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FILE - The Supreme Court building is seen on June 27, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Supreme Court tosses out decision letting 18-year-olds carry guns during emergencies in Pennsylvania
The Supreme Court has tossed out a decision allowing 18-year-olds to legally carry guns in public. The justices on Tuesday sent back to a lower court for reconsideration a ruling that allowed people under 21 to carry guns during emergencies in Pennsylvania.
 
FILE - The Supreme Court building is seen on June 26, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Courts could see a wave of election lawsuits, but experts say the bar to change the outcome is high
The Supreme Court decision that delivered the presidency to Republican George W. Bush over Democrat Al Gore in 2000 is perhaps the most notable modern example of the judicial branch having a direct involvement after an election.
 
FILE — Ghost guns are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department, in San Francisco, Nov. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)
Supreme Court seems open to upholding regulations on ghost guns, hard to trace weapons used in crime
The Supreme Court seemed likely Tuesday to uphold a Biden administration regulation on ghost guns, the difficult-to-trace weapons found at crime scenes in increasing numbers.
 
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk listens as Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Supreme Court won’t hear appeal from Elon Musk’s X platform over warrant in Trump case
The Supreme Court says it won’t hear an appeal from the social media platform X over a search warrant prosecutors obtained in the election-interference case against former President Donald Trump.
 
FILE - The Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington, Nov. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Supreme Court rejects appeal from Texas officer convicted in killing of woman through her window
The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a former Texas police officer convicted in the death of a woman who was shot through a window of her home.
 
FILE - R. Kelly leaves the Daley Center after a hearing in his child support case, May 8, 2019, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File)
Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from singer R. Kelly, convicted of child sex crimes
The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the singer R. Kelly, who is now serving 20 years in prison after being convicted of child sex convictions in Chicago.
 
The Supreme Court is seen on Monday, Oct. 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
Supreme Court rejects appeal from ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Martin Shkreli, who was once dubbed “Pharma Bro” after jacking up the price of a lifesaving drug.
 
FILE - The Supreme Court building is seen, June 28, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Supreme Court declines Biden’s appeal in Texas emergency abortion case
The Supreme Court decided Monday that a court order finding Texas hospitals cannot federally be required to provide pregnancy terminations when they violate a state abortion ban will stay for now.
 
FILE - The Supreme Court is pictured, June 30, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Supreme Court takes the bench with ghost guns, a capital case and transgender rights on the docket
The Supreme Court took the bench again on Monday, ready to hear cases on ghost guns, a death sentence and transgender rights.
 
FILE - A flare burns natural gas at an oil well in Watford City, N.D., on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
Supreme Court leaves in place two Biden environmental regulations
The Supreme Court has left in place two Biden administration environmental regulations aimed at reducing emissions of planet-warming methane and toxic mercury.
 
FILE - The Supreme Court building is seen on June 27, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Supreme Court to weigh a Texas death row case after halting execution
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a Texas man on death row who has long argued that DNA testing would help prove he didn’t kill an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago.
 
FILE - The Supreme Court is seen, July 1, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
Supreme Court will weigh Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against U.S. gun makers
The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether to block a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against leading U.S. gun manufacturers over allegations their commercial practices have helped caused much bloodshed there.
 
Denise Wieck and her son Guy Boyd, who was shot in the eye with a ghost gun, pose in Ypsilanti, Mich., Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
The flood of ghost guns is slowing after regulation. It’s also being challenged in the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case over a federal regulation aimed at reducing weapons often referred to as ghost guns.
 
A home owned by Panos Anastasiou, who has been charged in federal court for allegedly sending graphic threats to U.S. Supreme Court justices and their families, is shown in Anchorage, Ala., Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
Alaska man charged with sending graphic threats to kill Supreme Court justices
An Alaska man accused of sending graphic threats to injure and kill six Supreme Court justices and some of their family members has been released from custody after being indicted on federal charges.
 
FILE - NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson speaks before President Joe Biden addresses the crowd at the 115th NAACP National Convention in Las Vegas, July 16, 2024. (AP Photo/David Becker, File)
NAACP president urges Missouri governor to halt execution planned for next week
The president of the NAACP is urging Missouri’s governor to halt the execution of Marcellus Williams scheduled for Tuesday, writing that executing a Black man who says he was wrongfully convicted would amount to a “horrible miscarriage of justice.”
 
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a campaign event at Central Wisconsin Airport, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2024, in Mosinee, Wis. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump signals support for reclassifying pot as a less dangerous drug, in line with Harris’ position
Donald Trump has signaled support for a potentially historic federal policy shift to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. His opponent in the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris, has also supported the federal policy change.
 
FILE - The Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington, Nov. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Supreme Court Justice Alito reports German princess gave him $900 concert tickets
Justice Samuel Alito has reported that he accepted $900 worth of concert tickets from a German princess, but disclosed no trips paid for by other people.
 
FILE - A Washington Metropolitan Police vehicle is seen near the Capitol, Oct. 19, 2022, in Washington. Three gun shops that sold nearly three dozen firearms to a man who trafficked the weapons in and around Washington, D.C., are facing a new lawsuit filed Tuesday, jointly by attorneys general for Maryland and the nation’s capital. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Gun shops that sold weapons trafficked into Washington, DC, sued by nation’s capital and Maryland
Three gun shops that sold dozens of firearms to a man who trafficked the weapons in and around Washington, D.C., are facing a new lawsuit filed jointly Tuesday by attorneys general for Maryland and the nation’s capital. D.C.
 
