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For the third time in less than a month, the Supreme Court on Friday declined to allow Missouri to use a new congressional map, intended to benefit Republicans, in the November 2026 elections. In a five-page, unsigned order, the justices paused a ruling by a federal appeals court in St. Louis that had directed the…

The Supreme Court turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by President Donald Trump on Friday, potentially putting an end to a long-running legal dispute as absentee voting is underway in the midterm elections.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – Local officials are reacting after the United States Supreme Court ruled Friday to leave the 2022 congressional map in place.

A legal group asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to take up a lawsuit challenging California’s policy against faith-based curriculum in public homeschool programs.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously observed that the highest court in the land is rarely moved by the weather of the day, but it is inevitably shaped by the “climate of the era.” Throughout her career, Ginsburg championed a strategy of meticulous, quiet persuasion. She argued that you cannot change minds by walking…

On Sept. 14, the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling that prevented President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict mail-in voting across the country. 

A group that saw its proposal to require voters to prove their citizenship status before voting in Michigan blocked from the Nov. 3 ballot is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse that decision immediately.

In a ruling issued in Trump v. Barbara on June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring birthright citizenship illegal. The decision upheld the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which states that children born on U.S. soil are U.S. citizens regardless of their parents’ immigration status. But according to legal…

FILE – U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., speaks to attendees at the South Carolina Democratic Party’s Blue Palmetto Dinner on May 29, 2026, in Columbia S.C. /Meg Kinnard, File)