Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Is Delaying Arguments Again — Why Don’t They Just Do A Videoconference Like The Rest Of Us?
One group is launching an ad campaign urging the justices to hold arguments over releasing President Donald Trump’s financial records via teleconference.
Dominic Holden
The Supreme Court Is Allowing The Trump Administration To Force Immigrants To Wait In Mexico
The high court voted to allow the “Remain in Mexico” policy — which forces asylum-seekers to wait on the other side of the border while their US cases are reviewed — as a legal challenge continues.
Hamed Aleaziz
The National Right To Abortion Is Facing An Intense Threat. This Group Has Been Preparing For This Fight For Decades.
The Center for Reproductive Rights will argue in the first major Supreme Court case over abortion in the Trump era, which could gut Roe v. Wade.
Ema O'Connor
The Supreme Court Will Leave The Gun Bump Stocks Ban In Place
The Justice Department banned bump stocks after they were used in the 2017 killing of 58 people in Las Vegas.
Dominic Holden
The Supreme Court Will Consider Whether Adoption Agencies That Get Tax Money Can Turn Away Same-Sex Couples
A Catholic child welfare organization in Philadelphia wants to turn away same-sex parents while relying on public funding.
Dominic Holden
Opinion: Let The Women Of Louisiana Make Our Own Decisions About Abortion
I know from personal experience that it’s already very hard to get an abortion in Louisiana. The Supreme Court could make things even worse.
Jasmine Rivers
The Supreme Court Is Allowing The Trump Administration To Deny Green Cards To Immigrants Who Might Use Public Benefits
The government will now be able to deny permanent residency to immigrants who officials believe are likely to use public benefits, such as food stamps and Medicaid.
Hamed Aleaziz
The Supreme Court Won’t Hear The Case Of Michelle Carter, Who Encouraged Her Boyfriend To Kill Himself Over Text Messages
Carter's lawyers argued her conviction was “unprecedented” and violated her First Amendment right to free speech and her Fifth Amendment right to due process.
Tasneem Nashrulla
More Than 200 Members Of Congress Asked The Supreme Court To Consider Overturning Roe V. Wade
The members, including two Democrats, wrote in a brief that the national right to abortion is unworkable ahead of a major abortion rights case.
Ema O'Connor
The Last Decade Was Disastrous For Abortion Rights. Advocates Are Trying To Figure Out What’s Next.
This year, the battle over abortion rights reached a fever pitch. That’s what this entire decade was building toward.
Ema O'Connor
The Supreme Court Handed Trump Another Temporary Win In His Effort To Hide Financial Records
After Trump lost in lower courts, the Supreme Court is stepping in to hear his appeal in three major cases.
Dominic Holden
Opinion: Sarah Pitlyk Isn't Qualified To Be A Federal Judge. That's Why Republicans Made Her One.
Only one qualification matters for today's Republicans, and it has nothing to do with your legal experience.
Anisha Singh
The Supreme Court Said Trump’s Financial Records Can Stay Hidden For Now
Two lower courts had ordered the president’s accounting firm to hand over his financial records to the House, but the Supreme Court put that on hold while it considers the case.
Dominic Holden
Federal Workers Are “Afraid” After Trump’s Anti-LGBTQ Crusade At The Supreme Court
LGBTQ workers at the Justice Department fear they’ll get fired, they said in a recent letter to Attorney General Bill Barr.
Dominic Holden
Conservative Supreme Court Justices Appeared To Side With Trump's Decision To End DACA
About 700,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children could face deportation if DACA is rescinded.
Adolfo Flores
News Podcast: Kavanaugh's Hearings And France's Anti-Vaxxers
News podcast about the Supreme Court nomination hearings, measles outbreaks in Europe, and fake news this week.
Alex Laughlin
Laverne Cox Wants People To Rally At The Supreme Court As It Hears A Major Sex Discrimination Case
"This will be the first time the Supreme Court is hearing any case about transgender civil rights, the first time, ever."
Michael Blackmon
The Supreme Court Will Take Up A Major Abortion Rights Case
The Louisiana law the court will review requires abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges. Opponents say it could result in nearly all of the state's clinics closing.
Ema O'Connor
Cabinet Ministers Are Privately Threatening A Radical Overhaul Of The Courts After The Supreme Court Brexit Judgment
Publicly, ministers are saying they respect the decision of the judges. Behind the scenes, they are threatening politically appointed judges, a written constitution, and the scrapping of the Human Rights Act.
Alex Wickham
Labour Will Try To Force Boris Johnson To Publish The Legal Advice On Suspending Parliament
Shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer told BuzzFeed News the party would use a humble address motion to secure the advice if the attorney general refuses to release it.
Alex Wickham
The Supreme Court Has Ruled Boris Johnson's Suspension Of Parliament Was Unlawful
The judgment is the most constitutionally significant in recent history — and a massive blow to the authority of the prime minister.
Hannah Al-Othman
Democrats In Congress Are Throwing Cold Water On Calls To Impeach Brett Kavanaugh
Congressional Democrats are planning to grill the FBI over its investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations against the Supreme Court justice, but are not moving toward impeachment.
Paul McLeod
Democrats Call For Kavanaugh Impeachment After New Report On Sexual Misconduct Allegations
A new book is providing details on the investigation into Justice Brett Kavanaugh's conduct during college as well as a new allegation.
Lam Thuy Vo
Republicans Have Been Winning On Judges For Decades. Democrats Have Barely Talked About It.
Trump made the courts a major voting issue for Republicans in 2016. Liberal legal advocacy groups and court watchdogs are divided on how to make that happen for Democrats in 2020.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Will Allow Trump To Enforce His Virtual Ban On Asylum At The Southern Border
Hundreds of thousands of Central Americans and others were expected to be affected by the restrictions.
Hamed Aleaziz
A Judge Blocked Missouri’s 8-Week Abortion Ban A Day Before It Was Going To Take Effect
The judge also ruled Missouri could enforce a ban on abortions solely based on gender, race, or Down syndrome diagnosis for now, but said he expected that ban to be struck down eventually.
Zoe Tillman
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Was Treated For Pancreatic Cancer This Summer
"The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body," a spokesperson for the court said.
Julia Reinstein
The Supreme Court Will Review Trump’s Decision To End DACA
Trump announced in 2017 he’d wind down the program, which has provided temporary protection against deportation for more than 700,000 young, undocumented immigrants.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Ruled The Trump Administration Cannot Put A Citizenship Question On The 2020 Census — For Now
Immigrant and civil rights groups warned that a citizenship question would scare off immigrant communities from participating in the decennial count.
Zoe Tillman
The Supreme Court Said Federal Courts Can’t Decide Partisan Gerrymandering Cases
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the 5–4 majority, and argued that while “excessive partisanship” in drawing voter maps can lead “to results that reasonably seem unjust,” it’s not up to the courts to fix it.
Zoe Tillman
