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Make no mistake: The Trump administration and Senate Republicans are trying to force a justice onto the court to finish the job they could not finish in Congress. They want to destroy the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We can be sure of it because, right now, Republican state attorneys general are in court trying to …

Supreme Court To Hear Case On Memo About Census, Unauthorized Immigrants  NPR Supreme Court will review Trump plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from calculations for congressional seats  The Washington Post Supreme Court will hear Trump appeal to exclude undocumented immigrants from Census count used to determine congressional districts  CNBC ‘Problem-plagued’ census could lead to loss of funding, political …

Last month, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California sided with the plaintiffs and issued an injunction which suspended a Sept. 30 deadline for finishing the 2020 census and a Dec. 31 deadline for submitting numbers used to determine how many congressional seats each state gets — a process known as apportionment. That …

Protesters holding signs about the 2020 census gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019. Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images Protesters holding signs about the 2020 census gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019. Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images The Trump …

Win McNamee/Getty Images Following Amy Coney Barrett’s opening statement yesterday, the committee adjourned until today for a round of questioning expected to begin at 9:00 a.m. ET. Barrett will be grilled by Senate Judiciary Committee members over the course of today and Wednesday. Senators have the option of appearing and questioning the witness in person …

President Trump told “Fox & Friends” co-host Pete Hegseth that he thinks his nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, will be a textualist. “Mostly, I’m looking for somebody that can interpret the Constitution as written,” he said during the exclusive one-on-one interview following the nomination, set to air Sunday at 6:30 a.m. ET. “We …

If confirmed, Barrett, a conservative jurist appointed by Trump in 2017 to the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals, will certainly tilt the high court further rightward for years to come. In 2019, Barrett dissented alone when a 7th Circuit panel majority rejected a Second Amendment challenge from a man found guilty of felony mail …

Here’s what you need to know: President Trump spoke at a Black economic empowerment event in Atlanta on Friday.Credit…Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times President Trump is expected to announce later today that he has selected Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court seat left open by the passing of the liberal …

His execution is the seventh federal execution since the Justice Department restarted the practice this summer after a 17-year hiatus. Thursday’s unsigned order from the Supreme Court was the Court’s second refusal to stop a federal execution this week. The Court denied the stay request of William LeCroy on Tuesday in an order that marked …

“My liberal friends have over many decades gotten very used to the idea of having a liberal court, but that’s not written in the stars,” the Utah Republican told reporters after this decision. He called it “appropriate for a nation that is … center-right to have a court which reflects center-right points of view.” Given …