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202 articles shownof 202 totalLast updated 2026-09-20 01:46 UTC
us politics 5 2d ago 4 min read

Texas Supreme Court Clears Surrogate-Born Baby With Heart Defect to Move to California Over Surrogate's Objection

The Texas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a month-old baby born to surrogate McKenna West can be transferred to a Los Angeles hospital for heart surgery, rejecting her bid to keep him in Texas. The case pits a surrogate who refused to abort a fetus diagnosed with a heart defect against the biological parents who say they're following doctors' orders, with a Supreme Court emergency filing still unresolved.

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us politics 5 3d ago 4 min read

Trump Renews Attack on Supreme Court, Says Tariff and Citizenship Rulings Cost 'Trillions of Dollars'

Trump posted a fresh Truth Social attack on the Supreme Court Saturday, September 19, blaming the same justices he appointed for tariff and birthright citizenship rulings he says cost the country trillions. It is the latest round in a pattern where Trump praises the court when it rules for him and trashes it when it doesn't, according to the Associated Press.

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us finance 7 3d ago 4 min read

Senate Republicans Defend Fed Rate Hike and Supreme Court Ballot Ruling Against Trump's Attacks

Since the Fed's quarter-point rate hike Wednesday, September 16, President Trump has lashed out at both the central bank and the Supreme Court in the same week, and Senate Republicans are publicly breaking with him on both. GOP senators including John Cornyn, John Kennedy, Mike Rounds and John Thune say the Fed followed its mandate and the Court correctly blocked a last-minute mail-ballot screening plan.

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us politics 7 4d ago 4 min read

Fifth Circuit Adds Second Felon Gun Ban Case to Its En Banc Docket as DOJ Pushes Supreme Court to Settle the Question

The Fifth Circuit agreed on September 14 to rehear United States v. Cordova en banc, adding to a July 20 grant in United States v. Squire, both testing the federal lifetime gun ban for felons. Meanwhile the Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to review a separate Fifth Circuit ruling, United States v. Hembree, that struck the same ban down as applied to a nonviolent meth offender.

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us politics 8 5d ago 4 min read

Supreme Court Blocks Trump's Mail Ballot Rule, President Calls His Own Justices 'Shells'

The Supreme Court left in place a lower court injunction blocking new USPS mail-ballot rules before the midterms, with only Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissenting. Trump's own three appointees, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, didn't object, prompting Trump to call them 'shells of their original selves' on Truth Social while praising Alito and Thomas.

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us politics 5 5d ago 4 min read

Report Finds Election Law Professors Lean Left 7-to-1, as Supreme Court Handles Wave of Midterm Voting Cases

A conservative legal group says election-law academia is dominated by left-leaning professors 76 to 12, and argues that pipeline shapes courtroom outcomes on voter ID and redistricting. Meanwhile the Supreme Court is working through an unusually large stack of election cases, including a mail-ballot fight, less than two months before the midterms. Both stories point to the same underlying reality: election law is a small, high-stakes field, and right now it's chaotic.

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us politics 7 5d ago 4 min read

Black Caucus Launches $4.5 Million 'SO VOTE' Drive as Supreme Court Blocks Trump's Mail Ballot Rule

The Congressional Black Caucus Institute launched its 'SO VOTE' turnout campaign this week, days after the Supreme Court blocked new USPS mail ballot rules the Trump administration wanted before the Nov. 3 midterms. Meanwhile a competing question is surfacing even among Black commentators: whether Democratic-aligned groups assume Black voters want bigger government when recent primary results and economic data suggest otherwise.

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us politics 8 5d ago 4 min read

Supreme Court Blocks Trump Mail Ballot Limits as Iran War Vote Splits Iowa Republicans Ahead of Midterms

With Election Day set for November 3, this week brought a Supreme Court loss for Trump on mail ballots, federal voter fraud charges against six Texas green card holders, and two Iowa Republicans breaking with Trump on the Iran war. Trump's approval sits at 33 percent, the lowest of his political career, and the House and Senate battle now runs through Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina.

