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Judge Seth Aframe wrote that the government's reading of the law 'would deny access to that protection to a substantial swath of noncitizens.' DHS general counsel James Percival said the policy stays in force because the ruling has not taken effect, and the case is expected to go back to the Supreme Court.
The attorney general said the Supreme Court's mail-ballot ruling changes nothing about the DOJ's election work, citing 11 illegal-voting charges in ten days. 'We're prosecutors, not regulators,' he said of AI.
WatchAn unsigned, one-paragraph order Monday left in place a Massachusetts judge's injunction against the USPS rule born of Trump's March executive order. Twenty-three states and D.C. had sued, and Justice Kavanaugh wrote that election officials 'do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.'
WatchU.S. District Judge Carl Nichols wrote that the rule's key portions 'exceed any conception of the outer bounds' of the Postal Service's authority. It is the second injunction in eight days against a regulation whose voter portal still does not work.
The unsigned order, with no noted dissents, sends Missouri into November on its 2022 lines and saves Emanuel Cleaver's seat for now.
An unsigned order Friday froze a Fourth Circuit ruling that had stripped party committees of the cheapest political ad rates. Republican committees say broadcasters had already started pulling the discounts.
The state's own Supreme Court threw the map out and ordered a referendum. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway called that a constitutional crisis and went straight to Washington.
The justices stayed a Fourth Circuit ruling that had blocked political parties from buying broadcast time at the discounted rate reserved for candidates. Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only noted dissent.
The court ruled that a congressional redistricting bill is an 'act' of the legislature like any other, so it can be put to a referendum. The 2020-census map stays in force for the midterms.
The emergency application landed Thursday afternoon, one day before midterm ballots begin going out. The challengers have until 10 a.m. Tuesday to respond.
Andy Biggs's constitutional amendment needed a two-thirds majority. Democrats argued Congress has changed the court's size seven times since 1789 and should keep the power to do it again.
A court filing shows the Treasury has refunded about 60% of the duties the Supreme Court struck down in February — almost all of it to corporate importers, not households.
A letter from deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, dated Aug. 5, is the administration's attempt to satisfy the due-process requirement the Supreme Court imposed when it blocked the Fed governor's removal in June.
WatchOne order targets commercial "birth tourism." The other expands the list of babies the administration says the 14th Amendment never covered. The ACLU says both will die the same way the last one did.
A deep-red state rejected a GOP-backed constitutional amendment by 24 points after $12.8 million, much of it dark money, was spent on the fight over a 68-year-old selection system.
Palestinian officials argued the payout would destabilize government services in the West Bank. The case dates to attacks in Jerusalem in the early 2000s that killed 33 people.
The Metropolitan Police said most were detained for expressing support for a proscribed organization. More than 3,000 people have been arrested since the ban took effect, and the Supreme Court has now agreed to hear a challenge.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer wants the justices to lift a Massachusetts judge's injunction covering 23 states and D.C. An appeals court warned the order 'would sow confusion and threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters.'
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris put the termination of South Sudan's Temporary Protected Status on hold weeks after the Supreme Court told lower courts to stay out of TPS decisions.
The 3rd Circuit's 10-5 en banc decision is the first time a federal appeals court has voided a state ban on semiautomatic rifles, opening a split with a court that upheld Illinois' ban days earlier.
A divided Seventh Circuit ruled the state's ban on semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines is consistent with the nation's history of firearm regulation, reversing a lower court as the issue barrels toward the justices.
In a rare Capitol Hill appearance, two Supreme Court justices pressed lawmakers for a nearly 10% budget increase, citing a sharp rise in threats against the federal judiciary.
For the first time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition says it will not comply with a court ruling, prompting all of Israel's living former chief justices to warn of the end of the rule of law.
A bench led by Justice Vikram Nath set aside Gauhati High Court orders and sent the citizenship cases back to tribunals, holding that declaring someone a foreigner must follow a 'fair, lawful and reasonable' process.
WatchDays after the justices ruled 6-3 that his order defied the 14th Amendment, the president said his lawyers will 'immediately' petition for a rehearing, a maneuver the court has not granted in a decided case in six decades.
The Supreme Court dismissed all appeals Thursday, finalizing a seven-year prison term for former President Yoon Suk Yeol for obstructing his own arrest and falsifying the martial-law decree he sprang on the nation in December 2024.
In an unsigned order with no noted dissents, the justices refused to block Texas's App Store Accountability Act, the first law of its kind requiring age checks and parental consent before minors can download apps.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion striking down Trump's executive order, joined by two conservatives and the court's three liberals.
