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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump says

his impeachment battle with House Democrats

“probably ends up being a big Supreme Court

case.”

If so, it may not be alone.

Several other legal disputes over Trump’s per-

sonal, professional and political dealings, both as

president and before taking office, are headed to-

ward the nation’s highest court just as the 2020

presidential campaign is heating up. Subpoenas

are flying in search of key documents and elusive

testimony.

The president thinks the conservative-leaning

court will be on his side. His opponents believe

they have stronger constitutional arguments. The

justices, already facing cases on abortion, immi-

gration, guns and LGBTQ rights, might prefer to

take a pass.

“I think the court’s going to do everything in its

power to avoid getting into the subpoena stuff,”

says Neal Devins, a law professor at William & Ma-

ry Law School. “But it might not be able to easily

avoid the issue.”

Here’s a look at the most significant battles and

the prospects for high court action:

TRUMP V.

CONGRESS

Supreme Court may decide

The Supreme Court

has taken on a bevy of

cases this term on

issues such as

abortion, immigration,

guns and LGBTQ

rights, and despite the

president’s hopes a

ruling on his

impeachment battle

with House Democrats

would go his way, the

court might prefer to

take a pass.

JACK GRUBER/USA TODAY

Disputes over Trump’s personal, professional,

political dealings are headed toward high court

just as the 2020 election season is heating up

“I think the court’s

going to do every-

thing in its power to

avoid getting into the

subpoena stuff. But it

might not be able to

easily avoid the is-

sue.”

Neal Devins

Law professor at William &

Mary Law School

Richard Wolf

USA TODAY

SeeHIGH COURT, Page 6A

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It’s a new three-way race in Iowa.

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South

Bend, Indiana, initially seen as a long-

shot presidential contender, has surged

within striking distance of former vice

president Joe Biden and Massachusetts

Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the first-in-

the-nation Iowa caucuses, a Suffolk

University/USA TODAY Poll finds.

Biden, long viewed as the Democratic

frontrunner, is faltering in the wake of a

debate performance last week that

those surveyed saw as disappointing.

The poll, taken Wednesday through

Friday, put Biden at 18%, Warren at 17%

and Buttigieg at 13% among 500 likely

Democratic caucusgoers.

Those standings reflect significant

changes since the Suffolk/USA TODAY

Poll taken at the end of June, when Bi-

den led Warren by double digits and But-

tigieg trailed at a distant 6%. California

Sen. Kamala Harris, who was then in

second place after a strong showing in

the first Democratic debate, has plum-

meted 13 percentage points and is now

in a three-way tie for sixth. Vermont

Sen. Bernie Sanders earned 9% support,

the same number as in the June poll.

“Iowa is unquestionably up for

grabs,” said David Paleologos, director

of the Suffolk Political Research Center.

Buttigieg “has found a lane and is accel-

erating toward the front of the pack, sur-

passing Bernie Sanders. All of this is

happening while the number of unde-

Buttigieg

surges;

Iowa ‘up

for grabs’

Debate showing helps

mayor into top 3 in poll

Susan Page

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Suffolk University/

USA TODAY Poll:

Iowa caucuses

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telephone poll of 500 likely Iowa Democratic

caucusgoers, taken Oct. 16-18. Margin of error

±4.4 percentage points.

Joe Biden

Elizabeth Warren

Pete Buttigieg

Bernie Sanders

Tom Steyer

Other candidates

Undecided

18%

17%

13%

9%

3%

11%

29%

Who would you vote for or

lean toward at this point?

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period of reflection for The Boss

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movie star to resume

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter have been

together for more than seven decades

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A new bulletproof memorial to
slain civil rights icon Emmett Till was
unveiled this weekend in Mississippi
after previous historical markers
were repeatedly vandalized.
The new 500-pound reinforced
steel sign, placed at the spot where
the 14-year-old's body was pulled
from the Tallahatchie
River, has a bullet-
proof-glass front, ac-
cording to Patrick
Weems, executive di-
rector of the Emmett
Till Interpretive Cen-
ter. The sign will be
open to the public but
protected by a gate and surveillance
cameras, according to the memori-
al’s commission.
About 100 people, including mem-
bers of Till's family, attended the re-
dedication ceremony Saturday,
Weems said.
"Our community for 50 years was
silent around what happened to Em-
mett Till, both the murder and later
the injustice," Weems said. "It was
just a really powerful day to have our
community leaders, both black and
white, from Tallahatchie County,
along with the Till family, to kind of
put a stake in the ground and say:
'We’re going to be resilient and con-
tinue to tell this story despite the
vandalism.' "
Till, who was black, was abducted,
tortured and murdered in 1955. Caro-
lyn Bryant Donham, a white 21-year-
old shopkeeper in Money, Mississip-
pi, had said Till grabbed and wolf-
whistled at her. An all-white, all-
male jury acquitted two white men
accused of the slaying.
Since the first memorial was
erected at the site in 2008, Till signs
have been vandalized multiple times,
including with spray paint and acid.
"We’re not naive enough to think
that this is the last time that some-
one tries something," Weems said.
"We’re hoping with these new mod-
ifications this will kind of symboli-
cally be resilient and physically be
resilient to overcome any type of
vandalism that happens in the fu-
ture."
Contributing: Jerry Mitchell, Mis-
sissippi Center for Investigative Re-
porting, and Keisha Rowe, The (Jack-
son, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger

Emmett Till

memorial

now stands

bulletproof

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