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us politics 8 6d ago 4 min read

Global Report Says U.S. Democracy Hit a 50-Year Low. The Supreme Court Blocked Trump on Voting Rules the Same Day.

A Stockholm-based NGO says U.S. democracy fell to its worst level in 50 years of tracking, blaming President Trump for amassing executive power. The same day, the Supreme Court blocked Trump's plan to restrict mail-in voting before the November midterms, proof the courts are still checking the executive branch the report says is running unchecked.

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us tech 6 Sep 15 4 min read

Apple Files Supreme Court Brief Fighting Contempt Ruling Over App Store Fees, No Argument Expected Before 2027

Apple filed its opening merits brief at the Supreme Court on Monday, September 14, 2026, arguing it can't be held in contempt for charging commissions an injunction never mentioned. Epic Games has until November 13 to respond, and the docket shows no argument date yet, meaning developers keep operating under the current zero-commission rule on external purchase links for a while longer.

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us politics 8 Sep 15 3 min read

Supreme Court Lets Trump's Mail Ballot Rules Proceed as USPS Faces Whistleblower Complaint Over Untested Portal

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Democratic-led states couldn't block Trump's mail-ballot executive order before USPS finished writing the rules, and Judge Indira Talwani lifted her injunction days later. But a whistleblower says the new verification portal USPS built is untested and could bounce back entire batches of ballots over a single mismatch, right as midterm mail voting kicks off.

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us politics 8 Sep 14 3 min read

Second Court Loss Pushes Trump's Mail-Ballot Rule Toward a Supreme Court Showdown

Since Judge Carl Nichols joined Judge Indira Talwani in blocking the USPS mail-ballot rule Sunday night, the fight has shifted to the Supreme Court, which is already reviewing the administration's appeal of Talwani's earlier freeze. Ballots are already going out in Alabama, North Carolina and Wisconsin, and more states start mailing this week, seven weeks before the midterms.

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us politics 5 Sep 13 4 min read

Buttigieg Proposes Adding Six Supreme Court Justices, Calls Bench 'Nakedly Partisan'

Pete Buttigieg used a Sunday appearance on NBC's Meet the Press to call for expanding the Supreme Court from 9 to 15 justices, the biggest number he's floated yet. He's not alone: House Democrats like Jim Clyburn and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want four new seats, while House Republicans passed a constitutional amendment this month to lock the bench at nine.

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in health 6 Sep 13 4 min read

India's Supreme Court Pushes FSSAI Toward One-Step Food Warning Labels, Sets September 28 Deadline

India's food safety regulator told the Supreme Court on Thursday it could scrap its planned two-phase rollout and slap red warning labels on packaged foods high in even one of three flagged nutrients, right from the start. The shift came after judges grilled the FSSAI over a proposal health experts called an industry-friendly loophole, and after Reuters reported the government had already watered down the rules once under pressure from Coca-Cola and allies of Nestle and PepsiCo.

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us politics 7 Sep 12 4 min read

Hochul Pardon Wipes Out Supreme Court Case on Long-Term Immigrant Detention Without Bond

New York Governor Kathy Hochul pardoned a Dominican green-card holder last month, erasing the assault conviction that was the entire basis for his 21-month detention and mooting a Supreme Court case scheduled for oral argument on October 13. The Second Circuit's rule requiring bond hearings after prolonged detention survives in New York, Connecticut and Vermont, but the underlying constitutional fight is not over, it just lost its test case.

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us finance 5 Sep 12 4 min read

Bond Trader Gets 16 Years, Clippers Face Federal Probe, SBF Asks Supreme Court to Undo His Conviction

Three separate fraud stories broke this week: a Chicago bond trader was sentenced to more than 16 years for hiding trading losses, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn opened a criminal probe into the Clippers over alleged secret payments to Kawhi Leonard, and Sam Bankman-Fried asked the Supreme Court to throw out his 25-year sentence. Individuals who lie about money keep going to prison. The federal government, whose own debt-servicing costs blew past $1 trillion a year, faces no equivalent court date.

