
The Guardian - 12 hours 29 min ago
Jury found Trump liable in 2023 for sexually abusing former magazine columnist and defaming her US supreme court decisions live updates The US supreme court declined on Monday to hear Donald Trump's bid to overturn a $5m verdict in favor of E Jean Carroll in a case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing the former magazine columnist and then defaming her. The justices turned away the president's appeal after a lower court upheld the 2023 jury verdict and rejected Trump's...

The Hill - 12 hours 31 min ago
The Supreme Court declined on Monday to review a pair of challenges to Texas's ban on paid voter assistance, leaving in place an appeals court ruling that upheld the restrictions. The decision is a setback for civil rights and voting rights groups, which argued the state law undermines a section of the Voting Rights Act (VRA)...

The Hill - 12 hours 33 min ago
Justice Clarence Thomas renewed his calls for the Supreme Court to revisit its 1964 landmark decision that makes it difficult to bring defamation suits against public figures. The conservative justice's urging came as his colleagues declined to take up an appeal from longtime Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on Monday. Dershowitz petitioned the Supreme Court to revive his defamation lawsuit...

The Hill - 12 hours 33 min ago
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a long-running dispute regarding a pair of Arizona voting laws that require Americans to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to vote. The justices granted the Republican National Committee's (RNC) request to review an appeals court decision that found the state laws at issue were preempted by the...

Los Angeles Times - 12 hours 38 min ago
Trump says he was wrongly accused of a pattern of sexually abusing women based in part on his own words.

New York Times - 12 hours 41 min ago
In May 2023, a federal jury in New York found in President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll.

Huffington Post - 12 hours 42 min ago
The court declined to take up a case that found that President Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.

The Hill - 12 hours 42 min ago
The Supreme Court refused President Trump's request on Monday to overturn a jury's verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and defaming her. It leaves intact the $5 million award that became a dominant prong of Trump's personal legal troubles as he plotted his way back to the...

Sky News - 12 hours 44 min ago
Donald Trump's appeal to overturn a $5m verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming a magazine columnist has been declined by the US Supreme Court.

NBC News - 12 hours 45 min ago
The Supreme Court refused to hear President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn a jury's finding that he sexually assaulted and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll.

Newser - 12 hours 48 min ago
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is once again taking aim at a ruling that has shielded news outlets and others from defamation claims for six decades. In a dissent on Monday that was joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, Thomas disagreed with the court's decision not to take up Harvard law...

Esquire - 12 hours 53 min ago
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Newser - 13 hours 45 min ago
Smartphones just got a stronger shield from the nation's highest court. In a 6 3 ruling Monday, the Supreme Court said police generally must get a warrant before obtaining detailed location records from a person's phone. They found that a request for a robbery suspect's Google location history under the "geofencing"...

The Hill - 13 hours 46 min ago
The Supreme Court is due to release orders and some of its final opinions on Monday morning, days after delivering wins for the Trump administration in major rulings on immigration. Follow along here for the latest rulings from the court, which should be released shortly after 10 a.m. President Trump said Monday on Truth Social...

Newser - 14 hours 3 min ago
Justice Sonia Sotomayor used one of the court's strongest protest tools Monday: a lengthy dissent read aloud from the bench. (It's the second time in a week she has deployed the rare move.) On Monday, Sotomayor blasted the Supreme Court's ruling that presidents may dismiss leaders of independent agencies...

The Hill - 15 hours 38 min ago
In today's issue: The Supreme Court is expected to wrap up its term this week, with eight cases still awaiting rulings, including some of the most intensely debated of the past year. The court's next release of decisions will take place this morning at 10 a.m., when rulings in some of the remaining cases will be announced. The next decision day...

The Guardian - 15 hours 54 min ago
Court expected to hand down decisions on several outstanding cases, wrapping up term that has focussed on Trump's expansive claims of presidential power Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. The supreme court is expected to hand down decisions later today on several outstanding cases, before wrapping up a term that has focused on Donald Trump's expansive claims of presidential power. Joe Biden has said Donald Trump has diminished America's standing in the world "more than...

The Guardian - 16 hours 24 min ago
The court's TPS decision is devastating for those whose countries of origin are deemed unsafe. Congress must act On Thursday, the US supreme court authorized the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS), facilitating the largest single assault on immigrants in contemporary United States history. While the case concerned the 350,000 Haitian and 6,000 Syrian holders of this status, the decision could expose more than 1.3 million people to potential deportation to countries...

Fox News - 16 hours 24 min ago
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin clashed with Jake Tapper over Haiti deportations after the Supreme Court ended Temporary Protected Status.

Newser - 16 hours 30 min ago
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared to expand presidential power, with one big catch. The court upheld President Trump's firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one exception the Federal Reserve. The justices allowed Fed governor Lisa Cook to stay in her job while she fights Trump's effort...

Newser - 16 hours 48 min ago
States can keep counting mail ballots that show up after Election Day, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, delivering a setback to President Trump in the closely watched case. Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett joined the court's three liberal justices in the 5-4 decision, reports the New York...

ABC News - 17 hours 3 min ago
The ruling is one of the most highly anticipated of the year.

New York Times - 17 hours 22 min ago
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. Its term is set to end this week.

Newser - 17 hours 26 min ago
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Trump to throw out a jury's finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The high court declined to take up the case in...