By David Shepardson WASHINGTON - Volkswagen AG and a German auto supplier on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower-court ruling that said two counties could seek financial penalties over excess diesel emissions that could total billions of dollars. The German automaker's U.S. unit and Robert Bosch LLC asked the U.S. high court to reverse a unanimous ruling by the U.S.

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Volkswagen asks U.S. Supreme Court to reverse ruling on local emissions claims

The high court vacated two rulings from the lower U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals that sided with Texas GOP officials arguing that Gov. Greg Abbott’s March 2020 executive order prohibited abortion under all but a few narrow circumstances in an attempt to preserve medical resources for COVID-19 patients.

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With abortions resumed U.S. Supreme Court erases laws that would allow another ban on Texas abortions during pandemics

Cook Political Report: “The stakes couldn’t be much higher: Democrats hold their narrowest House majority since the 1930s, and even tiny line changes could tip control in 2022. Although it’s become fashionable to decry gerrymandering, the Supreme Court in 2019 refused to rein in the practice and Democrats’ efforts to curb it in Congress appear to be headed nowhere absent ending the filibuster in the Senate.

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Redistricting Could Make House a Toss Up

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is expected to preside over former President Trump's second impeachment trial, a Senate source tells Axios. CNN first reported Leahy's role.

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Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy to preside over Trump's second impeachment trial

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Connecticut rabbi's appeal of a $21.7 million jury verdict in a lawsuit that accused him of sexually abusing a teenage boy.

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US Supreme Court won't hear rabbi's appeal of $22M case

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a further review by a lower court of a lawsuit brought by a Texas death row inmate who objects to a policy that bars a chaplain from accompanying him into the…

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High court orders continued look at Texas death row case

Under Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the Trump administration regularly leap-frogged over appeals courts, going directly to the Supreme Court to block decisions it didn't like from federal trial courts. (Andrew Harnik/)The Biden administration faces some tough choices in the coming weeks over how it should deal with the Supreme Court.The justices have already heard arguments or agreed to hear them in more than 60 cases this

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The Supreme Court dismissed lawsuits against former President Trump on Monday that claimed he violated the Constitution by accepting gifts from foreign officials.

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Supreme Court dismisses emoluments cases against Trump

A Supreme Court ruling last June concluded that a half-century-old prohibition on sex discrimination in employment applies equally to discrimination against gay and lesbian workers as well as those who are transgender.

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