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us politics 6 Sep 11 4 min read

Parental Rights Lawsuits Spread to Washington and New Jersey After Supreme Court's Mirabelli Order

A March 2026 Supreme Court order backing California parents over school gender-secrecy policies is now fueling new lawsuits in Washington state and New Jersey. Neither case has been decided on the merits yet, but the legal argument is the same: parents have standing to know when a school or state agency treats their child's gender identity as private.

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us politics 8 Sep 11 4 min read

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Block New Mail-Ballot Injunction as States Already Mailing Ballots

A federal judge blocked USPS from enforcing Trump's mail-ballot verification rule on September 4, finding no evidence of mail fraud in the record and calling disenfranchisement 'practically inevitable' under the rule. The administration is now asking the Supreme Court to lift that injunction while ballots are already going out in North Carolina and Alabama, and a USPS whistleblower says the new tracking portal could reject entire ballot batches over a single bad barcode.

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us politics 8 Sep 11 4 min read

Mail Ballot Fight Heads Back to Supreme Court With Midterm Ballots Set to Go Out in Weeks

Since the First Circuit's unanimous Thursday rejection of the administration's stay request, the mail ballot fight has shifted to the Supreme Court, which already handed Trump a narrow procedural win Monday and is now weighing a separate request to freeze the injunction blocking his USPS rule outright. With overseas and absentee ballots due to start going out within weeks, the justices' next move could decide whether millions of voters cast ballots under old rules or new ones.

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us politics 7 Sep 10 4 min read

Late Postmark Ballot Rejections Spike in Washington and Oregon After USPS Consolidation, as Trump Fights Mail Voting Rules at Supreme Court

New data show ballots tossed for late postmarks have surged in Washington and Oregon since USPS started consolidating mail processing into regional hubs. Meanwhile the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to lift an injunction blocking its own mail-ballot restrictions, with midterm mailings already underway in some states. Both fights are real, and neither side has clean hands here.

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us politics 8 Sep 9 4 min read

Missouri Congressional Map Flips Twice in One Day: SCOTUS Rejects GOP Map, Federal Judge Revives It Hours Later

Justice Brett Kavanaugh denied Missouri Republicans' emergency bid to reinstate their Trump-backed congressional map on Tuesday, leaving a state Supreme Court ruling against it in place. Hours later, a federal judge reinstated that same map in a separate lawsuit, leaving Missouri's eight House seats in legal limbo with less than two months to Election Day.

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us politics 8 Sep 8 3 min read

DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Lift Block on DHS Voter Citizenship Database Before Midterms

Since U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan blocked the overhauled SAVE database in June, the Trump administration has lost at the D.C. Circuit and now wants the Supreme Court to step in before November. DHS says the system has verified citizenship for 65 million voters and flagged 28,635 potential noncitizens; the judge who blocked it found it violated federal privacy law and wrongly swept up U.S. citizens in states like Texas and Utah.

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us politics 6 Sep 6 4 min read

Nude Spa's Fight Over Transgender Access Heads to the Supreme Court

Olympus Spa, a Korean-style all-female bathhouse in Washington state, is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a 9th Circuit ruling that says it can't turn away preoperative transgender women. The case pits a business's First Amendment and religious liberty claims against a state law that treats gender identity as a protected class, and the 9th Circuit itself split hard over how to talk about it.

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us politics 8 Sep 6 4 min read

Supreme Court Takes Up Whether the Second Amendment Protects AR-15 Ownership

The Supreme Court will hear Viramontes v. Cook County, testing whether bans on AR-15-style rifles in Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois violate the Second Amendment. The Justice Department and 62 House Republicans led by Rep. Andrew Clyde have filed briefs urging the Court to strike the bans down, but the DOJ's own reasoning leaves room for other weapons to stay banned.

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us politics 8 Sep 5 4 min read

Supreme Court Lets Trump's Mail-Voting Overhaul Take Effect as DHS Faces Questions Over ICE and Polling Places

The Supreme Court cleared Trump's executive order rewriting mail-ballot rules for enforcement before the midterms, ruling the harm was too speculative to block it. Meanwhile House Democrats are demanding DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin explain the legal basis for possibly sending federal agents near polling sites, something no federal law authorizes and DHS has not defended under oath.

