Author: Ann Marimow

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While it was once rare for an administration to change its position in cases before the high court, Trump did so in his first term and has signaled he will do it again.

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Ashtian Barnes, an unarmed Black man, was killed by an officer in 2016 after being pulled over outside Houston while driving his girlfriend’s rental car, which had unpaid toll fees.

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The announcement follows President Joe Biden’s dramatic step to commute the sentences of 37 federal inmates facing execution to life without parole.

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Conservative and liberal justices grappled with the historic significance of the case, which will impact presidential power and Donald Trump’s D.C. trial.

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The Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity almost certainly will mean more pretrial hearings for Donald Trump, delaying his election obstruction trial.

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The justices unanimously ruled that employees do not need to prove harm to career prospects or a change in salary or rank to win a discrimination claim.

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Conservatives including Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Samuel A. Alito Jr. expressed concern about giving prosecutors too much power.

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The justices on Tuesday will hear argument on whether prosecutors improperly stretched the law by charging hundreds with obstruction of an official proceeding.

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A president’s “constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed does not entail a general right to violate them,” Jack Smith writes in his office’s brief.