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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas laughs before speaking to an audience at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, on Sept. 7, 2017. Records obtained by The Associated Press show that Supreme Court justices have attended publicly funded events at colleges and universities that allowed the schools to put the justices in the room with influential donors, including some whose industries have had interests before the court. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP, File)

Justice Clarence Thomas treated to 38 luxury vacations while on bench, says new ProPublica report

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a fundraiser event for the Alabama GOP, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

Trump is the greatest defender of the Constitution alive today

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

"Ghost guns" are displayed at the headquarters of the San Francisco Police Department in San Francisco, Nov. 27, 2019. A federal judge issued a court order Thursday, March 9, 2023, that immediately halts 10 gun distributors from selling or shipping gun parts and kits to New York — the types of materials officials say can be used to build untraceable ghost guns which can then be sold without background checks, eventually ending up in the wrong hands. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Supreme Court lets feds regulate ghost guns

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

A tassel with 2023 on it rests on a graduation cap as students walk in a procession for Howard University's commencement in Washington, Saturday, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Groups challenge Biden’s new student loan forgiveness plan in wake of Supreme Court defeat

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

A tassel with 2023 on it rests on a graduation cap as students walk in a procession for Howard University's commencement in Washington, Saturday, May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Conservative groups sue to block Biden plan canceling $39 billion in student loans

By Collin Binkley - Associated Press

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Thursday, July 13, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Supreme Court rejects Tulsa’s request to issue speeding tickets to Native Americans

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Janet Protasiewicz speaks after being sworn in as a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Madison, Wis. A lawsuit filed with Wisconsin’s newly liberal-controlled state Supreme Court argues that Republican-drawn legislative maps are unconstitutional and must be redone. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Major cases await as liberals exert control of Wisconsin Supreme Court

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Esther Hayut, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, center, sits on the bench with justices Uzi Vogelman, left, and Issac Amit, right, during a hearing on a petition against a law that limits removal of a prime minister from office to medical and mental incapacitation, which makes forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office over a conflict of interest while on trial for corruption more difficult, in Jerusalem, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israel’s Supreme Court hears case against a law protecting Netanyahu from being removed from office

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

Disabled woman asks Supreme Court to dismiss pending case after her lawyer is sanctioned

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Senate Judiciary Oversight Committee Chair Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a hearing June 13, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman on Wednesday accused Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. of disregarding the separation of powers in Washington by intervening in legislative activity. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Sen. Durbin clashes with Justice Alito over Democrats’ plan to slap ethics code on Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Janet Protasiewicz, left, is sworn as a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice by Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023, in Madison, Wis. At center is Protasiewicz' husband Greg Sell. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Wisconsin Supreme Court, which almost overturned Biden’s win in the state, flips to liberal control

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Israel’s full high court to hear petitions against judiciary law in September that spurred protests

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This Sept. 3, 2021, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Speeding ticket dispute heads to Supreme Court in fight over city versus Native American rights

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gestures while speaking at Georgetown University Law Center's third annual Dean's Lecture to the Graduation Class, in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Justice Alito says Congress can’t regulate Supreme Court, impose ethics reforms

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Cahas Mountain looms over the path of the Mountian Valley Pipeline as it crosses the Blue Ridge Parkway at Adney Gap on July 18, 2018. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP) **FILE**

Supreme Court allows construction to resume on the Mountain Valley Pipeline

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‘Ethics’ for Supreme Court just a power grab

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan arrives to sign documents as he submits surety bond over his bails in different cases at an office of Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan’s Supreme Court rejects Imran Khan’s request to halt his concealing assets trial

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz, right, holds hands with Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Dallet, left, and Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, blocked from view at far right, at a watch party in Milwaukee, on April 4, 2023. The Wisconsin's Supreme Court flips from majority conservative to liberal control on Aug. 1 when Protasiewicz is set to be sworn in. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, File)

Democrats eye Wisconsin high court’s new liberal majority to win abortion and redistricting rulings

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Wayne County Elections Director Anne Risku prepares absentee ballots at the Wayne County Board of Elections office on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, in Goldsboro, N.C. A new lawsuit filed in Wisconsin, Thursday, July 21, 2023, by a national Democratic law firm seeks to once again allow for voters to return absentee ballots in drop boxes, a practice that was barred by the state Supreme Court last year. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum)

National Democrats file absentee ballot lawsuit in Wisconsin ahead of state Supreme Court flip

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

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, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Roberts, Kavanaugh occupy middle of Supreme Court, data shows

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times