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us politics 8 Sep 5 4 min read

Supreme Court Will Hear Arizona Citizenship Voter-Roll Case, Oral Arguments Set for December

The Supreme Court agreed in June to hear RNC v. Mi Familia Vota, a fight over whether Arizona can keep purging noncitizens from voter rolls inside the 90 days before a federal election. Briefs are now flowing in, and even Arizona's own Democratic attorney general split with the RNC on how to handle it. Oral arguments are set for December.

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us politics 8 Sep 5 4 min read

Missouri Redistricting Fight and Trump's Mail-Ballot Rules Both Hit the Supreme Court the Same Week

Missouri asked the Supreme Court on Friday to reinstate its Trump-backed congressional map after the state's own top court blocked it and ordered a statewide vote. Hours earlier, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration's USPS mail-ballot rules for a second time, citing a whistleblower and an admittedly unfinished federal portal. Both fights are now on Justice Brett Kavanaugh's and the full Court's desk with midterm deadlines bearing down.

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us politics 6 Sep 5 4 min read

Supreme Court Gives GOP Cheaper TV Ad Rates for Midterms, on a Procedural Technicality

The Supreme Court voted 8-1 on Friday, September 4, to let Republican party committees keep discounted broadcast ad rates for the midterms, reversing a Fourth Circuit ruling that said the discount belongs only to candidates. It's a procedural stay, not a final ruling on the merits, and it lands the same week a Missouri court handed Democrats a redistricting win of their own.

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us politics 8 Sep 4 4 min read

DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Unblock USPS Mail-Ballot Rule One Day Before North Carolina Starts Mailing

The Justice Department went back to the Supreme Court on Thursday to lift a Boston judge's block on Trump's USPS mail-ballot rule, just hours after a DOJ lawyer couldn't tell that same judge whether the required tracking portal even works. North Carolina starts mailing ballots Friday regardless of how this shakes out.

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us politics 8 Sep 3 4 min read

Missouri Supreme Court Blocks Trump-Backed GOP House Map, Keeps Cleaver's Seat Under Old Lines

Missouri's highest court unanimously ruled Thursday that the state can't use its new GOP-drawn congressional map in November, ordering the referendum onto the ballot instead. That reverses an August circuit court win for Republicans and keeps Rep. Emanuel Cleaver's Kansas City seat under the old, more Democratic-friendly lines for this cycle.

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us politics 8 Sep 3 4 min read

Judge Blocks Trump's Narrower Birthright Citizenship Order, Citing June Supreme Court Ruling

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman blocked Trump's August 6 executive order narrowing birthright citizenship, ruling it conflicts with the Supreme Court's June decision in Barbara v. Trump. The administration says it built the new order around that ruling and plans to keep fighting, possibly back to the Supreme Court. This is round two of a fight Trump started his first day back in office.

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us politics 6 Sep 2 3 min read

House Set to Vote Today on Constitutional Amendment Locking Supreme Court at Nine Justices

The House is scheduled to vote today, Wednesday, September 2, on a constitutional amendment fixing the Supreme Court at nine justices, a measure Speaker Mike Johnson says will force Democrats to go on record on court-packing. The bill needs two-thirds support in both chambers and 38 state legislatures to become law, a bar its own backers admit is steep, and the Democratic expansion bills it targets have gone nowhere in committee.

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us politics 7 Sep 2 4 min read

Supreme Court Lets Trump Ballroom Work Continue 5-4 as Roberts Calls Project Likely Unlawful

The Supreme Court split 5-4 to let construction on Trump's East Wing ballroom keep going while a lawsuit from the National Trust for Historic Preservation plays out in lower courts. Chief Justice John Roberts dissented, calling the project likely unlawful. The same week, a federal judge rejected Trump's third attempt to move his New York hush money conviction into federal court.

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us politics 8 Aug 31 4 min read

Federal Judge Reinstates Block on Trump's Mail-Ballot Rule Days After Supreme Court Sided With Him

Judge Indira Talwani blocked USPS from enforcing new mail-ballot rules on August 27, just three days after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to proceed on procedural grounds. Twenty-four Democrat-led states are now suing over the substance of the rule, setting up another round of litigation before ballots start going out for the November midterms.

