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State officials had asked the justices to step in to allow the state to use a congressional map in the midterms that was drawn by Democrats and recently approved by voters.
The Supreme Court rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would've led Democrats to pick up four seats in the House of Representatives.
Order, issued without any noted dissent, is the latest twist in the nation’s mid-decade redistricting competitionThe supreme court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map…
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid by Virginia Democrats to revive its new voter-approved congressional map that was drawn to advantage the party for the upcoming midterm elections.
The new map was drawn by Democrats and approved by Virginia voters, but the state Supreme Court declared the referendum null and void because lawmakers failed to follow the proper procedures to get…
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned aside Virginia Democrats' long-shot attempt to overturn state courts and force the use of their preferred congressional district map in November's elections.
The Supreme Court refused Virginia Democratic leaders’ emergency plea to reinstate theircongressional map on Friday in what would’ve been one of the party’s best opportunities to keep pace in the…
The decision leaves in place a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that concluded the process leading up to a referendum approving a new congressional map was flawed.
The US Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch bid by Virginia Democrats to revive a voter-approved map that was designed to flip four Republican-held US House seats in the November election.
The Supreme Court turned aside Friday an effort from Virginia Democrats to keep alive the commonwealth’s new congressional map, leaving in place the Virginia Supreme Court ruling holding the ballot…
In a new tactic, the Justice Department this week instructed federal prosecutors to build criminal drug cases against Mexican officials using terrorism statutes.
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday shut down Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) effort to penalize the dozens of Democratic legislators who fled the state last summer in an attempt to block a rare…
The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum, prosecutors said in a court…
The frustration of the two justices who wrote scathing dissents is easy to understand.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is pushing back on calls to step aside in a major upcoming case involving climate change due to his oil and gas stock.
Plus, the court released two unanimous opinions on Thursday morning.
The Justice Department is accusing Yale University of illegally considering race in its medical school admissions
Hawaii's Democratic governor has signed a bill to curb corporate and "dark money" influence in politics
A new generation of civil rights leaders is rallying against efforts to dismantle the Voting Rights Act
At a court hearing over a presidential order seeking to exert more control over elections, a government lawyer said no “responsible state” should rely on the lists to update their voter rolls.
The decision maintains access nationwide to medication abortion, the most common way of ending pregnancies in the United States, while litigation continues.
Two drugmakers, Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro, had asked the Supreme Court to lift an appeals court ban on mifepristone being distributed via mail.
The Supreme Court has maintained mail access to the abortion pill mifepristone, setting aside for now a lower court order that blocked abortion providers from prescribing the widely used drug through…
Abortion pills can remain available through the mail for the immediate future after the Supreme Court on Thursday paused a lower court ruling that would have blocked access while a lawsuit proceeds.…
Plus, the court is expected to announce at least one opinion this morning. Don’t miss our live blog.