The Latest: Gorsuch encourages tolerance among new citizens

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch encouraged a group of newly naturalized U.S. citizens to tolerate different points of view and respect people with whom they disagree. Gorsuch welcomed the new citizens on Monday following a naturalization ceremony at the 9th Circuit Court's judicial conference in San Francisco.

US Appeals Court Upholds Nondisclosure Rules for Surveillance Orders

A U.S. federal appeals court on Monday upheld nondisclosure rules that allow the FBI to secretly issue surveillance orders for customer data to communications firms, a ruling that dealt a blow to privacy advocates. A unanimous three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco sided with a lower court ruling in finding that rules permitting the FBI to send national security letters under gag orders are appropriate and do not violate the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution's free speech protections.

Next step for Louisiana prison reform is to review life sentences: Opinion

Louisiana lawmakers took a promising first step this summer to address the state's embarrassing distinction as the world leader in incarceration. Though more ambitious proposals to significantly reduce the prison population were abandoned, the state is poised to save millions of dollars in corrections spending and enhance opportunities for people returning home from prison .

DOJ Says Hawaii Court Should Deny Request for Ban Clarity

The Justice Department asked a Honolulu federal judge to deny Hawaii's request for clarification on President Donald Trump's travel ban and said any orders that limit the scope of the ban should be considered first by the U.S Supreme Court. Attorneys for the Trump administration argued that implementation of the travel ban is in accordance with the Supreme Court's June 26 ruling.

Republicans just quietly got some very good Supreme Court news

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for Judge Neil M. Gorsuch on April 10. In a story that was ostensibly about new Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch's voting record, NPR legal affairs reporter Nina Totenberg dropped this tantalizing piece of news about Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's potential retirement : Kennedy may also have thought it best to ensure that there is a full complement of nine justices for at least a year. He could even have been put off by President Trump's tweets about the judiciary.

In matter of citizenship, the Constitution reigns supreme

"All persons born or naturalized in the United Statesa are citizens of the United Statesa " 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution There are many Americans that do not believe in the Constitution of the United States and the 14th Amendment particularly draws their disdain. For more than a century-and-a-half these people have convinced congress to withhold or cancel citizenship or to deport people for little reason.

‘Repeal and replace’? Try ‘tweak and move on’

Two Junes ago, when the Supreme Court upheld, 6-3, a challenged provision of the Affordable Care Act, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, vented: "Congress wrote key parts of the act behind closed doors. ... Congress passed much of the act using a complicated budgetary procedure known as 'reconciliation,' which limited opportunities for debate and amendment, and bypassed the Senate's normal 60-vote filibuster requirement.

Justice Gorsuch Delivers

Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, has had a rough couple of weeks. Yet, however many setbacks he might suffer over health care reform or other parts of the Republican agenda, he knows he has already won the biggest fight of all: the theft of a Supreme Court seat from President Obama, the installation of Justice Neil Gorsuch and the preservation of the court's conservative majority for years to come.

Justice Neil Gorsuch Votes 100 Percent Of The Time With Most Conservative Colleague

By now, we can probably say that Justice Anthony Kennedy is not retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court. The word "probably" is apt because nothing is certain about the plans of this or any other Supreme Court justice when it comes to ending his or her service on the nation's highest court.