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FILE - The Supreme Court is seen at dusk in Washington on Oct. 22, 2021. The Supreme Court is hearing a case its conservative majority could use to hobble Biden administration efforts to combat climate change. In arguments Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, justices are taking up an appeal from 19 mostly Republican-led states and coal companies over the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to limit carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Justices wrestle with EPA power to curb carbon emissions

by Mark Sherman Associated PressFebruary 28, 2022

FILE - Sen. Rodger Smitherman compares U.S. Representative district maps during the special session on redistricting at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., on Nov. 3, 2021. The Supreme Court has put on hold a lower court ruling that Alabama must draw new congressional districts before the 2022 elections, boosting Republican chances to hold six of the state’s seven seats in the House of Representatives. (Mickey Welsh/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP, File)

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Supreme Court backs GOP in Ala. election map case

by Mark Sherman Associated Press, and Jessica Gresko Associated PressFebruary 7, 2022

FILE - Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer listens during a forum at the French Cultural Center in Boston, Feb. 13, 2017. Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the first Black woman to the high court, two sources told The Associated Press Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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Justice Breyer set to retire

by Mark Sherman Associated Press, and Michael Balsamo Associated PressJanuary 26, 2022

FILE - An American flag waves in front of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

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Supreme Court to hear challenge to affirmative action in college admissions

by Mark Sherman Associated PressJanuary 24, 2022

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, Jan.19, 2022, in Washington. In a rebuff to former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court is allowing the release of presidential documents sought by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

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Supreme Court allows Jan. 6 panel to get Trump docs

by Mark Sherman Associated PressJanuary 19, 2022

Light from the morning sun illuminates the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Dec. 3, 2021. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a challenge from parents in Maine who want to use a state tuition program to send their children to religious schools. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Court debates religious schools

by Mark Sherman Associated PressDecember 8, 2021

The Supreme Court is seen at dusk in Washington, Oct. 22.

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Court set to take up abortion fight

by Mark Sherman Associated PressNovember 28, 2021

Ava Stevenson, 20, left, of Montgomery County, Md., rallies for abortion rights with her mother, Jenni Coopersmith, center, outside the Supreme Court, Monday, in Washington.

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High court questions Texas abortion law

by Mark Sherman Associated Press, and Jessica Gresko Associated PressNovember 1, 2021

FILE - This Sept. 3, 2021, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block the Texas law banning most abortions, while the fight over the measure’s validity plays out in the courts. The law has been in effect since September, aside from a district court-ordered pause that lasted just 48 hours. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Biden team asks Supreme Court to pause Texas abortion law

by Mark Sherman Associated PressOctober 18, 2021

FILE - This file photo released April 19, 2013, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted for carrying out the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. The Supreme Court sounded ready Wednesday to reinstate the death penalty for convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In more than 90 minutes of arguments, the court's six conservative justices seemed likely to embrace the Biden...

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High court likely to revive bomber’s death sentence

by Mark Sherman Associated PressOctober 13, 2021