
The Guardian - 1 hour 10 min ago
Cook is at the center of a supreme court case focused on whether Trump's firing of her from the Fed board was legal Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook faced more than $1.3m in legal and security fees after coming under attack from the Trump administration, according to ethics disclosures that were filed on Wednesday. The White House targeted Cook last summer as Donald Trump ramped up his unprecedented campaign to push the Fed to cut interest rates. Continue reading...

Los Angeles Times - 1 hour 42 min ago
A unanimous court rules for gun rights and against the drug laws.

Daily Signal - 2 hours 16 min ago
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that a drug user could not lose his Second Amendment rights, in a case that put the ACLU and the National Rifle Association on the same side. The court held that a federal law that automatically disarms someone who unlawfully uses a controlled substance is unconstitutional. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the...

NY Post - 2 hours 20 min ago
"We appreciate that drugs and guns can sometimes make for a dangerous mix," Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion.

The Independent - 2 hours 26 min ago
The decision is a loss for President Donald Trump's Republican administration, which had defended the 1968 law...

Fox News - 2 hours 29 min ago
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a federal gun law cannot be broadly applied to all illegal drug users, siding with a Texas man who admitted to regularly using marijuana while keeping a firearm for self-defense.

New York Times - 2 hours 36 min ago
Ali Hemani's suburban home was raided by federal agents in August 2022 after his family had come under suspicion because of its ties to Iran.

ABC News - 2 hours 39 min ago
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Ali Hemani, a Texas man charged with unlawful possession of a gun since he admitted that he regularly smoked marijuana.

NPR - 2 hours 39 min ago
The court ruled that the law used to prosecute a marijuana user violated his Second Amendment right to bear arms and is unconstitutionally vague.

The Hill - 2 hours 44 min ago
The Supreme Court ruled the government can't criminally prosecute a man for possessing a firearm simply because he regularly smoked marijuana, in a unanimous decision Thursday. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that it violates his right to keep arms under the conservative justices' expanded Second Amendment test. "To square that expansive theory with the Second Amendment, the government...

NBC News - 2 hours 45 min ago
The Supreme Court endorsed a marijuana user's challenge to a law that bars people who consume illegal drugs from having firearms, the same law that Hunter Biden was convicted under.

The Guardian - 4 hours 5 min ago
Trump's immigration agenda is on the supreme court docket with rulings still to come on birthright citizenship and TPS for Haitian and Syrian immigrants Sign up for the Breaking News US email In case you missed it, last night Donald Trump signed a 14-point agreement with Iran , claiming it delivered a "major win" for the United States even as it made significant political and financial concessions to Iran to reopen the strait of Hormuz and prevent a "worldwide depression" . In...

The Hill - 4 hours 54 min ago
Congress is slated to lose more than a dozen Black members between both parties in 2027 after representation reached an all-time high on Capitol Hill just last cycle. The Supreme Court's landmark decision in April to weaken the Voting Rights Act has played a leading role in this seismic deficit. The ruling, which made it easier...

The Guardian - 5 hours 54 min ago
Singer Hayley Kiyoko misses the mark in a meandering directorial debut packed with groan-inducing dialogue On 26 June 2015, the US supreme court finally declared gay marriage legal nationwide. Two days later, singer-songwriter and former Disney Channel alum Hayley Kiyoko effectively came out to the world with her debut single, Girls Like Girls . "Girls like girls like boys do, nothing new," she sang with triumphant bluntness. Its accompanying music video, featuring a Sapphic teen romance...

Huffington Post - 6 hours 54 min ago
The Republican incumbent has said she does not regret her vote for the justice who helped overturn Roe v. Wade.

Fox News - 6 hours 54 min ago
Two Supreme Court cases could fire up a battle over Trump's authority to remove federal officials, potentially reshaping presidential power.

Newser - 7 hours 14 min ago
The Supreme Court sided on Thursday with a Texas marijuana user who wants to legally own a gun, the latest in a line of firearm cases from a court that has expanded gun rights. In a unanimous decision, the justices sided with Ali Danial Hemani, who argued that a law...

Newser - 13 hours 54 min ago
The Supreme Court is sitting out a fight over anti-abortion flyers in an Indiana high school hallway, the Indianapolis Star reports. On Monday, the high court justices declined to hear a challenge brought by a former Noblesville High School student who argued her First Amendment rights were violated when administrators...

The Guardian - 22 hours 10 min ago
Lawmakers cite rushed timeline and public input despite pressure to redraw districts after supreme court opinion Georgia Republicans declined to redraw the state's congressional map during a special session, citing a rushed timeline and incomplete understanding of the ramifications of a recent US supreme court decision that effectively gutted a major section of the Voting Rights Act. "We believe that it's important to do things the Georgia way, responsibly, transparently, and with ample...

Daily Signal - 23 hours 4 min ago
Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais, Georgia lawmakers on Wednesday are meeting in a special session to debate the fairness of district lines drawn in 2023 for the state’s political map. Before Gov. Brian Kemp ordered legislators to convene for a special session, the high court in April issued its opinion...