The Supreme Court's conservative majority seems prepared to allow the Trump administration to end a program that allows some immigrants to work legally in the United States and protects them from deportation.

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Baltimore’s lawsuit alleging fossil fuel companies concealed dangers and misinformed the public about climate change will be remanded from federal court to state court after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to halt the transfer. Baltimore U.S. District Judge Ellen L. ...

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A Prince George’s County state senator will try again to bring “justice” to Maryland. Sen. Douglas J.J. Peters said last week that he would reintroduce in January a proposed state constitutional amendment to change the name of Maryland’s top judicial ...

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The Maryland Attorney General’s Office will take a wait-and-see approach to a U.S. Supreme Court challenge by gun rights advocates to the Maryland handgun permit law’s requirement that applicants provide the state with a “good and substantial reason” to carry ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to plunge into the abortion debate in the midst of the 2020 presidential campaign, taking on a Louisiana case that could reveal how willing the more conservative court is to chip away at ...

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Fossil fuel companies will have to ask the Supreme Court to halt an order sending Baltimore’s lawsuit over climate change back to state court. Baltimore filed its lawsuit in Baltimore City Circuit Court last year alleging the companies concealed dangers and ...

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Gun rights advocates on Thursday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn Maryland’s handgun permit law, saying its requirement that applicants provide the state with a “good and substantial reason” to carry the weapon outside the home violates ...

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An international organization of attorneys and investigators who represent the wrongly convicted at no cost is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn the Baltimore murder conviction of “Serial” podcast subject Adnan Syed, calling the failure of trial ...

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The conventional wisdom that the court is split along partisan lines based on the political views of the president that appointed each justice is false, a U.S. Supreme Court justice said.

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The U.S. Supreme Court may decide as early as next month if it will consider whether La Plata High School violated a Christian student’s constitutional First Amendment rights to freedom of religion and speech by providing lessons in Islam as ...

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