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180 articles shownof 180 totalLast updated 2026-09-06 12:18 UTC
us politics 6 20h ago 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 21h ago 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 1d ago 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 1d ago 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 2d ago 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 2d ago 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 3d ago 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 3d ago 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 4d ago 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 4d ago 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 4d ago 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 6d ago 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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us politics 7 Aug 1 4 min read

Six Fifth Circuit Judges Say Supreme Court Must Take Up DeRay Mckesson Protest Liability Case

Six Fifth Circuit judges publicly dissented Thursday after the full court declined to rehear a case letting activist DeRay Mckesson be sued over a police officer's injury he had no proven connection to. The dissent, written by Judge Don Willett, argues the ruling lets courts punish protest leaders for a stranger's violence without proof of intent, a standard the judges say the Supreme Court itself flagged as constitutionally important when it reviewed the case in 2020.

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gb politics 6 Jul 31 4 min read

UK Supreme Court Will Hear Appeal Over Palestine Action Terror Ban

The Supreme Court granted Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori permission to challenge the government's proscription of the group as a terrorist organization, with the case set for the last quarter of 2026. Roughly 70 to 117 people were arrested outside Westminster Magistrates' Court the same day for declaring support for the banned group, and thousands more arrests remain in legal limbo until the case is resolved.

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us politics 8 Jul 30 4 min read

9th Circuit Rules Against Trump on Mandatory Detention, Setting Up Supreme Court Showdown

A Trump-appointed judge just handed Trump a loss. The 9th Circuit ruled Thursday that immigrants arrested inside the U.S. can't be automatically denied bond hearings, making it five appeals courts against the administration and two for it. Supreme Court review looks all but certain.

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us economy 9 Jul 30 4 min read

Trump Rebuilds Global Tariff Wall Using Forced-Labor Law After Supreme Court Struck Down Original Tariffs

On July 24, the U.S. slapped new 10-12.5% tariffs on 60 countries, including the EU and China, using a forced-labor enforcement law after the Supreme Court killed Trump's original emergency-powers tariffs in February. The new tariffs cover 99.4% of U.S. imports with carve-outs for oil, food, pharmaceuticals and other goods.

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us politics 7 Jul 28 4 min read

Trump Petitions Supreme Court to Toss $83.3 Million E. Jean Carroll Judgment

Trump's lawyers asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn the $83.3 million defamation verdict, arguing presidential immunity should have shielded his 2019 statements denying Carroll's assault claims. It's the second Carroll-related judgment Trump has tried to get the high court to touch, and the first time justices will be asked to weigh in on the bigger award.

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us politics 8 Jul 28 4 min read

Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Lift Block on Mail-Voting Executive Order

The DOJ filed an emergency application asking the Supreme Court to let Trump's mail-in voting restrictions take effect after a federal appeals court kept them blocked in a 2-1 ruling. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson set an August 3 deadline for the states to respond, meaning the fight lands on the Court's docket roughly three months before the November midterms.

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us politics 5 Jul 28 3 min read

Kagan and Barrett Tell Congress Supreme Court Leaks Are Eroding Internal Trust

Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett told Congress the Court's ongoing leak problem is damaging the honest, confidential deliberation the institution depends on. Barrett revealed the Court now requires employees to sign nondisclosure agreements, with carveouts for whistleblowers, on top of existing confidentiality rules.

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us politics 3 Jul 26 4 min read

A Federal Judge Says the Supreme Court Got a Fact Wrong in Loper Bright. The Record Says Otherwise.

Senior Circuit Judge Ray Randolph suggested in a dissent that the Supreme Court's landmark Loper Bright decision misunderstood the legal posture of Chevron v. NRDC. Law professor John Duffy's research and the underlying regulatory record show the Clean Air Act exemption Randolph pointed to didn't actually apply to the rule at issue in Chevron. The dispute is a legal footnote fight, but the core holding of Loper Bright, killing Chevron deference, stands untouched either way.

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us politics 7 Jul 25 4 min read

Massachusetts Judge Blocks Ethiopia TPS Termination Weeks After Supreme Court Limited That Power

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued a new administrative stay protecting Ethiopian nationals' Temporary Protected Status, days after the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Mullin v. Doe narrowed lower courts' authority to block DHS on TPS decisions. DHS General Counsel James Percival accused Murphy of defying the Court; the case now turns on whether Murphy's order rests on constitutional claims the Supreme Court left open.

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us tech 4 Jul 25 1 min read

Supreme Court's Immunity Ruling Expands Presidential Power, Panel Says

The Supreme Court issued a ruling expanding the power of the presidency and helping shield Donald Trump from criminal prosecution. Journalists on PBS's Washington Week With The Atlantic said the decision also expands the Court's own power, since judges will decide what counts as an official act.

