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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's #MeToo moment

By Molly Finnegan

"Every woman of my vintage knows what sexual harassment is, though we didn't have a name for it," Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told an audience at the Sundance Film Festival.

Supreme Court to rule on Trump travel ban

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The issue pits an administration that considers the restrictions necessary for Americans' security against challengers who claim it is illegally aimed at Muslims and stems from Trump's campaign call for a "complete shutdown of Muslims" entering the U.S.

North Carolina Republicans don't have to redraw maps by next week, Supreme Court rules

By Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

The U.S. Supreme Court has delayed a lower-court order that would have forced North Carolina Republican lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts by next week because of excessive partisan bias in current lines.

Supreme Court to hear appeal over Texas redistricting

By Associated Press

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear Texas' appeal to preserve congressional and legislative districts that a lower court struck down as racially discriminatory.

Why Ohio's way of purging voter rolls is at the Supreme Court

By PBS News Hour

A case challenging the removal of hundreds of thousands of people from voter rolls in Ohio went to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. Special correspondent Karen Kasler of Ohio Public Radio reports what's at stake in the Buckeye State, and…

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Justices won't step into legal fight over gay rights in Mississippi

By Associated Press

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.

Told their treehouse must go, owners appeal to Supreme Court

By Jessica Gresko, Associated Press

Local authorities are fighting a Florida couple who constructed a treehouse on their property overlooking the Gulf of Mexico. But unless the Supreme Court intervenes, the treehouse must be torn down.

Water fight between Florida, Georgia lands at Supreme Court

By Gary Fineout and Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The Supreme Court hears argument Monday in the long-running dispute between Florida and neighboring Georgia over the flow of water in the Apalachicola River.

Analysis: Voting rights and search and seizure heat up January's Supreme Court term

By Marcia Coyle

Justices will return to, among other things, an issue that continues to roil national politics: voting rights.

The simmering racial tensions behind the Supreme Court's canceled Christmas party of 1947

By Marcia Coyle

Seventy years ago, seven of the nine Supreme Court justices gathered in their conference room to discuss a simmering racial controversy triggered by their law clerks' request for a Christmas party.