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The United States Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Arizona must enforce part of its voting measures requiring proof of citizenship documentation to register to vote just months before the November election. The decision is victory for Republicans after the state party and Republican National Committee took its request to the country's highest court.

In an unsparing dissent, Sotomayor argued that the ruling 'effectively creates a law-free zone around the president' and is 'upsetting the status quo' under which the nation was founded. She called the decision, which likely ended the prospect of a trial for Trump before the November election , 'utterly indefensible' and argued it will have 'disastrous consequences' for the nation's democracy. SCOTUS found Trump cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were within his constitutional powers as president, but can be for private acts, in the landmark ruling recognizing for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution. The chief justice insisted that the president 'is not above the law', with the ruling arguing that presidents must be entitled to presumptive immunity to allow them to forcefully exercise the office's far-reaching powers and avoid a vicious cycle of politically motivated prosecutions. Sotomayor was joined by liberal justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, who wrote another dissent referring to the ruling's consequences as a 'five alarm fire'. Chief Justice John Roberts accused the liberal justices of fearmongering in the 6-3 majority opinion.

After deliberating more than six months, the justices in a 5-4 vote blocked an agreement hammered out with state and local governments and victims. The Sacklers would have contributed up to $6 billion and given up ownership of the company but retained billions more.

Sotomayor, 69, is one of three remaining Democrat-appointed judges on the court alongside Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. While she's always been in the minority on the court, recently the court has taken a more rightward turn under a 6-3 majority, which includes the repeal of Roe vs. Wade. In a talk as she was given an award at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute Friday, she admitted it brings her to cry sometimes. 'There are days that I've come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried,' she said.

The order comes at a time when Mexico's government has said that it would not endorse the return of any migrants from the state under any circumstances. The decision by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals comes just weeks after a panel on the same court allowed Texas to follow the law by suspending work due to a halt on a lower judge's injunction. However, a panel of the appeals court lifted the pause by a 2-1 order, facilitating the court's hearing on Wednesday.

When asked by conservative activist Charlie Kirk whether he would like to be on the Supreme Court, Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was stumped. In a video obtained by DailyMail.com, Kennedy pauses for several seconds after being asked by Kirk to name a 'current or new' Supreme Court justice who is in accordance with his views.

After the elite school was ranked as the single worst for free expression out of 248 schools in the United States, a Harvard professor warned that service members should avoid backlash from classmates and faculty members. In an interview with Fox&Friends First, military veterans who have joined the Ivy League shcool 'think it's better if they don't tell their classmates or faculty members that they are military veterans.' It comes down to leadership.' The president is 'the lieutenant colonel' who served in Afghanistan.

The Supreme Court kept President Joe Biden's rules on "ghost guns" in force, though a challenge to it continues through the court system in a victory for the administration. 'Ghost guns' are kits that can be ordered online and assembled into improvised firearms. They are difficult to find, and the Obama administration has branded them a danger to public safety. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett were among the court's three liberals, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, forming a majority.

According to unindicted co-conspirator John Eastman's lawyer, he committed no wrongdoing and that if necessary to protect himself. He claims he hasn't been sent a letter from prosecutors that he hasn't been a "target" prosecutors. That comes after special counsel John Eastman's staff included Eastman in a bombshell indictment. It was 'unprofessional' to include him in the indictment, according to Eastman, who gave Trump 'cutting edge advice'.

Republicans are celebrating a return to'merit-based' education admissions, while Democrats claim that the Supreme Court's decision to reverse affirmative action will put the clock back on racial justice. The verdict on his Truth Social page, former President Trump, who voted three conservative justices, railed.'This is a great day for America,' he wrote. People with extraordinary capabilities and everything else that are crucial to our country's success, including future greatness, are now being rewarded.' This was the hearing everyone was waiting and awaited for, and the result was jaw-breaking. It will also keep us competitive with the rest of the world.

