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Trump has potential to appoint a majority of the Supreme Court
Republicans are gearing up to lock in their remake of the judiciary under President-elect Donald Trump and a new Senate majority, including potentially installing several more conservative Supreme ...Politics - NBC News - November 8 -
Trump has shaped the Supreme Court, but it could still hinder his agenda
President-elect Donald Trump's ambitious agenda could face pushback from an institution he has done much to shape: the Supreme Court.Top stories - NBC News - November 9 -
Trump's potential Supreme Court impact and racist text messages about picking cotton: Morning Rundown
Republicans are looking ahead at the possibility of Donald Trump appointing more Supreme Court justices.Top stories - NBC News - November 8 -
Michigan Democrats defend state Supreme Court majority
Democrats have expanded their majority on the Michigan Supreme Court after winning a pair of races on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. Justice Kyra Harris Bolden, a former appointee ...Politics - The Hill - November 6 -
Will the Supreme Court Stand Up to Trump?
The Supreme Court is largely to blame for the challenges it may face over the next four years.Top stories - The New York Times - November 12 -
Pollster warns of impact of Trump victory on Supreme Court
Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned of the impact former President Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election would have on the U.S. Supreme Court. “The Supreme Court, with the Senate ...Politics - The Hill - November 6 -
How the Supreme Court has ruled on 2024 election-related cases
A majority of Supreme Court justices ruled to allow Virginia to proceed with removing roughly 1,600 alleged noncitizens from its voter rolls. This comes just days before the Nov. 5 election and as ...Top stories - CBS News - October 30 -
Sotomayor has no plans to resign from Supreme Court, sources say
Despite speculation in liberal legal circles and talk among Democratic senators of urging Justice Sonia Sotomayor to resign, sources close to her say she has no plans to.Top stories - ABC News - November 10 -
Ghana's Supreme Court restores ruling party's parliamentary majority ahead of Dec. 7 election
Ghana’s Supreme Court has ruled that the parliamentary speaker's declaration of four seats as vacant was unconstitutional, effectively restoring the ruling party’s majority in the legislature ahead ...World - ABC News - November 12 -
How Trump's second presidency could impact the Supreme Court
President-elect Donald Trump already appointed three of the nine justices on the Supreme Court in his first term. Jan Crawford discusses how his second term could further impact the high court.Top stories - CBS News - November 6 -
Trump’s Supreme Court Agenda Is Likely to Include Legal U-Turns
In recent years, new administrations have not been shy about disavowing positions taken by their predecessors.Top stories - The New York Times - November 8 -
Supreme Court unlikely to see justices retire before Trump takes office
Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the first Hispanic justice and at 70, is not the oldest member of the Supreme Court.Politics - CBS News - November 8 -
Putin commends Trump victory – as it happened
This blog is closing now, thanks for following along. You can find all of the latest US elections stories here .. Ten key takeaways from Trump’s win The key swing states and counties that ...World - The Guardian - November 8 -
Trump declares Senate majority candidates should allow him to make recess appointments
President-elect Donald Trump involved himself publicly in the Senate leadership race for the first time, writing in a post on TruthSocial that anyone running to be the next Senate Majority Leader ...Politics - NBC News - November 10 -
Smith asks court to reject Trump's challenge to his appointment in Jan. 6 case
Special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday asked a judge to decline to take up former President Trump’s latest bid to toss his Jan. 6 election interference case by arguing Smith was unlawfully ...Politics - The Hill - October 31 -
Supreme Court turns away Trump military board appointees’ fight against Biden firings
The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal from several allies of former President Trump challenging how President Biden removed them from military advisory boards. The former board members ...Politics - The Hill - November 4 -
Trump nominates Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead new efficiency department to ‘restructure federal agencies’ – live
Tesla CEO and onetime Republican presidential hopeful put forward to lead department to ‘dismantle government bureaucracy’ . Trump’s cabinet picks and likely contenders so far Joe Biden is ...World - The Guardian - November 13 -
