Supreme Court

The abortion medication mifepristone remains fully available in Vermont, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday placed a temporary hold on an appeals court ruling that restricted access to the drug nationwide. But mifepristone’s future is still murky. Earlier this month, a federal judge in Texas took the unprecedented step of reversing the FDA’s approval of the drug from 23 years ago.

On Tuesday, the justices will hear expedited arguments in a challenge to the Biden plan brought by six states — Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Kansas and South Carolina.

There are two bills in the Legislature that would end Vermont's school choice program. Lawmakers say a U.S. Supreme Court decision that says states with school choice have to fund religious schools would contribute to discrimination.

The justices agreed to decide in its February argument session whether 19 states that oppose the Title 42 policy should be allowed to intervene in defense of the restrictions in the lower courts.

In the court Wednesday, lawyers for the state of Texas and for non-Native adoptive parents told the justices that ICWA violates the Constitution by discriminating based on race

The justices are re-examining decades of precedent allowing affirmative action policies. This time, however, there is every likelihood that the court will overrule some or all of those precedents.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who is assigned to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, was the one who received the emergency application brought by a Wisconsin taxpayers group.

The action dashes hopes of American Samoans who were seeking birthright citizenship and leaves intact a decision that breathed new life into distinctions between U.S. states and territories.

At issue in Tuesday's case was Alabama's congressional redistricting plan, adopted by the Republican state legislature after the 2020 Census.

The case focuses on whether the Supreme Court should overrule Grutter v. Bollinger and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions.