Mark Sherman | Associated Press

The Supreme Court has turned away efforts from Republicans in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to block state court-ordered congressional districting plans more favorable to Democrats.

Walter E. Dellinger has died. The noted constitutional scholar argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court, served in top positions in the Justice Department and was a professor at Duke Law School. He died Wednesday in Chapel Hill at 80.

The Supreme Court is allowing evictions to resume across the United States, blocking the Biden administration from enforcing a temporary ban that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. According to Census Bureau data, roughly 3.5 million people in the United States said they faced eviction in the next two months.

A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents.