Supreme Court Shockingly Sides With Biden on Texas Standoff With Feds

The nation’s highest court ruled on Monday that federal agents could snip or move razor wire Texas agents placed along the Rio Grande section of the U.S.-Mexico border, siding with the federal government and President Joe Biden that Texas had Continue reading Supreme Court Shockingly Sides With Biden on Texas Standoff With Feds

The Supreme Court Sounds Eager to Break the Government for Good

“Textualism means you are governed by the text,” the doctrine’s chief proponent, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, explained in 2012. “Not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that.” To Scalia, the legislative Continue reading The Supreme Court Sounds Eager to Break the Government for Good

Will the Supreme Court Finish Trump’s War Against Regulation?

Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo addresses the difficulty of killing regulations by handing the job over to judges. It invites the Supreme Court to reverse its 1984 ruling in Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council. That decision created what’s Continue reading Will the Supreme Court Finish Trump’s War Against Regulation?

Trump Asks Supreme Court Not to Consider That Thing He Said, Please

“Drugs, criminals, gang members, and terrorists are pouring into our country at record levels. We’ve never seen anything like it. They’re taking over our cities,” Trump said Sunday. He then promised to “shift massive portions of federal law enforcement to Continue reading Trump Asks Supreme Court Not to Consider That Thing He Said, Please

America’s Most Corrupt Mayors Have a Friend in the Supreme Court

Indeed, if there’s one area of the law where the justices appear to be in ideological lockstep, it’s in making it harder for federal prosecutors to bring corruption charges against public officials and their private backers. Just last term, the Continue reading America’s Most Corrupt Mayors Have a Friend in the Supreme Court

How a Supreme Court Leak Helped Conservative Justices Unite to Overturn Roe

The report also depicts an effort by Alito to force the other conservative justices to help him overturn Roe after Ginsburg passed—including by secretly sharing a draft opinion with conservative allies. Once Alito circulated his draft opinion amongst the members Continue reading How a Supreme Court Leak Helped Conservative Justices Unite to Overturn Roe

The Abortion Pill Might Just Stand a Chance at the Supreme Court

The Justice Department, for its part, rejected AHM’s claims that it had any reasonable grounds for standing in this case. “To describe those theories is to refute them,” the government said in its petition for review, quoting from major Supreme Continue reading The Abortion Pill Might Just Stand a Chance at the Supreme Court

Vulnerable Republicans Are Worried About the Supreme Court’s Next Abortion Case

Some Republicans are coming down hard on the Supreme Court for taking up a case on Wednesday that would challenge the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill, fearing that a ban could create another vulnerability in GOP-held swing districts. At Continue reading Vulnerable Republicans Are Worried About the Supreme Court’s Next Abortion Case

Supreme Court Takes Up Biggest Abortion Case Since It Overturned Roe

It may be a supernova blast in the limelight for America’s disgraced mayor, whose star is quickly dying amid a flurry of legal charges that have all but bankrupted him. After this expensive trial, Giuliani will be one of 19 Continue reading Supreme Court Takes Up Biggest Abortion Case Since It Overturned Roe

The Supreme Court Just Got Dragged Into the Trump Trials

Trump also argued that he is immune from January 6-related prosecutions based on the Constitution’s text for the impeachment process. One provision describes the punishments that Congress can levy upon a person if it impeaches and convicts them: “Judgment in Continue reading The Supreme Court Just Got Dragged Into the Trump Trials