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Visitors attending Supreme Court arguments surrender their electronics on entering the courtroom. So if something rings, chimes or buzzes, it's likely the device's owner is dressed in a black robe.
Last year, Justice Anthony Kennedy traveled to the White House, robes and all, and found himself in a familiar spot: the center of attention. The assembled audience was there for the swearing in of Justice Neil Gorsuch, but many eyes were trained on Kennedy, who like no other justice in recent history controls the outcome of the highest profile cases before the court.
President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that the Second Amendment "WILL NEVER BE REPEALED" and called on voters to elect more Republicans in this fall's congressional elections because the GOP "must ALWAYS hold the Supreme Court." Trump's statements came a day after retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in an essay in The New York Times that repealing the amendment would make it easier for Congress to enact gun control legislation.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear arguments in a Maryland case brought by Republican voters who are challenging the way Democratic state officials drew the boundaries of a sprawling congressional district now held by Rep. John Kevin Delaney 2020 Dem contenders travel to key primary states Overnight Tech: FTC nominees promise focus on data breaches AT&T wants antitrust chief to testify in merger trial Experts fear US losing ground to China on AI MORE Republicans in the district claim state officials intentionally and unconstitutionally packed Maryland's 6th Congressional District with Democrats to beat the Republican incumbent, then-Rep. Roscoe Bartlett. The case opens a second front in the war over partisan gerrymandering.
In this Tuesday, April 4, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has already heard, but not decided, a major case about political line-drawing that has the potential to reshape American politics.
In this Tuesday, April 4, 2017, file photo, the Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court has already heard, but not decided, a major case about political line-drawing that has the potential to reshape American politics.
"Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy might retire from the bench as early as this summer, a GOP senator said, and if true, President Trump would be able to nominate a justice who could tilt the nation's highest court well to the right [sic] for the foreseeable future. Kennedy, the 81-year-old swing vote appointed to the court by former President Ronald Reagan, has served on the bench for 29 years.
With the justice holding the decisive vote silent, a divided Supreme Court sparred Monday over a case that could undermine the financial footing of labor unions that represent government workers. The justices heard arguments in a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing government employees to collect fees from workers who choose not to join.
In a case that could weaken the finances and political clout of organized labor, conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday indicated strong support for stopping millions of dollars in fees that non-members are forced to pay annually to unions representing public employees. But the justice whose vote is likely to decide the case, President Donald Trump's appointee Justice Neil Gorsuch, remained silent throughout the one-hour argument.
With the justice holding the decisive vote silent, a divided Supreme Court sparred Monday over a case that could undermine the financial footing of labor unions that represent government workers. The justices heard arguments in a challenge to an Illinois law that allows unions representing government employees to collect fees from workers who choose not to join.
Two years ago, many public sector unions were on a collision course with the Angel of Death. All five Republicans on the Supreme Court appeared ready to cut off a major source of union funding and encourage public employees to become free-riders who enjoy all the benefits of unionization without paying for it.
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Supreme Court on Friday considered whether to take up Trump administration's appeal of an earlier legal ruling against its plan to cancel DACA Earlier this week, US District Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled at federal court in Brooklyn, New York, that DACA program must remain in place The US Supreme Court on Friday discussed in private how to handle President Donald Trump 's appeal of a judge's decision blocking his plan to end protections for young illegal immigrants dubbed 'Dreamers,' and the nine justices could announce as early as Tuesday whether they will take up the case.
Bloomberg : "Kagan and Roberts are part of a quartet of relatively centrist justices, along with Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer, who at times can turn their chemistry into a consensus and avert a sharp divide." "The group will be tested during what could be a divisive stretch starting next week, when the court reconvenes after a month-long recess.
Protesters on both sides of the abortion issue gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Jan. 19, 2018, during the March for Life. The march falls each year around the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether to let states require online retailers to collect billions of dollars in sales tax, taking up South Dakota's dispute with three e-commerce companies. South Dakota, appealing a lower court decision that favored Wayfair Inc., Overstock.com Inc. and Newegg Inc., is asking the justices to overturn a 1992 Supreme Court ruling that companies with no physical presence in a state are not required to collect a state sales tax on purchases.
The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic Wednesday to states that seek to prune their voting rolls by targeting people who haven't voted in a while. The justices heard arguments in a case from Ohio, among a handful of states that use voters' inactivity to trigger a process that could lead to their removal from voter rolls.
"Now we can say with certainty: Every vote counts," declared Ralph Northam , Virginia's Democratic governor-elect, last week. He was referring to the still-disputed contest for the 94th district in Virginia's House of Delegates.
All eyes will be on Congress, rather than the states, if the Supreme Court should rule that subsidies offered on the federal health care exchange are illegal. "States such as Florida and Texas will have the most to lose if the subsidies go away because of their large numbers of people who are getting insurance through the federal exchange and qualify for subsidies," he said.