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us politics 5 Aug 31 4 min read

Clyburn Endorses 13-Justice Supreme Court, Says He Regrets Backing Clarence Thomas in 1991

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, August 30, 2026, that he supports expanding the Supreme Court from nine seats to 13, echoing a proposal Kamala Harris floated in July. He also said he regrets supporting Clarence Thomas's 1991 confirmation, arguing Thomas has ruled against the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act precedents Clyburn expected him to uphold.

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us politics 6 Aug 30 5 min read

Fourth Circuit Strikes Down South Carolina's Age-Based Mail Ballot Rule, Setting Up Possible Supreme Court Fight

A unanimous Fourth Circuit panel ruled on August 18 that South Carolina's law letting anyone 65 or older vote absentee with no excuse, while making younger voters prove a hardship, violates the 26th Amendment. The ruling splits with two other appeals courts, doesn't change anything for the Nov. 3 midterms, and is already being cited by plaintiffs in a separate North Carolina election case.

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us politics 8 Aug 30 3 min read

Trump Administration Pushes Mail-Voting Order After Supreme Court Win, Critics Call It Overreach

The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in a mail-voting dispute, and a former Trump DOJ official says federal agencies can now move to implement the president's mail-voting order before the midterms. The Center for American Progress calls the broader pattern election interference, while a separate case shows the administration routing a hospital-records fight to a friendlier Texas court after losing five times elsewhere.

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us politics 6 Aug 30 4 min read

Liberty University Student Asks Supreme Court to Kill 2004 Ruling on Religious Scholarships

Bethany Hall, a Liberty University student denied a Virginia scholarship over her Christian ministry major, has petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn Locke v. Davey, the 2004 ruling Clarence Thomas dissented from. The Court hasn't agreed to hear the case yet, but its recent religious-liberty rulings have already gutted much of Locke's reasoning.

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us politics 8 Aug 29 4 min read

7th Circuit Rules Private Possession of AI-Generated Child Sex Abuse Images Is Protected Speech, Citing 1969 and 2002 Supreme Court Precedent

The 7th Circuit affirmed dismissal of a possession charge against Wisconsin man Steven Anderegg, ruling that Supreme Court precedent from Stanley v. Georgia and Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition protects home possession of AI-generated CSAM that depicts no real child. Two of the three judges said the law hasn't caught up to AI and asked the Supreme Court to fix it. Anderegg still faces charges for producing, distributing, and sending the images to a 15-year-old boy.

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us politics 8 Aug 27 4 min read

Trump Fires Election Commission's Democratic Members, Cites Supreme Court Ruling on Removal Power

Trump ousted the two Democratic commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the bipartisan panel without its legally required makeup months before the midterms. The White House cites a Supreme Court decision expanding presidential removal power over independent agencies, but the move lands amid a broader Trump campaign to control how mail-in voting and voter registration work nationwide. It's a real legal question whether a president can gut a commission Congress designed to be split evenly by law. It's also fair to ask why Democrats get fired but not the lone Republican who quit on her own.

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us politics 8 Aug 24 4 min read

Supreme Court Lets Trump's Mail-Ballot Order Proceed, Reversing Nationwide Block

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on August 24 that the 23 states suing over Trump's mail-ballot executive order lacked standing, staying a nationwide injunction and letting the Postal Service resume implementing new voter-verification rules. The Court explicitly did not rule the order legal, only that these plaintiffs couldn't challenge it yet, so more lawsuits are already coming.

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us economy 9 Aug 24 4 min read

Trump Pushes China Tariffs Back to 20% After Supreme Court Struck Down Prior Levies

Trump has raised the cumulative tariff on Chinese goods back to roughly 20%, rebuilding a tariff structure that the Supreme Court gutted in February 2026. The new approach relies on forced-labor statutes and country-specific actions instead of the emergency powers the Court rejected, and it comes weeks before Trump and Xi are due to meet in Washington on September 24.

