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The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for New Hampshire to fully ban the use of student IDs for voting during the midterm elections.

The Supreme Court has rejected an effort from the Trump administration to restrict some medical treatments for transgender inmates. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson breaks down the ruling.

In a win for Republicans, the court said a federal judge should not have changed the rules so close to the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

Attorney General says attendance at meeting is being conflated with full ministerial status

The Supreme Court of Canada will hear federal arguments about the government's legal justification for using the Emergencies Act to quell protests in the nation's capital in 2022.

The Supreme Court has asked the State Election Commission to decide where candidates were unable to file nominations

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US federal judge blocked wall's construction on Texas-Mexico border amid an ongoing legal battle.

The oral pronouncement in open court on October 21 had specifically dictated the time of stay as a week or seven days

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A lower court judge had halted the administration’s plan to erect hundreds of miles of barriers in the Big Bend region of Texas.

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to lift a lower court injunction that temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall and related infrastructure in the Big Bend Sector.

Constitutional challenge by Opposition TDs Pa Daly and Paul Murphy had been dismissed by High Court in December

SEC will issue an order on the ULB elections on October 22 after obtaining reports from Collectors, District Election and Police authorities

Sajjala urges the State Election Commissioner to ensure CCTV surveillance at the nomination centres

Poll process in all Municipal Corporations and Municipalities will continue as per schedule, except 19 civic bodies which reported large-scale complaints of intimidation and physical attacks, says Punetha

The justices, for now, agreed to continue preventing the Bureau of Prisons from implementing a policy that would prohibit gender-transition medical treatments.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce new medical restrictions for transgender people in prison. The decision leaves in place a lower-court block on the policy.

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration has to continue providing gender-affirming care to inmates in federal prisons as litigation on efforts to change the policy continues.

The Supreme Court has rejected a Trump administration appeal seeking to immediately enforce medical care restrictions for transgender people in prison

In an unsigned order, the Supreme Court rejected an emergency appeal seeking to revive a policy ending certain medical treatments for transgender inmates.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Trump administration cannot enforce a new policy that restricts treatment for transgender inmates in federal prison.

The Supreme Court clarifies that non-Hindu communities can be OBC, but distinguishes between the sources of backwardness for Hindu OBCs and non-Hindu OBCs on the question of continuing backwardness for converts

Dismissing the opposition party’s claim that the court reprimanded the State Election Commission, the TDP legal cell says the court mandated the election body to take a decision on giving aggrieved candidates extra time for filing nominations by the end of October 22 based on merits of the complaints and evidence it has

The controversy in the case of Secretary to Government versus Sameer Ahamed N. began with a man, born to Hindu parents in 1993 at Thoothukudi district in Tamil Nadu, voluntarily converting to Islam in September 2015

The Supreme Court clarified that it had made no observations on the merits of the FIR. It also refrained from expressing any opinion on the validity of a subsequent Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) registered against the petitioners

The State Election Commission is directed to postpone the publication of the final list of candidates till October 25

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Justice Elena Kagan says decisions by her conservative Supreme Court colleagues have increased political polarization and weakened democracy in the U.S. She spoke Tuesday, two weeks before the midterm elections, criticizing rulings that weakened the Vo...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Elena Kagan on Tuesday said voting and elections decisions from her conservative Supreme Court colleagues have helped make the country more politically polarized and less democratic.

The liberal Supreme Court justice took aim at various recent rulings, including one that paved the way for rampant partisan gerrymandering of legislative districts.