Companies seek refunds from tariffs as Supreme Court decision looms
At issue in the pair of combined cases before the Supreme Court is whether the president exceeded his authority by relying on a 1977 law to impose the tariffs.
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1935 case involving Wabash College grad back in U.S. Supreme Court spotlight
For 90 years, a U.S. Supreme Court decision centered on the disputed firing of a Hoosier-born Federal Trade Commission member has protected the leaders of independent federal agencies from being dismissed by the president without cause. But that could change.
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Will U.S. Supreme Court hear request to overturn landmark decision on same-sex marriage?
Indiana attorneys hold mixed views on whether the court will agree to review the decision that legalized same-sex marriage, but at least one lawyer said he believes it’s possible the case will be heard this fall.
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Notre Dame students helped prepare oral arguments for SCOTUS case
The students worked on the arguments as part of the university’s Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic.
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Biden pushes to reform the nation’s highest court
President Joe Biden’s ambitious list of proposed reforms for the nation’s highest court has some constitutional law and ethics experts saying it will never happen.
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Abortion opponents coming before the Supreme Court in challenge to state investigation
The facilities often known as “crisis pregnancy centers” have been on the rise in the U.S., especially since the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned abortion as a nationwide right in 2022.
Supreme Court meets to weigh Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions, blocked by lower courts
The justices could say as soon as Monday whether they will hear Trump’s appeal of lower court rulings that have uniformly struck down the citizenship restrictions. They have not taken effect anywhere in the United States.
Supreme Court extends pause on order requiring full SNAP payments
The legal issue over the funding could be rendered moot soon if a deal advancing on Capitol Hill to end the shutdown is adopted. That measure—which has passed the Senate, with the House expected to vote as soon as Wednesday—would fund SNAP through September.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The justices, without comment, turned away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the high court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Trump administration demands states ‘undo’ full SNAP payouts
The demand from the U.S. Department of Agriculture came as more than two dozen states warned of “catastrophic operational disruptions” if the Trump administration does not reimburse them.
Supreme Court lets Trump block transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport sex markers
The decision is Trump’s latest win on the court’s emergency docket, and allows the administration to enforce the policy while a lawsuit over it plays out.
Supreme Court weighs longshot appeal to overturn decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The case involves Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges.
Conservative Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Trump’s sweeping unilateral tariffs
The Republican administration is trying to defend the tariffs central to Trump’s economic agenda after lower courts ruled the emergency law he invoked doesn’t give him near-limitless power to set and change duties on imports.
Supreme Court weighs Trump tariffs in a trillion-dollar test of executive power
The Constitution says Congress has the power to levy tariffs. But the Trump administration argues that in emergency situations the president can regulate importation taxes like tariffs.
A major question for the Supreme Court: Will it treat Trump as it did Biden?
Key legal principles at the heart of conservative challenges to major initiatives in the Biden years are driving the arguments in the fight against Trump’s tariffs, which is set for arguments at the high court on Wednesday.
Will logistics and the courts stand in the way of Indiana’s redistricting efforts?
The goal for President Donald Trump and his allies is for Republican supermajorities in Indiana to redraw the state’s maps to buoy Republicans’ chances of keeping control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections.
How a 2018 Supreme Court decision paved the way for meteoric growth in legal sports betting
The court’s ruling struck down a 1992 federal law, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, that had barred betting on football, basketball, baseball and other sports in most states.
Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns
The Supreme Court said on Monday that it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights.
U.S. Supreme Court seems inclined to limit race-based electoral districts under the Voting Rights Act
A ruling for Louisiana could open the door for legislatures to redraw congressional maps across the South, potentially boosting Republican electoral prospects by eliminating majority Black and Latino districts that tend to favor Democrats.
Supreme Court takes up GOP-led challenge to Voting Rights Act that could affect control of Congress
The Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, the centerpiece legislation of the civil rights movement, could gut a key provision of the law that prohibits racial discrimination in redistricting.
Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’ appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as a hoax staged by crisis actors.
Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation
A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.
Supreme Court seems skeptical about state bans on ‘conversion therapy’ for LGBTQ+ kids
A majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed likely to side with a Christian counselor challenging bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights.
ACLU says ICE is unlawfully punishing immigrants at a notorious Louisiana detention center
The immigration detainees sent to a notorious Louisiana prison last month are being punished for crimes for which they have already served time, the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday in a lawsuit challenging the government’s decision to hold what it calls the “worst of the worst” there.