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Voting rights groups that support the Democratic Party are preparing for what they call a possible crisis if the U.S. Supreme Court weakens a key part of the Voting Rights Act, one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in the country. The case that is causing the worry is Louisiana v. Callais, [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for helping Jeffrey Epstein recruit and groom teenage girls for sexual abuse. This decision leaves her 20-year prison sentence and three felony convictions intact, according to NBC News. Maxwell’s attorney, David Oscar Markus, argued that a 2007 nonprosecution agreement between Epstein and [...]

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to deport eight immigrants currently held at a U.S. military base in Djibouti to South Sudan. In a brief, unsigned ruling, the justices reaffirmed that their earlier order—pausing a lower court’s restrictions on deportations to “third countries” not named in removal orders—applies fully to these individuals. The [...]