A federal appeals court refused to block the payout from the 2023 jury verdict that found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer.
The justices affirmed that children born on U.S. soil are citizens regardless of their parents' status — a decision researchers say protects a group projected to add trillions to the economy.
The annual financial reports show the justices' outside income is driven largely by book deals, while only two members reported gifts and Chief Justice John Roberts reported none at all.
The justices took up challenges to assault-weapons bans in Illinois and Connecticut — the first time the court will directly rule on the constitutionality of such laws.
An Arizona case headed to the justices in October could reshape a decades-old protection that bans systematic voter removals within 90 days of a federal election.
Writing for the majority in NRSC v. FEC, Justice Kavanaugh said decades-old caps on coordinated party expenditures violate the First Amendment — unleashing party money months before the midterms.
The justices ruled that laws in West Virginia and Idaho barring transgender girls from female teams violate neither Title IX nor the Constitution.
WatchIn a 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter, the justices erased a 1935 precedent that had shielded agency commissioners from at-will removal — though they pointedly carved out the Federal Reserve.
WatchChief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in Trump v. Barbara, affirming that nearly every child born on U.S. soil is a citizen and striking down the president's day-one executive order.
The justices ruled that federal pesticide law shields Monsanto from state failure-to-warn claims, a landmark win that could wipe out tens of thousands of pending cases.
In a 6-3 decision written by Justice Samuel Alito, the court held that border officers need not have 'clear and convincing evidence' of a crime to bar lawful permanent residents — one of two immigration wins handed to the Trump administration in a single morning.
WatchThe conservative majority revived the contested "metering" policy, letting agents block migrants who have not yet set foot on U.S. soil, in one of two major immigration wins for the administration.
WatchThe justices ruled the president has near-unfettered power to end Temporary Protected Status, stripping deportation shields from more than 350,000 people with ripples for over a million more.
In Wolford v. Lopez, the justices voided a Hawaii measure that required concealed-carry permit holders to get an owner's permission before bringing firearms onto private property open to the public.
In a 6-3 order, the justices paused a ruling that had blocked Alabama's congressional map, clearing the state to use districts favoring Republicans in the 2026 midterms.
In United States v. Hemani, the justices ruled that occasional drug users cannot be automatically stripped of their Second Amendment rights, while leaving the broader federal statute intact.
With about 23 decisions left before its summer recess, the justices are poised to issue rulings that could reshape citizenship, voting and civil rights.
WatchIn a 6-3 ruling, the justices let Alabama deploy a congressional map with only one majority-Black district for the 2026 midterms, likely costing Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures his seat.
The justices' unsigned emergency order lets Alabama use a map a lower court found intentionally diluted Black votes, drawing a sharp dissent from the court's three liberals.
The justices have roughly a dozen blockbuster decisions left before their summer recess, from Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship to fights over mail ballots, the Fed's independence and transgender athletes.
In an unsigned order, the justices paused a lower court's injunction, clearing the way for Alabama to vote under a congressional map that a three-judge panel found was tainted by intentional discrimination.
Telecommunications giants fail to overturn federal penalties for selling customer location information to third parties.
In a closely watched habeas decision, the justices faulted a federal appeals court for relying on after-the-fact DNA evidence, drawing a sharp dissent from Justices Thomas and Alito as the term enters its final, blockbuster weeks.
As the term winds down at the end of June, the justices still must decide cases on birthright citizenship, transgender athletes and the Second Amendment after striking down Trump's global tariffs earlier this year.
Florida officials had asked justices to hear lawsuit accusing California and Washington of improperly granting licenses to immigrant involved in fatal crash.
President Trump alternates between bullying and courting the justices as the court prepares major decisions that will shape his agenda.
Eighteen members of Congress, faith leaders and union organizers walked the Edmund Pettus Bridge in one of the South's largest voting-rights mobilizations in years, responding to the Supreme Court's April ruling that gutted protections for Black-majority districts.
Justices reject appeals court ruling that would have restricted mifepristone distribution while litigation continues.
The first wave of refunds are flowing to businesses after the Supreme Court ruled some of President Trump's tariffs unconstitutional.
State attorney general urges justices to overturn Virginia Supreme Court decision striking down congressional redistricting approved by voters in April referendum.
A majority of justices sided with Alabama in a decision that could accelerate efforts to implement congressional maps reducing minority representation.
Four states are considering new electoral maps in coming weeks, with another dozen potentially joining the redistricting fray next year.
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