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On Thursday, the Supreme Court delivered a decision that could be a death knell for Planned Parenthood health centers across the nation.

In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court’s conservative supermajority decided that the federal Medicaid Act does not give an individual the right to bring a civil rights lawsuit challenging the termination of a specific Medicaid provider from that state’s network.

The Supreme Court’s ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is its latest assault on reproductive health care. The case...

An obscure ideology most people have never heard of is dominating almost every aspect of American life. Nearly every important Supreme Court ruling by the conservative majority — from abortion to voting rights, from gun control to environmental protection — virtually the whole far-right agenda — has been foisted on the nation using this ideology as its justification. “Originalism” is not a household word. Yet is in an extremely important word — the key to the political movement that has transformed the country over the last forty years and culminated in the regime of Donald Trump.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court dealt a body blow to America’s bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act. The court issued a unanimous decision that will buttress the Donald Trump administration’s efforts to gut the law and fast track fossil fuel projects.

Environmental advocates contend that the result of Thursday’s opinion over a proposed oil train will be more Americans exposed to preventable environmental, health, and climate harms, a well as reduced public participation in key government decision-making. The largest and most immediate beneficiary is the fossil fuel industry.

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday regarding the Trump administration’s attack on birthright citizenship — the constitutional right to citizenship of any child born on U.S. soil. The ruling could reshape the judicial system if things swing in Trump’s favor. The judges aren’t being asked to rule directly on the constitutionality of the 14th Amendment, but rather on the ability of lower federal courts to block the president’s executive orders — regardless of whether they are constitutional.

The case centers on a challenge two immigrant rights groups,...

The Supreme Court has upheld the legality of Biden-era restrictions on the distribution of parts and “kits” used to assemble so-called ghost guns.

In a 7-2 ruling on Wednesday, the justices rejected a bid to overturn rules allowing the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (Atf) to include ghost guns within the scope of their law enforcement directives. Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas were the two dissenters.

The majority opinion, written by Trump-appointed conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, held that the court had “no trouble rejecting” the...

The Supreme Court refused to hear a case brought by casino mogul Steve Wynn, who had sought to make it easier for plaintiffs to pursue libel complaints.

Wynn’s lawsuit against the Associated Press was among the cases denied certiorari today.

Wynn had sued the Associated Press and reporter Regina Garcia Cano over an article on rape allegations against him that dated to the 1970s.

For more than 60 years, Supreme Court precedent in the case New York Times vs. Sullivan has guided libel law, including the standard that public official plaintiffs had to show that published statements were defamatory and made with actual malice. Another case several years later determined that public figures also had to meet the threshold for their claims to proceed.

The case was dismissed under Nevada’s anti-slapp statute, and the state Supreme Court affirmed that ruling, finding that Wynn had failed to show that the...

Richard Glossip, a longtime death row inmate, will get a new trial after the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the prosecutors withheld evidence and provided the jury with faulty testimony from a star witness.

The court ruled 5-3 in favor of Glossip’s appeal, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor writing the opinion. She said that prosecutors’ failure to correct the false testimony violated Glossip’s due process rights, which “entitled” him to a new trial.

Sotomayor was joined in her opinion by Justices John Roberts, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson,...

About 15 years ago, Guy Lawson had lunch in New York with his editors at Rolling Stone. He was tired of covering the drug wars in Mexico, and wanted to know what else they might be interested in.

“We want you to do stories about young people doing fucked-up things,” he was told.

The conversation led to an article about two stoner arms dealers who became entangled in corruption in Albania, which became a book and then the 2016 movie “War Dogs,” starring Jonah Hill and Miles Teller.

“It was a great story,” Lawson says.

It also got him sued. A year after the movie was released, Shkelzen Berisha, the son of the Albanian prime minister, accused Lawson of defamation.

The suit went to the Supreme Court, which refused to hear it. But two justices, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, sided with Berisha and suggested that New York Times v. Sullivan, the...

In the last few days of Joe Biden’s presidency, Steven Donziger hopes Biden will pardon him — as do dozens of progressive lawmakers in Congress, as well as human rights and environmental activists across the world.

