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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with a lower court that ordered a New Mexico city to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the lawn outside City Hall. Civil…
The U.S. Supreme Court is leaving in place a ruling by New Jersey’s highest court that helped prompt new legislation prohibiting mandatory life without parole for juveniles in the state.…
Disputes over whether a baker should be forced to bake a cake, and partisan electoral maps top the Supreme Court’s agenda in the first full term of the Trump presidency.…
The Supreme Court on Thursday gave itself another chance to decide an issue that could choke off a vital source of money for unions representing police, teachers and other government…
The U.S. Supreme Court canceled oral arguments scheduled in October to decide the legality of President Donald Trump’s previous travel ban, signaling the court might dismiss the case. The Court…
Orthodox advocacy organizations welcomed the introduction of legislation that would make houses of worship eligible for disaster relief funds from the federal government. The bill, which was introduced in the…
A broad base of Orthodox Jewish organizations have filed briefs in what is widely regarded as the most significant religious liberty case the Supreme Court plans to take up this…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to broadly implement a ban on refugees entering the country from around the world. The justices granted a request from…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday put a temporarily hold on limits imposed by a lower court on President Donald Trump’s order barring most refugees from entering the…
The Justice Department on Monday filed an emergency application at the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to block an appeals court decision that limited President Donald Trump’s effort to temporarily bar…
High Court Justice Esther Hayut was chosen Tuesday as the new Court Chief Justice. The choice was made by the High Court Selection Committee, made up of former judges and…
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday lifted his ban on allowing MKs and ministers to visit Har HaBayis, but the vast majority of officials who advocate allowing Jews to visit…
After being banned by police for a week, protesters demanding that State Attorney Avichai Mandelblit act more aggressively in corruption investigations against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will apparently be back…
In a lengthy response to the High Court over a petition by reform groups that request the government and Rabbinate to allow the establishment of an egalitarian prayer area at…
Israel has buried two terrorists in a special cemetery reserved for enemy combatants. The two are Israeli citizens, and were buried quietly several days ago at the request of Defense…
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon on Sunday asked the head of the Knesset Finance Committee, MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni, to examine the possibility of refiling the Third Apartment Tax law, after…
After lagging behind other courts for years, the Supreme Court is finally catching up on a key technological feature that will be a boon to researchers, lawyers and analysts of…
A lawyer for former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is counting on the U.S. Supreme Court reviewing the case before the once-powerful politician endures a second trial on corruption…
The Supreme Court is granting the Trump administration’s request to more strictly enforce its ban on refugees, at least until a federal appeals court weighs in. But the justices are…
The Trump administration is seeking to close a legal window opened for tens of thousands of refugees to enter the United States, appealing a federal judge’s order directly to the…
