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Protesters, supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, clash with the police after they stormed the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Planalto is the official workplace of the president of Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil authorities seek to punish pro-Bolsonaro rioters

By David Biller - Associated Press

Protesters, supporters of Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, clash with the police after they stormed the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Planalto is the official workplace of the president of Brazil. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Pro-Bolsonaro protesters storm Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court, presidential palace

By Diane Jeantet and David Biller - Associated Press

Illustration on threats to judges and lack of DOJ prosecution by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

DOJ prosecutes Jan. 6 while encouraging intimidation of Supreme Court justices

By Gayle Trotter

An anti-abortion advocate along with abortion rights advocates hold up signs during the Emergency Pro-Life Rally for New Mexico in Las Cruces, N.M., on Tuesday, July 19, 2022. New Mexico's governor has signed a new executive order that pledges $10 million to build a clinic that would provide abortions and other pregnancy care. Democrat Michelle Lujan Grisham said Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, that &quot;the goal here is build it and they will come.&quot; She said New Mexico already has seen an influx of patients following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in June to overturn Roe vs. Wade as abortions have ceased in other states. (Meg Potter/The Las Cruces Sun News via AP, File)

Pro-lifers take heart as House Republicans target attacks on churches, pregnancy centers

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

An American flag waves in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington on June 27, 2022. Supreme Court arguments are continuing long after a red light tells lawyers to stop. Arguments that usually lasted an hour have stretched beyond two this term so on many days it is well past lunchtime before the court breaks. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) **FILE**

At the Supreme Court, it’s taking longer to hear cases

By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building at dusk on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 16, 2022. In courtrooms across America, defendants get additional prison time for crimes that juries found they didn’t commit. The Supreme Court is being asked, again, to put an end to the practice.(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Abortion ruling sends law schools scrambling, constitutional law teachings now out-of-step

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Migrants stand near the U.S.-Mexico border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Dec. 19, 2022. The Supreme Court is keeping pandemic-era limits on people seeking asylum in place indefinitely, dashing hopes of immigration advocates who had been anticipating their end this week. The restrictions, often referred to as Title 42, were put in place under then-President Donald Trump at the beginning of the pandemic to curb the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez) **FILE**

Justices to decide if encouraging illegal immigration is protected by First Amendment

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House ahead of the holidays, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden scrambling to keep financial watchdog’s funding out of hands of Congress

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser walks out of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, after the Court heard the case 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. The Supreme Court is hearing the case of a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, that's the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

Web designer, lawyer say court recognized she doesn’t reject classes of people, only messages

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts walks to the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) **FILE**

Chief Justice Roberts blocks Biden from ending Title 42 deportation policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 4, 2019 file photo, Justice Neil Gorsuch, speaks during an interview in his chambers at the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court gets chance to shrink federal agencies’ power with new case

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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

Supreme Court asked to intervene to keep Title 42 border policy in place

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - From left, Superior Court Judges Nathaniel Poovey, Graham Shirley and Dawn Layton listen to testimony during a partisan gerrymandering trial over North Carolina's new political maps, on Jan. 3, 2022, at a courtroom at Campbell University School of Law in Raleigh, N.C. North Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, that state Senate boundaries drawn by Republican legislators — under which the court permitted this year's elections — remain tainted by partisan bias and must be redrawn by trial judges. (Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP, File)

N. Carolina justices: State Senate map must be drawn again

By Gary D. Robertson - Associated Press

A bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney, who came from a slave-owning family in Maryland, will be replaced with a memorial to Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first black man to serve on the Supreme Court, if Democrats have their way. (Associated Press)

Congress votes to remove statue of Supreme Court chief justice who authored Dred Scott decision

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

The Flint water plant tower is pictured on Jan. 6, 2022, in Flint, Mich. A judge dismissed criminal charges against former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder in the Flint water crisis, months after the state Supreme Court said indictments returned by a one-person grand jury were invalid. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Flint water crisis charges dismissed against ex-Gov. Snyder

By Ed White - Associated Press

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hybrid hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The hearing is examining Emergent BioSolutions, a Maryland biotech firm whose Baltimore plant ruined millions of doses of the coronavirus vaccine. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) **FILE**

Jim Jordan ensnares Democrats’ witness who accused Justice Alito of leaking 2014 ruling

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, on March 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Group challenges IRS requirement to disclose nonprofit donors’ personal info

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

A person holds up a sign that reads "Hands Off Our State Courts!" in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, as the Court hears arguments on a new elections case that could dramatically alter voting in 2024 and beyond. The case is from highly competitive North Carolina, where Republican efforts to draw congressional districts heavily in their favor were blocked by a Democratic majority on the state Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Supreme Court justices skeptical of unchecked state power over federal elections

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Lorie Smith, a Christian graphic artist and website designer in Colorado, appears outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, after her case was heard by the Court. The Supreme Court is hearing the case of Smith who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, that's the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

In 303 Creative v. Elenis, Supreme Court can no longer punt

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Illustration on the overturn of Roe v. Wade (abortion ruling) by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Justice Alito got it right on abortion and stare decisis

By Ronald L. Trowbridge