Author: Robert Barnes

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Better known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, it requires some asylum seekers who enter the country illegally to return to Mexico while they await a hearing.

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The Supreme Court’s conservative justices seemed sympathetic to a former high school football coach who lost his job after leading postgame prayers at midfield, but the path to a decision is complicated.

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Administrators said the policy that was adopted in 2020 opened the magnet program to a wider socioeconomic range of students, but opponents claimed it discriminated against Asian American applicants.

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The case brings vexing questions about the ability of public employees to live out their faith while on duty and the government’s competing responsibility to protect schoolchildren from coercion and remain neutral on the subject of religion.

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The justices decide other low-profile cases as well, including the proper venue for a legal fight over Impressionist art turned over to the Nazis.

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In an 8-1 decision, the justices agreed that Puerto Ricans can continue to be excluded from SSI benefits for low-income disabled and blind people.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation culminates an almost complete turnover at the Supreme Court in less than a generation.

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Conservatives on the Supreme Court Wednesday reinstated for now a Trump-era environmental rule that limited the ability of states to block projects that could pollute rivers and streams, a decision more notable because Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined liberals in calling it an abuse of the court’s emergency powers.