Donziger’s story is unique. “I’m the only person in the country to be criminally prosecuted by a private corporation,” Donziger tells Rolling Stone.

As a lawyer, he helped secure a historic judgment against the oil giant Chevron on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorians, after Texaco (bought by Chevron) heavily polluted the Amazon rainforest. The...

Updated with TikTok response: TikTok’s CEO has responded to a Supreme Court ruling today that paves the way for the app to be banned on Sunday, thanking the incoming president. “On behalf of everyone at TikTok and all our users across the country, I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to work with us to find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States,” said chief executive Shou Chew in a video posted to the platform.

“We are grateful and pleased to have the support of a president who truly understands our platform, one who has used TikTok to express his own thoughts and perspectives, connecting with the world and generating more than 60 billion views of his content in the process,” he said. “As you know, we have been fighting to protect the constitutional right of free speech for the more than 170 million Americans who...

It’s not every day that the highest court in the land talks about the constitutional laws around pornography, but such cases have regularly made for landmark rulings. And should today’s Supreme Court arguments about an age-verification law for websites like Pornhub go down in history, future legal scholars will be treated to some bizarre lines of questioning from the justices.

Scotus heard about two hours of oral argument today pertaining to Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, in which a trade association of the adult industry has challenged a...

TikTok will “go dark” after January 19 unless the Supreme Court intervenes to stop a law to force its Chinese parent to sell or face a ban on U.S. platforms.

“At least as I understand it, we go dark, the platform shuts down,” Noel Francisco, TikTok’s attorney, told Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

In a bipartisan vote, Congress last year passed the law, signed by President Joe Biden, out of national security concerns that the Chinese government ultimately would be able to access TikTok user data and manipulate content for U.S. audiences.

A federal appeals court last month upheld the law, determining that the national security concerns were enough to survive the strict scrutiny of the impact that the TikTok measure would have on First Amendment rights.

The Supreme Court then slated oral arguments on TikTok’s emergency petition.

Today, in the more than two hours that the justices heard from attorneys for the government,...

After months of delay, legal sparring, and constitutional uncertainty, President-elect Donald Trump today was sentenced to an “unconditional discharge” over his felony conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.

The “unconditional discharge” sentence — which is what the prosecution recommended — allows Trump to avoid any prison time, fines, probation, or other punishment, as in just over a week, he will be sworn in as president and receive immunity from legal repercussions.

Trump appeared in court virtually from Florida to receive his sentence,...

Donald Trump’s winning streak at the Supreme Court has come to an end. Today, the conservative-dominated panel announced it won’t block the president-elect’s sentencing in his New York criminal trial.

Trump was convicted in his hush-money case in May. He was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records stemming from a payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election so she would stay quiet about their alleged affair. Judge Juan Merchan is set to sentence the president-elect on Friday, 10 days before he...

Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush-money trial will proceed on Friday, after the Supreme Court declined the president-elect’s emergency appeal to halt the proceedings.

In an order posted this evening, the court said that “the burden that sentencing will impose on the President-Elect’s responsibilities is relatively insubstantial in light of the trial court’s stated intent to impose a sentence of ‘unconditional discharge’ after a brief virtual hearing.”

The justices were referring to New York Judge Juan Merchan’s indication that Trump will face no incarceration when he imposes his sentence. But Trump had still appealed Merchan’s order, as well as his refusal to dismiss his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.

The court said that Trump’s claims that there were “evidentiary violations” during the trial could be “addressed in the ordinary course on appeal.”

The court said that four of the justices — Clarence Thomas,...

In his first term as president, Donald Trump built a conservative 6-3 supermajority on the Supreme Court. Ever since, the nation’s highest court has repeatedly issued increasingly extreme, far-right decisions on topics of abortion, race, the environment, corruption, and much more.

The Supreme Court has eliminated federal protections for abortion rights; limited the federal government’s ability to regulate carbon emissions, protect Americans’ drinking water, and limit ozone pollution; gutted federal agencies’ ability to implement regulations generally; opened up long-standing regulations to new challenges; made it easier for states...

Donald Trump gave a noncommittal answer when asked about his plans for abortion pills.

