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Supreme Court clears the way for Trump mail voting order ahead of midterms

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

The U.S. Postal Service laid out how it would implement the order last week, but time is running short to impose major changes with some states beginning to send mail ballots to voters in just a few weeks.

Supreme Court chief justice allows work on Trump's $400M White House ballroom to continue for now

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

The temporary order comes hours before lower-court rulings would have forced a halt to aboveground construction.

Preservation group urges Supreme Court to suspend White House ballroom project

By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press

The National Trust for Historic Preservation filed its request on Tuesday, less than a week after the Trump administration asked the nation’s highest court to allow the White House to continue construction on its $400 million ballroom project.

Supreme Court asked to review Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments in public schools

By Michael Kunzelman, Jamie Stengle, Associated Press

In their Supreme Court brief, the families' attorneys argue that the law violates basic First Amendment principles governing the separation of church and state.

Supreme Court again denies Trump's push to toss out $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

Trump and the Justice Department are also asking the high court to toss out a second Carroll verdict totaling $83 million.

Trump asks Supreme Court to let White House resume ballroom construction during appeal

By Michael Kunzelman, Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

President Donald Trump's administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the White House to resume construction on its $400 million ballroom project while it appeals a lower court's order to halt the work.

They lost their work permits and their legal status. Returning to Haiti is still 'unimaginable'

By Maria Ramirez Uribe

Approximately 350,000 Haitians and Syrians who have remade their lives in the United States are now at a crossroads. Their work permits and legal status have expired, yet their home countries haven’t recovered from the crises that drove them to…

Supreme Court won't halt $656 million judgment against the PLO and Palestinian Authority

By Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor refused Monday to halt a $656 million judgment against Palestinian authorities in a long-running lawsuit filed by Americans killed or wounded in attacks in Israel.

25 states sue over Trump administration's latest tariffs, citing Supreme Court ruling

By Paul Wiseman, Mae Anderson, Associated Press

The United States last month imposed double-digit tariffs on 59 countries and the European Union, charging that they had not done enough to crack down on imports produced by forced labor.

Trump administration urges Supreme Court to allow order targeting mail-in voting before midterms

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to clear the way for an executive order from President Donald Trump that could dramatically change mail-in voting.