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An abortion-rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills as demonstrators from both anti-abortion and abortion-rights groups rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Supreme Court allows abortion pill by mail to continue — for now

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mifepristone tablets sit on a table at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Ames, Iowa, on July 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) **FILE**

Appeals court limits access to abortion drug by telemedicine

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Border Patrol van transports a group of migrants on Jan. 21, 2025, after they crossed illegally between two border walls separating Mexico and the United States in San Diego, Texas. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) **FILE**

Texas law cracking down on illegal immigrant ‘invasion’ prevails in court challenge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Ten Commandments poster and explanation of the state's new law are displayed in a classroom at Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas, on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) **FILE**

Can states require Ten Commandments in public school classrooms? A court just said yes

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

Students work under Ten Commandments and Bill of Rights posters on display in a classroom at Lehman High School in Kyle, Texas, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Appeals court upholds state law requiring posting of Ten Commandments in classrooms

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Danny Kahn, Master Distiller and Distillation/Aging Operations Director at Sazerac, Buffalo Trace's parent company, looks at bottles in the lab at Buffalo Trace Distillery on Sept. 16, 2025, in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

Federal appeals court strikes down 158-year-old ban on home distilling

By The Washington Times AI News Desk

Prisoners sit in their cells at the mega prison known as Detention Center Against Terrorism (CECOT) in Tecololuca, El Salvador, Jan. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez, File)

Federal appeals court says El Salvador’s prisons aren’t bad enough to justify U.S. asylum

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Ruling that Texas bail system unfair to poor mostly upheld

By JUAN A. LOZANO - Associated Press

Appeals court vacates convictions, sentences in fraud case

By CHEVEL JOHNSON - Associated Press

Andrew Weissmann (right) and Kyle Freeny (center) are members of special counsel Robert Mueller's team of prosecutors investigating potential ties between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Mr. Weissmann has made it clear several times that he is not on the president's side. (Associated Press/File)

Andrew Weissmann, Robert Mueller’s top prosecutor, known for hardball tactics

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

With immigrants and advocates chanting and beating drums outside, a federal appeals court heard arguments Friday on whether to allow a Texas law aimed at combating “sanctuary cities” to immediately take effect. On Monday, they upheld key parts of the law. (Associated Press/File)

Appeals court revives Texas anti-sanctuary city law

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Texas asks court to allow its ban on ‘sanctuary cities’

By KEVIN McGILL - Associated Press

The Latest: Court re-examines reversed murder verdict

Associated Press

Appeals court to review case of Argentine on Texas death row

By MICHAEL GRACZYK - Associated Press

Court won’t revive suit over Confederate-themed state flag

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate Rick Rhoades. A federal appeals court is allowing Rhoades, an inmate on Texas death row for nearly 25 years for a double slaying in Houston, to move forward with an appeal. In the Houston case involving Rhoades, 52, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to consider whether his trial judge in 1992 was wrong during the sentencing phase to exclude from jurors childhood photos depicting Rhoades in normal happy activities to show he was nonviolent and would do well in a prison environment. The judge had ruled the photos were irrelevant.(Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

1 Texas death row inmate gets appeal, 2nd inmate rejected

By MICHAEL GRACZYK - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Steven Long. A federal appeals court has refused an appeal from Long, on death row for the 2005 slaying of an 11-year-old girl who was repeatedly sexually assaulted, strangled and then stuffed into a trash bag that was hidden under a trailer home in her neighborhood. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)

Condemned killer of Dallas girl, 11, loses federal appeal

By MICHAEL GRACZYK - Associated Press

Court refuses to reverse Louisiana judge’s removal from case

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Court asks judges to respond to Louisiana sheriff’s claims

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN - Associated Press

Gerson Quinteron of Washington yells during a demonstration on immigration at the Supreme Court on Thursday. A tie vote by the Supreme Court is blocking President Barack Obama's immigration plan that sought to shield millions living in the U.S. illegally from deportation. The justices' one-sentence opinion effectively kills the plan for the duration of Obama's presidency. (Associated Press)

Supreme Court blocks Obama immigration plan in 4-4 tie

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times