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FILE - A view of The Trump International Hotel is seen, March 4, 2021, in Washington. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Biden administration appeal to limit lawsuits filed by members of Congress against the federal government, in a case that stems from disputes over what was the Trump International Hotel in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Supreme Court to review Democratic lawmakers’ suit over Trump hotel lease

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

Hundreds of abortion ban veto supporters turned out to watch Gov. Roy Cooper sign a veto of the on Bicentennial Mall in Raleigh Saturday, May 19, 2023. Cooper affixed his veto stamp to the bill. The veto launches a major test for leaders of the GOP-controlled General Assembly to attempt to override Cooper’s veto after they recently gained veto-proof majorities in both chambers. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)

One nation, divided by abortion: Blue, red state chasm widens after fall of Roe

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Semi-automatic handguns are displayed at shop in New Castle, Pa., March 25, 2020. A U.S. judge's ruling Wednesday, May 11, 2023, striking down a federal law that bans licensed federal firearms dealers from selling handguns to young adults under 21 is the latest example of how a landmark Supreme Court decision is transforming the legal landscape around firearms. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) **FILE**

What to know about judge’s ruling on age limit for young gun buyers

By Alanna Durkin Richer and Denise Lavoie - Associated Press

The setting sun illuminates the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 10, 2023. The Supreme Court has ruled for a onetime top aide to ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and for others who were convicted of corruption related to an economic development project known as the “Buffalo Billion.” (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Supreme Court sides with ex-Cuomo aide, others convicted of corruption related to ‘Buffalo Billion’

By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stands as she and members of the Supreme Court pose for a new group portrait following her addition, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court. The opinion released Tuesday in a dispute between states over unclaimed money is one of roughly a half dozen she is expected to write by the time the court finishes its work for the summer, usually in late June. The decision was unanimous, though all the justices didn’t join the whole opinion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke more than any other justice this term

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 2, 2023. The Supreme Court has rejected a challenge to a California animal cruelty law that affects the pork industry, ruling that the case was properly dismissed by lower courts. Pork producers had said that the law could force industry-wide changes and raise the cost of bacon and other pork products nationwide. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File Photo)

Saving their bacon: Supreme Court upholds California’s animal welfare law for pork sales

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this March 15, 2019, file photo, a bump stock is displayed in Harrisonburg, Va. A legal challenge to the Trump administration’s ban on bump stocks — devices attached to semiautomatic firearms so that a shooter can fire multiple rounds with a single trigger pull — was revived Thursday, June 23, 2022 by a federal appeals court. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) **FILE**

Gun control groups ask Supreme Court to take up bump-stock ban

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks on Sept. 16, 2021, at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP) ** FILE **

Senate Democrats request information from Harlan Crow over gifts to Justice Thomas

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Harvard students Shruthi Kumar, left, and Muskaan Arshad, join a rally with other activists as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Justices leave nation waiting for bombshell rulings; Affirmative action among toughest cases

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Lawmakers, prosecutors and survivors attend a news conference announcing three new laws aimed at getting guns off California streets in Monterey Park, Calif., Monday, April 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Wave of new gun laws wash across blue America, crash into Justice Thomas’ tougher court test

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows death row inmate Richard Glossip on Feb. 19, 2021. Prominent death penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean on Wednesday, May 4, 2023, joined others calling on Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt to grant death row inmate Glossip a 60-reprieve from his scheduled execution. (Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Supreme Court blocks Richard Glossip’s execution in Oklahoma

By Mark Sherman and Sean Murphy - Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor arrive for a joint tour with first lady Jill Biden of Bronx Children's Museum, after its recent opening at a new permanent home for multicultural education programming, Wednesday, May 3, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Justice Sotomayor got millions from publishing company while not recusing from cases: Report

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Virginia attorney general-elect Jason Miyares enters the room to address a the media inside the Pocahontas Building in Richmond, Va. Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. (Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

Virginia AG rips Justice Department over failure to guard Supreme Court justices at home

By Alex Swoyer and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration on the Supreme Court's possible overturning of the Chevron decision by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Supreme Court case Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo could disarm federal agencies

By Curtis Schube

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)

Ethics attacks on Justice Thomas meant to drive him off court, conservatives warn

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

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Man stole so brazenly that it wasn’t a burglary, Ohio Supreme Court rules

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Nikki Tran of Washington, holds up a sign with pictures of Supreme Court Justices Thomas, Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch, as demonstrators protest outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in Washington. Less than 24 hours after the unprecedented leak of the draft opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ordered an investigation into the “egregious breach.” Since then? Silence. The Supreme Court won’t say whether it is still investigating. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

GOP senators push bill to increase prison time for Supreme Court intimidation

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Papers of the late Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens are displayed, including his notes during Bush v. Gore, that will be made available to researchers at the Library of Congress, in Washington, Monday, May 1, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court Justice Stevens’ private papers open to public

By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

A year later and the illicit Dobbs leak goes unpunished

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times