President Donald Trump’s dramatic pause of federal grants and loans is queuing up a Supreme Court showdown over the Constitution that will test the court’s recently muscular commitment to curb executive power.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas slammed a circuit court of appeals for not adhering to legal precedent in a dissent released on Monday. Thomas dissented from a denial by the court to review a lower court's decision. Justice Samuel Alito joined the opinion.
In a case involving a businessman and his estranged IPS officer wife, the Supreme Court urged both parties to settle their dispute amicably, stressing that no one is above the law, regardless of status.
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Voting rights experts say Mississippi’s restrictions are among the harshest because the state bans voting by first-time offenders who commit non-violent felonies.
The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies, a policy adopted in 1890 during the Jim Crow era that stands as one of the toughest such restrictions in the nation.
The justices recently agreed to review appeals that cite First Amendment religious rights. The high court’s decisions could affect operations of the nation’s schools.
In 2006, Idaho voters passed an amendment to the state Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, though the Supreme Court’s ruling nearly a decade later found that such laws violate the 14th Amendment’s equal protection and due process guarantees.
The Supreme Court will likely hear the case after several states teamed to try to stop Trump's birthright executive order.