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FILE - This is a Jan. 27, 2020 file photo of The Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally)

High court declines to revisit immigrant issue during virus

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FILE - This is a Jan. 27, 2020 file photo of The Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally)

High court rules for Connecticut company in trademark case

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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo, rhe justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for a formal group portrait to include the new Associate Justice, top row, far right, at the Supreme Court building in Washington. Seated from left: Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr. Standing behind from left: Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Elena Kagan and Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. It's taken a worldwide pandemic for justices of the Supreme Court to agree to hear arguments over the telephone, with audio available live for the first time. The dramatic change is a product of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

You’ve reached the Supreme Court. Press 1 for live arguments

By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

An exterior view of the Supreme Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. The Netherlands' highest court ruled Tuesday that doctors can carry out euthanasia in patients with advanced dementia if the patient has earlier made a written directive. The Supreme Court ruling solidifies in law a practice that already was being carried out on rare occasions in the Netherlands. (AP Photo/Mike Corder)

Dutch court approves euthanasia in advanced dementia cases

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

People hold signs as they walk past the governor's mansion to protest stay-at-home orders put into place due to the COVID-19 outbreak Tuesday, April 21, 2020, in Jefferson City, Mo. Several hundred people gathered to protest the restrictions and urge Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to allow businesses to reopen after being closed in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus . (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Pandemic ignites dozens of legal battles across nation

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This is a Jan. 27, 2020 file photo of The Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has ruled that juries in state criminal trials must be unanimous to convict a defendant, settling a quirk of constitutional law that had allowed divided votes to result in convictions in Louisiana and Oregon. The justices vote Monday overturned the conviction of a Louisiana man who is serving a life sentence for killing a woman after a jury voted 10-2 to convict him. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally)

Supreme Court rules jury verdict must be unanimous to convict

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this March 9, 2020, file photo Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign rally at Renaissance High School in Detroit. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Tara Reade’s Joe Biden accusation dings Me Too movement, not campaign

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - This is a Jan. 27, 2020 file photo of The Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has ruled that juries in state criminal trials must be unanimous to convict a defendant, settling a quirk of constitutional law that had allowed divided votes to result in convictions in Louisiana and Oregon. The justices’ vote Monday overturned the conviction of a Louisiana man who is serving a life sentence for killing a woman after a jury voted 10-2 to convict him. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally)

Supreme Court: Criminal juries must be unanimous to convict

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE- In this Nov. 11, 2019 file photo, a view of the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has delivered a setback to Montana homeowners who are seeking additional cleanup of arsenic left over from years of copper smelting. The court said Monday that the homeowners cannot proceed with efforts to decontaminate their own property near the shuttered Anaconda smelter without the permission of the Environmental Protection Agency. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Justices rule against Montana homeowners near Superfund site

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In a Sept. 24, 2019, file photo, a sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Oracle studying Google-Apple collaboration for leverage in Supreme Court feud

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Georgia bar exam rescheduled because of coronavirus outbreak

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El Salvador president to defy court on lockdown detentions

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The Supreme Court is shown, Monday, April 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Sherman) ** FILE **

Supreme Court to hear Donald Trump’s tax, financial records case May 12

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Election officials Britt Bermingham, left, and Terry ?Perry count ballots as City of Milwaukee Election Commission workers were processing absentee ballots on the fourth floor of an office building at 501 W. Michigan Ave. in Milwaukee on Monday, April 13, 2020.(Mike DeSisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

Parties mine Wisconsin for clues to voting in the virus era

By SCOTT BAUER and NICHOLAS RICCARDI - Associated Press

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks about the state's response to COVID-19 during a news conference on Monday, April 13, 2020, in Austin, Texas. (Nick Wagner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, praised by pro-life groups for limiting abortion during pandemic

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

FILE - This is a Jan. 27, 2020 file photo of The Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally)

Supreme Court to hold May arguments by teleconference

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

In this April 7, 2020, photo President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Supreme Court to hear Trump tax case, others via telephone in May

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks to local party delegates at the Democratic Party preprimary convention in Pojoaque, N.M., Saturday, March 7, 2020. Candidates for open congressional and Senate seats underwent the first test of their political might as the Democratic and Republican parties of New Mexico held statewide conventions. The conventions decide the ballot order for candidates in the state's primary election on June 2. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

GOP wants mail-in ballots by request only in New Mexico

By Morgan Lee - Associated Press

In this March 16, 2020, photo, people walk outside the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Pressure mounts on Supreme Court to reconvene virtually, hear case over Trump’s tax returns

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Molly King, an election team member, tests an express voting machine at South Division High School in Milwaukee on Monday, April 6, 2020. Thousands of poll workers had said they wouldn't work, leading Milwaukee to reduce its planned number of polling sites from 180 to just five. More than 2,500 National Guard troops were dispatched to staff the polls. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

The Latest: Voters return 77% of absentee ballots in time

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