Trump, birthright citizenship and Supreme Court
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A Supreme Court decision giving the Trump administration the greenlight to lay off tens of thousands of employees threatens to reshape the federal workforce amid a broader battle over whether the
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AlterNet on MSNThe Supreme Court just chickened out — and left a mess in its wake | OpinionJust how bad is the Supreme Court’s June 27 decision on birthright citizenship? Among progressive and liberal commentators, the thinking is surprisingly mixed. Some assert that Trump v. CASA “couldn’t be more disastrous” and will leave the Trump administration with “blood on its hands”;
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Six justices rewarded the Trump administration’s bad behavior—and they did not even tell the American people why.
The Supreme Court is not a perfect rubber stamp for President Donald Trump, but he is finding little willingness by the conservative majority to stand in his way.
The Supreme Court will consider whether states can ban transgender athletes from participating in girls and women's sports. At issue are laws passed in Idaho and West Virginia that opponents argue ...
A Supreme Court decision demonstrates a new degree of imperiousness, seeming to co-sign the Trump administration’s contempt for the lower courts.
In E.M.D. Sales, Inc., et al. v. Carrera, et al., the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, resolved a circuit split and held that the preponderance-of-the-evidence standard governs ...
The United States Federal Courthouse in Austin on June 9, 2023. (Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune, ... These legal fights, which can escalate all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, ...
In 1898, the Supreme Court held that birthright citizenship applies to every person born in the United States. The only exceptions are those people who do not fall under the jurisdiction — which is to say, the laws — of the United States. In 1868, at the time the amendment was ratified, that meant foreign diplomats and members of Native tribes.
The U.S. Supreme Court on the last day of rulings for its current term gave Donald Trump his latest in a series of victories at the nation's top judicial body, one that may make it easier for him ...
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told a group of lawyers and judges on Thursday that "the state of our democracy" is what keeps her up at night.