The president-elect, in an interview with Meet the Press that aired Sunday, was asked by moderator Kristen Welker if he would restrict access to abortion medications. At first he said he “probably” would not, before leaving himself room to change his mind.

“More than half of abortions in this country are medication abortions. Will you restrict the availability of abortion pills when you’re in office?” Welker asked Trump.

“I’ll probably stay with exactly what...

I am cruising across the San Carlos Apache Reservation with Wendsler Nosie Sr., an Apache man asking the Supreme Court to save his place of worship, known as Chi’chil Bildagoteel, or Oak Flat, from what may soon be the largest copper mine in North America.

For Nosie and his allies, a nonprofit called Apache Stronghold, Oak Flat is irreplaceable — no different than Mt. Sinai. Named for its Emory Oak trees, some of them 1,000 years old and described in court documents by Ramon Riley, Director of the White Mountain Apache Tribe Cultural Center,...

Washington — Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was on a roll, seeming to thoroughly enjoy himself as he commanded the stage at the annual black-tie dinner gala hosted by the Federalist Society in Washington, D.C. The Nov. 14 dinner came midway through the organization’s three-day National Lawyers Convention, a gathering of nearly 2,000 conservative and libertarian judges, academics, lawyers, and law students. In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump and the Republicans’ tripartite sweep of the White House and Congress, it was a time not only for celebration, but to preen.

For months now, Leonard Leo — a conservative legal activist with a billion-dollar slush fund and an influential hand in the workings of the Supreme Court — has been refusing to comply with a Senate subpoena regarding his financial relationship with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

Senate Democrats sent the subpoena six months ago, but they haven’t moved to enforce it. Doing so would require 60 votes under the Senate’s filibuster rules, and Republicans have no intent of helping Democrats scrutinize the activities of one of their most important allies.

On Friday August 16 2024, PBS broadcasts Firing Line With Margaret Hoover!

Season 8 Episode 7 Episode Summary

On August 16, 2024, “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” returns for Season 8, Episode 7 on PBS. This episode features an in-depth conversation with Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Justice Gorsuch will discuss his latest book, “Overruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law.” The book explores the impact of excessive legal regulations on individuals and society. Gorsuch’s insights will provide a unique perspective on the judicial system and its effects on everyday life.

Tune in to PBS for this thought-provoking interview and to hear Justice Gorsuch’s reflections on his book and the broader implications of legal overreach.

What Time is the Episode On?

The episode of Firing Line With Margaret Hoover will be broadcast on August 16 2024 on PBS at 8:30 Pm at Et/Pt.

Is the Episode New?

The episode of Firing Line With Margaret Hoover is all new!

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch opined that too many laws and regulations in America can impinge on fundamental liberties. It’s a rich statement coming from a man who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, thus allowing states to put women or their doctors in jail for endangering or aborting a fetus.

“Too little law and we’re not safe, and our liberties aren’t protected,” Gorsuch told The Associated Press in an interview about his forthcoming book, Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law. “But too much...

CBS Mornings welcomes Justice Neil Gorsuch, author John J. Sullivan, and actor Kit Harington to the show. Justice Neil Gorsuch, an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, joins the show to discuss his book, Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law. Gorsuch, who was nominated by President Donald Trump […]

CBS Mornings: Justice Neil Gorsuch, John J. Sullivan, Kit Harington...

Leonard Leo, best known as the architect of the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, is not happy about President Joe Biden belatedly proposing reforms to rein in an increasingly lawless, right-wing policy factory.

“No conservative justice has made any decision in any big case that surprised anyone, so let’s stop pretending this is about undue influence,” Leo wrote in a statement blasted out to reporters. “It’s about Democrats destroying a court they don’t agree with.”

Alex Aronson, executive director at the watchdog Court Accountability, says, “Leo’s...

Donald Trump said Sunday that letting states craft their own abortion bans — thanks to a ruling by his conservative Supreme Court appointees — is “going to work out incredibly well.”

As of Monday, abortion is now almost entirely banned in 18 states, now that Iowa’s six-week ban on abortions took effect, all but totally cutting off access to the procedure in the state.

