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Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared inclined to uphold a 30-year-old federal ban on firearms for people under domestic violence restraining orders. At the same time, during oral arguments in the case U.S. v. Rahimi, several conservative justices seemed to seek a narrow ruling that would reaffirm a […]
Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments over a 30-year-old federal ban on firearms for people under domestic violence restraining orders. The case, U.S. v. Rahimi, is a blockbuster test of a widely popular gun safety regulation and the Second Amendment at a time when firearms are a […]
Harun Ozalp/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with where to draw the line when it comes to the personal social media accounts of government workers and steps to censor comments or block access for certain individual users. In a pair of cases, citizens who were restricted online by local […]
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Friday will hand down its final opinions of the term, including highly-anticipated decisions on student loan forgiveness and free speech and LGBTQ+ protections. The justices will issue decisions at 10 a.m. ET to finish the term it began back in October. Three cases remain out of […]
joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Friday struck down the Biden administration’s program to forgive student loan debt for more than 43 million American borrowers. In a 6 to 3 decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court ruled the Department of Education exceeded its authority when it moved to […]
Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled for an evangelical Christian website designer in a case involving whether creative businesses can refuse to serve LGBTQ+ customers because of First Amendment free speech rights. In a 6-3 decision for the conservative majority written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court said wedding websites […]
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a former U.S. Postal Service letter carrier from Pennsylvania who didn’t want to work on Sundays in order to observe the Sabbath and was disciplined for skipping shifts. The decision by Justice Samuel Alito gives Gerald Groff, the carrier, a […]
Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday set new limits on affirmative action programs in cases involving whether public and private colleges and universities can continue to use race as one factor among many in student admissions. The court held, in a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, that Harvard […]
Walter Bibikow/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a strong rejection of a controversial legal theory that threatened to upend state election laws nationwide and give state legislatures unchecked power over federal election rules. In a 6-3 decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court sided with a group of […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of an online stalker from Colorado, tightening the standard by which threats made on social media can be punished as crimes. Justice Elena Kagan, writing for a 7-2 majority, said the “the First Amendment still requires proof that the defendant had […]
