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Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, Oct. 7, 2022, at the Supreme Court building in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Sen. Whitehouse claims Supreme Court Justice Alito violated ethics, launches complaint

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

An Alabama Senate committee discusses a proposal to draw new congressional district lines on Thursday, July 20, 2023 in Montgomery, Ala. Alabama lawmakers face a July 21 deadline to draw new congressional lines after the U.S. Supreme Court in June upheld a finding that the current state map— with one majority-Black district out of seven in a state that is 27% Black — likely violates the federal Voting Rights Act. (AP Photo/Kim Chandler)

Court orders new election map in Alabama after lawmakers defy Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - An Israeli activist leads chants during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, in the West Bank settlement of Kdumim, the home of right-wing lawmaker and Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich, Friday, July 28, 2023. Israel’s High Court said Tuesday, Sept. 5, it would delay the first of three flashpoint hearings on the legality of the judicial overhaul spearheaded by the far-right government of Netanyahu. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Israel’s Supreme Court delays pivotal judicial overhaul hearing after attorney general opposes plan

By Julia Frankel - Associated Press

Jury box, courtroom. Photo credit: Crazy City Lady via Shutterstock. *FILE*

Missouri asks Supreme Court to consider jury disqualification over Christian beliefs

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Rahaf, the younger sister of Mohammed Zalabani, a 13 year-old Palestinian in juvenile detention, awaiting trial on murder charges for a Feb. 13 stabbing attack, pauses in the family's emptied apartment which is slated to be demolished by Israeli authorities in Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. An Israeli court last week dismissed the family's appeal and decided to destroy their home of nearly three years in Shuafat refugee camp, a crowded and garbage-strewn district of east Jerusalem, as further punishment. The demolition could occur anytime in the coming days. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

As Israel pushes punitive demolitions, family of 13-year-old Palestinian attacker to lose its home

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court Justice Thomas reveals 3 trips with billionaire Harlan Crow in new filing

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 4, 2021, file photo Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen is sworn into office, inside the Montana State Capitol in Helena, Mont. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP, File)

Republican AGs warn law firms on race-based hiring practices after Supreme Court ruling on colleges

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Bremerton assistant football coach Joe Kennedy, at center in blue, is surrounded by Centralia High School football players after they took a knee and prayed with him on the field after the team's game against Bremerton on Oct. 16, 2015, in Bremerton, Wash. Years after Kennedy left the football team over objections to his post-game praying on the field, he has returned to the gridiron thanks to a Supreme Court decision, and his first game back is Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. (Meegan M. Reid/Kitsap Sun via AP, File)

Praying high school coach returns to gridiron Friday night, will take a knee after the game

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Clarence Thomas reports he took 3 trips on Republican donor’s plane last year

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

This image from video provided by Faces of Choice, shows Miriam "Penny" Hopper. During last week's GOP presidential debate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dodged a question about a federal abortion ban by telling a story about Penny, a woman he knew, who he claimed survived despite multiple abortion attempts. The Associated Press has since found that while the woman he referenced is real, her story from the 1950s is far more nuanced than DeSantis made it sound and is not the only account of her birth. (Faces of Choice via AP)

Abortion anecdote from DeSantis at GOP debate is more complex than he made it sound

By Adriana Gómez Licón, Christine Fernando and Ali Swenson - Associated Press

Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks during the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, in Lake Geneva, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Justice Barrett welcomes scrutiny of court, shies away from ethics code debate

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - North Carolina Supreme Court Associate Justice Anita Earls speaks during a news conference, June 9, 2020, in Raeigh, N.C. On Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, the Democratic justice on North Carolina's Republican-majority Supreme Court sued an ethics panel to block it from investigating her public comments about state courts and colleagues, saying the probe and other recent scrutiny violate her free speech rights. (Julia Wall/The News & Observer via AP, File)

A North Carolina court justice wants to block an ethics panel probe, citing her free speech

By Gary D. Robertson - Associated Press

A road bisects a wetland on June 20, 2019, near Kulm, N.D. A federal judge on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, temporarily blocked a federal rule in 24 states that is intended to protect thousands of small streams, wetlands and other waterways throughout the nation. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Biden forced to scale back federal jurisdiction over waterways following Supreme Court ruling

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - Janet Protasiewicz speaks after being sworn in as a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, Aug. 1, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature have asked that Protasiewicz not hear lawsuits seeking to overturn GOP-drawn district boundary maps, saying she has prejudged the cases. Republicans argue in their motions filed Wednesday, Aug. 23 with the Wisconsin Supreme Court that Protasiewicz can’t fairly hear the cases because during her campaign for the seat earlier this year she called the Republican-drawn maps “unfair” and “rigged” and said there needs to be “a fresh look at the gerrymandering question.” (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin Republicans ask newly elected liberal justice to not hear redistricting case

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

The U.S. Supreme Court, June 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Supreme Court ethics debate divides justices, court watchers, former clerks

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Erin Wilcox speaks at a news conference outside the federal courthouse on March 10, 2021, in Alexandria, Va., where her organization filed a lawsuit against Fairfax County's school board, alleging discrimination against Asian Americans over its revised admissions process for the elite Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. A federal appeals court’s ruling in May 2023 about the admissions policy at the elite public high school may provide a vehicle for the U.S. Supreme Court to flesh out the intended scope of its ruling Thursday, June 29, 2023, banning affirmative action in college admissions. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat) **FILE**

Parents challenge Virginia high school’s admissions after affirmative action ruling

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The U.S. Supreme Court, June 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Courts rule in favor of transgender students, citing Supreme Court’s LGBTQ discrimination ruling

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - Mississippi Republican Attorney General Lynn Fitch addresses the crowd at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., July 26, 2023. A court ruling striking down Mississippi's practice of permanently stripping voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies should be reconsidered and reversed, the state said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, as it asked for new hearing by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Enforcement of the voting ban, which is part of the state's constitution, was blocked by in a 2-1 decision by a panel of 5th Circuit judges on Friday, Aug. 4. Mississippi attorneys, led by Fitch, asked the full New Orleans-based court to reconsider the case. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Mississippi seeks new court hearing to revive its permanent stripping of some felons’ voting rights

By Kevin McGill - Associated Press

FILE - A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., on, Oct. 12, 2022. New restrictions on access to the drug used in the most common form of abortion would be imposed under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023, but the Supreme Court will have the final say. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Some abortion drug restrictions are upheld by an appeals court in a case bound for the Supreme Court

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt forgiveness in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, on Aug. 24, 2022, in Washington. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona listens at right. The White House is moving forward with a proposal that would lower student debt payments for millions of Americans now and in the future, offering a new route to repay federal loans under far more generous terms. Education Department officials on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, called the new plan a “student loan safety net" that will prevent borrowers from getting overloaded with debt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden encourages colleges to skirt Supreme Court ruling that bars affirmative action in admissions

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times