High court for now rejects religious school’s challenge to pandemic limits
byBy Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Dec. 17 rejected an appeal from a Kentucky Christian school to be exempt…
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Supreme Court seems ready to let Affordable Care Act stand
byBy Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — On Nov. 10, when the fate of the Affordable Care Act faced the Supreme Court for…
Two Catholic women judges top short list as possible Supreme Court nominees
byBy Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Two Catholic women judges are on the short list of possible candidates to fill the vacant…
Court rules in favor of employer exemptions to contraceptive coverage
byBy Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — In a 7-2 decision July 8, the Supreme Court upheld regulations by the Trump administration giving employers…
Young people call DACA ruling good news, but know battle not over
byBy Betty Araya Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — “It’s DACA; it’s good.” Those were the words Giovana Oaxaca wrote to her staff, hands trembling, when…
Reaction positive to Supreme Court decision on bid to end DACA
byBy Mark Pattison Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Reaction was largely laudatory to the Supreme Court’s June 18 rejection of a Trump administration bid to…
High court rules against Trump administration’s plan to end DACA
byBy Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON— In one of the most anticipated cases of the term, the Supreme Court June 18 ruled against…
Supreme Court rejects appeals to lift restrictions on congregation size
byBy Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court May 29 chose not to intervene in an emergency appeal by a church…
Supreme Court leaves temporary stop on federal executions in place
byWASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Trump administration from carrying out the first federal executions…
Supreme Court stops citizenship question in census, for now
byThe Supreme Court, for now, blocked the Trump administration’s added citizenship question to the 2020 census, sending the case back to a lower court….