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Supreme Court again leaves state vaccine mandate in place for healthcare workers

This case from New York was the second time the court has refused to block such a state vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.
Nina Totenberg
Law & Courts

READ: Key excerpts from the Supreme Court ruling on S.B. 8, the Texas abortion case

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing abortion providers to challenge the restrictive Texas abortion law and dismisses a Justice Department case against the law. Here are excerpts from Friday's opinion.
Deepa Shivaram
Politics

The U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of officers accused of excessive force

The controversial legal defense protects police from liability when accused of misconduct. Advocates have called for the court or Congress to reform the doctrine.
Becky Sullivan
National

The Supreme Court Sets A Date For Arguments In Case That Could Challenge Roe V. Wade

On Dec. 1, the court will hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org. The Mississippi case tests whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional.
Nina Totenberg

Krishnadev Calamur
Law & Courts

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Decries Labeling The Court As Partisan

The newest Supreme Court justice — picked by former President Trump to fill the seat left open by Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death — said "we need to evaluate what the court is doing on its own terms."
Brian Naylor
National

Texas Law That Bans Abortion Before Many Women Know They're Pregnant Takes Effect

The also allows private citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone else who helps a woman obtain an abortion, including those who give a woman a ride to a clinic.
Jaclyn Diaz

Nina Totenberg
National

Supreme Court To Take Up First Major Gun Rights Case In More Than A Decade

At issue is how much the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to carry concealed weapons outside their home for self-defense. The case will likely be argued in the fall.
Scott Neuman
Politics

Roberts Accuses Supreme Court Justices Of 'Turning Judges Into Advice Columnists'

In an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of two former students blocked from expressing religious opinions on campus. But Roberts protested keeping the case alive after the college caved.
Nina Totenberg
Law & Courts

People incarcerated as children can be resentenced, says WA Supreme Court. Some prosecutors don’t want that

Last year, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that people prosecuted as adults while they were still children deserve a chance to be resentenced by a judge, who retroactively takes the mitigating factors of their youth into account. But two local prosecutors are challenging that law in the U.S. Supreme Court, saying the justices overreached in their interpretation of the Eighth Amendment.
Liz Brazile
Law & Courts

Supreme Court's New Supermajority: What It Means For Roe v. Wade

There are two schools of thought: either the right to abortion will be systemically hollowed out, leaving it a right on paper only, or Roe will be overturned.
Nina Totenberg

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