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  • Supreme Court sets special hearing for Biden’s vaccine rules for health-care workers, private businesses

    Both case will be considered Jan. 7.

    By Robert BarnesDecember 22, 2021
  • National Security

    Ted Kaczynski, the 79-year-old Unabomber, transferred to prison medical facility

    Kaczynski had been serving multiple life sentences at a supermax facility in Colorado.

    By Matt ZapotoskyDecember 22, 2021
  • Abortion providers seek quick resolution in challenge to Texas law

    Abortion rights advocates want the case resolved by a judge who previously blocked S.B. 8, which bans the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy.

    By Ann MarimowDecember 22, 2021
  • National Security

    Bureau of Prisons can keep inmates in home confinement after coronavirus emergency ends

    Justice Department ruling could allow thousands to stay out of prison, continue reintegrating into society.

    By David NakamuraDecember 21, 2021
  • Biden administration’s vaccine requirements take center stage at Supreme Court

    Separate cases involving private businesses and health-care workers have implications for nearly 100 million employed in the United States.

    By Robert BarnesDecember 20, 2021
  • National Security

    Jury begins deliberating in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex-trafficking case

    At closing arguments, the former lover of Jeffrey Epstein was portrayed as both abuser and wrongly targeted victim.

    By Shayna JacobsDecember 20, 2021
  • Politics

    Appeals court reinstates Biden’s vaccine policy for businesses, setting up a likely showdown at Supreme Court

    Under the policy, private employers with more than 100 workers must require staff to get vaccinated or face weekly testing and mandatory masking.

    By Ann MarimowDecember 17, 2021
  • National

    Biden administration asks Supreme Court to allow vaccine mandate for health-care workers

    The mandate “will save hundreds or even thousands of lives each month," the government said in its court filing.

    By Andrew Jeong and Helier CheungDecember 17, 2021
  • Supreme Court sends Texas abortion case to appeals court instead of to judge who previously blocked the law

    The order came from Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, who last week wrote the court’s majority opinion that left the restrictive law in place while granting a narrow path for abortion providers to challenge its unique enforcement structure.

    By Robert Barnes and Ann MarimowDecember 16, 2021
  • Supreme Court to hear Army reservist’s discrimination claim involving burn pit exposure

    The justices will consider whether a federal law authorizing suits against employers by service members and military veterans is proper.

    By Robert BarnesDecember 15, 2021
  • Biden’s vaccine-or-testing policy for private companies will be reviewed by three-judge panel

    The appeals court order drew sharp dissents from judges skeptical of Biden’s vaccine policy

    By Ann MarimowDecember 15, 2021
  • Supreme Court won’t stop vaccine mandate for New York health care workers

    It is at least the fourth time the high court has decided not to block states from requiring vaccines.

    By Robert BarnesDecember 13, 2021
  • Supreme Court says Texas abortion providers may proceed with challenge of six-week ban, leaves law in effect for now

    The decision follows a hearing in which the justices were asked to find that federal courts should play a role in determining if the law violates the constitutional right to abortion.

    By Robert BarnesDecember 10, 2021
  • Supreme Court’s conservatives critical of tuition program excluding religious teaching

    The case involves an unusual program in Maine that affects only a few thousand students. But it could have greater implications as the more conservative court relaxes the constitutional line between church and state.

    By Robert BarnesDecember 9, 2021
  • Technology

    Utility giants agree to no longer allow sensitive records to be shared with ICE

    The information was passed to Equifax, which sold it to ICE and other police agencies.

    By Drew HarwellDecember 8, 2021
  • Biden’s Supreme Court commission endorses final report noting bipartisan public support for term limits

    The panel of legal experts also concluded that while Congress has broad authority to increase the number of justices, it took no position on expansion, noting “profound disagreement among commissioners.”

    By Ann MarimowDecember 7, 2021
  • Future of abortion rights depends on a Supreme Court for which compromise seems elusive

    A bold change in the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on abortion could reinforce a growing perception among Americans that the justices’ decisions are political.

    By Robert Barnes and Ann MarimowDecember 2, 2021
  • Supreme Court seems inclined to uphold Mississippi abortion law that would undermine Roe v. Wade

    Mississippi’s law mostly prohibits abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. None of the court’s six conservative justices expressed support for maintaining its precedent that states may not prohibit the procedure before the point of fetal viability, which is generally estimated to be between 22 and 24 weeks.

    By Robert BarnesDecember 1, 2021
  • Trump’s Supreme Court nominees show why they are pivotal to the future of abortion rights

    Questions posed Wednesday and past writings on precedent from Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett offer important insights into how the court could rule in Mississippi’s abortion case.

    By Ann MarimowDecember 1, 2021
  • Politics

    Fate of Roe v. Wade in the hands of the Supreme Court after spirited arguments

    The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over a Mississippi abortion law challenging the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

    By John Wagner and Ann Marimow and Amy Wang and Mariana Alfaro and Robert BarnesDecember 1, 2021
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