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In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A federal judge held the director of the District of Columbia’s Department of Corrections and the warden of the city’s jail in contempt of court on Wednesday, Oct. 13, and asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the civil rights of inmates are being abused. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth had hauled the jail officials into court as part of the criminal case into Christopher Worrell, a member of the Proud Boys who has been charged in the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Federal judge says waiting for appeal process in Jan. 6 cases is ‘frustrating’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Abortion rights activists rally outside the Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Most U.S. adults oppose the Supreme Court’s abortion precedent

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Then-Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer testifies before a House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services hearing to review the FY 2016 budget request of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Retired Justice Breyer tells Supreme Court’s conservative majority to ‘slow down’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

St. John's guard Chris Ledlum (8) drives to the basket past Creighton guard Baylor Scheierman during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, in New York. St. John's basketball players Chris Ledlum and Jordan Dingle have filed a lawsuit against the NCAA for denying their request for an eligibility waiver that would give them one more season of competition with the Red Storm or another team.(AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File)

Chris Ledlum and Jordan Dingle suing NCAA for denying them 2024-25 eligibility

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Demonstrators wearing kangaroo masks gather outside the Supreme Court as justices prepare to hear arguments on former President Donald Trump's immunity claims, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) **FILE**

Supreme Court decisions looming on abortion, guns, presidential immunity

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Activist Stephen Parlato of Boulder, Colo., right, joins other protesters outside the Supreme Court as the justices prepare to hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump’s claim of absolute immunity but decision’s timing is unclear

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

A demonstrator stands outside the Supreme Court as the justices prepare to hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, on Capitol Hill Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Supreme Court struggles with immunity for presidents over official acts

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey appears with All-American swimmer Riley Gaines at press event in Charleston, West Virginia. Mr. Morrisey, a Republican, announced Wednesday, April 24, 2024, that he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of the 2021 Save Women’s Sports Act.
(Photo provided courtesy of Independent Women's Voice)

West Virginia AG Patrick Morrisey seeks Supreme Court review of Save Women’s Sports law

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Abortion-rights activists rally outside the Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Supreme Court appears skeptical that state abortion bans conflict with federal health care law

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Illustration on a special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of Trump by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Trump seeks Supreme Court lifeline

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, March 7, 2024. The Supreme Court will hear its most significant case on homelessness in decades on Monday, April 22, as record numbers of people in America are without a permanent place to live. The justices will consider a challenge to rulings from a California-based federal appeals court that found punishing people for sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court ponders marriage rights limits in quirky immigration case involving MS-13 suspect

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, on Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The core issue being debated before the Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, boils down to this: Whether a former president is immune from prosecution for actions taken while in office — and, if so, what is the extent of the immunity? (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

What to know in the Supreme Court case about immunity for former President Trump

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

The Supreme Court building is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Supreme Court to weigh whether doctors can provide emergency abortions in states with bans

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Starbucks employees and supporters link arms during a union election watch party Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. Unionized Starbucks workers sat down with the company Wednesday for the first round of bargaining since the coffee giant agreed to contract talks this year. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

Starbucks takes on federal labor agency before the Supreme Court

By Dee-Ann Durbin - Associated Press

"Ghost guns" are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco, on Nov. 27, 2019. A federal judge on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, permanently banned a Florida gun retailer from shipping gun parts to New York that officials say can be used to assemble untraceable ghost guns and sold without background checks. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Supreme Court to review federal regulation on ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A woman gathers possessions to take before a homeless encampment was cleaned up in San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Cities across the U.S. are struggling with and cracking down on tent encampments as the number of homeless people grows, largely due to a lack of affordable housing. Homeless people and their advocates say sweeps are cruel and costly, and there aren't enough homes or beds for everyone. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Record numbers in the U.S. are homeless. Can cities fine them for sleeping in parks and sidewalks?

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The Constitutional right to assemble in public illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The right to assemble: Holding an organizer liable for another’s violent acts

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Rioters wave flags on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Supreme Court grapples with obstruction charge lobbed at 350 Jan. 6 defendants, including Trump

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he departs after speaking during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2024, in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Operation Rescue endorses Trump: ‘He hit it out of the park’ with Supreme Court picks

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump returns from a break at Manhattan criminal court in New York, on Monday, April 15, 2024. The hush money trial of Trump begun Monday with jury selection. (Jeenah Moon/Pool Photo via AP)

N.Y. judge refuses Trump’s request to attend Supreme Court immunity argument

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times