Jul 16 Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens dies at 99 By Mark Sherman, Connie Cass, Associated Press Stevens served on the Supreme Court for nearly 35 years and became its leading liberal. Continue reading
Jul 11 WATCH: Trump abandons 2020 census citizenship question, but seeks data from federal agencies President Donald Trump says he's ordering every federal department and agency to provide the Commerce Department with all records it requests pertaining to the number of citizens and noncitizens in the country. Continue reading
Jul 09 Judge blocks government lawyers from quitting census fight By Associated Press The Justice Department formally asked the judge on Monday to let them switch lawyers after an embarrassing episode last week when lawyers seemed to be giving up the legal fight as President Donald Trump vowed to keep trying to include… Continue reading
Jul 08 Barr says he sees a legal pathway for citizenship question By Michael Balsamo, Associated Press In an interview with The Associated Press, Attorney General William Barr said the Trump administration will take action in the coming days that he believes will allow the government to ask the controversial question. Continue reading
Jul 03 Trump administration still exploring citizenship query By Associated Press A high-ranking Justice Department official is telling a federal judge that the Trump administration has not abandoned efforts to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, even as the U.S. Census Bureau has started the process of printing the… Continue reading
Jul 02 Businesses urge Supreme Court to defend LGBTQ people from discrimination By David Crary, Associated Press The brief is being submitted to the Supreme Court this week ahead of oral arguments before the justices on Oct. 8 on three cases that may determine whether gays, lesbians and transgender people are protected from discrimination by existing federal… Continue reading
Jun 28 Watch 12:33 Shields and Brooks on Democratic debates, Supreme Court rulings Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s political news, including the first debates for 2020 Democratic candidates, whether that party has shifted too far to the left to be… Continue watching
Jun 28 What the Supreme Court's gerrymandering decision means for 2020 By Gretchen Frazee, Laura Santhanam Whichever party controls the state legislature after the 2020 elections will be able to redraw the lines based on data from the 2020 census. Continue reading
Jun 28 Supreme Court to decide on Trump bid to end DACA By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The Supreme Court will decide whether President Donald Trump can end an Obama-era program shielding young immigrants from deportation. Continue reading
Jun 27 The Supreme Court blocked a citizenship question from the census. Now what? By Yasmeen Alamiri, Daniel Bush Though the court has stopped the citizenship question from being added to the 2020 Census, it does not mean definitively that the question cannot appear on the forms. Continue reading