The Supreme Court has suspended the use of ethnicity as a factor in college admissions. The justices ruled in a 6-3 decision on Thursday that Harvard University and the University of North Carolina's race-based affirmative action admissions are unconstitutional. Both programs lack sufficiently targeted and measurable goals to support the use of race, unavoidably use race in a negative manner, require racial stereotyping, and lack common end points,' according to Chief Justice Roberts' majority opinion.

A complaint brought by the tribe against the federal government over a water supply from the drought-stricken Colorado River must be dismissed, according to the justices. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said in his majority opinion that an 1868 deal with the Navajo Nation did not mean that the US government had to step in. States that drain water from the river - Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado - and California water districts that are also involved in the lawsuit had been urged by the court to hear for them, which the justices did in a 5-4 decision. Colorado had argued that joining the Navajo Nation would jeopardize existing deals and jeopardize river operations. If the court were to rule in favour of the Navajo Nation, the federal government might face lawsuits from several other tribes, according to Biden.

Jack Daniel's Properties Inc, a Brown-Forman Corp subsidiary, argued that the toy, which mimics the distillery's well-known black-label whiskey bottle, but replaces it with the word 'Bad Spaniels,' could confuse consumers about who made the product and potentially tarnish the company's name. VIP Products, an Arizona-based dog toy business, defended themselves, arguing that the toy is a 'parody,' and that it is "expressive work' that is covered by the US Constitution's First Amendment and is entitled to free expression under the laws. Justice Elena Kagan (right), who authored the decision, said that VIP's suspected violation of the Jack Daniel's trademark "falls within the heartland of trademark law, and does not receive special First Amendment protection.'

The justices (top right) expressed doubt over whether to narrow a legal shield shielding internet businesses from a number of lawsuits, and at times appeared to be unsure about some of the root causes. We're a court, and we have no idea what these things are.' Justice Elena Kagan said of herself and her colleagues, sparking laughter from the gallery and smiles from others on the bench, as these are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet.' The allegation stems from the death of American college student Nohemi Gonzalez (main) in a terrorist attack in Paris in 2015, after her family sued Google-owned YouTube for reportedly allowing videos that promoted ISIS to spread word and recruit.

The moment a group of immigrants screamed at the door of the house in Edwards County is shown by a shocking security video. As members of the group attempt to pry open the windows, to no avail, one of them grabs what seems to be a 2x4 piece of wood and bangs it against the door. The door, on the other hand, would not budge until the homeowner tied the deadbolt to its steel frame. After failing to get inside her house, the woman, who has spent $13,000 on repairs since a previous break, said they successfully entered her neighbor's house but fled by the time Border Patrol arrived. The dramatic situation unfolds as waves of migrants arrive to the border (inset), with a large gap uncovered along the wall near El Paso for asylum seekers to sneak through.

Despite the tightening Title 42 regulations, a gaping hole cut into the border fence between Mexico and the United States shows the possibility by which migrants can cross the border illegally. Traffickers cut the large opening close to a row of abandoned buildings on a stretch of the border fence just four miles from downtown El Paso, Texas. DailyMail.com announced that the makeshift crossing point beside the US-85 highway just one hour after the Supreme Court confirmed that Title 42 will remain in force. The 4ft-by-4-ft hole was freshly cut, implying that migrants had used it to cross illegally on Tuesday.

By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court confirmed that Title 42 would remain in effect well into the evening, just hours before its scheduled sunset on Wednesday. The Covid-era public health initiative that encourages border agents to immediately discharge migrants will now be in force until court discussions concerning its termination play out. After Title 42 was raised in limbo, agents would now be able to expel border crossers for at least the next several months, leaving an onslaught of migrants who were set to march the US-Mexico border.

Elena Kagan, the Supreme Court, was granted a postponement of the subpoena to Arizona Republican Party leader Kelli Ward's cellphone provider until she handed over her phone numbers on January 6. Ward lodged an emergency request on Wednesday urging the liberal justice to temporarily block a lower court decision allowing the subpoena to report her information to the panel as they continue their probe into the January 6 Capitol riot. T-Mobile's subpoena mandated that call and text communications be suspended from November 2020 to January 2021.