Author: Mark Sherman
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Trump insists he’s not dropping citizenship question effort
WASHINGTON • President Donald Trump insisted Wednesday that he is not dropping efforts to include a citizenship question on the upcoming 2020 Census, even as the U.S. Census Bureau has started printing the questionnaire without it. “News Reports about the Department of Commerce dropping its quest to put the Citizenship Question on the Census is…
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2020 Census to be printed without citizenship question
WASHINGTON — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau has started the process of printing the questionnaire without the controversial query. Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits challenging the question that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents…
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2020 Census to be printed without citizenship question
WASHINGTON — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau has started the process of printing the questionnaire without the controversial query. Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits challenging the question that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents…
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Supreme Court redistricting decision could reshape politics; ruling cites new Colorado system
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court says federal courts have no role to play in policing political districts drawn for partisan gain. The decision could embolden political line-drawing for partisan gain when state lawmakers undertake the next round of redistricting following the 2020 census. The justices said by a 5-4 vote on Thursday that claims…
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Supreme Court redistricting decision could reshape politics; ruling cites new Colorado system
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court says federal courts have no role to play in policing political districts drawn for partisan gain. The decision could embolden political line-drawing for partisan gain when state lawmakers undertake the next round of redistricting following the 2020 census. The justices said by a 5-4 vote on Thursday that claims…
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A look at the likely court fight over abortion rights
WASHINGTON • Alabama’s virtual ban on abortion is the latest and most far-reaching state law seemingly designed to prod the Supreme Court to reconsider a constitutional right it announced 46 years ago in the landmark Roe v. Wade decision. But Chief Justice John Roberts may prefer a more incremental approach to reining in abortion rights…
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Justices seem ready to OK asking citizenship on census
WASHINGTON • The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to uphold the Trump administration’s plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, despite evidence that millions of Hispanics and immigrants could go uncounted. There appeared to be a clear divide between the court’s liberal and conservative justices in arguments in a case that…
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‘Excessive fines’ ban applies to states, Supreme Court says
WASHINGTON • Tyson Timbs admitted he’d sold drugs, and he accepted his sentence without a fight. What he wouldn’t quietly accept was the police seizing and keeping the $40,000 Land Rover he’d had when arrested. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court sided with him unanimously in ruling the Constitution’s ban on excessive fines applies to the…
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Supreme Court: Constitutional ban on high fines applies to states
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday that the Constitution’s ban on excessive fines applies to the states, an outcome that could help efforts to rein in police seizure of property from criminal suspects. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the court’s opinion in favor of Tyson Timbs, of Marion, Indiana. Police seized Timbs’…
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Abortion case shows Roberts firmly at Supreme Court’s center
Chief Justice John Roberts broke with the Supreme Court’s other conservative justices and his own voting record on abortion to block a Louisiana law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. Roberts didn’t explain his decision late Thursday to join the court’s four liberal justices. But it was the clearest sign…