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Missy Gendron RN, LHS school nurse, unpacks pooled COVID-19 testing materials on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, at Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Maine. Gendron is going to be doing a walk through with staff next week. Classroom pooled testing is planned for the week following. Consent for COVID-19 pooled testing is being collected from parents now. (Andree Kehn/Sun Journal via AP)

Supreme Court rejects Maine’s challenge to COVID-19 vaccine mandate

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this April 26, 2021 file photo, Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at the Department of Justice in Washington. President Joe Biden is nominating eight new leaders for U.S. attorney positions across the country, including in the office overseeing the prosecutions of hundreds of defendants charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. The nominees announced Monday by the White House come as the Justice Department continues to round out its leadership team under Attorney General Merrick Garland, who traveled to Chicago last week to announce an initiative to crack down on violent crime and gun trafficking. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Garland’s moves draw criticism after pledge to depoliticize DOJ

By James Varney and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Maine Gov. Janet Mills speaks to reporters in her Cabinet room, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Augusta, Maine, after announcing she has vetoed a bill to replace the state's privately owned electric utilities with a consumer-owned utility. (AP Photo/David Sharp) **FILE**

Maine health care workers challenge COVID-19 shot mandate at Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

A view of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Supreme Court sides with officers in two qualified immunity disputes

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 to hear dispute over bingo between Texas and Indian tribe

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Former US Vice President Mike Pence after holding a speech during the 4th Budapest Demographic Summit in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. The biannual demographic summit, which was first organized in 2015, offers a forum for &quot;pro-family thinker&quot; decision-makers, scientists, researchers, and church representatives of the same sort to exchange their thoughts about connections between demographics and sustainability. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

Pence backs football coach blocked from praying on 50-yard line in Supreme Court case

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

David Trujillo holds a sign as a school bus drives by on the street in front of a building housing an abortion provider in Dallas, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. A federal judge has ordered Texas to suspend a new law that has banned most abortions in the state since September. The order Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman freezes for now the strict abortion law known as Senate Bill 8. (AP Photo/LM Otero) **FILE**

Biden DOJ will ask Supreme Court to block Texas abortion law

By Alex Swoyer and Emily Zantow - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media before boarding Air Force One at Bradley International Airport, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021, in Windsor Locks, Conn. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says he doesn’t support term limits for Supreme Court justices

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

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

Former state AGs urges amendment to fix Supreme Court at nine justices

By James Varney - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 4, 2021 photo, the Supreme Court is seen on the first day of the new term, in Washington. The Supreme Court sounded ready Wednesday to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In more than 90 minutes of arguments, the court's six conservative justices seemed likely to embrace the Biden administration's argument that a federal appeals court mistakenly threw out Tsarnaev's death sentence for his role in the bombing that killed three people near the finish line of the marathon in 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Biden’s Supreme Court commission splits over court-packing proposals

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, file photo, television journalist Katie Couric attends the 60th annual Clio Awards at The Manhattan Center in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Katie Couric withheld Justice Ginsburg’s opposition to racial justice protesters taking a knee

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 2, 2021, file photo, people participate in the Houston Women's March against Texas' abortion ban from Discovery Green to City Hall in Houston. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

Federal appeals court lets Texas continue banning most abortions

By Alex Swoyer - 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 would add justices under proposal from Biden commission

By Alex Swoyer and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 2, 2021, file photo, people participate in the Houston Women's March against Texas' abortion ban from Discovery Green to City Hall in Houston. (Melissa Phillip/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)

Texas clinics cancel abortions after court reinstates ban

By Paul J. Weber - Associated Press

In this Sept. 25, 2021, photo, former President Donald Trump prepares to take the stage during his Save America rally in Perry, Ga. (AP Photo/Ben Gray) **FILE**

Trump election lawyer facing Calif. bar complaint, high court dispute over First Amendment rights

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court is seen on the first day of the new term, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court convenes in person for first time in 18 months

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

A group gathers to protest abortion restrictions at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, May 21, 2019. Abortion rights advocates say the pandemic has demonstrated the value of medical care provided virtually, including the privacy and convenience of abortion taking place in a woman’s home, instead of a clinic. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Justice Department says Texas law illegally supersedes women’s constitutional abortion right

By Alex Swoyer and Emily Zantow - 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 to hear case over Boston’s denial of flying a Christian flag

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito addresses the audience during the "The Emergency Docket" lecture Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in the McCartan Courtroom at the University of Notre Dame Law School in South Bend, Ind. (Michael Caterina /South Bend Tribune via AP)

Justice Alito pushes back against media, lawmakers criticism of Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

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

Supreme Court takes up campaign finance case launched by Ted Cruz

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times