ShareSeveral police officers outside the Supreme Court building have donned masks as haze from Canadian wildfires has become more noticeable in Washington this morning. Inside, the courtroom is full, with groups of lawyers from three organizations being sworn into the bar: the Christian Legal Society, the University of Kansas School of Law, and the...

ShareThis article was updated on June 8 at 2:03 p.m. By a vote of 5-4 on Thursday, the justices issued a major voting rights decision, ruling that Alabama’s new congressional map likely violates the Voting Rights Act. But even more significantly, the court declined an invitation to adopt an interpretation of the act that would have made it much more...

ShareEach weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read: Justice Thomas delays disclosures after reports of travel, property sale (Ann E. Marimow & Robert Barnes, The Washington Post) Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file...

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ShareIt has been just over two months since ProPublica revealed that Justice Clarence Thomas had not included over two decades’ worth of frequent luxury travel hosted by Harlan Crow, a Dallas billionaire, on the annual financial disclosures that the Supreme Court justices file each year. But court watchers interested in Thomas’ disclosures for 2022...