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Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a gun rights case that centers on New York's restrictive gun permit law and whether limits the state has placed on carrying a gun in public violate the Second Amendment. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Supreme Court poised to bolster Second Amendment, right to carry

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association President Tom King poses for a photo Oct. 28, 2021, in East Greenbush, N.Y. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday, Nov. 3, in a gun rights case that centers on New York’s restrictive gun permit law and whether limits the state has placed on carrying a gun in public violate the Second Amendment. Gun rights advocates including the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association and two private citizens are challenging the law. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

Supreme Court to hear arguments in major gun rights case

By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

Illustration on U.S. government-sponsored torture by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

More government torture crimes

By Andrew P. Napolitano

FILE - Trays of printed social security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management services facility in Philadelphia on Feb. 11, 2005. On Friday, Oct. 29, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming refugees resettled in the U.S. receive $2,125 per month from the government, while Social Security recipients only receive an average of $1,400 per month. Refugees receive no such monthly payment. (AP Photo/Bradley C. Bower, File)

Biden administration drops challenges to Social Security benefits for same-sex couples

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

Caroline McDonald, left, a student at Georgetown University, Lauren Morrissey, with Catholics for Choice, and Pamela Huber, of Washington, join a pro-choice rally outside the Supreme Court, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, as arguments are set to begin about abortion by the court, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Texas abortion law could lead to deluge of Supreme Court challenges to Constitution: Biden admin.

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court is seen on the first day of the new term as activists demonstrate on the plaza, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. Arguments are planned for December challenging Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court's major decisions over the last half-century that guarantee a woman's right to an abortion nationwide. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Supreme Court won’t hear New York abortion funding case

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court is seen at dusk in Washington on Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Supreme Court punts on dispute over public access to secret surveillance court rulings

By Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court building is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Supreme Court upholds Maine’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This Oct. 9, 2014, file photo shows the gurney in the the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla. A 60-year-old Oklahoma man who stabbed a prison cafeteria worker to death in 1998 is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021 in the state's first attempt to administer the death penalty since a series of flawed executions more than six years ago. The state was moving forward with John Marion Grant's lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-3 decision, lifted stays of execution that were put in place on Wednesday for Grant and another death row inmate, Julius Jones, by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Oklahoma resumes executions after legal fight contesting state’s three-drug cocktail

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP)

Rubio, Cruz back Christian website designer seeking Supreme Court hearing

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

This photo provided by North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts shows Associate Justice Phil Berger Jr. One of several legal challenges to North Carolina’s contentious voter ID law is on hold amid a dispute over whether two justices on the state Supreme Court — one the son of arguably the state's most powerful Republican politician — should recuse themselves. (North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts via AP)

N.C. voter ID debate clouded by call for justices’ recusal

By Gary D. Robertson - Associated Press

Founder and CEO of MyPillow Mike Lindell gives an interview with Right Side Broadcasting Network at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Fla., on Feb. 28, 2021. (Sam Thomas/Orlando Sentinel via AP, File)

Lindell defiant: MyPillow CEO unwilling to drop China election hack claim

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

n this Oct. 4, 2021, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen on the first day of the new term, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Six in 10 judges support term limits for Supreme Court, study finds

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

This Sept. 3, 2021, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. Texas is urging the Supreme Court to leave in place its law banning most abortions and telling the justices there’s no reason to rush into the case. The state filed its response Thursday to the Biden administration’s call on the high court to block the law and rule conclusively this term on the measure’s constitutionality. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

DOJ previews Supreme Court arguments against Texas abortion law

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Illustration on government oppression of free speech by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Undoing Times v. Sullivan will crush press freedom and favor those in power

By Andrew P. Napolitano

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Monday, Oct. 18, 2021. The Biden administration is asking the high court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure's constitutionality plays out in the courts. The law has been in effect since September. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court doesn’t block Texas abortion law, sets hearing

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after a Republican strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

McConnell warns Democrats on judiciary attacks

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Abortion rights supporters gather to protest Texas SB 8 in front of Edinburg City Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, in Edinburg, Texas. The nation's most far-reaching curb on abortions since they were legalized a half-century ago took effect Wednesday in Texas, with the Supreme Court silent on an emergency appeal to put the law on hold.(Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

Supreme Court won’t block Texas fetal heartbeat law, will hear DOJ’s case

By Alex Swoyer and Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

In this June 8, 2021, file photo, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a news conference in Austin, Texas. The State of Texas on Oct. 21 asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to grant the Justice Department’s request to block S.B. 8, the state’s new law banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, from taking effect. Mr. Abbott signed the legislation in May and it became law on Sept. 1. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Texas asks Supreme Court not to block its fetal heartbeat abortion law

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

This Sept. 3, 2021, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. Maine health care workers are appealing to the high court after the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit declined to issue an injunction to halt enforcement of Gov. Janet Mills' COVID-19 vaccination mandate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

Maine health care workers return to Supreme Court over COVID-19 vaccine mandate

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times