizen voters from the rolls ahead of next week’s election. The justices blocked…

John McCarthy November 1, 2024