Justice Samuel Alito publicly rebuked Justice Sonia Sotomayor after she read a dissent from the bench. Alito's unusual extemporaneous rebuttal followed his announcement of a major opinion on asylum policy, sparking questions about court practices.
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ideological vote, granted the Trump administration broad power to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, potentially leading to mass deportations of hundreds of thousands of long-term residents from countries like Haiti and Syria, despite economic warnings from advocacy groups.
The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation. The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor. Those rules had been in effect for several years until a federal appeal court imposed new restrictions last week. Most abortions...
