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A College Area Pregnancy Services clinic is seen Tuesday, June 26, 2018, in San Diego. The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively put an end to a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, giving President Trump an opportunity to solidify his influence on the high court. Kennedy, 81, has held the most important seat on the court for more than a decade: He is the swing vote on issues ranging from abortion to gay rights.
Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that millions of public sector workers can stop paying union fees, a group tied to Republican billionaires long opposed to organized labor and its support of the Democratic Party has pledged to build on the landmark ruling to further marginalize employee representation. The conservative nonprofit Freedom Foundation said that starting Wednesday, it will deploy 80 people to a trio of West Coast union bastions: California, Oregon and its home state of Washington.
Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy joins other justices of the U.S. Supreme Court for an official group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Justice Anthony Kennedy, a moderate on the U.S. Supreme Court, announced his retirement Wednesday, giving President Donald Trump a coveted opportunity to replace him with a more conservative judge and alter the makeup of the nation's highest court.
The Supreme Court's Wednesday ruling that public-sector unions can no longer charge mandatory fees to non-union employees deals a significant blow to public-sector unions across the country. The decision in Janus v.
A deeply divided Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the nation's public employee unions Wednesday that likely will result in a loss of money, members and political muscle. After three efforts in 2012, 2014 and 2016 fell short, the court's conservative majority ruled 5-4 that unions cannot collect fees from non-members to help defray the costs of collective bargaining.
The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt a blow to public sector unions, holding that workers who are represented by a union, but choose not to join, do not have to pay dues to cover the costs of collective bargaining. The nine-member court ruled 5-4 that such dues, often called "fair-share fees," clash with the rights of union non-members.
With the Supreme Court wrapping up its 2017 term this week, the possibility that one of the nine justices might announce their retirement has come up again. The voluntary relinquishment of a lifetime appointment to the nation's most powerful court is inherently a very big deal.
Because the Supreme Court ruling last week that gave states more power to tax internet sales was quite technical, its momentousness was easy to miss. Reporters treated it, accurately, as a case about whether a company had to have a physical presence in a jurisdiction for it to have a duty to collect taxes there.
In knocking down a California law aimed at regulating anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to abortion-rights supporters who saw the law as a crucial step toward beating back the national movement against the procedure. Democratic-led California became the first state in 2016 to require the centers to provide information about access to birth control and abortion, and it came as Republican-led states ramped up their efforts to thwart abortion rights.
The president previously released a list of candidates back in November, preceding Kennedy's retirement announcement on Wednesday. After the announcement, Trump that Kennedy's replacement would come from the list, and that the process would "begin immediately."
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can't be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to organized labor. The justices are scrapping a 41-year-old decision that had allowed states to require that public employees pay some fees to unions that represent them, even if the workers choose not to join.
For decades, Karen Korematsu has hoped and prayed that someday the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn its infamous 1944 decision upholding the mass incarceration of her father, Fred, and 120,000 others of Japanese descent during World War II. Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred Korematsu, held a publication from the Korematsu Institute that depicted her father on the cover.
Maryam Bahramipanah is torn between staying with her husband, who came to Michigan from their native Iran, and returning home to see her mother, who suffered a stroke. With the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to uphold President Donald Trump's ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, she expects that she can't do both.
The Trump administration has granted waivers to less than 2 percent of visa applicants exempting them from President Donald Trump's travel ban on several mostly Muslim countries. Visitors depart the Supreme Court early Monday, June 25, 2018.
After the Supreme Court upheld the Trump Administration's travel ban imposed on seven countries in the case Trump v. Hawaii, celebrities flocked to Twitter to engage in extremist, hateful rhetoric and proclaim the impending doom of the United States.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court decided that California can't force pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise abortion. Justices voted 5 4 in the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v.
The opportunity to revisit the ruling presented itself in a dissenting opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which compared the internment of Japanese-Americans to groups affected by the Trump travel ban. Chief Justice John Roberts rejected the comparison, but said the reference to Korematsu v.