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The New York Times 9:00 am on April 22, 2021
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Uncomfortable Timing for a Supreme Court Gun Fight

The justices contemplate expanding arms rights in the wake of mass shootings.

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The New York Times 4:38 am on April 10, 2021
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By 5-4 Vote, Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on Prayer Meetings in Homes

The court shifted direction in cases on Covid-related limits on religious services after Justice Amy Coney Barrett replaced Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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The New York Times 9:18 pm on March 29, 2021
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Supreme Court Looks for Narrow Path in Investors’ Suit Against Goldman Sachs

Both sides agreed that generic statements about firms’ integrity and honesty can sometimes be the basis for securities fraud class-action suits.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on March 11, 2021
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Our Lonely Chief Justice

A recent solitary dissent by John Roberts points to his isolation from the court’s other conservatives.

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The New York Times 6:35 pm on March 4, 2021
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett Issues Her First Majority Opinion

The 7-to-2 ruling rejected an environmental group’s Freedom of Information Act request.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on March 3, 2021
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Absolutists Are Taking Over the Anti-Abortion Movement

Taking their cue from Trump, they are going all out to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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The New York Times 6:36 pm on March 2, 2021
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Supreme Court Seems Ready to Sustain Arizona Voting Limits

The case was the court’s first on the key remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act in the context of voting restrictions.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on February 25, 2021
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We Still Have to Worry About the Supreme Court and Elections

The justices are about to consider whether the Voting Rights Act applies to policies that restrict the vote.

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The New York Times 5:34 am on February 6, 2021
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Supreme Court Partly Backs Religious Challenge to California Virus Restrictions

The ruling followed a similar one in a case from New York and provided more evidence of a change in the court’s direction after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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The New York Times 11:17 pm on January 12, 2021
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Supreme Court Revives Abortion-Pill Restriction

In their first abortion case since Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court, the justices reinstated a requirement that women seeking medication abortions pick up a pill in person.

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The New York Times 10:23 am on January 5, 2021
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What Republicans Might Gain if They Lose Georgia

They have survived Trump for the last four years. But disentangling from him might get easier if his latest sabotage succeeds.

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The New York Times 11:17 pm on December 31, 2020
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Chief Justice Praises the Courts’ Responses to the Pandemic

In a year that included an impeachment trial, the death of a colleague and the arrival of a new one, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s year-end report focused on the health crisis.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on December 17, 2020
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Thank the Supreme Court, for Now

The justices did the right thing by declining to hear the case brought by red states to overturn the election results. But let’s see what happens down the road.

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The New York Times 8:00 am on December 17, 2020
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As Trump Leaves the White House, His Imprint on the Judiciary Deepens

Published opinions from the nation’s appeals courts this year show that Trump appointees stand out from other judges, even those named by other Republican presidents.

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The New York Times 11:46 pm on December 11, 2020
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At the U.S. Women’s Open, a Love Story

They met playing against each other in rec league hockey. Now Alena Sharp and her caddie, Sarah Bowman, are honeymooning on the golf course.

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The New York Times 9:44 pm on December 3, 2020
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Justices Tell Federal Judge to Reconsider Virus Limits on California Churches

The move followed a decision last week lifting restrictions on religious services in New York.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on December 3, 2020
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Choice

Will she join the Supreme Court’s grievance conservatives?

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The New York Times 11:49 pm on December 1, 2020
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The Supreme Court Was Right to Block Cuomo’s Religious Restrictions

The balance between Covid-19 precautions and civil liberties doesn’t need to be a partisan issue.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on November 30, 2020
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Justice Barrett’s Vote Could Tilt the Supreme Court on Gun Rights

For years, conservative justices have said the court disfavors the Second Amendment. Justice Amy Coney Barrett is likely to shift the balance, and a case to help her do so may be knocking.

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The New York Times 7:23 pm on November 26, 2020
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Midnight Ruling Exposes Rifts at a Supreme Court Transformed by Trump

The justices issued six opinions, several of them unusually bitter, in upholding challenges from churches and synagogues to state pandemic restrictions on religious services.

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The New York Times 5:36 am on November 26, 2020
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Splitting 5 to 4, Supreme Court Backs Religious Challenge to Cuomo’s Virus Shutdown Order

In earlier rulings related to coronavirus restrictions in California and Nevada, the court had taken the opposite approach. But its membership has changed since then.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on November 10, 2020
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Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Fate of Affordable Care Act

A transformed court, with a six-justice conservative majority, will take a new look at the sprawling health care law.

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The New York Times 10:39 pm on November 2, 2020
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett Hears Her First Supreme Court Argument

But she did not take part in a pair of unsigned decisions in favor of a Black Lives Matter activist and a prisoner held in abusive conditions.

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The New York Times 9:48 pm on November 2, 2020
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As Election Day Arrives, Trump Shifts Between Combativeness and Grievance

The president is sounding notes of bravado and exasperation at the end of a divisive campaign. But he may have severed himself from the political realities of a country in crisis.

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The New York Times 10:00 am on November 2, 2020
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Has the Court Learned Nothing From Bush v. Gore?

Apparently not.

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The New York Times 9:31 am on October 30, 2020
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What if America Gets a Divorce? And Other Final Election Predictions

With just days left until Election Day, Michelle Goldberg and Ross Douthat are joined by the Time magazine columnist and senior editor of The Dispatch, David French.

