Experts: Travel ruling could boost other immigration suits
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling upholding President Donald Trump’s travel ban may have a silver lining for people fighting other administration immigration policies after the 5-4 majority ruled that the president’s prior comments about Muslims were not off limits when evaluating the ban, legal experts said.
Pregnancy center ruling a blow for abortion-rights advocates
In knocking down a California law aimed at regulating anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to abortion-rights supporters who saw the law as a crucial step toward beating back the national movement against the procedure.
Tax ruling could lead to more money for Mississippi roads
Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling saying states can force online shoppers to pay sales taxes could produce a special legislative session in Mississippi to earmark new money for roads and bridges.
Effects of Supreme Court voter roll decision appear limited
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling has cleared the way for states to take a tougher approach to maintaining their voter rolls, but will they?
Not voting could jeopardize future votes in some states
Do you have to vote even if you don’t want to? Not doing so could put you on the path to losing your vote in some states.
Justices side with Colorado baker on same-sex wedding cake
The Supreme Court ruled for a Colorado baker who wouldn’t make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in a limited decision that leaves for another day the larger issue of whether a business can invoke religious objections to refuse service to gay and lesbian people.
Sports betting ruling has ripples for US tribes with casinos
American Indian tribes are welcoming an opportunity to offer sports betting in potentially hundreds of casinos across the country after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to legalize it.
Sports betting: Mississippi casinos could take bets soon as court clears way
Mississippi could, at least temporarily, be the only place within the Southeastern Conference where football fans can put bets down when games begin at summer’s end.
Trump travel ban is focus of Supreme Court’s last arguments
The Supreme Court is saving one of its biggest cases for last. The justices are hearing arguments Wednesday over President Donald Trump’s ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries.
Retailers hope for certainty as Supreme Court hears tax case
Retailers are hoping for a resolution this year from the Supreme Court, which hears arguments Tuesday in a decades-old dispute: Whether companies must collect sales tax on items sold in a state where they don’t have a store or other building.
Supreme Court declines to decide fate of ‘Dreamers’ just yet
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s highly unusual bid to bypass a federal appeals court and get the justices to intervene in the fate of a program that protects hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.
Supreme Court to rule on Trump travel ban
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide the legality of the latest version of President Donald Trump’s ban on travel to the United States by residents of six majority-Muslim countries.
Justices won’t step into Mississippi gay rights legal fight
The Supreme Court is refusing to intervene in a legal fight over a Mississippi law that lets government workers and private business people cite their own religious beliefs to deny services to LGBT people.
Kennedy seems conflicted in Supreme Court wedding cake case
On a sharply divided Supreme Court, the justice in the middle seemed conflicted Tuesday in the court’s high-stakes consideration of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in 2012.
Supreme Court takes up dispute over wedding cake for gay couple
The Supreme Court is taking up the highly anticipated case of the Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
Supreme Court allows full enforcement of Trump travel ban
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to fully enforce a ban on travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries.
Supreme Court axes suit over Mississippi Confederate emblem
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from an African-American attorney who called the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag “an official endorsement of white supremacy.”
Attorneys defend Mississippi law on denying LGBT services
Attorneys for Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant are defending a state law that lets government workers and private business people cite religious beliefs to deny services to LGBT people.
Second appeal asks high court to block Mississippi LGBT law
A second appeal has been filed by same-sex marriage supporters who want the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Mississippi law letting government workers and business people cite religious objections to refuse services to LGBT people.
US Supreme Court is asked to block Mississippi LGBT law
Advocates of same-sex marriage are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a new Mississippi law that lets government workers and business people cite their own religious objections to refuse services to LGBT people.