The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a Trump administration request to deploy National Guard troops to the Chicago area while a legal challenge proceeds, dealing a setback to President Donald Trump’s effort to use federalized forces in Illinois to support immigration enforcement. In an unsigned order, the high court left …
Read More »Supreme Court allows Texas’ new congressional map for 2026 midterms
In a major win for President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers, the Supreme Court on Thursday granted Texas’ emergency application to use a new congressional map drawn to increase GOP representation in next year’s midterm elections, pausing a lower-court ruling that had found the plan unlawfully relied on race. The …
Read More »Supreme Court Keeps Freeze on SNAP Funding Order as Shutdown Nears Possible End
The Supreme Court on Tuesday extended a temporary freeze on a lower-court ruling that would have forced the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) this month, leaving millions of families uncertain about food aid as the government shutdown enters its 43rd day. The unsigned order …
Read More »Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn $5 Million Verdict in E. Jean Carroll Civil Case
President Donald Trump on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a 2023 New York civil jury verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, escalating his years long legal fight over her allegations. Trump’s petition seeks to overturn the $5 million award …
Read More »Supreme Court Declines to Revisit Landmark Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to revisit its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, turning away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples on religious grounds. The justices declined to hear Davis’s case, effectively upholding a lower-court ruling that …
Read More »Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks November SNAP Payments
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked Friday night a lower court’s order that the Trump administration pay for a full month of food benefits, hours after some states began loading nutrition assistance funds on payment cards held by the 42 million Americans who use the program. In a two-page filing, Justice …
Read More »Supreme Court Conservatives Signal Doubts Over Trump’s Sweeping Tariff Powers
Several of the Supreme Court’s conservative justices appeared skeptical Wednesday that President Donald Trump has the unilateral power to impose far-reaching tariffs, raising the possibility that the court could strike down one of the most consequential parts of his economic agenda. The case marks the biggest legal test yet of …
Read More »Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow National Guard Deployment in Illinois
The Trump administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to immediately allow the deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois, arguing that federal agents conducting immigration enforcement face threats and assaults in the Chicago area. The emergency request follows multiple rulings by lower courts — including the 7th U.S. …
Read More »Supreme Court Revisits Voting Rights Act in Louisiana Redistricting Case
More than a decade after the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act and just two years after it declined to unravel another, the high court on Wednesday will hear a consequential challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map that could further weaken the law’s protections for minority …
Read More »Supreme Court Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s Bid to Overturn Sex Trafficking Conviction
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her 2021 conviction and 20-year prison sentence for aiding Jeffrey Epstein in the sexual exploitation of underage girls, leaving her punishment intact and closing one of the final legal chapters in the decades-long Epstein saga. Maxwell, 63, had …
Read More »Supreme Court to Weigh Ghislaine Maxwell Appeal as Justices Return from Recess
The Supreme Court will meet in private on Monday to consider hundreds of appeals that accumulated over the summer — including a high-profile petition from Ghislaine Maxwell, who is seeking to overturn parts of her conviction for aiding Jeffrey Epstein in recruiting and grooming underage girls. The session, known as …
Read More »Supreme Court Backs Trump Administration in $4 Billion Foreign Aid Dispute
The Supreme Court on Friday handed a major victory to the Trump administration, allowing it to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid funds that Congress had already approved — a move that critics say undermines the constitutional separation of powers and endangers vital humanitarian programs abroad. In a brief, unsigned …
Read More »Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration Immigration Patrols in Los Angeles
The Supreme Court on Monday sided with the Trump administration, temporarily allowing federal immigration agents to resume roving patrols and stops in the Los Angeles region despite a lower-court ruling that restricted the practice. The unsigned order put on hold a July 11 decision by U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah …
Read More »Trump Administration Hit With Wave of Legal Defeats in Federal Courts
After a string of high-profile wins at the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump’s administration suffered one of its toughest weeks yet in the lower courts, as judges across the country blocked key pillars of his domestic agenda and issued sharp rebukes of his use of executive power. In a span …
Read More »Supreme Court Tosses Mexico’s $10 Billion Lawsuit Against U.S. Gun Makers
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously dismissed a landmark lawsuit filed by the Mexican government against American gun manufacturers, dealing a significant blow to efforts to hold gun makers accountable for cross-border violence fueled by illicit firearms. In an opinion authored by Justice Elena Kagan, the court ruled that …
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