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The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to review the case of an Alabama man who has spent decades in prison for a murder conviction supported by recanted and discredited testimony about bite marks.
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The dust is still setting on the U.S. Supreme Court decision on immunity for Donald Trump. The Justices ruled that the former President has limited immunity for official acts but not for unofficial ones. The High Court is sending the charges against Trump back to the lower court to separate the two types of actions. The Alabama Republican Party says the people now get to speak.
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The Supreme Court is putting the Environmental Protection Agency's air pollution-fighting "good neighbor" plan on hold while legal challenges continue, the conservative-led court's latest blow to federal regulations. Alabama is one of a dozen other States where the rule is on hold because of separate legal challenges.
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A divided Supreme Court ruled that authorities do not have to provide a quick hearing when they seize cars and other property used in drug crimes, even when the property belongs to so-called innocent owners. The case involves Alabama.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing Idaho to enforce its ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth while lawsuits over the law proceed, reversing lower courts. The list of states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors includes Alabama.
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The late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism for more than two decades, laid in repose at the court's Great Hall. O'Connor, an Arizona native, died December first, at the age of 93. Flags in Alabama will fly at half-staff on the day of her funeral.
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Alabama Republican lawmakers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional lines in place as the state continues to fight a court order to create a second district where Black voters constitute a majority or close to it. Former Attorney General Eric Holder is asking the high court to do the opposite.
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Federal judges reviewing Alabama's new congressional map sharply questioned if state lawmakers ignored the court's directive to create a second-majority Black district, so minority voters have a fair opportunity to influence elections.
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In two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 summer recess, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote majority opinions that involved the use of race. Alabama figures into this conversation.
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The Ohio Supreme Court will take yet another look at the legality of the state's congressional districts after the U.S. Supreme Court set aside a ruling striking down the districts and ordered further consideration of the case. The Supreme Court's brief order was the fourth this month addressing redistricting conducted by states based on the 2020 census. Its other decisions dealt with Republican-drawn U.S. House districts in Alabama and Louisiana, which lower courts said likely violated the federal Voting Rights Act by diluting the voting strength of Black residents.