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Joshua Villanueva is JURIST’s Washington, D.C. Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.  There is a certain intensity to watching US Supreme Court arguments live that recordings simply cannot capture. The subtle shifts in the justices’ expressions and the way they lean [...]

Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC.  On Tuesday morning, the second day of the Supreme Court’s new term, I went to the United States Supreme Court to attend oral argument for Chiles v. Salazar—concerning a Christian counselor’s First Amendment challenge to Colorado’s [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday sided with President Donald Trump’s administration in a dispute over foreign aid funding, granting the president’s request to freeze $4 billion in appropriations that Congress had already enacted but the administration sought to rescind. The court’s majority stayed a lower court ruling that had directed the administration to obligate [...]

The US Supreme Court announced Monday that it will rule on the firing of a federal agency head and consider whether to overturn a 90-year-old case that prevents the president from firing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioners without establishing “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” The case involves President Donald Trump’s removal of [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a federal judge’s order that had restricted immigration enforcement operations in the Los Angeles area, allowing the government to resume controversial raids while the case proceeds through appeals. The case stems from federal immigration raids that began in Los Angeles in June. Officers targeted locations known to be [...]

As the executive branch continues to test the boundaries of its authority with increasing brazenness, a growing number of federal judges have responded with remarkable clarity and courage. Their opinions reflect not only legal reasoning, but deep conviction in the constitutional principles they are sworn to uphold. This evolving collection of judicial statements documents how [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday granted President Donald Trump’s request to stay a lower court order that would have prevented him from firing three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission without cause. The order allows Trump to immediately terminate commissioners Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, and Richard Trumka Jr., whom he removed in [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to proceed with mass layoffs at the Education Department while legal challenges continue. The court granted the administration’s request to lift a lower court injunction that had blocked the firing of more than 2,000 department employees—roughly half the agency’s workforce. Education Secretary Linda McMahon [...]

In a 6-3 ruling released Friday, the US Supreme Court found that a universal-service contribution scheme does not violate the nondelegation doctrine, which restricts Congress’ ability to delegate its power to federal agencies, private companies, or the other two branches of government. Writing for the majority, Justice Elena Kagan described respondent Consumers’ Research’s reading of [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law that mandates that adult consumers of pornographic material verify their ages before accessing the material. Applying intermediate scrutiny, the court held that the law is likely constitutional under the First Amendment. The law, HB 1181, only applies to “commercial” entities, including “corporation, limited liability compan, [...]