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The Supreme Court's Trinity decision, in which it decided Trinity Lutheran Church in Missouri deserved equal treatment when it came to federal money for playground surfacing materials, was significant. For one thing, it was a 7-2 decision, giving it a heft that goes beyond the court's normal 5-4 ideological shift.
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.
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.
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.
Could this be the end of out-of-town patent lawyers flocking to Marshall, Texas? They've become known for showing up in luxury cars, ordering catered gourmet meals for their trial war rooms and running up expensive hotel tabs. That's the future some observers predict for the top destination for patent infringement lawsuits after a U.S. Supreme Court decision limited the venues where such suits may be filed.
It is an understatement to say that America is divided. One well-known expert in American history, David Barton, says the state of the country today feels like 1856, five years before the start of the Civil War.
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court held that due process restricts a state court's power to exercise "general" jurisdiction to hear any and all claims against a defendant. General jurisdiction exists only where the defendant is "at home."
Hundreds gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court to show their support for President Obama's immigration executive action as the Court hears oral arguments on the action in Washington, D.C., on April 18, 2016. Good morning and happy Friday, folks.
The state of Hawaii on Thursday night filed a court challenge to the Trump administration's limitations on travelers from six Muslim-majority nations, moments after it went into effect. The state asked a federal judge to clarify that the administration cannot enforce a temporary ban against certain relatives, according to The Hill .
The Latest on the Trump administration's revived travel ban for visitors from six mostly Muslim countries : Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin says he's concerned the Trump administration may be violating the U.S. Supreme Court's travel ban ruling. The travel ban temporarily barring some citizens of six majority-Muslim countries from coming into the United States went into effect Thursday.
Hawaii Attorney General Douglas Chin speaks at a news conference in Honolulu in March. His office has asked a federal court to review the Trump administration's definition of close family, in the context of the travel ban.
Tomas Martinez, with GLAHR, a grass roots organization from Atlanta, chants to excite the crowd in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday, April 18, 2016. Hundreds gathered in front of the U.S. Supreme Court to show their support for President Obama's immigration executive action as the Court hears oral arguments on the deferred action initiatives, DAPA and expanded DACA.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and a 10-state coalition have threatened to sue the federal government over an Obama-era program that protects unauthorized immigrants if the program is not rescinded by September. "We respectfully request that the Secretary of Homeland Security phase out the DACA program," Attorney General Paxton said in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday, using the acronym for the program.
The Latest on the Trump administration's revived travel ban for visitors from six mostly Muslim countries : The U.N. refugee agency says it hopes for a "generous approach" from the United States as the Trump administration adjusts U.S. refugee resettlement policies. Spokesman William Spindler of UNHCR noted the U.S. "tradition of generosity toward those fleeing war and persecution" after the administration set new criteria for visa applicants from six mostly Muslim nations and all refugees.
'God save the United States and this honorable court." Even with all the cynicism in our politics, that prayer is still the traditional announcement of the opening of a session of the highest court in our land.
President Donald Trump's travel ban is in one of the biggest cases of the upcoming October term. That is, if it doesn't disappear--poof!--like an enchanted carriage at midnight.
In 1913, the Second Balkan War broke out as Bulgaria attacked Serbia and Greece, its former allies from the First Balkan War. Here, a Bulgarian field gun is being positioned for the siege of Adrianople, occupied by the Turks, during the Second Balkan War.
Travelers walk near a sign for international arrivals at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Monday, June 26, 2017, in Seattle. The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that President Donald Trump's travel ban on visitors from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen can be enforced if those visitors lack a "credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States," and that justices will hear full arguments in October 2017.
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The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for an official group portrait to include new Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, top row, far right. Seated, from left are, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, and Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.