Topline Former President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to stop a House committee from viewing his tax returns in a Monday afternoon court filing, a last-resort attempt to block Congress from re...
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Supreme Court Justices Signal Willingness To End Affirmative Action
Topline The Supreme Court appears poised to outlaw affirmative action policies that take race into account in university admissions, as the court’s conservative justices signaled during oral arguments...
Do In-House Attorneys Talk ‘Two’ Much? – SCOTUS Will Decide
When in-house counsel gives legal advice mixed with business advice, their two roles open themselves up to potentially discoverable communications. Although, at least in the United States, in-house at...
Group Asks Supreme Court To Halt Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
Topline A Wisconsin taxpayers association asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to block the White House’s student loan forgiveness program before funds start rolling out to borrowers later this month, on...
Supreme Court Won’t Consider Rights For U.S. Territory Citizens—Even After Neil Gorsuch Slammed Its Racist Precedents
Topline The Supreme Court will not consider whether citizens of U.S. territories like American Samoa will have full constitutional rights, as the court declined Monday to hear a case that could have o...
Supreme Court Needs To Close Loophole That Lets New York Cops Seize Guns Without Warrants
Thanks to a little-known loophole, lower federal courts have regularly written the government a blank check to search homes and seize firearms from lawful gun owners without a warrant. One of those ow...
Supreme Court Rules Against Trump On Mar-A-Lago Classified Documents
Topline The Supreme Court ruled against former President Donald Trump Thursday, refusing to grant his request that a third-party special master be allowed to review classified materials found at Mar-A...
Trump Asks Supreme Court To Rule On Mar-A-Lago Special Master
Topline Former President Donald Trump’s legal battle over a special master’s review of documents seized from Mar-A-Lago has now reached the Supreme Court, as the ex-president asked the high court Tues...
Supreme Court Vague Over Whether To Cut Voting Rights Act — But Ketanji Brown Jackson Made It Clear She Was Opposed
Topline The conservative-leaning Supreme Court gave few clues Tuesday whether they would soon deal a blow to the Voting Rights Act and its protections against racially discriminatory congressional map...
Supreme Court’s Inaction On Labor-Law Class Actions Instigates Flight Of Airline Attendants’ Base From California
DALLAS, TEXAS – DECEMBER 8, 2018: American Airlines passenger jets parked at their gates on a rainy … [+] morning at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport which serves the Dallas/Fort Wo...
Cops Taking Property From The Innocent Is “Legitimate,” South Carolina Supreme Court Rules
In a major blow against government accountability, the South Carolina Supreme Court last week upheld the state’s civil forfeiture laws, which let police permanently confiscate cash, cars, and even hom...
With Just Five Words, Congress Can Rein In IRS And Other Federal Agents
Under the Inflation Reduction Act, the IRS will receive a staggering $45.6 billion to bolster “tax enforcement.” That means substantially more manpower for criminal prosecutions, civil judgments, and ...
Veterans Affairs To Start Providing Abortions, Including In States Where It’s Banned
Topline The Department of Veterans Affairs will start providing abortions to U.S. veterans and family members in cases of rape, incest and in instances when a mother’s health is at risk “regardless of...
Ginni Thomas—Wife Of Supreme Court Justice—Reportedly Pressured Wisconsin Lawmakers To Overturn 2020 Election
Topline Conservative activist Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, emailed lawmakers in Wisconsin urging them to challenge the state’s 2020 presidential election results, the W...
Biden Will Issue Second Executive Order To Protect Abortion Rights
Topline President Joe Biden on Wednesday outlined an executive order to protect access to abortions—his second such order since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade—in a move that primarily seeks ...
More Than Two-Thirds Of Americans Want Term Limits For Supreme Court Justices, Poll Finds
Topline More than two-thirds of Americans believe Supreme Court justices should be subject to term limits or a set retirement age, according to a new AP-NORC poll which also highlights the growing dis...
Ohio Man Indicted For Raping 9-Year-Old Who Was Forced To Travel To Indiana For Abortion
Topline An Ohio grand jury indicted Gerson Fuentes on two counts of rape on Friday, for allegedly assaulting and impregnating a 9-year-old girl, who was forced by the state’s ban on abortion to travel...
Supreme Court Declines To Restore Biden’s Curbs On ICE Arrests—For Now
Topline The Supreme Court on Thursday chose not to remove a lower court block on a Biden Administration policy that narrowed down the types of people Immigration and Customs Enforcement can target for...
Democratic Lawmakers Arrested By Capitol Police At Abortion Rights Rally
Topline Over a dozen Democratic members of Congress were arrested in front of the Supreme Court on Tuesday during an abortion rights protest, marking the latest demonstration since the high court over...
House Will Vote On Protecting Same-Sex Marriages In Light Of Supreme Court Ruling
Topline House lawmakers introduced legislation Monday that would enshrine some protections for same-sex marriage and interracial marriage in federal law—which they plan to vote on later this week—as m...
The Supreme Court’s Reliance On “historical Analysis” To End Abortion Rights And Curb Gun Control This Term Could Overturn Other Landmark Precedents, Perhaps Even Brown V. Board
Heading into oral arguments in Brown v. Board, Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights icon arguing for the integration of southern schools, feared the legislative history surrounding the case. Though he ...
The House Bill Friday For Travel Between States For Abortion Recalls Venerable Supreme Court Precedent
Reuters reported late today: “The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed legislation to safeguard the right to travel across state lines to seek an abortion after several states banned the pro...
Biden Weighs Public Health Emergency For Abortion Access—Here’s What That Means
Topline President Joe Biden said Sunday he has asked his staff to see if he “has the authority” to declare a public health emergency to address abortion access, a move that could release additional fu...
Roe v. Wade Reversal’s Implications For Hollywood
Contributing Author: Bryan Sullivan Demonstrators march along the Hollywood Blvd. during a protest against the Supreme Court’s … [+] overturning of the Roe vs. Wade abortion-rights ruling ...
Supreme Court Creates New Immunity For Cops Who Violate The Fifth Amendment
In a decision that undermines almost 60 years of precedent, the U.S. Supreme Court last month declared that police officers who don’t issue Miranda warnings before interrogations can’t be sued for vio...
Halsey Is Latest Celebrity To Share Abortion Story In Wake Of Dobbs’ Ruling
Topline After the Supreme Court repealed the constitutional right to an abortion last month, a growing number of celebrities have spoken out in protest of the ruling about abortions they’ve had, inclu...