The Trump administration has tapped Alexander Porter Morse as an authority in its push to upend long-settled law that virtually everyone born in the United States is a citizen.
The justices ruled unanimously Wednesday that Cox Communications bears no liability for the illegal music downloads of its customers.
A ruling is expected by late June, early enough to govern the counting of ballots in the 2026 midterm congressional elections.
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Holly Brady handed down the sentence Tuesday, putting a close to James Snyder’s 10-year-old fight with the government over bribery allegations.
The administration has moved quickly to impose new tariffs, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that that new levies “will result in virtually unchanged tariff revenue in 2026.″
The administration opened a trade investigation to examine whether excess industrial capacity and government backing could give foreign manufacturers an unfair advantage over U.S. companies.
Emergency cases are different from those on the court’s regular docket in part because the justices often don’t explain their rationale for rulings, which usually come before lower courts have fully considered the merits of an issue and made final rulings.
John Kluge argued Brownsburg Community School Corp. violated his religious beliefs after it implemented a policy requiring teachers to call transgender students by their preferred names.
At stake is a federal law that bars people who regularly use marijuana from legally owning guns.
Delivering his State of the Union address Tuesday – with several justices in attendance – Trump criticized the ruling against his sweeping global tariffs as “very unfortunate” and “disappointing.”
Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for a majority of five conservative justices, said the federal law that generally shields the Postal Service from lawsuits over missing, lost and undelivered mail includes “the intentional nondelivery of mail.”
The court agreed to take up a case from Boulder, Colorado – one of multiple lawsuits alleging the companies deceived the public about how fossil fuels contribute to climate change.
But it reveals how Democrats are starting to apply public pressure on a Trump administration that has shown little interest in trying to return tariff revenues after the Supreme Court announced its 6-3 ruling on Friday.
Supreme Court justices are required to recuse themselves from cases in which they own stock in a party in the case.
The justices had previously allowed Texas’ Republican-friendly map to be used in 2026, despite a lower-court ruling that it likely discriminates on the basis of race.
A federal judge said Tuesday that he knows of no U.S. Supreme Court precedent to justify the Pentagon’s censuring of a sitting U.S. senator who joined a videotaped plea for troops to resist unlawful orders from the Trump administration.
The high court ruled 7-2 that Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill. has the legal right to challenge the law, even though the ballots likely had little effect on a race he won handily.
The court’s conservative majority signaled during more than three hours of arguments it would rule the state bans don’t violate either the Constitution or the federal law known as Title IX.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a prosecutor with a history of dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons.
The limits stem from a desire to prevent large donors from skirting caps on individual contributions to a candidate by directing unlimited sums to the party, with the understanding that the money will be spent on behalf of the candidate.