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Steve Bannon appears in court in New York, Jan. 12, 2023. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool) ** FILE **

Steve Bannon takes contempt of Congress fight to Supreme Court to stay out of jail

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Gun safety and domestic violence prevention organizations gather outside of the Supreme Court before oral arguments are heard in United States v. Rahimi, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) **FILE**

Supreme Court rules dangerous people can be disarmed temporarily under Second Amendment

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Activists mark the first anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, by displaying neon signage in support of abortion access in front of the Supreme Court on June 23, 2023, in Washington. A report finds the total number of monthly abortions in the U.S. increased after state bans started kicking in in 2022. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

On anniversary of Dobbs ruling, parents share stories of adoptions spurred by fall of Roe

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Disbar Senator Sheldon Whitehouse illustration by Alexander Hunter/ The Washington Times

Supreme Court should disbar senator from Rhode Island

By Mike Davis

Judge Juan Merchan's courtroom sits empty between proceedings, Tuesday, March 12, 2024, in New York. A dozen Manhattan residents are soon to become the first Americans ever to sit in judgment of a former president charged with a crime. Jury selection is set to start Monday in former President Donald Trump's hush-money trial. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

Partisan calls for recusal of judges resound as politics take over courtrooms

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Abortion-rights activists rally outside the Supreme Court, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) **FILE**

Biden warns of election’s impact on ‘out of kilter’ Supreme Court, says winner could name 2 justices

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Missouri residents and pro-choice advocates react to a speaker during Missourians for Constitutionals Freedom kick-off petition drive, Feb. 6, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. At least four states will have abortion-related ballot questions in November's election and there's a push to get them before voters in several others. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga, File)

Which states could have abortion on the ballot in 2024?

By Geoff Mulvihill and Kimberlee Kruesi - Associated Press

A bump stock is attached to a semi-automatic rifle at The Gun Vault in South Jordan, Utah, Oct. 4, 2017. The U.S. Supreme Court, Friday, June 14, 2024, struck down a ban on the rapid-fire rifle bump stock used by the gunman who rattled off over 1,000 bullets in 11 minutes in Las Vegas in 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Pressure builds on Congress after Supreme Court’s ruling on bump stocks

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A bump stock is displayed in Harrisonburg, Va., on March 15, 2019. The Supreme Court has struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) **FILE**

Supreme Court says bump stocks are not machine guns, can’t be banned

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pauses after swearing in Mark Esper as Secretary of Defense during a ceremony with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, July 23, 2019. Nine days after The New York Times reported about the political symbolism of an upside-down American flag that flew at U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's home, The Washington Post acknowledged May 25, 2024, that it had the same story more than three years ago and decided not to publish it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Second liberal activist reveals undercover audio of Justice Alito

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 25, 2024. The Supreme Court has declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. The court did not elaborate on the denial, as is typical. It would have been unusual for the justices to take up a case at this point, since a lower court is still weighing it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Maryland ban on rifles known as assault weapons

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 25, 2024. The Supreme Court has declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. The court did not elaborate on the denial, as is typical. It would have been unusual for the justices to take up a case at this point, since a lower court is still weighing it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Supreme Court won’t debate Maryland’s assault weapons ban — yet

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

An pro-life protester holds a sign while standing outside the Florida Supreme Court after the court heard arguments on the proposed abortion amendment Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, in Tallahassee, Fla. (Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat via AP) ** FILE **

Influential Trump judges reshape legal arguments, Supreme Court rulings

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, Oct. 7, 2022, at the Supreme Court building in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Dick Durbin wants Justice Alito off the Trump cases because of upside-down U.S. flag at his home

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on April 25, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) **FILE**

Supreme Court rules CFPB funding structure is lawful, jarring attempt to undo Wall Street cop

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Associate Justice Samuel Alito joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, Oct. 7, 2022, at the Supreme Court building in Washington. An upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud, was displayed outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in January 2021, The New York Times reported May 16. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Alito’s home flew flag upside down after Trump’s ‘Stop the Steal’ claims, report says

By Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

TikTok content creators sue U.S. government over federal law that could ban popular platform

By Haleluya Hadero - Associated Press

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. Thomas is absent from the court on Monday with no explanation. The 75-year-old Thomas also is not participating remotely in arguments, as justices sometimes do when they are ill or otherwise can’t be there in person. Chief Justice John Roberts announced Thomas’ absence, saying that his colleague would still participate in the day’s cases, based on the briefs and the transcripts of the arguments. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Thomas says critics are pushing ‘nastiness’ and calls Washington a ‘hideous place’

By Kim Chandler - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks during a campaign event with President Joe Biden in Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton rip Supreme Court on abortion, Trump immunity

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - The sun flares in the camera lens as it rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, June 25, 2017. The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from a Vista, Calif., CBD hemp oil company fighting a lawsuit from a truck driver who says he got fired after using a product falsely advertised as being free from the active ingredient in marijuana.(AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

A shortlist of Supreme Court picks Donald Trump should consider

By Phillip Jauregui – Special to Higher Ground