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A view of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, March 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Supreme Court rules states, feds can prosecute for the same crime

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Correction: Obit-Charles Reich story

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

This Feb. 5, 2013, file photo, shows exterior of the now-closed Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham, Ore. (Everton Bailey Jr./The Oregonian via AP)

Supreme Court sides with Christian bakery in Oregon

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Kentucky’s high court rules in trampoline park injury case

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FILE - In this May 9, 2019 photo, State of Kansas attorney Toby Crouse, left, presents his case before the Kansas Supreme Court during oral arguments in a school funding case in Topeka, Kan. Kansas' highest court has signed off on an increase in spending on public schools that the Democratic governor pushed through the Republican-controlled Legislature. But the justices declined in their ruling Friday to close the protracted education funding lawsuit that prompted their decision. The school finance law boosted funding roughly $90 million a year. The court said it wants to ensure that the state keeps its funding promises. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Kansas high court says education funding is adequate

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, May 20, 2019, the leader of the Catalonian ERC party Oriol Junqueras leaves after collecting his credentials at the Spanish parliament in Madrid, Spain. Spain’s Supreme Court on Friday June 14, 2019, denied a request by a Catalan separatist leader Junqueras to leave jail so he can become a European Parliament member after being elected last month.(AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, FILE)

Spain stops jailed Catalan from joining European Parliament

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

Activists with Planned Parenthood demonstrate in support of a pregnant 17-year-old being held in a Texas facility for unaccompanied immigrant children to obtain an abortion, outside of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Federal appeals court nixes Trump administration ban on abortions for illegal immigrant minors

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Man says he abused 16 to 18, now wants identity shielded

By MARK SCOLFORO - Associated Press

Public employees in New Jersey say a new law forcing them to pay union dues if they don't quickly withdraw from the union contradicts the Supreme Court ruling in favor of plaintiff Mark Janus. (Associated Press)

New Jersey public employees’ lawsuit claims dues enforcement contradicts Supreme Court ruling

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The U. S. Supreme Court building stands quietly before dawn in Washington, Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. The U.S. Senate will start the process of voting on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation as a Supreme Court Associate Justice today. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

ACLU begs Supreme Court to delay census citizenship ruling

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump walks to the Oval Office with Polish President Andrzej Duda at the White House, Wednesday, June 12, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump says Democrats ‘ridiculous’ to oppose citizenship question

By Dave Boyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2018, file photo Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh sits with fellow Supreme Court justices for a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Kavanaugh has hired the daughter of Yale Law School professor and “tiger mom” Amy Chua, who praised Kavanaugh as a mentor to women after his Supreme Court nomination. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Daughter of ‘tiger mom’ Chua picked as Kavanaugh law clerk

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2019, file photo, Mitch Hungerpiller of Birmingham, Ala., who invented a computerized system to automate the processing of returned mail, poses for a photo outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court is siding with an Alabama company over the U.S. Postal Service in a patent dispute. The justices said Monday, June 10, that the government can't use a 2011 law to challenge a patent held by Birmingham-based Return Mail. The dispute involves a patent Return Mail got for a system that processes mail that gets returned as undeliverable. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court sides with Alabama company in patent dispute

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

Records fight before Washington state Supreme Court

By RACHEL LA CORTE - Associated Press

The Supreme Court has a shot at expanding gun rights with a case by gun rights activists against New York City. (Associated Press/File)

Supreme Court rejects challenge to ‘In God We Trust’ on U.S. money

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Case of Idaho woman killed in seed plant goes back to court

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In this May 23, 2019, photo, the U.S. Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington. Virginia is holding legislative elections Tuesday, but a case awaiting a Supreme Court ruling could, in an unlikely scenario, result in revisions to about two dozen political districts and, in theory, a new primary within months. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

High court could cause Va. election drama, but likely won’t

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2017 file photo, Owen Labrie listens to testimony during day two of an evidentiary hearing at Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord, N.H., on whether he will be granted a retrial. On Friday, June 7, 2019, the New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected an appeal for a new trial for the prep school graduate who was convicted in 2015 of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old classmate. (Elizabeth Frantz/The Concord Monitor via AP, Pool, File)

Court rejects new sex assault trial for prep school grad

By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press

In this Nov. 30, 2018 file photo, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits with fellow Supreme Court justices for a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ** FILE **

Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at sharp divide over court’s high-profile pending cases

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Justice Ginsburg warns of more 5-4 decisions ahead

By JESSICA GRESKO - Associated Press