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The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for political parties and joint fundraising committees, at least for now, to receive favorable advertising rates in the upcoming midterm elections. In a four-page, unsigned opinion , the justices temporarily paused a ruling by a federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, th
The Supreme Court will hear a pair of challenges to the constitutionality of bans on AR-15s and other semiautomatic rifles on Dec. 2. The oral arguments in Viramontes v. Cook County , which has been consolidated with Grant v. Higgins , headline the December argument calendar , which was released on Friday afternoon. Ot
It has been just under a month since President Donald Trump issued a new executive order seeking to narrow the availability of birthright citizenship, the current guarantee of citizenship to almost everyone born in the United States. On Wednesday, a federal judge in Maryland temporarily blocked the Trump administration
The Supreme Court on Friday morning once again declined to weigh in on a case brought by New York healthcare workers who were denied a religious accommodation from the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers and lost their jobs when they were not vaccinated. The denial of rehearing in Does 1-2 v. Hochul
Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday blocked Missouri from using a new congressional map, intended to give Republicans an additional seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, in the November elections. In a brief order sent to reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Kavanaugh – who handles emergency appeals from the 8th Circuit
For the second time in three days, the Trump administration on Tuesday came to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to clear the way for it to implement a program that it says is intended to combat election fraud. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the court to pause a ruling by a federal judge in Washington,
A Missouri man on Monday urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a ruling by the Missouri Supreme Court that bars the state from using a new congressional map that could give Republicans an additional seat in the upcoming November elections. Richard von Glahn, one of the organizers of a referendum that would put the
The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Sunday morning, asking the justices to pause a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts that bars the government from implementing parts of a U.S. Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the court that Friday’s order by U.
Telling the justices that “[a] federal-election-administration disaster is unfolding in Missouri,” Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins came to the Supreme Court on Friday night , asking the justices to intervene in a battle over the state’s congressional maps. Hoskins urged the justices to pause a ruling by the M
The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon, asking the justices to temporarily pause an order by a federal judge in Boston that blocks the government from implementing parts of a U.S. Postal Service rule on mail-in ballots. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the court that the o
Four Democratic candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate on Thursday urged the justices to leave in place a ruling by a federal appeals court that limited the availability of preferential advertising rates to candidates for political office. The candidates – former Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio
As the back-to-school spirit sweeps across the nation, education is likely on the minds of the Supreme Court justices ( especially those with kids still at home or in college). The court is preparing for a term that will involve at least one major dispute on religion in schools – and potentially more. Already, the just
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