FILE - A cashier rings up a marijuana sale, July 1, 2017, at a cannabis dispensary in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
A decision on a major policy shift on marijuana won’t come until after the presidential election
A decision on whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the U.S. won’t come until after the November presidential election. The timeline raises the chances it could be a potent political issue in the closely contested race.
 
Prakazrel "Pras" Michel, a member of the 1990s hip-hop group the Fugees, arrives at federal court April 3, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Judge rejects claims that generative AI tanked political conspiracy case against Fugees rapper Pras
A judge has rejected a push for a new trial in a multimillion-dollar political conspiracy case against rapper Pras Michel of the Fugees. On Friday, U.S.
 
A precinct worker walks outside a voting location during the state's primary election, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Sun City West, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Supreme Court rejects GOP push to block 41K Arizona voters, but partly OKs proof of citizenship law
The Supreme Court has rejected a Republican push that could have blocked more than 41,000 Arizona voters in the presidential race.
 
FILE - Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a group portrait in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. The Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee said Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, that Thomas failed to publicly disclose additional travel on GOP megadonor Harlan Crow's private jet. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote to Crow's lawyer asking about the trip. Wyden is backing an election-year push to tighten the high court's ethics rules. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Justice Clarence Thomas took undisclosed 2010 trip with GOP megadonor, Democratic senator finds
The Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas failed to publicly disclose additional travel on GOP megadonor Harlan Crow’s private jet.
 
FILE - The Supreme Court is seen, July 1, 2024, in Washington. The Supreme Court shut down a long-shot push from Missouri Monday, Aug. 5, seeking to remove a gag order in former President Donald Trump's hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
Supreme Court shuts down Missouri’s long shot push to lift Trump’s gag order in hush-money case
The Supreme Court has shut down a long-shot push from Missouri seeking to remove a gag order in former President Donald Trump’s hush-money case and delay his sentencing in New York.
 
President Joe Biden, from left, walking with his sister Valerie Biden Owens and his son Hunter Biden, shows off his Team USA jacket as he walks toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 26, 2024, en route to Camp David for the weekend. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Hunter Biden set to be sentenced on gun charges in November
Hunter Biden is set to be sentenced on felony firearms charges in November. Under an order signed by a judge on Friday, the president’s son could face up to 25 years in prison at sentencing set for Nov. 13, but as a first-time offender he is likely to get far less time or avoid prison entirely.
 
FILE - This July 4, 2013, file photo shows a U.S. flag, in the shape of the country, in the outfield before a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the Milwaukee Brewers at Nationals Park in Washington. The attorney general for Washington, D.C. has sued StubHub, accusing the ticket resale platform of advertising deceptively low prices and then ramping up prices with extra fees. Attorney General Brian Schwalb said Wednesday the practice known as drip pricing violates consumer protection laws in the nation’s capital. The lawsuit says StubHub has sold nearly 5 million tickets in Washington since implementing the practice in 2015 and reaped about $118 million in fees. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally, File)
Washington, DC, sues StubHub, saying the resale platform inflates ticket prices with deceptive fees
The ticket resale company StubHub is defending its pricing practices from a lawsuit filed by the attorney general for Washington, D.C.
 
President Joe Biden speaks at an event commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, Monday, July 29, 2024, at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Biden proposed enforceable ethics code and term limits for Supreme Court. How might they work?
President Joe Biden went public Monday with major changes he’s proposing for the U.S. Supreme Court: an enforceable code of ethics, term limits for justices and a constitutional amendment that would limit the justices’ recent decision on presidential immunity.
 
FILE - Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor attends a panel discussion, Feb. 23, 2024 in Washington. The Supreme Court allowed a president to become a "king above the law," in the use of official power, Sotomayor said in a biting dissent Monday, July 1, that called the majority opinion on immunity for former President Donald Trump "utterly indefensible." Joined by the court's two other liberals, Sotomayor said the opinion would have disastrous consequences for the presidency and the nation's democracy by creating a "law-free zone around the president." (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s security detail shoots man during attempted carjacking, authorities say
A member of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s security detail shot an armed man during an attempted carjacking in the early morning hours. Charging documents state that it happened as two U.S.
 
FILE - U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation in Simi Valley, Calif., April 4, 2022. Amy Coney Barrett has been a firm member of the conservative Supreme Court supermajority she cemented four years ago on issues ranging from abortion to guns, but her latest opinions reflect an increasing willingness to occasionally step away from that bloc.(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett shows an independence from majority view in recent opinions
Amy Coney Barrett has been a firm member of the conservative Supreme Court supermajority she cemented four years ago on issues ranging from abortion to guns, but her latest opinions reflect an increasing willingness to occasionally step away from that bloc.
 
FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a group portrait at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. As the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on a major case involving former President Donald Trump, 7 in 10 Americans think its justices are more likely to shape the law to fit their own ideology, rather than serving as neutral arbiters of government authority, according to a new poll. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Big wins for Trump and sharp blows to regulations mark momentous Supreme Court term
Donald Trump and the conservative interests that helped him reshape the Supreme Court have gotten most of what they wanted this term — from substantial help for Trump’s political and legal prospects to sharp blows against the administrative state they revile.
 
The Supreme Court in Washington, Sunday, June 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Supreme Court sidesteps several new gun cases, including challenge to state assault weapons ban
The Supreme Court has sidestepped a new set of Second Amendment fights. The justices on Tuesday declined to hear a challenge to an Illinois assault weapons ban and sent other gun cases back to lower courts, including a challenge to the law used to convict Hunter Biden.
 
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