Recent Updates
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Trump asks Supreme Court to void financial records subpoena
U.S. Court Watch 12/06/2019President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to void a subpoena from the House of Representatives that seeks the president’s financial records from his accounting firm. The justices already have shielded the documents from being t...
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Supreme Court to begin new term: About the top cases
U.S. Court Watch 10/07/2019The biggest cases before the Supreme Court are often the last ones to be decided, and the focus on the court will be especially intense in June, just a few months before the 2020 election.President Donald Trump first announced his intention in 2017 t...
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Fines, jail, probation, debt: Court policies punish the poor
U.S. Court Watch 07/08/2019Johnny Gibbs has been trying to get a valid driver’s license for 20 years, but he just can’t afford it.To punish him for high school truancy in 1999, Tennessee officials told him he would not be able to legally drive until he turned 21. H...
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The Latest: Trump considers executive order on census query
U.S. Court Watch 07/07/2019President Donald Trump says he is “very seriously” considering an executive order to get a citizenship question on the 2020 Census.The Justice Department says it will continue to search for legal grounds to force the inclusion of the ques...
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Georgia Supreme Court orders review of slain baby case
U.S. Court Watch 07/01/2019The Georgia Supreme Court has ordered a trial judge to review whether a teenager was properly sentenced to life without parole after he was convicted of fatally shooting a baby in the face.De'Marquise Kareem Elkins was 17 when the baby was slain in h...
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US court weighs if climate change violates children’s rights
U.S. Court Watch 06/05/2019In a courtroom packed with environmental activists, federal judges wrestled Tuesday with whether climate change violates the constitutional rights of young people who have sued the U.S. government over the use of fossil fuels.A Justice Department att...
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Supreme Court to take up LGBT job discrimination cases
U.S. Court Watch 04/22/2019The Supreme Court is taking on a major test of LGBT rights in cases that look at whether federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.The justices said Monday they will hear cases involving p...
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Group takes oil refinery fight to North Dakota's high court
U.S. Court Watch 03/28/2019An environmental group is taking its battle against an oil refinery being developed near Theodore Roosevelt National Park to the North Dakota Supreme Court.The National Parks Conservation Association argued in its Wednesday filing that an air quality...
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Detained Saudi women's rights activists brought to court
U.S. Court Watch 03/15/2019Women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia appeared in a closed-door court hearing Wednesday on unknown charges after being detained in a crackdown last year, making their first appearance before a judge in a case that has sparked international outrage...
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High court lets military implement transgender restrictions
U.S. Court Watch 01/22/2019The Trump administration can go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women while court challenges continue, the Supreme Court said Tuesday. The high court split 5-4 in allowing the plan to take effect, with the...
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North Carolina Supreme Court throws 200th anniversary party
U.S. Court Watch 01/07/2019North Carolina's highest court is holding a "legal party" to observe the anniversary of its first meeting 200 years ago this month.The state Supreme Court scheduled a special session Monday in its downtown Raleigh courtroom to celebrate the court's b...
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Cancer the latest health woe for resilient Justice Ginsburg
U.S. Court Watch 12/23/2018Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is resting in a New York hospital following surgery to remove two malignant growths in her left lung, the third time the Supreme Court’s oldest justice has been treated for cancer and her second stay in a hospital in...