The ban, which originally passed in 2023, was approved by the Iowa legislature amid large protests. The legislation bans the termination of a pregnancy after the detection of a “detectable fetal heartbeat,...

On Monday evening, President Joe Biden addressed the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity, speaking to the public for a total of four minutes and promptly leaving without taking any questions. The brief speech arrives days after a disastrous debate with Donald Trump left many Democratic lawmakers and Biden allies on Capitol Hill scrambling for ways to dump their presidential candidate.

“Today’s decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what the president can do,” said Biden, speaking from the White House. “It’s a...

On Thursday, in their ruling halting the Biden administration’s plan to limit ozone pollution from drifting into other states, Supreme Court justices repeatedly, accidentally referenced “nitrous oxide” — a.k.a. laughing gas — rather than the chemical compounds actually at issue in the case. The opinion, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, was published online for several hours before the errors were corrected.

The next day, the Supreme Court overturned a bedrock administrative law principle, “Chevron deference,” that has long empowered federal agencies to interpret and implement statutes — with the understanding...

In January, a year and half after the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees gave states free reign to restrict abortion — even if that meant forcing women to carry dangerous, ill-fated pregnancies to term — the court doubled-down on that decision, stepping in to ensure Idaho could continue denying abortions to patients whose pregnancies put their health at risk.

The consequences of that choice were immediately apparent: Doctors were forced to airlift pregnant patients from Idaho to Washington to receive treatment that they themselves could have provided, but were legally barred from offering.

The family behind one of the most addictive substances in the world, peddled to patients by their own doctors who downplayed their harmful effects, is not shielded from liability for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Sackler family’s bankruptcy settlement, which would have sent billions of dollars to victims of the opioid epidemic, is not valid. The settlement would have shielded the Sackler family from personal liability, and the court’s ruling on Thursday means they...

The Supreme Court decided on Wednesday that writing checks to politicians as thank-you payments for corrupt contracting decisions does not constitute bribery under federal law. The vote was 6 to 3, with the three liberal justices — Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan — dissenting.

“State and local governments often regulate the gifts that state and local officials may accept,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote on behalf of the majority. The law in question, he went on, “does not supplement those state and local rules by subjecting 19 million state and local officials to...

Donald Trump continued his stump on the campaign trail on Saturday ahead of his rematch with President Joe Biden in the first presidential debate of 2024 scheduled for Thursday. Trump hit his usual marks, from attacking migrants and border complaints to touting his role in erasing women’s reproductive rights by appointing Supreme Court justices who ended the federal right to abortion access, and some other truly wild stuff in between.

The two candidates have taken different approaches in the lead-up to their upcoming debate. Biden has reportedly been at Camp...

Justice Samuel Alito spoke candidly about the ideological battle between the left and the right — discussing the difficulty of living “peacefully” with ideological opponents in the face of “fundamental” differences that “can’t be compromised.” He endorsed what his interlocutor described as a necessary fight to “return our country to a place of godliness.” And Alito offered a blunt assessment of how America’s polarization will ultimately be resolved: “One side or the other is going to win.”

Alito made these remarks in conversation at the Supreme Court Historical Society...

The Supreme Court determined on Thursday that South Carolina Republicans did not engage in racial gerrymandering when redrawing the map of the state’s 1st Congressional district, overturning a lower court ruling by the District of South Carolina.

In a 6-3 ruling the conservative majority of the court, comprised of Justices Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, held that they saw no evidence that the Republican-controlled state legislature was motivated by racial bias when it removed 30,000 predominantly Black residents from the 1st...

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito flew an “Appeal to Heaven” flag at his New Jersey beach house. The flag’s close association with both far-right Christian nationalists and the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 raises serious questions about Alito’s ability to rule impartially. The conservative court on which Alito sits is largely the product of right-wing dark-money overlord Leonard Leo, and — wouldn’t you know it — Leo flew the same “Appeal to Heaven” flag outside of his house in Maine.

Picture two protests involving the American flag.

In one of them, a star NFL quarterback kneels during the singing of the national anthem. The reason? To call attention to the true, real plight of Black Americans whose lives seem not to matter as much as white ones — part of the unfinished business of American democracy. For this, he is booed, vilified, and effectively banned from the NFL. He never works as a quarterback again.

