No doubt that leftists will scream that the Court has backed the “Christian Nationalists” or make some similar complaint, so it’s hilarious that the case that opens the door for parents to keep their kids from being subjected to alphabet ideology in the schools will forever be known as Mahmoud v Taylor. Mahmoud. That is...
Hawaii and Texas judges, hardest hit. And maybe legal strategists who benefit from forum-shopping as well. In a 6-3 decision released this morning, the Supreme Court put a stop to the practice of district courts issuing nationwide or “universal” injunctions against the executive branch in exercises of its constitutional authority. The case of Trump v...
Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. On Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court ruled to uphold a Tennessee law that bans physicians from providing gender-affirming care to transgender children, a decision that will likely reverberate across the more than two dozen states that have...
In December the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on Gender Affirming Care for minors. The media consensus at the time was that the liberals were in lockstep but the conservatives seemed unlikely to overrule the state’s ban. Today, the Supreme Court released a 6-3 decision in the case written...
Live by the EO … die by the EO. Or so the Supreme Court says today, anyway — to the extent they said much at all. In an unsigned order that seven of the justices backed, the court stayed a district court decision that prevented the Trump administration from revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from...
What happened? Your guess is as good as mine. The Supreme Court isn’t explaining how it got to a 4-4 tie in OK Charter School Board v Drummond, except to remind everyone that Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself. The Supreme Court only offers an explanation of the effect of the 4-4 tie in its...
Did the Supreme Court just execute Humphrey’s Executor? Justice Elena Kagan certainly thinks so. That could put an end to nearly a century of an extra-constitutional “independent” branch of the federal government … with one notable exception, as we’ll see. After a series of defeats over the firing of executive-branch officials in lower courts, the...
Well, the good news keeps rollin’ in. SCOTUS, in a 7-2 decision, has returned Maine state representative Laurel Libby to her rightful place in the state house, representing her constituents. 7-2 decision with Jackson and Sotomayor dissenting. The voice of Rep. Laurel Libby’s constituents has been restored! https://t.co/O8Ht3pvYB9 pic.twitter.com/tEffDnoTJX — The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) May...
The Supreme Court suggested that they had a real desire to address the issues of jurisdiction and national injunctions imposed at the district-court level. The court scheduled what was essentially a snap hearing on the matter, which arose out of challenges to Donald Trump’s executive order redefining and narrowing “birthright citizenship.” Today is the last...
Has the tide turned against the Left — and toward reality? Especially when it comes to biological reality rather than the feelz? Today’s big news from the Supreme Court suggests that momentum is building, at least in the use of executive authority to define policy. Without comment — or much, anyway — the court reinstated the...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. A forthcoming Supreme Court decision is poised to weaken a bedrock law that requires federal agencies to study the potential environmental impacts of major projects. The case, Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, concerns a proposed 88-mile railroad that...
A prince vanquishes a dragon and falls in love. A young girl named Violet works up the courage to give her classmate crush a valentine. Another girl fears she won’t get to see her Uncle Bobby as much after he gets married, but after spending a day with him and his fiancé, she realizes she’s...
More than 50 Venezuelan migrants had been “loaded on to buses, presumably headed to the airport” from Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Trump administration to halt its plans to deport them early Saturday morning. “The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class...
Curious indeed. The Trump administration had petitioned the Supreme Court for stays in three different challenges on Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. The easiest action to take would have been to ignore the requests and let the cases play out, likely well into the next Supreme Court term. Instead, the court decided to...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling with no noted dissents affirming a federal judge’s order compelling President Donald Trump’s administration to enable the stateside return of Kilmar Abrego García, a Salvadoran man wrongfully deported to a notorious prison in his native country. “The rule of law won today,” said Andrew Rossman, one...