FirstFT: Trump’s first appointment
Also in today’s newsletter, Fed cuts rates and Citi revamps wealth banker payWorld - Financial Times - November 8 -
How the Supreme Court might act in the 2024 election
The Republican National Committee said it filed 130 lawsuits in 26 states ahead of the November general election.Top stories - CBS News - October 28 -
Supreme Court docket heats up with election disputes
The Supreme Court is increasingly being pulled into the upcoming presidential contest. With a week to go until Election Day, the justices now have four election-related applications on their ...Politics - The Hill - October 30 -
Kamala Harris and Democrats will pack the Supreme Court if they win
Kamala Harris has not dismissed the idea of Supreme Court reform, raising concerns that if Democrats win the Senate, they could pack the court with more justices, unless the filibuster remains intact.Politics - The Hill - October 30 -
Supreme Court to Hear Louisiana Congressional Map Dispute
The case, which will not affect this election cycle, involves a legal fight over how the state draws its voting maps and could determine the political power of Black voters there.Top stories - The New York Times - November 4 -
Abortion-rights groups see mixed success in races for state Supreme Court seats
An expensive campaign by abortion-rights advocates for state Supreme Court seats has yielded mixed resultsHealth - ABC News - November 11 -
One dead after attack on Brazil's Supreme Court
The suspected attacker is believed to have been killed by his own explosives.Top stories - BBC News - November 14 -
China arms itself for potential trade war with Trump
Beijing has enacted sweeping laws since US president-elect’s first term that would allow it to retaliate if threatenedWorld - Financial Times - November 14 -
Cardi B says Harris inspired her to vote as candidates hold dueling Wisconsin rallies – live
Supreme court rejects Republican bid to throw out thousands of Pennsylvania ballots; Democrat condemns Trump’s remarks on Liz Cheney. Tell us: Did you vote for a different candidate than your ...World - The Guardian - November 2 -
Trump says he has '4 or 5 good choices' for potential Defense secretary
Former President Trump signaled Thursday that he has a list of potential nominees to serve as Defense secretary if he wins November's election, hinting at the future of a Cabinet position likely to ...Politics - The Hill - October 24 -
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Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to Job Protections at U.S. Consumer Watchdog
The conservative court declined to take a case that could have led to the weakening of limits on a president’s power to fire some federal agency leaders.Business - Inc. - October 22 -
Georgia Supreme Court won't step in to reinstate controversial election rules
The rules passed by the Georgia State Election Board included one that would require ballots be hand-counted.Top stories - CBS News - October 22 -
Battle over abortion access stretches to state supreme court races
Voters in at least 30 states will decide who will fill 69 state supreme court seats in judicial elections in November.Top stories - CBS News - October 23 -
RFK Jr. asks Supreme Court to take him off Wisconsin’s ballot
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the Supreme Court for an injunction taking him off Wisconsin’s presidential ballot in an emergency request docketed Wednesday. Since suspending his independent ...Politics - The Hill - October 23 -
Virginia asks Supreme Court to greenlight 1,600 voter roll removals
Virginia asked the Supreme Court on Monday to greenlight the removals of more than 1,600 people from the state’s voter rolls. State officials say the individuals are noncitizens, but the Justice ...Politics - The Hill - October 28 -
Virginia seeks Supreme Court's intervention in challenge to voter roll purge
Exactly 90 days before Election Day, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced a systematic program to remove from voter rolls people unable to verify their citizenship to the DMV.Top stories - CBS News - October 28 -
Nevada Supreme Court rejects GOP mail ballot challenge
Nevada’s Supreme Court affirmed a lower court decision Monday allowing mail ballots to be counted if they arrive without a postmark up to three days after the Nov. 5 election. A majority of the ...Politics - The Hill - October 28 -
RNC asks Supreme Court to intervene in Pennsylvania mail ballot case
The Republican National Committee (RNC) asked the Supreme Court on Monday for an emergency order that would prevent Pennsylvanians whose mail ballots are rejected for technical reasons from having ...Politics - The Hill - October 28