Now picture a second protest. A sitting Supreme Court justice (or perhaps his wife, but with...

Lily Allen and Olivia Rodrigo: together again! On Friday, Rodrigo surprised her Guts world tour crowd in London by bringing out Allen for a duet of the British star’s 2006 classic “Smile,” reuniting the pair after they performed together at Glastonbury Festival in 2022.

“I think she’s the most clever songwriter. And the coolest girl in London,” Rodrigo said onstage Friday. “I think the best day of my whole career was when I got to sing with her at Glastonbury. I absolutely adore her. Will you please give it up for Miss Lily Allen.

Following the Capitol riots in 2021, an upside-down U.S. flag flew outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

The New York Times published a photo of the inverted flag, reporting that it was seen at the Alitos’ home in Alexandria, Virginia, on January 17, 2021, for several days, distressing neighbors.

“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Alito said in an emailed statement. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”

His wife, Martha-Ann Alito, fought with another family in the neighborhood about an anti-Trump sign placed on their lawn.

The neighbors perceived the flag as a political statement. In the weeks after the 2020 election, the upside-down flag had become a symbol of the “Stop the Steal” movement, in which Donald Trump’s supporters falsely claimed that Joe Biden’s victory...

Former President Donald Trump‘s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., visited former Trump adviser Peter Navarro in federal prison. Navarro faces a sentence of four months after he was convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress related to the January 6 investigations.

Navarro failed to provide the necessary information, including documents and testimony, to the former January 6 House committee by evading a congressional subpoena. Navarro claimed that former President Trump had asserted executive privilege to maintain confidentiality. However, no evidence of Trump invoking the privilege was ever presented.

Navarro attempted to appeal his prison sentence twice to the U.S. Supreme Court, once to Chief Justice John Roberts and again to Justice Neil Gorsuch. Both Justices denied his requests. Later, District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Navarro to six months in prison and a fine of $600,000.

Trump Jr. claimed he visited Navarro to show support for “a good man” who was “wrongfully convicted.

The U.S. Supreme Court has endorsed open-ended recovery of damages for copyright infringement, ruling that music producer Sherman Nealy can pursue over a decade’s worth of damages for an unlicensed sample of his work by Flo Rida in his 2008 tune “In the Ayer.”

The finding, in a 6-3 ruling issued on Thursday, could expand the scope of damages in cases in which plaintiffs were previously barred from recovering money for infringement that occurred more than three years before the filing of a lawsuit. In some cases, claimants could potentially get a bigger payout by waiting to sue and letting damages stack rather than trying to stop the alleged infringement as long as they bring a lawsuit within the statute of limitations.

“There is no time limit on monetary recovery,” wrote justice Elena Kagan in the majority opinion. “So a copyright owner possessing a timely claim for infringement is entitled to damages,...

On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected former Trump adviser Peter Navarro‘s bid to stay out of prison while he appeals his conviction for evading a congressional subpoena.

Navarro, 74, was charged with two counts of contempt of Congress after he refused to cooperate with the House January 6 committee investigating the Capitol Riot. Navarro failed to provide documents to the committee and refused to testify. Navarro cited former President Donald Trump‘s executive privilege to maintain confidentiality. However, there is no evidence that Trump ever asserted the privilege or that it would apply in this case.

This is Navarro’s second attempt to stay out of prison. In March, Chief Justice John Roberts denied Navarro’s first request. Navarro was ordered to report to a federal prison in Miami on March 19. Navarro renewed his request to Justice Neil Gorsuch. The motion was brought to a full court for a vote. Previously,...

The women on the Supreme Court appeared to band together Wednesday during oral arguments in a case out of Idaho that could shape how hospitals in Republican-led states respond to life-threatening pregnancy complications.

Even conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic abortion opponent, had some fierce inquiries for Idaho Solicitor General Joshua Turner, who refused to specify what medical conditions qualify for emergency abortions.

“Counsel, I’m kind of shocked actually because I thought your own expert had said below that these kinds of cases were covered. And you’re now saying they’re not?...

