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Supreme Court Won’t Lower Bar for Immigration Detainees to Sue Government
By Matthew Vadum In a pair of rulings on June 13, the Supreme Court made it harder for those held in immigration detention to bring legal challenges. In Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez, court file 19-896,...
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SCOTUS Seems Likely to Take Up Case That Could Recognize States’ Power to...
By Matthew Vadum News Analysis The Supreme Court seems likely to accept a new election law case that Republicans hope will recognize what they say is the preeminent constitutional authority of state...
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Supreme Court Defies Tax-Hungry Biden Administration, Agrees to Hear Appeal...
By Matthew Vadum The Supreme Court agreed on June 21 to hear an appeal from a Romanian-American businessman who was fined $50,000 for failing to file tax forms on time, but whose penalty ballooned to...
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Supreme Court Rules New York’s Concealed-Carry Gun Law Is Unconstitutional
By Matthew Vadum The Supreme Court voted 6–3 on June 23 to strike down New York state’s draconian concealed-carry gun permitting system on constitutional grounds. The Supreme Court has been...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Roe v. Wade Abortion Precedent
By Matthew Vadum By a vote of 6–3 on June 24, the Supreme Court formally overturned Roe v. Wade, the seminal 1973 precedent which struck down a swath of federal and state laws restricting abortion and...
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Justice Thomas: Supreme Court Should Reconsider Rulings on Same-Sex Marriage,...
By Jack Phillips Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote Friday that the high court should reconsider rulings on contraception, same-sex relationships, and same-sex marriage in a solo concurring...
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SCOTUS to Hear Case That Could Give State Legislatures, Not Judges, Power to...
By Matthew Vadum The Supreme Court decided on June 30 to hear an important new case that Republicans hope will re-empower state legislatures to make rules for redistricting and governing congressional...
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Supreme Court Blocks Subpoena of Sen. Graham
By Zachary Stieber The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 24 blocked a subpoena of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Justice Clarence Thomas, a George H.W. Bush appointee, entered the order. He stayed the subpoena...
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SCOTUS Denies Challenge to Federal Surveillance Program
By Joseph Lord The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has refused to hear a challenge to a federal surveillance program. The program in question, known as “Upstream,” allows the National...
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Conservative Supreme Court Justices Question Legal Authority of Biden...
By Matthew Vadum During oral arguments on Feb. 28, conservative members of the Supreme Court seemed skeptical of Biden administration statements that the government’s plan to partially forgive student...
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Supreme Court Takes Up Wall Street Whistleblower Retaliation Case
By Matthew Vadum The Supreme Court agreed on May 1 to look at a federal investor protection law after a Wall Street whistleblower claimed his former employer fired him for refusing to paint an...
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Supreme Court Intervenes After Gun Rights Advocates Challenge Bans in...
By Katabella Roberts The Supreme Court has requested a further response from city officials in Naperville, Illinois, after they introduced a law restricting gun rights, prompting the National...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Colleges
By Matthew Vadum The Supreme Court has struck down the use of racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges. The decision ends the use of so-called affirmative action in higher...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Program
By Matthew Vadum The Supreme Court voted 6–3 on June 30 to strike down President Joe Biden’s controversial plan to partially forgive student loans. The six conservative justices voted to invalidate the...
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Justice Ketanji Jackson’s Claim in Supreme Court Case Comes Under Fire
By Jack Phillips An attorney who was involved in the Supreme Court’s recent landmark affirmative action case responded to a claim made by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent in which she...
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Supreme Court Justice Responds to Claims That High Court is Getting Political
By Jack Phillips Justice Brett Kavanaugh pushed back this week against claims that Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices are engaged in a partisan war against justices who were appointed by...
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US Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Block Trump in 2024
By Jack Phillips The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take a longshot challenge to former President Donald Trump’s eligibility on New Hampshire’s ballots during the 2024 election. John Anthony...
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Supreme Court Weighs Taking Up Another Major 2nd Amendment Case
By Michael Clements The U.S. Department of Justice wants the U.S. Supreme Court to deny a Pennsylvania man his Second Amendment rights for making false statements to obtain food stamps in 1995 in...
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