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SCOTUS Order Gives Trump Temporary Win on SNAP

Ketanji Brown Jackson answers emergency appeal, blocks court order to fully fund food aid payments

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration's emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown, even though residents in some states already have received the funds. A judge had given the Republican administration until Friday to...

Trump Loses SNAP Appeal, Takes Fight to Supreme Court

States already have begun to distribute full payments

(Newser) - A federal appeals court late Friday denied the Trump administration's appeal to block a judge's order to distribute November's SNAP benefits in full despite the government shutdown. The administration then announced it had filed an emergency application over the issue to the Supreme Court, the New York ...

A Shift? Trump Says Americans 'Paying Something' for Tariffs

But president maintains that they still benefit in the long run

(Newser) - In a back-and-forth with journalists in the Oval Office on Thursday, President Trump made what Reuters sees as a notable shift in semantics about his tariffs—he acknowledged that they were costing Americans to some degree. It came when he was pressed about comments from Chief Justice John Roberts, who...

Attempt to Scrap Gay Marriage Heads to Supreme Court

SCOTUS to consider hearing case from clerk Kim Davis, who refused gay marriage licenses

(Newser) - The Supreme Court is set to consider whether to hear an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015. Davis, who was briefly jailed for defying the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision, is asking the justices to overturn that...

Trump Goes to SCOTUS on Transgender Passport Policy
SCOTUS Hands Trump
a Win on Passport Policy
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SCOTUS Hands Trump a Win on Passport Policy

Court halts judge's order allowing people to request male, female, or X marker

(Newser) - The Supreme Court is allowing President Trump's administration to enforce a policy blocking transgender and nonbinary people from choosing passport markers that align with their gender identity. Thursday's decision is Trump's latest win on the high court's emergency docket, and it means his administration can enforce...

John Mulaney Had His Reasons for SCOTUS Visit

'Cheap seats but a great show,' comedian writes of attending Supreme Court arguments

(Newser) - One of the stranger questions to emerge from Wednesday's high-stakes Supreme Court arguments on President Trump's tariffs: Why was John Mulaney there? Turns out, the comedian sat in the court's press gallery to support a pal and perhaps do some research, per the Hollywood Reporter . One of...

SCOTUS Appears Skeptical of Trump's Tariff Powers

Conservative justices asked sharp questions during Wednesday's hearing

(Newser) - Key Supreme Court conservatives seemed skeptical Wednesday that President Trump has the power to unilaterally impose far-reaching tariffs, potentially putting a key part of his agenda at risk. The administration is trying to defend the tariffs central to Trump's economic agenda after lower courts ruled the emergency law he...

Trump's 'LIFE OR DEATH' Case Goes Before SCOTUS

Justices will hear arguments on Wednesday over Trump's tariffs

(Newser) - The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday over President Trump's sweeping tariffs, putting a tool at the center of his economic and foreign policy agendas squarely before the high court, which the AP reports has thus far been reluctant to check Trump's wide-ranging use of executive powers. What...

SCOTUS Set to Hear Landmark Case on Trump's Tariffs

President says it'll be one of the most important cases in the court's history

(Newser) - The Supreme Court is set to rule on the legality of President Trump's use of emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on nearly all US trading partners—a case that could redefine the limits of presidential authority. The justices, who have often allowed Trump's policies to proceed while...

Why Lethal Injection Persists Despite Its Terrible Track Record

Legal scholar Corrina Lain concludes it 'hides the violence of state killing'

(Newser) - When legal scholar Corrina Lain started researching the death penalty in the US, she thought she knew the question in front of her: "Why are states so breathtakingly bad at lethal injection?" Those answers came quickly. In an interview with Inquest about her book Secrets of the Killing State,...

SCOTUS' Liberals Are Far From United

Outnumbered, they're clashing on strategy: Kagan wants quiet persuasion, Jackson favors public dissent

(Newser) - The Supreme Court's three liberal justices are facing a crisis of strategy and unity as the court's conservative majority continues to reshape American law. Elena Kagan, once the architect of quiet coalition-building, has spent years resisting the urge to publicly rebuke her right-leaning colleagues, reports the New York ...

Trump to SCOTUS: Let Me Fire Copyright Chief

Federal appeals court blocked Perlmutter's dismissal

(Newser) - The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to fire the director of the US Copyright Office. The administration's newest emergency appeal to the high court was filed a month and a half after a federal appeals court in Washington held that the official, Shira...

SCOTUS Sets Date to Consider Marriage Equality Case

Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Kim Davis' case challenging same-sex marriage

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Thursday scheduled a Nov. 7 conference to consider whether to hear the case seeking to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the ruling that guaranteed the right to same-sex marriage in the US, Newsweek reports. The lawyer for Kim Davis, who brought the case, told the magazine that...

UVA Strikes First Deal of Its Kind With Trump Administration

Public university agrees to new federal guidelines, in exchange for seeing admissions probes halted

(Newser) - Facing intense White House scrutiny, the University of Virginia has reached a deal with the Trump administration that pauses federal investigations into its admissions policies, marking the first such agreement between a public university and the current administration. The Justice Department announced the deal on Wednesday, describing it as a...

Judge Extends Block on Troop Deployment in Chicago

Trump administration has already made emergency appeal to Supreme Court

(Newser) - The judge who initially blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Chicago for two weeks on Wednesday extended the restraining order indefinitely. That means, per the AP , troops won't be deploying to the Illinois city any time soon, as the order is now extended until the...

Supreme Court Will Decide if Drug Users Can Own Guns

Trump administration backs federal law under which Hunter Biden was convicted

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has agreed to review a federal law that prohibits frequent users of illegal drugs from owning firearms—the same law under which Hunter Biden was convicted last year before receiving a pardon. This case centers on Ali Daniel Hemani, described as a regular marijuana user, who was...

Effects of Shutdown Reach Supreme Court

Building will be closed to public as funding runs out, while federal courts face furloughs

(Newser) - The Supreme Court announced that its funding is running out this weekend because of the government shutdown. "If new appropriated funds do not become available, the Court will make changes in its operations to comply with the Anti Deficiency Act," spokesperson Patricia McCabe said, referring to the law...

US Citizens Keep Getting Busted in Immigration Raids

ProPublica documents 170 such detentions so far

(Newser) - A ProPublica investigation finds that US immigration agents have detained more than 170 American citizens in the first nine months of President Trump's second term. The federal government does not officially track these incidents, so the outlet compiled the tally from lawsuits, court records, and media reports, adding that...

SCOTUS Signals New Limits on Voting Rights Act

Louisiana redistricting case could lead to new voting maps across the South

(Newser) - The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it may further weaken the Voting Rights Act, as justices heard arguments in a Louisiana redistricting case that could reshape how race can be considered in drawing voting districts.
  • The case centers on whether states can use race at all when redrawing congressional maps
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Supreme Court to Weigh Louisiana Map, Future of Voting Rights

Outcome of high-stakes case could weaken Voting Rights Act

(Newser) - The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday in a high-stakes case over Louisiana's congressional map , a legal battle that could reshape the future of the Voting Rights Act nationwide. The consolidated cases—Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais—center on whether the state legislature's creation...

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