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From the census citizenship question and political gerrymandering to the separation of church and state, the high court will make some rulings of consequence over the next month.

The court struck down a Tennessee alcohol licensing residency requirement, opening up the pathway for big-box stores to enter the market.

Eleven legislative districts in Virginia were declared to be sorted by race and were redrawn. The court's decision Monday left that in place.

President Trump has his highest approval rating yet, even though his reelection prospects continue to be lackluster. But voters aren't yet buying what Democrats are selling.

A Pennsylvania woman known as "Jihad Jane" pleaded guilty on Tuesday to four criminal charges that could send her to prison for life. Colleen LaRose, who appeared in federal court in Philadelphia, tried to recruit U.S. citizens to travel overseas to wage jihad against a Swedish cartoonist.

Congressional Republicans and conservative talking heads have been on the attack against the Justice Department civil rights division. The rhetoric is part of a decades-old push and pull over the ideology of the government's civil rights strategy.

Republicans criticized his recess appointment of Richard Cordray to run the new consumer watchdog agency. But Justice lawyers say the Senate wasn't really in session.

For the second year in a row, the number of police officers and federal agents who've died on the job has risen sharply. On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder met with more than two dozen police chiefs from across the country to see what the government can do to help.

Lisa O. Monaco is now principal associate deputy attorney general. She has previously served as chief of staff to the FBI director.

On Tuesday morning, lawyers for WikiLeaks backers tried to persuade a federal magistrate judge to unseal the government's request for details about four private Twitter accounts. The Justice Department wants more information about some tweets in its probe into the leak of confidential U.S. documents.