Annapolis, MD, USA. Taking DNA from suspects immediately upon arrest is an increasingly common law enforcement practice, but some courts have ruled it unconstitutional.

Alonzo Jay King, Jr. was arrested on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 2009 for first-degree felony assault and, as is standard practice in 25 states and the federal government, a sample of King’s DNA was taken at the booking facility and sent to the state crime lab.

Washington, DC, USA. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Medicaid expansion optional for the states, casting doubt on decades of established state-federal programs.

Billions of dollars in funding are tied to the programs and in striking down the federal health care law’s mandatory Medicaid expansion, the ruling limited a key component of the federal government’s power over the states for the first time in decades, unsettling state-federal relations for years to come.