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us health 7 Jul 24 4 min read

New Study Links Glyphosate in Pregnant Women to Higher Preterm Birth Risk, as Supreme Court Shields Bayer From Failure-to-Warn Lawsuits

A new NYU study found pregnant women with detectable glyphosate in their urine at mid-pregnancy were 37% more likely to deliver preterm, and twice as likely to have a spontaneous preterm birth. The finding lands weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that Bayer can't be sued under state law for failing to warn Roundup users about cancer risk, because the EPA says the chemical is safe.

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us politics 8 Jul 23 4 min read

Six GOP-Led States Redraw Maps After Supreme Court Weakens Voting Rights Act, Black Districts Broken Up

Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina have redrawn congressional maps since the Supreme Court's April 29 ruling gutted key Voting Rights Act protections. Republicans say it's ordinary political map-drawing ahead of the midterms; voting rights advocates call it a targeted dismantling of Black political power. Both claims deserve scrutiny, and the courts haven't settled it.

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us politics 6 Jul 23 4 min read

Ohio Man Asks Supreme Court to Legalize Home Whiskey Distilling, Setting Up Fight Over Federal Power

John Ream, an Ohio brewery owner and former Boeing aerospace engineer, wants the Supreme Court to strike down the 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling after two appeals courts split on whether the law is constitutional. The case could force the justices to revisit Wickard v. Filburn and Gonzales v. Raich, the two rulings that let Congress regulate almost anything under the Commerce Clause.

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us politics 9 Jul 22 4 min read

Supreme Court Ruling in Trump v. Slaughter Strips Removal Protections From Independent Agency Heads

The Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Slaughter lets the president fire members of agencies like the FTC without cause, effectively gutting the 90-year-old Humphrey's Executor precedent. The Federal Reserve got a carve-out, but the FEC and Election Assistance Commission didn't, and Trump has already used the ruling to clear out the EAC.

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us politics 6 Jul 21 4 min read

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Game Wardens Need a Warrant to Search Posted Private Land

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state's 'open fields' doctrine, which let game wardens enter private, posted land without a warrant, violates the state constitution. Two hunting clubs that had been searched more than 15 times since 2013 without consent brought the case, and the court sided with them 7-0.

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us politics 7 Jul 20 3 min read

Supreme Court Will Hear Alaska Bush Pilot's Case Over Beer-Related Plane Seizure

The Supreme Court agreed to hear 82-year-old Alaska pilot Ken Jouppi's challenge to the state's seizure of his $95,000 Cessna over a beer-importation conviction from 2012. The case tests whether the Eighth Amendment's Excessive Fines Clause requires judges to weigh what an individual defendant actually did, not just impose whatever forfeiture a statute allows.

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us politics 9 Jul 20 3 min read

Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order

The Supreme Court ruled against President Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship, siding with a long-standing reading of the 14th Amendment. The order never took effect anywhere in the country and now it's dead for good, unless Congress or a constitutional amendment changes the rule.

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us politics 6 Jul 19 4 min read

Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Says State Courts Will Ignore SCOTUS 'Ideology,' Legal Scholars Call It a Constitutional Overreach

Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins used a routine criminal case to accuse the U.S. Supreme Court of racism and 'agenda-driven' rulings, then declared his state's courts owe it no deference. Legal scholar Jonathan Turley calls the opinion an 'unhinged screed' that ignores 200 years of settled law on federal judicial supremacy.

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us politics 5 Jul 19 2 min read

AP: Poll Finds Public Trust in Supreme Court Hits New Low

An Associated Press report indicates a new poll shows public trust in the Supreme Court has reached a new low. Full details of the survey were not available in the material reviewed.

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us finance 5 Jul 18 4 min read

Supreme Court Won't Review SEC's Rescinded Gag Rule, Leaving Door Open for Its Return

The Supreme Court declined this week to review the SEC's now-scrapped 'gag rule,' which for 50 years barred defendants from publicly denying the agency's charges even after settling. The SEC killed the policy itself back in May, but critics say without a court ruling striking it down as unconstitutional, nothing stops a future SEC from bringing it right back.

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us politics 7 Jul 17 3 min read

Pipeline Company Took Their Land, Then Fought to Avoid Paying Their Legal Bills. Supreme Court Will Decide Who's Right.

WBI Energy Transmission used federal eminent domain power to seize North Dakota ranchland, offered roughly half its market value, and after losing a court fight, got the 8th Circuit to wipe out a $383,375 legal-fee award the ranchers had won. The Supreme Court will now settle a four-circuit split over whether pipeline companies have to follow state law when they take your land.

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us politics 6 Jul 17 4 min read

Courts Split on Transgender Bathroom Policy While Supreme Court Settles Sports Question

A federal judge in Illinois just tossed a girl's lawsuit over a transgender classmate in her school bathroom, while the Ninth Circuit already upheld Idaho's opposite approach, and the Seventh Circuit is now reconsidering its own precedent after the Supreme Court's Skrmetti ruling. The legal landscape on bathrooms is a mess. Sports, at least, got a 9-0 answer from the Supreme Court.

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