EDGEFIELD, S.C. — Attorney General William Barr said Monday he sees a way to legally require 2020 census respondents to declare whether or not they are citizens, despite a Supreme Court ruling that forbade asking the question. In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said the Trump administration will...
2020 Census Moving Forward Without Citizenship Question
The Justice Department said Tuesday the 2020 Census is moving ahead without a question about citizenship. Kristen Clarke, an attorney for a civil rights group that helped fight the addition of the question, said Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits that the printing of the hundreds of millions of...
Big Business to Supreme Court: Defend LGBTQ From Bias
NEW YORK — More than 200 corporations, including many of America's best-known companies, are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that federal civil rights law bans job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The corporations outlined their stance in a legal brief released Tuesday by...
Supreme Court to Rule on Trump Bid to End Dreamers Program
WASHINGTON — Adding a high-stakes immigration case to its election-year agenda, the Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether President Donald Trump can terminate an Obama-era program shielding young migrants, known as dreamers, from deportation. The justices' order sets up legal arguments for late fall or early winter, with...
Court Blocks Census Citizenship Question. Is Trump Out of Time?
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday maintained a hold on the Trump administration's effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, and the question's opponents say there's no time to revisit the issue before next week's scheduled start to the printing of census forms. There was no word...
Supreme Court Won't Block Political Districts Drawn for Partisan Gain
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says federal courts have no role to play in policing political districts drawn for partisan gain. The decision could embolden political line-drawing for partisan gain when state lawmakers undertake the next round of redistricting following the 2020 census. The justices said by a 5-4 vote...
Supreme Court Gives Land Owners Freedom to Sue on Federal Level
A little family cemetery in rural Pennsylvania triggered a legal earthquake that might be felt in land disputes and coastal-access battles up and down California. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that property owners can go straight to federal court to fight claims that local or state government prevented...
Census, Redistricting Top Remaining Supreme Court Cases
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court enters its final week of decisions with two politically charged issues unresolved, whether to rein in political line-drawing for partisan gain and allow a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Both decisions could affect the distribution of political power for the next decade, and both...
Court Tosses Black Man's Murder Conviction Over Racial Bias
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the murder conviction and death sentence of a black man in Mississippi because of a prosecutor's efforts to keep African Americans off the jury. The defendant already has been tried six times and now could face a seventh trial. The removal...
Overturning Roe v. Wade Wouldn’t Turn Back Clock to 1973
A wave of state abortion bans has set off speculation: What would happen if Roe v. Wade, the ruling establishing abortion rights nationwide, were overturned?Although far from a certainty, even with increased conservative clout on the Supreme Court, a reversal of Roe would mean abortion policy would revert to the...