Richard Glossip has had nine execution dates set over the years. He’s eaten his last meal three times. He was tried twice and has had multiple appeals, including one at the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court majority may embrace ATF’s ghost gun rule
The ATF classifies the kits as firearms under the 1968 Gun Control Act, but kit manufacturers and sellers challenged the rule in court, asserting that the ATF had exceeded its authority.
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Can ghost guns be regulated as firearms? The Supreme Court will decide
The government contends that ghost guns kits count as a firearm under a 1968 law. But those challenging the rule contend “a kit of parts is not a weapon.”
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Supreme Court ducks cases involving everything from abortion to Elon Musk
The justices also left in place a Michigan state constitutional amendment that barred the use of public funds for private schools.
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Guns, transgender rights, porn: The Supreme Court begins another term
For the most part, the justices still try to portray the court as amicable, but you don’t have to be a genius to see that they are not exactly happy campers.
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Supreme Court refuses, for now, to block new EPA rules to fight climate change
The justices, in a break from the way they have handled most such cases in the recent past, told the challengers to first litigate their claims in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr’s appeal to be put on the New York ballot
In New York major party candidates automatically appear on the ballot, but minor party candidates must collect 45,000 voter signatures by petition in order to qualify. Kennedy, who has withdrawn from the race and backed Donald Trump, gathered more than 100,000 valid signatures.
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Supreme Court rejects Green Party’s appeal to put Jill Stein on Nevada ballot
The court’s action upheld a decision of the Nevada Supreme Court.
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Should SCOTUS have binding ethics rules? Ketanji Brown Jackson doesn’t see why not
In a new interview with NPR, Ketanji Brown Jackson talks about ethics in the Supreme Court, as well as stories about family, marriage and parenthood.
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Supreme Court rebuffs Biden administration plea to restore SAVE student debt plan
The justices rejected an administration request to put most of the latest multibillion-dollar plan back into effect while lawsuits make their way through lower courts.
