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Supreme Court allows Trump to halt millions in teacher training grants

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The court voted 5-4 on Friday afternoon to put on hold an order by a federal judge that would have required the Department of Education to reinstate more than $65 million in grants that it terminated in February because they funded programs that included diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Chief Justice John Roberts would have denied the request. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented.

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The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on March 26. (Katie Barlow)

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Nonprofits urge justices to leave judge’s reinstatement of federal employees in place

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A group of nonprofits challenging the February mass-firing of federal workers urge the Supreme Court to leave in place a federal judge’s order that would require the Trump administration to reinstate 16,000 fired employees from six agencies. The groups filed their response to the government’s emergency request for intervention in the Supreme Court on Thursday.

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Challengers to Trump’s order tell justices to allow birthright citizenship to stand

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Two groups of states, immigrants’ rights groups, and several pregnant women urged the court on Friday to leave in place three federal judges’ orders that prohibit the government from implementing President Donald Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship. Shortly after he took office, Trump issued an executive order to end the guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in the United States, which was added to the Constitution in 1868. But several judges around the country temporarily paused the order before it could take effect.

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Court hears dispute over South Carolina’s bid to defund Planned Parenthood

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There was no clear consensus at arguments on Wednesday on whether Planned Parenthood has the right to sue over a 2018 order by South Carolina’s governor that barred abortion clinics from participating in Medicaid. During more than 90 minutes of oral arguments, the justices struggled to determine whether the Medicaid law on which Planned Parenthood relies must use specific words to signal that Congress intended to create a private right to enforce it – and, if so, what those words might be.

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