
Mother Jones - 16 hours 58 min ago
Last month, the Supreme Court issued a number of landmark opinions involving transgender rights, campaign finance, executive power, and immigration. Those decisions were issued in the traditional way many of us recognize: pages and pages of arguments and citations, with each justice on the record voting yea or nay. But over the last decade, the […]...

The Hill - 16 hours 59 min ago
President Trump's push to pass a new law to restrict birthright citizenship is creating new headaches for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who must navigate GOP divisions over the issue. Trump last week declared that the Supreme Court's decision knocking down his executive efforts to limit birthright citizenship could...

The Hill - 16 hours 59 min ago
A Supreme Court ruling giving President Trump broad authority to fire the heads of independent commissions will solidify the president's grasp on a number of entities that impact Americans' daily lives. The high court last week sided with Trump in determining he had the power to fire Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter. It's a...

Newser - 17 hours 44 min ago
He was the voice that opened Brown v. Board of Education, though almost no one knew his name. George Hutchinson, the Supreme Court's last official crier, died last month at the age of 102, reports the Washington Post . From 1952 to 1962, Hutchinson began nearly every argument day with "Oyez,...