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  • Supreme Court halts COVID-19 vaccine rule for US businesses

    MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO|Updated Jan 13, 2022

    WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nation's COVID-19 vaccination rate, a requirement that employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job. At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S. The court's orders Thursday came during a spike in coronavirus cases caused by the omicron variant....

  • Student's Snapchat profanity leads to high court speech case

    MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press|Updated Apr 26, 2021

    WASHINGTON (AP) - Fourteen-year-old Brandi Levy was having that kind of day where she just wanted to scream. So she did, in a profanity-laced posting on Snapchat that has, improbably, ended up before the Supreme Court in the most significant case on student speech in more than 50 years. At issue is whether public schools can discipline students over something they say off-campus. The topic is especially meaningful in a time of remote learning because of the coronavirus...

  • High court rules challenge to Trump census plan is premature

    Mark Sherman, The Associated Press|Updated Dec 23, 2020

    A divided Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump’s plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot states seats in the House of Representatives. The court’s decision Friday, Dec. 18, led by its conservative justices, is not a final ruling on the matter and, while it allows Trump to pursue the plan for now, it’s not clear whether he will receive final numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau before Jan. 20. For now, the high court said it was t...

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    Barrett vows to interpret laws 'as they are written'

    Mark Sherman Lisa Mascaro and Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press|Updated Oct 15, 2020

    WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett declared Monday, Oct. 12, that Americans "deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets our Constitution and laws as they are written," encapsulating her conservative approach to the law that has Republicans excited about the prospect of her taking the place of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg before Election Day. Barrett spoke about her judicial philosophy, her experience and her large family at the end of the f...

  • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

    Mark Sherman, The Associated Press|Updated Sep 24, 2020

    Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering women's rights champion who became the court's second female justice, died Friday, Sept. 18, at her home in Washington. She was 87. Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said. Her death just over six weeks before Election Day is likely to set off a heated battle over whether President Donald Trump should nominate, and the Republican-led Senate should confirm, her replacement, or if the...