The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that federal law does not bar states from counting absentee ballots that arrive after election day, so long as they are postmarked by that date. The 5-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee reversed a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruling that had struck [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a Hawaii law requiring licensed permit holders to obtain a property owner’s express permission before carrying a firearm onto private property open to the public. In its ruling, the Court held 6-3 that the rule violates the Second and Fourteenth Amendments of the US Constitution. The decision [...]

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill that had cleared both chambers of Congress by veto-proof margins, conditioning his signature on Senate passage of a controversial voter-eligibility measure. Trump announced the move on Truth Social hours before a scheduled Capitol Hill signing ceremony, writing that the event was cancelled [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that immigration officers are not required to have clear and convincing evidence that a returning lawful permanent resident committed a crime involving moral turpitude before treating the resident as an applicant for admission rather than as someone already admitted to the United States. The 6-3 decision in Blanche v. [...]

A three-judge panel of a federal court in Birmingham on Tuesday barred Alabama from using its Republican-drawn congressional map in this year’s elections, ruling that the map intentionally discriminated against Black voters—a conclusion the panel reached even after a recent US Supreme Court decision that made such claims significantly harder to win. The court ordered [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that four cruise lines can be sued for using docks in the Port of Havana that Cuba’s communist government seized from an American company in 1960, reviving a case that could leave the companies owing hundreds of millions of dollars. The 8-1 decision sided with Havana Docks Corp., which [...]

President Donald Trump on Monday filed a notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice of his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The case, filed in January, alleged that the IRS and Treasury failed to safeguard Trump’s confidential tax information [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the abortion drug mifepristone to remain available by mail and through telehealth nationwide, staying a Fifth Circuit order that had reinstated an in-person dispensing requirement while Louisiana’s challenge to the drug’s regulation proceeds in the lower courts. The brief, unsigned order in Danco Laboratories, LLC v. Louisiana and [...]

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled on Monday a new congressional map that would carve out four additional Republican-friendly seats in the state—a move made significantly easier by a Supreme Court ruling just days earlier that gutted the primary legal tool minority voters have used for four decades to challenge discriminatory maps. The GOP-heavy proposal, which [...]

The Supreme Court on Monday put a brief hold on a federal appeals court ruling that had banned telemedicine prescriptions for the abortion drug mifepristone, giving the justices time to weigh whether to intervene more fully in the case. Justice Samuel Alito, who handles emergency applications from the Fifth Circuit, issued administrative stays in two [...]