The students worked on the arguments as part of the university’s Lindsay and Matt Moroun Religious Liberty Clinic.
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President Donald Trump has directed federal agencies to find ways to make it easier to forcibly hospitalize homeless people with mental illness and addiction for longer periods.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to cut hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to roll back federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to put his plan to dismantle the Education Department back on track—and to go through with laying off nearly 1,400 employees.
Jackson, increasingly known for her fiery dissents on the U.S. Supreme Court, explained that she feels compelled to include additional thoughts in her written opinions when a particular issue is important to her.
Since President Donald Trump took office, Jackson has become known for her blistering dissents as a member of the court’s liberal minority.
The justices overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency.
The 6-3 ruling comes after an adult-entertainment industry trade group called the Free Speech Coalition challenged the Texas law. The court split along ideological lines.
The decision overturns a ruling by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. which sided with the Christian employers who argued they can’t be forced to provide full insurance coverage for things like medication to prevent HIV and some cancer screenings.
The high court ruled that the schools likely could not require elementary school children to sit through lessons involving the books if parents expressed religious objections to the material.
The outcome was a victory for the Republican president, who has complained about individual judges throwing up obstacles to his agenda.
The Supreme Court is meeting Friday to decide the final six cases of its term, including President Donald Trump’s bid to enforce his executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who are in the country illegally.
The justices didn’t explain their reasoning in the brief order rebuffing the motion to fast-track the issue, but the Supreme Court is typically reluctant to take up cases before lower courts have decided.
The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government.
The justices’ 6-3 decision in a case from Tennessee effectively protects many efforts by President Donald Trump’s Republican administration and state governments to roll back protections for transgender people.
Learning Resources Inc. filed an appeal asking the Supreme Court to take up the case soon rather than let it continue to play out in lower courts.
The justices’ decision affects lawsuits in 20 states and the District of Columbia where, until now, courts had set a higher bar when members of a majority group sue for discrimination under federal law.
President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to downsize the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities proceeds.
Trump administration lawyers have filed emergency appeals with the nation’s highest court a little less than once a week on average since Trump began his second term.
It also suggested it could block an attempt to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who Trump has complained has not cut interest rates aggressively.