Supreme Court

The high court on Thursday takes up Donald Trump's bid to avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
The Supreme Court justice has been all the things he claims to hate: a welfare queen, a duplicitous double agent, a diversity hire, a beneficiary of reparations, and a minstrel show.
Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh focused more on the spending power of the federal government than they did life-saving emergency abortion care.
The audience laughed out loud as Biden mocked Trump's most recent venture.
But four conservative justices may impact just how far the majority goes.
Ghost guns, which lack serial numbers, have been turning up at crime scenes with increasing regularity.
"I’ve not seen politics in the court," the liberal retired Supreme Court justice said. "And I’ve been a judge for 40 years."
Lower court decisions granting homeless people protections against cruel and unusual punishment could be reversed in a case brought by Grants Pass, Oregon.
An Idaho abortion ban is challenging a federal law requiring hospitals to provide an abortion to stabilize the health of a pregnant person during a medical emergency.