Supreme Court

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Four years before Gregg, the Supreme Court had brought the death penalty to a halt in Furman v.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026

Two dozen Americans have flown to the moon, 116 have sat on the Supreme Court, 25 have run a mile in under 3:51 and 76 have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

After the couple's appeal failed, the case passed to Iran's Supreme Court, he said, describing the legal process as "opaque".

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Leave it to Illinois, where the state Supreme Court kicked a Cook County judge off the bench over an article he wrote while a private citizen.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

On appeal, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in Bostick’s case that the police officer’s conduct violated the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander