Supreme Court halts redraw of Alabama's congressional map
A lower court had ordered the GOP legislature to draw a second Black-majority district.
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A lower court had ordered the GOP legislature to draw a second Black-majority district.
"She's considered to be a fair-minded, highly gifted jurist. She is one of the most decent people I've ever met," the Republican senator said.
President Biden says he will nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court to fill Justice Stephen Breyer's seat after he retires later this year. Several prominent U.S. judges are reportedly already on the White House's short list. Retired U.S. judge for the Southern District of Texas Vanessa Gilmore joined CBS News to discuss.
President Biden has vowed to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court as Justice Stephen Breyer prepares to retire. Harvard Law professor Alan Jenkins joins CBS News to discuss who the potential nominees are and what the appointment will mean for the highest court in the country.
"It's long overdue, in my view," the president said, announcing the retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer.
Liberal or conservative, his fellow justices appear to have developed a warm friendship with Breyer over the years.
President Biden has vowed to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court if a seat were to open up.
President Biden says he expects to select a nominee to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in February. CBS News' Natalie Brand reports on Breyer's decision to step down, and senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe looks ahead to the confirmation process.
President Biden formally announced Justice Stephen Breyer's plans to retire at the White House on Wednesday. Kevin Russell, a partner at Goldstein and Russell, P.C, and former clerk for Justice Breyer, tels CBS News what it was like working for him and the legacy he'll leave on the high court.
President Biden is weighing his options for a nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, who plans to retire this year. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has more on the impact of Breyer's retirement, and CBS News senior White House correspondent breaks down the opportunity it presents for the Biden administration.
The 83-year-old associate justice's decision to step aside will give President Biden the opportunity to name his replacement.
It has been 49 years since the Supreme Court handed down the historic Roe v. Wade decision. CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford has more on the anniversary. Then, Columbia Law School professor Carol Sanger joins CBSN to discuss the future of Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court has refused to expedite the latest challenge to the new restrictive abortion law in Texas, leaving it in place for now. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson and CBS News political reporter Melissa Quinn spoke with CBSN's Tanya Rivero about what the Supreme Court's decision could mean for the future of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that will soon see its 49th anniversary.
The move means the Texas ban is likely to remain in effect for the foreseeable future.
"While we may sometimes disagree about the law, we are warm colleagues and friends," Sotomayor and Gorsuch said.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urged the Supreme Court in a friend-of-the-court brief to use Cruz's case as a vehicle to scrap the entire 2002 campaign finance law.
The order from the Supreme Court clears the way for the National Archives to turn over the records to House investigators.
"Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly."
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow the Biden administration to enforce a nationwide COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers. But the court rejected a vaccine-or-test mandate for large companies. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson and CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford join Tony Dokoupil on CBSN to explain the rulings.
The Supreme Court said it will take up legal challenges to President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine requirements for health care workers and large businesses with at least 100 workers. Politico labor reporter Eleanor Mueller joins CBSN to discuss more.
The disputes over the vaccine rules for health care workers and businesses with at least 100 employees arrived at the Supreme Court through emergency requests.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards signed a posthumous pardon for Homer Plessy, the New Orleans man whose 1892 arrest for sitting in a Whites-only railroad car led to a notorious Supreme Court decision upholding segregation laws. Watch the governor's remarks at the signing ceremony.
Mr. Biden's commission on the Supreme Court held six meetings, heard testimony from 44 witnesses and received more than 7,000 public comments.
The nation's top court heard oral arguments in a challenge to Mississippi's 15-week abortion law, which many see as a bid to overturn Roe v. Wade.
A case before the Supreme Court Wednesday could decide the fate of abortion rights across the U.S. Carol Sanger, author of "About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America" and a professor at Columbia Law School, joins CBSN's Anne-Marie Green to discuss what to expect from both sides, as well as how overturning Roe v. Wade could affect abortion laws.