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Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Md. assault weapons ban

June 6, 2025 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A split Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to a state ban on assault weapons, a term referring to semiautomatic rifles that are popular among gun owners and that […]

SCOTUS strikes down ban on bump stocks

June 20, 2024 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, the rapid-fire gun accessories used in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, in a ruling that threw […]

GINGRICH: The fake conviction

June 7, 2024 Newt Gingrich

Americans are now being forced to think through the first fake conviction in the history of presidential politics. As a historian, I am really bothered when I hear lawyers on television describe these proceedings as […]

Clarence Thomas statue backed by Republicans in Georgia

February 16, 2023 Jeff Amy, Associated Press

ATLANTA — Republican Georgia lawmakers are again trying to erect a statue of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Georgia native Clarence Thomas on the state Capitol grounds in Atlanta, in what many Democrats, particularly Black […]

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Justice Thomas joins arguments remotely after hospital stay

March 28, 2022 Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Justice Clarence Thomas participated in arguments at the Supreme Court via telephone rather than in person on Monday following a hospital stay of nearly a week. Chief Justice John Roberts said at […]

Justice Thomas hospitalized with infection, high court says

March 21, 2022 Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized because of an infection, the Supreme Court said Sunday. Thomas, 73, has been at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., since Friday after experiencing “flu-like symptoms,” […]

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