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A conservative Supreme Court Justice suggested that federal marijuana laws may no longer be necessary. Justice Clarence Thomas said “The federal government’s current approach is a half-in, half-out regime that simultaneously tolerates and forbids local use of marijuana.”

The Supreme Court has rejected a Virginia school board’s appeal to reinstate its transgender bathroom ban

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a court case over a transgender student’s fight to use the boys’ bathroom at his high school, upholding a lower court’s finding that treating transgender students differently violates federal law banning sex discrimination in schools.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense

All nine Supreme Court justices met Friday for their annual class photo.

President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order establishing a commission to study possible reforms to the Supreme Court and federal judiciary.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was fighting a Connecticut court sanction in a defamation lawsuit brought by relatives of some of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

The appeal filed by a Republican congressman asked the Supreme Court to nullify the certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the election of Pennsylvania.

The fate of the Affordable Care Act and the health and economic security it provides to millions of people across the country lies in the Supreme Court’s hands. NBCLX welcomed Vanderbilt University’s Jonathan Metzel to explain why a decision that overturns the law would be a disaster for health care in this country.

As the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case against the Affordable Care Act, President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris laid out their plans for its expansion. “Regardless of the outcome, beginning on January 20, we’re gonna do everything in our power to ease the burden of health care on you and your families,” Biden said. “We will...

With a now solid 6-3 conservative majority, the court will decide the future of President Barack Obama’s signature legislation, a law Republicans have long opposed but one that 20 million Americans now depend on for their health insurance.

When the Supreme Court weighs the fate of “Obamacare,” arguments will revolve around arcane points of law like severability — whether the justices can surgically snip out part of the law and leave the rest

The U.S. Supreme Court has faced a stream of last-minute appeals over election procedures since the spring, and most of the time it has rejected calls to allow less restrictive voting measures despite the pandemic, NBC News reports.

The Supreme Court will allow Pennsylvania to count ballots received up to three days after the election, rejecting a Republican plea.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases involving Trump administration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border: one about a policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings and a second about the administration’s use of money to fund the border wall

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett faces a final day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee as Republicans set the stage for a final confirmation vote in two weeks.

Asked by Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., to name five freedoms protected by the First Amendment, Judge Amy Coney Barrett was unable to provide all five. “Speech, religion, press, assembly,” said Barrett. “I don’t know—what am I missing?” “Redress, or protest,” said Sasse.

During the third day of Senate hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., tried to use the Houston Astros as an example of what Supreme Court judges don’t do. “I think all baseball fans know that the Houston Astros cheat,” said Sasse. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, fired back: “Thank goodness the First Amendment protects that right, for...

During the Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., explained how “dark money” from conservative legal groups can use their deep pockets to influence the Supreme Court process. “It’s one scheme,” he said. “With the same funders selecting judges, funding campaigns for the judges and then showing up in court...

The Senate had been shut down by COVID-19 infections, but Republicans are refusing to delay confirmation of President Donald Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court. They are even willing to make special arrangements so sick senators can vote, and Democrats appear powerless to stop them. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said Monday that he’ll go to the Capitol “in a moon...