IndyBar to host US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday
Since President Donald Trump took office, Jackson has become known for her blistering dissents as a member of the court’s liberal minority.
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Supreme Court clears the way for Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce
The justices overrode lower court orders that temporarily froze the cuts, which have been led by the Department of Government Efficiency.
Supreme Court upholds Texas law blocking kids from online porn, reinforcing similar Indiana measure
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.
Supreme Court preserves key part of Obamacare coverage requirements
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.
Supreme Court says parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ books
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.
Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear
The outcome was a victory for the Republican president, who has complained about individual judges throwing up obstacles to his agenda.
Supreme Court meets Friday to decide 6 remaining cases, including birthright citizenship
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.
Supreme Court rejects toy company’s push for a quick decision on Trump’s tariffs
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.
Supreme Court work goes on with 16 cases to decide, including birthright citizenship
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.
Supreme Court upholds ban on gender-affirming care for minors, reinforcing similar Indiana law
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.
Toy company challenges Trump’s tariffs before the Supreme Court in long shot bid for quick decision
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.
Supreme Court makes it easier to claim ‘reverse discrimination’ in employment, in a case from Ohio
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.
Trump asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for federal downsizing plans
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.
What cases are left on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket? Here’s a look
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.
Supreme Court declines to reinstate independent agency board members fired by President Donald Trump
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.
Notre Dame connection may have led to Supreme Court deadlock in religious charter school case
Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself, possibly because of her connection to a Notre Dame law professor who advised the religious entity trying to establish the charter school.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block watchdog access to DOGE documents
The Justice Department’s latest emergency appeal to the high court concerns whether DOGE is a federal agency that is subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
Supreme Court allows Trump to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans who risk deportation
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation.
What to know about the Supreme Court arguments in the birthright citizenship case
Before the court are the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders putting nationwide holds on the Republican president’s push to deny citizenship to children born to people who are in the United States illegally.
A pregnant Cuban emigre worries about her baby’s citizenship as Supreme Court weighs a Trump order
The 35-year-old woman lives in Kentucky, which is not among the 22 states that sued to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order that would deny citizenship to children who are born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.