Justice

Supreme Court’s junior justice goes on solo tear as Trump fights put her at odds with the bench

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stood out from her colleagues this week when she broke with them to rail against the high court’s decision to fast-track its landmark order dismantling a key provision in the Voting Rights Act.  But Jackson’s solo dissent was far from the first time … Read more

Utah Supreme Court justice resigns amid probe into alleged relationship with redistricting attorney

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Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats’ redistricting plan The Virginia Supreme Court strikes down the Democrats’ redistricting plan, overturning new congressional maps and dealing a blow to their midterm election hopes. Former President Donald Trump and former Governor Glenn Youngkin laud the ruling as a major victory. Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger and House Minority Leader … Read more

‘Justice’: Celebration, mockery erupt after Spanberger ‘gerrymander’ is blown up in blockbuster decision

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republicans erupted in euphoria and mockery after the Virginia Supreme Court issued an earthshattering rebuke of Democrats’ hasty efforts to draw out all but one Republican from the Old Dominion’s congressional delegation — with the case’s lead plaintiff telling Fox News Digital the decision vindicated critics of … Read more

Epstein cellmate says he found a suicide note. Justice Department says it’s seeing it for first time

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A note that Jeffrey Epstein ‘s former cellmate claims to have found after the financier’s first suspected jail suicide attempt in 2019 has been made public — not because of the Justice Department’s release of records related to the sex offender, but as part of an unrelated case. The government’s explanation: It never had the … Read more

Justice Department zeroes in on UCLA for alleged illegal DEI admissions as elite school crackdown expands

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Justice Department has concluded that UCLA’s medical school engaged in illegal race-based discrimination in admissions, alleging the school favored Black and Hispanic applicants in violation of federal law. The finding follows a yearlong federal investigation and marks the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s push to … Read more

Clarence Thomas becomes the second longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history

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WASHINGTON — The first baby boomer on the Supreme Court hit a milestone on Thursday, becoming the second-longest serving justice in history at a time when his influence has never seemed greater. Once an outlier on the nation’s highest court, Justice Clarence Thomas has become a towering figure in the conservative legal movement over the … Read more

Supreme Court chief justice pinpoints what Americans misunderstand about he and his colleagues

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Political critics of Supreme Court decisions fundamentally do not understand the role of the institution, according to Chief Justice John Roberts. It is to interpret the law, not make it, he told a judicial conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania. “I think, at a very basic level, people think … Read more