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday regarding a challenge to federal laws that have allowed the Justice Department to charge hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters with obstruction of an official proceeding. The court’s decision could reduce the sentences of many Jan. 6 defendants — and grant a major boon to former President Donald Trump in his own federal election subversion case.

The case in question is Fischer v. United States. Joseph Fischer was charged with obstruction of an official proceeding, assaulting a police officer, and disorderly conduct for his actions in the Capitol on Jan.

The Supreme Court, amid an unprecedented crisis of legitimacy pertaining to unreported gifts to justices, debated on Monday whether a contractor making a $13,000 gratuity to a politician is similar to taking a teacher to Cheesecake Factory.

In 2012, James Synder was elected mayor of the Northwest Indiana town of just under 38,000 people. Synder, who was struggling to keep his own business afloat and was behind on taxes, oversaw the bidding process for a contract to buy new garbage trucks for the town. The contract, which was worth over $1.1 million, went to a local company,...

Olivia Rodrigo handed out free condoms and morning-after pills at her St. Louis Guts world tour stop, while a portion of her tour’s total ticket sales will go to abortion funds across the country through her new initiative Fund 4 Good.

Through her fund, which she launched in collaboration with the tour, the Grammy-winning artist will partner up with local chapters of the National Network of Abortion Funds. Together, they will work to “ensure those most impacted by systemic racism, misogyny, and healthcare barriers can get the reproductive care they deserve,” according to its page on the Entertainment Industry Foundation website.

At her St. Louis stop on Tuesday, Rodrigo worked with the Missouri Abortion Fund to pass out Julie morning-after pills. The brand launched in September 2022 after the overturning of Roe v. Wade and was built to change the conversation around emergency contraception, expanding access to communities that need it the most.

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states could not remove Donald Trump from their ballots using the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause.

However, the Supreme Court justices were divided about how broadly this decision would end up sweeping. A five-to-four majority wrote that no state could exclude a federal candidate from any ballot – but four justices argued that the court should have kept its opinion limited.

A five-justice majority – Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh – wrote that states cannot remove any federal officer from the ballot, especially the president, unless Congress first passes legislation.

“We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency,” these justices said.

“Nothing in the Constitution delegates to the States any...

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up rule on whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in the Justice Department’s election interference case. The decision means a high-profile trial will be further delayed, possibly for multiple months — if it even takes place at all. The court will begin hearing oral arguments on April 22.

The Justice Department indicted Trump last August over his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The former president has spent recent months trying to get the case thrown out, arguing he is immune...

The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday in the case over whether states can toss Donald Trump off their ballots. Much of the discussion centered around a wildly inane legal question: whether America’s president qualifies as “an officer of the United States.”

The case will review Colorado’s decision to disqualify Trump from its ballot on the grounds that he committed “insurrection” by inciting the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as lawmakers were preparing to certify President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

At issue is Section 3 of the 14th Amendment,...

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Biden administration has the authority to remove razor wire installed by the state of Texas across swaths of the state’s border with Mexico.

The 5-4 ruling overturned a December 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that placed an injunction on a lower court order allowing federal agents to cut through the wires, which have been linked to hundreds of reported injuries of migrants attempting to cross the border.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, both conservative, joined...

Special Counsel Jack Smith took Donald Trump’s claims of presidential immunity straight to the Supreme Court on Monday. Smith’s office had petitioned the court to rule on Trump’s central defense against charges of election interference: that his former status as president make him immune to criminal charges related to his attempt to subvert the 2020 election.

In response, the ex-president’s camp issued a statement decrying Smith’s attempt to appeal to the very court Trump helped appointment. A Trump spokesperson accused the special counsel of attempting to...

Donald Trump gave his first interview to Univision on Thursday and reminded the nation that should he resume the presidency, he could very well embark on a revenge tour against his political enemies. The next morning his son, Don Jr., floated installing an acting attorney general who wants to unleash a “reign of terror” against those responsible for Trump’s indictments, as well as a pro-white nationalist press secretary.

“What they’ve done is they’ve released the genie out of the box,” Trump told Univion’s Enrique Acevedo of...