Supreme Court condones ‘collusion,’ asks to hear from Clinton and gets back to the bench

The Supreme Court had a quiet week, though a few orders and an upcoming argument hint at where its docket may head. On Tuesday, the same day as the midterm elections, the justices will hear Catholic schools contest Colorado's universal preschool program, which they say wrongly requires them to serve LGBTQ families. The state says every participating preschool, religious or not, must take publicly funded children without excluding families over protected-class status, according to MS NOW.

On its emergency docket, the court turned down a request from Centro Legal de la Raza and the cities of Baltimore, Columbus and New Haven. They had accused Texas and the Trump administration of colluding to wipe out a Biden-era rule letting immigration judges pause removal proceedings. Judge Reed O'Connor approved the arrangement and struck down the rule nationwide. No justice dissented.

Trump also gained a little ground: the court told Hillary Clinton to answer his petition to revive his civil suit alleging a conspiracy over Russia claims in 2016. Clinton had tried to skip a reply. Since four votes are needed to take a case, the order is no guarantee, and lower courts have ruled against him.

Separately, Judge J.

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