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People stand on the steps of the Supreme Court at sunset in this Feb. 13, 2016, file photo. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, file)

Supreme Court hears cases about use of race in redistricting

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 20, 2016 file photo, a law enforcement officer takes Gregory &quot;Joey&quot; Johnson into custody after he started to burn an American flag in Cleveland, during the third day of the Republican convention. President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that anyone who burns an American flag should face unspecified &quot;consequences,&quot; such as jail or a loss of citizenship _ a move that was ruled out by the Supreme Court nearly three decades ago. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Trump suggests ‘consequences’ for any flag-burners

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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Bobby Moore. The U.S. Supreme Court this week examines whether the nation's busiest state for capital punishment is trying to put to death a convicted killer who's intellectually disabled, which would make him ineligible for execution under the court's current guidance. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

Supreme Court seems to favor Texas death row inmate

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2015 file photo, Kupono Mele-Ana-Kekua, of Kaaawa, Hawaii, blows a conch shell near the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island. Mele-Ana-Kekua had been camping on the mountain for about in protest of the Thirty Meter Telescope. The Hawaii Supreme Court on Wednesday, Dec. 2, invalidated a permit awarded for the construction of one of the world’s largest telescopes on a mountain many Native Hawaiians consider sacred. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

Telescope foes appeal hearing decisions to Hawaii high court

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press

A voter fills out his ballot with his two small children on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in Helena, Mont. (AP Photo/Matt Volz)

The Latest: Montana voters pass medical marijuana expansion

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FILE - In this June 30, 2014 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. Donald Trump will enter the Oval Office with the ability to re-establish the Supreme Court’s conservative tilt and the chance to cement it for the long term. Trump is expected to act quickly to fill one court vacancy and could choose the successor for up to three justices who will be in their 80s by the time his term ends. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Trump has a Supreme Court vacancy to fill

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Supreme Court weighs cities’ plea to sue banks for bias

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Pro-choice activists celebrate during a rally at the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2016, after the court struck down Texas' widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics. The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations were a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation's second-most populous state. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Social issues fail to sway voters as immigration, economy top concerns

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 5, 2015 file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. An Alabama death row inmate may be alive today because a transgender Virginia high school student was denied the use of the bathroom of his choice this year. The two seemingly unrelated cases have one thing in common: In each, a Supreme Court justice switched sides to provide a needed fifth vote to preserve the status quo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Supreme Court votes bridge usual left-right divide

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Group puts abortion ruling at center of judicial election

Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2000 file photo, Willie Smith holds four copies of the Chicago Sun-Times, each with a different headline, in Chicago, reflecting a night of suspense, drama and changes in following the presidential race between Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush. What happens if America wakes up on Nov. 9 to a disputed presidential election in which the outcome turns on the results of a razor-thin margin in one or two states, one candidate seeks a recount and the other goes to court? (AP Photo/Charles Bennett, File)

Nightmare: Election dispute goes to 8-member Supreme Court

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Justice Mary Fairhurst will be next chief justice

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks at the memorial service for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Scalia lauded at high-court ceremony

By SAM HANANEL - Associated Press

Delaware court mulls appeal in soccer tournament killings

By RANDALL CHASE - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 14, 2016 file photo, Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's choice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, arrives for a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Supreme Court has existed with its full complement of nine justices for close to 150 years, no matter who occupied the White House. Now some Republicans are suggesting that only a president from their political party can fill vacancies. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

If Clinton wins, more in GOP say no to 9 on Supreme Court

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

Medical pot group asks Arkansas court to reconsider ruling

By ANDREW DeMILLO - Associated Press

Ehlena Fry, 12, of Michigan, sits with her service dog Wonder, while speaking to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, following oral arguments on a case where Fry, who has cerebral palsy, wants to sue school officials for refusing to let her bring a service dog to class. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Justices sympathetic to girl suing school over service dog

By SAM HANANEL - Associated Press

4 running for Mississippi Supreme Court in northern district

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Court: Law can shield priests from reporting abuse evidence

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2016 file photo, transgender high school student Gavin Grimm poses in Gloucester, Va. The Supreme Court will take up transgender rights for the first time in the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Supreme Court to rule in Virginia transgender case

By MARK SHERMAN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press