This week at the Capitol: Jan. 20-24, 2025
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US judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding
A US judge temporarily blocks a sweeping White House order to pause federal grants, loans and other financial assistance from ...
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Supreme Court to weigh constitutionality of nation’s first religious charter school
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether states may reject religious charter schools from receiving public funding, agreeing to hear arguments in an appeal out of Oklahoma involving the ...
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Supreme Court will weigh approval for US’ first publicly funded religious charter school in Oklahoma
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said ...
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Supreme Court likely to side with family of man killed by police after his rental car was pulled over for toll violations
The Supreme Court spent nearly 80 minutes Wednesday debating a traffic stop outside Houston that turned deadly in just five seconds. In a decision that could determine whether courts may consider ...
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Monday press conference scheduled on Riggs-Jefferson NC Supreme Court race
RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) - A press conference is scheduled for Monday regarding the state of the North Carolina Supreme Court race between Allison Riggs and Jefferson Griffin. According to the North ...
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Trump’s DOJ asks Supreme Court to freeze cases on student debt, environment
President Trump’s Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to freeze four pending cases implicating the environment or student debt as the new administration considers reversing the ...
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Live updates: White House to shake up briefing room, allow wider access to ‘new media’
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced at the top of her first press briefing that the Trump administration ...
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Supreme Court will weigh approval for US’ first publicly funded religious charter school in Oklahoma
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma.
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Trump targets Supreme Court precedents in new death penalty order
Among other things, it seeks to overturn Supreme Court precedents that place legal limits on executions. That section of the order says: Seeking The Overruling of Supreme Court Precedents That ...
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Supreme Court will weigh in on effort to found nation’s first religious charter school
On Friday afternoon, the justices agreed to consider a Catholic school’s effort to become the nation’s first religious charter school after the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected the move on the grounds ...
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Dispute over first publicly funded religious charter school in Oklahoma makes its way to the Supreme Court
Religion proponents in Oklahoma want the Supreme Court to allow a Catholic public charter school to open (Getty Images) However, the First Amendment of the Constitution prohibits the government ...