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The New York Times 9:17 pm on October 29, 2020
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In Voting Cases, Chief Justice Roberts Is Alone but in Control

While the chief justice’s views have not been fully endorsed by any of his colleagues, they have so far prevailed in five recent disputes, delivering victories to both Democrats and Republicans.

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The New York Times 1:07 am on October 29, 2020
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Supreme Court to Let PA, NC Accept Absentee Ballots After Election Day

The pair of decisions were welcomed by Democrats. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was expected to cast a deciding vote, did not participate in either decision.

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The New York Times 11:00 pm on October 28, 2020
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Er, Can I Ask a Few Questions About Abortion?

You know who really reduced abortion numbers in the U.S.? President Obama, with the Affordable Care Act.

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The New York Times 9:51 pm on October 28, 2020
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Supreme Court Won’t Speed a Do-Over on Pennsylvania’s Ballot Deadlines

The court deadlocked last week in the same case, but Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in the second request for review.

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The New York Times 9:37 am on October 28, 2020
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How Far Might Trump Go?

No one is quite sure.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on October 28, 2020
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The Supreme Court Should Stay Out of State Election Law

Allowing federal courts to muck around with state election laws is dangerous and destabilizing.

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The New York Times 7:17 am on October 28, 2020
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Trevor Noah: Replacing RBG With ACB Is Like Trading LeBron for Ben Carson

“Technically, yes, they’re swapping one Black man for another, but good luck on making the playoffs next season,” Noah joked on Tuesday’s “Daily Show.”

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The New York Times 11:24 pm on October 27, 2020
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How Mitch McConnell Delivered Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Rapid Confirmation

Ignoring cries of blatant hypocrisy, the Senate leader pushed through pre-election approval, capping off his reshaping of the judiciary.

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The New York Times 5:31 pm on October 27, 2020
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How Amy Coney Barrett May Change the Court

Readers worry that the Supreme Court is becoming increasingly partisan rather than an independent body.

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The New York Times 1:08 pm on October 27, 2020
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Trump Mimics Coronavirus ‘Superspreader’ Event in Barrett Swearing In

Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice only eight days before a presidential election.

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The New York Times 9:56 am on October 27, 2020
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‘Fat and Happy’ With a Conservative Court, Are Republicans Losing a Winning Issue?

President Trump and his party pushed Justice Barrett’s confirmation through in record time. But they could find that satisfied voters, who no longer fear the specter of a liberal court, are also complacent.

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The New York Times 4:02 am on October 27, 2020
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Amy Coney Barrett is Confirmed by Senate, Reshaping the Supreme Court

The vote capped a brazen feat for Republicans, who pushed through a Supreme Court nominee in little more than five weeks with the election looming.

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The New York Times 3:21 am on October 27, 2020
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In Swearing In Barrett, Trump Defiantly Mimics ‘Superspreader’ Rose Garden Ceremony

Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the next Supreme Court justice only eight days before a presidential election.

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The New York Times 12:25 am on October 27, 2020
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Amy Coney Barrett and the Republican Party’s Supreme Court

The quest to entrench political conservatism in the country’s highest court comes with a steep cost.

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The New York Times 5:34 pm on October 25, 2020
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Over Democratic Fury, Republicans Push Barrett to Brink of Confirmation

A near party-line vote on Sunday to cut off debate over Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination set up a final confirmation vote on Monday.

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The New York Times 4:30 pm on October 25, 2020
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We Were Clerks at the Supreme Court. Its Legitimacy Is Now in Question.

Brazen politics in Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation process threatens the court’s standing with the public.

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The New York Times 10:10 pm on October 24, 2020
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Murkowski, in a Turnabout, Says She Will Vote to Confirm Barrett

The iconoclastic Alaska Republican said she remained opposed to filling the Supreme Court seat so close to an election but could not hold that against a qualified nominee.

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The New York Times 6:43 pm on October 24, 2020
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The Last Temptation of NeverTrump

A voice in my head makes the case to re-elect the president.

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The New York Times 3:04 pm on October 24, 2020
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Amy Coney Barrett’s Rise Is a Threat to Gay Rights

Many of us thought gays and lesbians had won the marriage battle. Maybe not.

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The New York Times 8:39 pm on October 23, 2020
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Democrats Try to Shut Down Senate, Seeking to Stain Barrett Confirmation

Lacking the ability to block President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Democrats are using the final days of the debate to stoke outrage among voters about the rush to confirm her.

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The New York Times 10:35 pm on October 22, 2020
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Biden Punts on Expanding the Supreme Court, Calling for Bipartisan Review

The Democratic presidential nominee said he would appoint a bipartisan commission to examine whether an overhaul is needed to the judiciary and to make recommendations.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on October 22, 2020
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Republicans Set to Advance Barrett Nomination Amid Democratic Boycott

The action by the Senate Judiciary Committee would set up a vote on Monday by the full chamber to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on October 22, 2020
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What Does Amy Coney Barrett Mean for the Supreme Court?

We know who her allies are, and we know how to read what she’s written or signed.

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The New York Times 9:00 am on October 21, 2020
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Amy Coney Barrett’s Originalism Threatens Our Freedoms

Do we really want out rights to be determined by the understandings of centuries ago?

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