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Why Justice Jackson invoked interracial marriage in Supreme Court’s historic transgender care arguments

The Supreme Court was more than an hour into its feisty debate over gender-affirming care when Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson invoked one of the most significant civil rights precedents in the nation’s history.

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Transgender rights take center stage at the US Supreme Court. Here’s what to know

The Supreme Court will dive headfirst into the politically fraught issue of transgender rights on Wednesday when it hears a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors in the highest-profile case of the fall.

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South Carolina executes death row inmate despite pleas from jurors and a judge to spare his life

South Carolina carried out the execution of Richard Moore on Friday evening, according to the state, a day after the US Supreme Court declined the Black inmate’s request to halt his lethal injection over his claim prosecutors unjustly excluded Black people from the all-White jury that convicted him.

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Supreme Court turns away January 6 defendant who challenged ‘picketing’ law under First Amendment

The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an appeal from John Nassif, a January 6 defendant who challenged a law that bans “parading, picketing, and demonstrating” at the US Capitol as a violation of the First Amendment.

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Supreme Court signals it may uphold Biden’s regulations on ‘ghost gun’ kits

The Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled a willingness to uphold a Biden administration regulation on “ghost guns,” mail-order kits that allow people to build untraceable weapons at home and that are turning up at crime scenes with greater frequency.

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Supreme Court declines to hear First Amendment challenges in gun display and Confederate statue protest cases

The Supreme Court declined to hear several First Amendment appeals on Monday, ditching a case that dealt with a requirement that gun dealers in Maryland display suicide prevention literature and another case regarding anti-Confederate war monument protesters who were arrested for blocking a street.

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Supreme Court boots Elon Musk’s fight with Jack Smith over Trump’s Twitter records

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Elon Musk’s X Corp. claiming special counsel Jack Smith violated the First Amendment when he obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s messages on Twitter and then barred the company from disclosing it.

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Supreme Court rejects R. Kelly’s appeal of federal sex crimes conviction

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal from R. Kelly, who is currently serving a prison sentence for federal sex crime convictions.

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Supreme Court boots Elon Musk’s fight with Jack Smith over Trump’s Twitter records

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Elon Musk’s X Corp. claiming special counsel Jack Smith violated the First Amendment when he obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s messages on Twitter and then barred the company from disclosing it.

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Supreme Court allows enforcement of Biden methane and mercury rules in rare win for the EPA

The Supreme Court on Friday let stand Biden administration rules that would cut emissions of the planet-warming gas methane as well as mercury in a rare win for an environmental regulation pending before the conservative high court.

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