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Analysis: At Supreme Court hearing, passions over religion and its rules

August 24, 2021 at 5:07 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the U.S. Supreme Court talks about religion, all hell breaks loose. A dispute over an upstate New York town's prayer before council meetings produced an unusually...

U.S. justices to hear race case; one side has two voices

August 24, 2021 at 4:24 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will delve into a decades-old debate over university admissions policies that favor racial minorities, hearing a Michigan case that picks up...

Kagan, now in a robe, argues again for campaign finance limits

May 23, 2019 at 4:20 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The last time the U.S. Supreme Court heard a major campaign finance dispute, then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan stood at the lectern making the government's case to the...

Kagan, now in a robe, argues again for campaign finance limits

August 24, 2021 at 4:08 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The last time the U.S. Supreme Court heard a major campaign finance dispute, then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan stood at the lectern making the government's case to the...

Analysis: Supreme Court in no rush to grant national gay-marriage right

August 24, 2021 at 12:32 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to rule on whether gay men and lesbians have a fundamental right to marry, it delivered an implicit message...

Analysis: U.S. chief justice realizes longstanding vision in voting-rights case

August 24, 2021 at 12:23 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For an often enigmatic figure at the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts spoke to the essence of his legal philosophy on Tuesday in eliminating a...

Analysis: U.S. chief justice realizes longstanding vision in voting-rights case

May 23, 2019 at 4:14 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For an often enigmatic figure at the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts spoke to the essence of his legal philosophy on Tuesday in eliminating a...

Analysis: At U.S. high court, high anxiety over big cases

August 24, 2021 at 12:15 p.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chief Justice John Roberts clutched a sheaf of papers when he and his black-robed colleagues ascended the mahogany bench on Thursday for one of the last days...

Special Report: For top U.S. lawyers, case in Guam is rare prize

August 24, 2021 at 12:09 p.m.

HAGATNA, Guam (Reuters) - Steven Levin lives alone on a boat docked off the coast of the Pacific island of Guam, about as far away from the U.S. mainland as...

Analysis: Top court’s gay marriage ruling won’t be last word

August 24, 2021 at 11:40 a.m.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Whatever the U.S. Supreme Court decides this month, gay marriage appears destined to face several more years of legal debate and at least one more round of...

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