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us politics 6 Aug 24 4 min read

Supreme Court Lets White House Ballroom Construction Continue While Case Proceeds

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary stay allowing Trump's $400 million White House ballroom project to keep going while the Supreme Court weighs in, after a federal appeals court ruled Trump needed congressional approval to demolish the East Wing. The administration says it's a national security necessity, but the Washington Post reports a secure presidential bunker already exists under the White House complex.

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us politics 7 Aug 22 4 min read

After Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais Ruling, Black Voter Turnout Rises in Some Southern Districts as States Redraw Maps

The Supreme Court's May ruling in Louisiana v. Callais said states have no compelling interest to use race when drawing congressional maps, gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Florida and Tennessee moved fast to redraw districts, and some majority-Black counties saw turnout tick up in response. The ruling itself is a real legal shift on race-based redistricting, but the political fallout is just getting started.

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us politics 7 Aug 21 4 min read

Supreme Court Lets Trump Pause on White House Ballroom Construction Freeze

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary stay Friday letting construction on Trump's $400 million White House ballroom continue while the Supreme Court decides whether to take up the case. Two lower courts already ruled the project unlawful without congressional approval, and the fight over Trump's authority to bulldoze the East Wing is far from over.

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us politics 6 Aug 21 4 min read

Imran Khan Sent to Hospital Under Supreme Court Order, Declared Fit, Returned to Prison Hours Later

Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan to a private Islamabad hospital after months of alarm over his eyesight and health. Doctors declared him medically fit and he was back in his Adiala Jail cell within hours. The bigger question the courts didn't touch: why it took a supreme court order and months of public pressure just to get a prisoner examined by an eye specialist.

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us politics 7 Aug 20 4 min read

Texas Ten Commandments Classroom Law Heads to Supreme Court on Petition From Two Dozen Families

Texas families from six faith backgrounds asked the Supreme Court on August 17 to strike down S.B. 10, which requires every public school classroom to display a Protestant version of the Ten Commandments. The Fifth Circuit upheld the law 9-8 in April, setting up a fight over a 1980 precedent the appeals court says no longer applies. The justices haven't decided whether to take the case.

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in politics 5 Aug 18 1 min read Updated

India's Supreme Court Told 251 of 543 Lok Sabha MPs Face Criminal Cases, 14 of 28 State Chief Ministers Too

A court-appointed lawyer told India's Supreme Court that nearly half of Lok Sabha lawmakers and 14 sitting chief ministers face criminal charges, with over 4,000 cases pending against current and former legislators nationwide. The numbers come from a decade-old push to speed up trials that, by the amicus curiae's own account, hasn't moved the needle since 2018.

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us politics 7 Aug 16 4 min read

AG Todd Blanche May Take Voter Roll Fight to Supreme Court After Losing 22 Cases

The Justice Department has sued 30 states plus D.C. over refusal to hand over voter roll data, and lost 22 of those fights so far. AG Todd Blanche says the Supreme Court is a real option. Meanwhile, a separate leaked call has Blanche telling faith leaders the DOJ wants Dobbs made permanent nationwide through revived enforcement of the 1873 Comstock Act.

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us energy 5 Aug 12 4 min read

Xcel Asks Colorado Supreme Court to Save 1 Gigawatt of Finished Wind Power Stuck Over 550 Feet of Land

Two Xcel Energy wind farms in eastern Colorado, worth an estimated 1.8 billion dollars, sit finished but disconnected from the grid because a district court blocked the utility from condemning a 550-foot easement. Xcel is now asking the Colorado Supreme Court to skip the appeals process entirely, arguing the delay is costing customers money while a landowner holds out for a deal.

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us politics 7 Aug 12 4 min read

Supreme Court Will Hear Catholic Preschool's Case Against Colorado Over LGBTQ Admissions Rule

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments November 3 in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, a case over whether Colorado can bar a Catholic preschool from a state funding program because the school won't admit children based on gender identity or sexual orientation policies it opposes on religious grounds. Two federal appeals courts and two state supreme courts have already split with the 10th Circuit on the same legal question, which is exactly why the justices took the case.

