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The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Kagan explained absence from a case, Alito did not. Ethics questions vexing Supreme Court

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

In this Jan. 28, 2015, file photo, Jeanine Pirro attends the HBO Documentary Series premiere of "The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst" in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

Jeanine Pirro releases book critical of left’s legal actions, says ‘Lady Justice is not blind’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Washington. The Supreme Court is leaving in place a lower court ruling against duck liver lovers, declining Monday, May 22, 2023, to step in and hear a dispute over a California law that bars foie gras from being sold in the state. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court reins in Biden admin’s power over U.S. waterways

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Washington. The Supreme Court is leaving in place a lower court ruling against duck liver lovers, declining Monday, May 22, 2023, to step in and hear a dispute over a California law that bars foie gras from being sold in the state. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court disapproval rating hits all-time high in new Quinnipiac poll

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 29, 2018, file photo, Don Blankenship listens to arguments in the West Virginia Supreme Court n Charleston, W.Va. On Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, a federal judge in West Virginia refused to toss the misdemeanor conviction of former coal CEO Don Blankenship for conspiring to violate mine safety laws. (Chris Dorst/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP, File)

Blankenship asks Supreme Court to revisit libel standards for media

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court is seen on April 21, 2023, in Washington. A unanimous Supreme Court has given a 94-year-old Minneapolis woman a new chance to recoup some money after the county kept the entire $40,000 when it sold her condominium over a small unpaid tax bill. The justices ruled Thursday, May 25, that Hennepin County, Minnesota violated the constitutional rights of the woman, Geraldine Tyler, by taking her property without paying “just compensation.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Supreme Court sides with elderly woman who lost condo to Minnesota county

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Adnan Syed, center, leaves the Elijah E. Cummings Courthouse on Sept. 19, 2022, in Baltimore. Syed’s lawyer has asked Maryland’s highest court Wednesday, May 24, 2023, to overturn a lower court’s ruling that reinstated his murder conviction from more than two decades ago - after he was freed last year in a legal case that gained international attention from the hit podcast “Serial.” (AP Photo/Brian Witte, File)

Adnan Syed’s murder conviction on hold for now, as Maryland Supreme Court considers appeal

By Brian Witte - Associated Press

Michael and Chantell Sackett of Priest Lake, Idaho, pose for a photo in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) **FILE**

Supreme Court limits federal power over wetlands, enhances property rights over clean water

By Mark Sherman and Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

Abortion rights activists leave hangers on the fence as they protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington on July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Chief Justice John Roberts says putting fence around Supreme Court was ‘hardest decision’

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 divided federal appeals court on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, upheld the constitutionality of a new admissions policy at the elite public high school in Virginia that critics say discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans. (AP Photo/Matthew Barakat, File)

Appeals court upholds school’s diversity policy that curtailed Asian American student admissions

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - 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)

Harlan Crow rebuffs Senate Democrats’ request for information about gifts to Justice Thomas

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

A serving of salt-cured fresh foie gras with herbs is displayed at Chef Didier Durand's Cyrano's Bistrot and Wine Bar in Chicago, Aug. 9, 2006. The Supreme Court is leaving in place a lower court ruling against duck liver lovers, declining Monday, May 22, 2023, to step in and hear a dispute over a California law that bars foie gras from being sold in the state. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) **FILE**

Supreme Court won’t hear dispute over California law barring sale of foie gras

By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Gorsuch called emergency measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis that killed more than 1 million Americans perhaps “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.” The 55-year-old conservative justice pointed to orders closing schools, restricting church services, mandating vaccines and prohibiting evictions in a broadside aimed at local, state and federal officials, even his colleagues. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

COVID emergency orders are among `greatest intrusions on civil liberties,’ Justice Gorsuch says

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

A sign is displayed outside the Internal Revenue Service building on May 4, 2021, in Washington. Taxpayers who called the IRS had an average wait time of four minutes this tax season compared to 27 minutes a year earlier, the agency said Monday, April 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

Supreme Court rules IRS doesn’t have to give law firm notice to collect delinquent client’s assets

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Attorney Eric Schnapper, right, gestures to Beatriz Gonzalez, second from right, the mother of 23-year-old Nohemi Gonzalez, a student killed in the Paris terrorist attacks, and stepfather Jose Hernandez, front row center, speak outside the Supreme Court, Feb. 21, 2023, in Washington. The Supreme Court on Thursday, May 18, sidestepped a case against Google that might have allowed more lawsuits against social media companies. The justices' decision returns to a lower court the case from the family of Nohemi Gonzalez. The family wants to sue Google for YouTube videos they said helped attract IS recruits and radicalize them. Google owns YouTube. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court sides with Google, Twitter, but avoids ruling on their broad protections from lawsuits

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

In this 1976 file photo, pop artist Andy Warhol smiles in New York. The Supreme Court on Thursday, May 18, 2023, sided with a photographer who claimed the late Andy Warhol had violated her copyright on a photograph of the singer Prince. The Supreme Court sided 7-2 with photographer Lynn Goldsmith. The case involved images Warhol created of Prince as part of a 1984 commission for Vanity Fair. Warhol used a Goldsmith photograph as his starting point. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Supreme Court rules against Andy Warhol in ‘Prince Series’ copyright dispute

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this June 29, 2020, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Supreme Court sides with Big Tech in families’ lawsuits over promotion of terrorist videos, content

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. Legal arguments over women's access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion move to a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday, May 17, 2023 in a case challenging a Food and Drug Administration decision made more than two decades ago.(AP Photo/Allen G. Breed, File)

Federal appeals court says government’s defense of abortion pill ‘puzzling’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Then-Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer testifies before a House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services hearing to review the FY 2016 budget request of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Retired Justice Breyer calls Supreme Court in his clerking time a ‘court with a mission’

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Palm Beach, Fla. A special prosecutor has ended his four-year investigation into possible FBI misconduct in its probe of ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The report Monday, May 15, from special counsel John Durham offers withering criticism of the bureau but a meager court record that fell far short of the former president’s prediction he would uncover the “crime of the century.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Republican presidential hopefuls keep voters guessing on abortion issue

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times