Robert Barnes, The Washington Post

The justices will be asked to decide on Donald Trump’s immunity from prosecution and eligibility for office, a pivotal role not seen since Bush v. Gore in 2000.

The case has been closely watched because of an unprecedented number of challenges to congressional maps that are advancing in courts throughout the country.

The court said free speech protections require prosecutors to prove the stalker was aware of the threatening nature of his communications.

Conservatives have long wanted to overturn the Chevron doctrine, which tells judges to defer to federal agencies when interpreting ambiguous federal laws.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. said they would have granted the request. Neither the majority nor the dissenting justices detailed their reasoning.

The university in May required all faculty, students and staff to be vaccinated unless they applied and qualified for an exemption. It was the first case about vaccination requirements to reach the Supreme Court.

A brief filed by the state of Mississippi emphasizes the potential presented in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case that represents the most direct challenge to abortion rights at the Supreme Court in decades.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed inclined to make it more difficult to challenge widely used voting laws that in practice might be more of a burden to minority voters.

Even the three justices who would have granted the case acknowledged that the number of ballots received after Election Day would not have been enough to threaten President Biden’s victory margin over Donald Trump.

Conservative political activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas told her husband’s former law clerks that she was sorry for a rift that developed among them after her election advocacy of President Trump and endorsement of the Jan. 6 rally in Washington.

The court’s unsigned opinion said the constitutional and legal questions surrounding such action should wait until it is clear whether Trump would be able to make good on his plan.

A number of cases involving the president remain unresolved.

The court said ballots already sent in without a witness signature should be counted.

Two conservative dissenters in the court’s landmark 2015 decision to allow same-sex marriage nationwide repeated their criticism of the “ruinous consequences for religious liberty.”

President Trump, who nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, has said his political future might depend on getting his third Supreme Court pick confirmed.