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The Supreme Court strengthened President Trump's control over independent agencies in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, overruling 91 years of precedent that allowed Congress to insulate certain executive branch officials with firing protections. In an expansion of presidential power, the ruling gives Trump the right to sack Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, a Democratic appointee who...
The Supreme Court delivered a setback to President Donald Trump, rejecting his attempt to fire Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook, while in a separate case giving him a freer hand to exert control over other hitherto independent federal agencies.
WASHINGTON President Trump acted lawfully when he fired former Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter last year without cause, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, finding legal protections against such dismissals unconstitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts authored the 6-3 opinion and overturned past precedent restricting presidents from carrying out such firings. “Although it is up to...
The 5-4 majority rejected Republicans' bid to restrict balloting by mail.
Justices find president does not have constitutional authority to fire Federal Reserve governor without cause US supreme court decisions live updates Sign up for the Breaking News US email The US supreme court has ruled that Donald Trump's firing of a Federal Reserve governor was unconstitutional, in a landmark ruling that limits a president's authority over the central bank. In its opinion, the court said that Trump does not have the constitutional authority to fire a Fed governor without...
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court formally blocked President Trump’s attempt to dismiss Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook in a ruling that is likely to reassure markets of the central bank’s independence. Trump attempted to fire Cook, a Biden appointee, on Aug. 25, 2025, via a Truth Social post, citing accusations by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill...
The decision means the US president will now have to pay her the $5m ( 3.6m) in damages she'd been awarded.
The court's ruling means state laws that allow ballots to be received after Election Day can stand.
A man casts an absentee ballot in Hernando, Miss., last October.
The Supreme Court saved Lisa Cook's post at the Federal Reserve on Monday. President Trump suggested it won't be for long. After the court blocked Trump's bid to remove Cook as a Fed governor, the president fired back on Truth Social , reports the New York Times . He downplayed the ruling...
ABC News - 14 hours 29 min agoThe Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, upheld state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots even if they were postmarked by Election Day.
ABC News - 14 hours 30 min agoThe Supreme Court has denied President Trump's appeal of the $5 million jury finding in the 2022 defamation case brought against him by the writer E. Jean Carroll.
Now President Trump will have no choice but to pony up the $5 million to the former advice columnist.
Daily Signal - 14 hours 32 min agoThe Supreme Court determined in an 5-4 ruling that states can continue counting ballots that arrive after Election Day. Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the three Democrat appointees on the court. The case of Watson v. Republican National Committee involved Mississippi’s policy of counting...
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 that states can accept mail ballots after polls close in federal races, rejecting the Republican National Committee's (RNC) push to defeat the practice. More than a dozen states deem mail ballots that arrive after Election Day valid, so long as they were postmarked by then. Justice Amy Coney...
Court sides against Republican challenge after deciding earlier this term to let Louisiana effectively dismantle Voting Rights Act Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The US supreme court sided against national Republicans and Donald Trump's administration to allow mail-in ballots that arrive after election day to be counted, upholding the law in more than a dozen states. The Republican National Committee (RNC) had challenged a Mississippi state law allowing mailed ballots to be...
WASHINGTON Rejecting a Republican National Committee challenge, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that elections officials may count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day if they were postmarked beforehand...
The Supreme Court ruled that Mississippi ballots postmarked by Election Day that arrive after can be counted in a massive win for Republicans heading into the 2026 midterm elections.
NPR - 14 hours 35 min agoThe U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Mississippi law that allows election officials to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after it.
E. Jean Carroll has said since 2019 that President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
The Supreme Court's decision is a boon for drug users and gun owners, but not to those who want the Constitution to be as relevant today as it was when it was written more than two centuries ago.
Trump has repeatedly appealed the multi-million-dollar verdicts in his sexual abuse and defamation cases with E Jean Carroll...
The Supreme Court will consider whether Arizona rules requiring voters to show proof of citizenship when registering to vote violate federal law.
The president has separately said he intends to appeal Carroll's other lawsuit to the high court, but hasn't done so yet.
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