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Supreme Court Hands Down Half-Dozen Opinions In One Day. What Did They Say?
A breakdown of the Supreme Court's six decisions on Thursday, which included holdings on Title VII, the First Amendment and ...
Jackson, Sotomayor dissent as Supreme Court turns away Black dancer’s discrimination appeal
The Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Black dancer’s appeal in her discrimination lawsuit against several Houston clubs, ...
Supreme Court Won't Consider Adult Dancer's Discrimination Case
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she would have agreed to review the "patently erroneous" appeals court ruling finding the ...
Jackson and Sotomayor dissent from colleagues’ rejection of race discrimination appeal
A lawsuit alleged that adult entertainment clubs had discriminated against Black dancers. Most of the justices didn’t express ...
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How the 'disastrous' Supreme Court 'diminished its own power' — and is now paying the price
When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its controversial 6-3 decision in Trump v. the United States, Justice Sonia Sotomayor ...
Supreme Court reinstates Yazoo Co. man’s statutory rape conviction
The Mississippi Court of Appeals previously reversed the conviction and remanded the case back to the Yazoo County Circuit ...
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Blasts “Botched” Supreme Court Ruling on TPS
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in a scathing disssent, called out the rest of the court for allowing Trump’s ...
Miami’s Justice Jackson writes blistering dissent to Supreme Court’s CHNV ruling
Jackson, who was joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in the dissent, wrote that “the Court has plainly botched” the assessment ...
Supreme Court declines AR-15 ban appeal that Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch would’ve taken
The Supreme Court refused to take up what would’ve been its next big gun case on Monday, declining to weigh in on Maryland’s ...
Thomas and Alito dissent from refusal to hear 'Two Genders' student T-shirt appeal
Both justices previously ruled against student speech rights. Thomas has questioned whether those rights even exist.
9 justices, many opinions: How the Supreme Court tells lawyers, judges and the public about its decisions and disagreements
(THE CONVERSATION) When the U.S. Supreme Court issues opinions, you may hear that the nine justices reached a 6-3 or a 5-4 decision. You may also hear that certain justices wrote a concurrence or that ...