Maureen Groppe
Supreme Court Correspondent at USA Today
Supreme Court correspondent for USA TODAY. Previously covered White House, presidential politics and Congress.
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18 hours ago |
yahoo.com | Maureen Groppe |Michael Collins
WASHINGTON − A divided Supreme Court has sided with a group of parents who want to remove their elementary school children from class when storybooks with LGBTQ+ characters are read in public schools, another move that favors claims of religious discrimination over other values, like gay rights.
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1 week ago |
rgj.com | Maureen Groppe |Brett McGinness
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on June 18 rejected challenges to a nuclear waste storage site near Texas’ border with New Mexico, a win for the federal government in a decadeslong struggle over what to do with waste that is byproduct of nuclear power plants.
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3 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Maureen Groppe
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is on a winning streak of getting quick assistance from the Supreme Court after lower courts have put the brakes on his policies. That’s prompted one of the three liberal justices to write that the court is sending a “troubling message" that it's departing from basic legal standards for the administration.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Maureen Groppe
WASHINGTON − More than two decades after the Supreme Court said inmates who are intellectually disabled can't be executed, the court will consider how to deal with multiple intelligence tests in evaluating close calls. The court on June 6 said it would take up the case of Alabama death row inmate Joseph Smith, who was convicted and sentenced to death for a brutal murder in 1997. Smith’s IQ scores have ranged from 72 to 78.
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3 weeks ago |
starcourier.com | Maureen Groppe
WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on June 6 rejected a Republican challenge to a Pennsylvania court’s ruling on provisional ballots, a case that could have restricted how much leeway state courts have to interpret federal election rules. During the 2024 election, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court said voters should be able to cast provisional ballots if they failed to encase an absentee ballot in the required secrecy sleeve.
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The Supreme Court will decide whether a challenge to Illinois' grace period for mail-in ballots can proceed. I discuss on The Excerpt. https://t.co/ljS5rXtTEU
The Supreme Court has ordered another look at whether a police officer who partially blinded a teenager during the 2020 George Floyd protests can be sued. I discuss on today's episode of The Excerpt. https://t.co/8Nxn3dJvPj
A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school. I put the decision in context on today's episode of The Excerpt. https://t.co/757SLFiDRI