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us politics 8 Aug 11 3 min read

DHS Moves to Deport 300,000-Plus Haitians After Supreme Court Lifts Block on Ending TPS

A federal judge confirmed this week that her order blocking the Trump administration from ending Temporary Protected Status for Haiti is no longer in effect, following a June Supreme Court ruling. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says enforcement is underway now, and more than 300,000 Haitians without another legal pathway face arrest or deportation to a country the State Department itself warns Americans not to visit.

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ru politics 6 Aug 10 4 min read

Russia's Supreme Court Bars Yabloko, the Only Anti-War Party, From September Ballot

Russia's Supreme Court ruled Monday to strip Yabloko, the country's lone registered anti-war party, from September's parliamentary election after a lawsuit from a pro-Kremlin nationalist party. The ruling leaves every party on the ballot supportive of the Ukraine war, in an election Putin's government already tightly controls.

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us politics 8 Aug 9 4 min read

Trump Signs New Orders on Birthright Citizenship After Supreme Court's Trump v. Barbara Ruling

President Trump signed two executive orders Thursday, August 6, 2026, banning birth tourism and narrowing who qualifies for birthright citizenship, months after the Supreme Court ruled in Trump v. Barbara that birthright citizenship is a constitutional right. Democrats call the move unconstitutional; the White House says it targets a narrow set of fraud cases, not immigrants broadly.

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us politics 7 Aug 5 4 min read

Kansas Judge Strikes Down Abortion Restrictions Same Day He Joins State Supreme Court

Christopher Jayaram killed Kansas' 24-hour waiting period, its abortion pill reversal notice, and other informed-consent laws in a 261-page ruling filed the same day he was sworn in to the Kansas Supreme Court. The timing, on the same Election Day Kansans voted on how to pick future justices, is either a coincidence of court scheduling or a gut punch to the whole process, depending on who you ask.

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us politics 7 Aug 5 4 min read

Supreme Court Won't Block $656 Million Terror Judgment Against Palestinian Authority

Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected an emergency request from the Palestinian Authority and PLO to freeze a $656 million judgment owed to American victims of Second Intifada attacks. The ruling clears the way for collection to begin after a 22-year legal fight. The PA says the payout will devastate West Bank public services; the victims' families say they've waited two decades for justice.

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us politics 6 Aug 2 4 min read

Kansas Voters Decide Tuesday Whether to Elect Supreme Court Justices Instead of Merit Selection

Kansas voters go to the polls Tuesday, August 4, on a constitutional amendment that would scrap the state's 1958 merit-selection system for Supreme Court justices in favor of direct elections. Republicans call it democracy and transparency. Critics call it a plan to make the court more partisan after rulings on abortion the GOP didn't like.

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us politics 5 Aug 2 4 min read

DSA Rewrites Its Platform to Call for Abolishing the Senate, Presidency and Supreme Court. Bernie Sanders Says No.

Democratic Socialists of America unveiled an updated platform ahead of its Chicago summit that calls to abolish the U.S. Senate, presidency and Supreme Court, plus grant amnesty to immigrants already in the country. Senate Democrats, including Bernie Sanders, are distancing themselves fast, but Republicans are already using it as a midterm cudgel against the entire party.

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us politics 6 Aug 2 4 min read

New Mexico Supreme Court Blocks Hospital Confession in Newborn Trash Can Murder Case

The New Mexico Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Alexee Trevizo's hospital-room statements about hiding her newborn in a trash bag are protected by doctor-patient confidentiality and can't be used at trial. The court found she was bleeding, medicated, and in no condition to voluntarily waive that privilege when her doctor brought two armed officers into her room. Prosecutors now have to build a murder case with a lot less evidence.

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us energy 7 Aug 1 1 min read

Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Permit for Enbridge Pipeline Tunnel Under the Great Lakes

Michigan's highest court has rejected a state permit for a pipeline tunnel that Enbridge wants to build under the Great Lakes, according to AP News. The ruling is a setback for the company's yearslong push to move a pipeline off the lakebed and into a tunnel.

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