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Legacy Media Retracts Alito Story After SCOTUS Decisions
National Public Radio had to retract a story announcing the retirement of Justice Samuel Alito after the report was deemed false. The retraction comes after Alito faced widespread criticism over his recent opinions in different Supreme Court cases, including siding with conservative arguments to bar transgender athletes from women’s sports, dissenting in a case involving… -
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Supreme Court Defends Girls Sports in a Win That Stops Short of the Finish Line
For years, American girls have lined up at the starting blocks only to lose races, scholarships, and records to males who “identify” as females. This morning, the Supreme Court finally said the obvious out loud: Schools can keep girls’ teams for girls. In a 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J., the court upheld laws… -
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Hill GOP Erupts Over Birthright Citizenship Decision
Congressional conservatives are slamming the Supreme Court of the United States after it ruled to strike down a request from the president to redefine birthright citizenship. The 6-3 decision comes after President Donald Trump’s administration argued that the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution applied to descendants of slaves in… -
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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship in Blow to Trump Immigration Enforcement
In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on the issue of birthright citizenship, maintaining the status quo. The majority held that children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause. Chief Justice John Roberts, a George W. Bush appointee,… -
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SCOTUS Clears Way for Coordination With Candidates, Parties in Fundraising
The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, further removed restrictions on campaign fundraising. Justices heard arguments in December in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, and a majority seemed inclined to further roll back campaign finance limits. The majority on Tuesday held that the Federal Election Campaign Act’s limits on political party coordinated… -
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Supreme Court Rules on State Laws Excluding Men From Women’s Sports
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled, 6-3, in favor of a West Virginia law preventing men from competing in women’s sports. “The question before the Court is: Under Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, may schools maintain women’s and girls’ sports for biological females? In other words, may schools determine… -
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Supreme Court Cooked Trump’s Efforts to Remove Fed Board Member Lisa Cook From Office
In a 5-4 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s challenge to lower federal court orders blocking his efforts to fire Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook. Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, accused Cook of untruthfully designating two properties as her… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Monsanto SCOTUS Victory Sparks MAHA Revolt—EPA’s Glyphosate Response Revealed
Despite the backlash since Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling shielding Monsanto from liability, the Environmental Protection Agency is pushing ahead on glyphosate, telling the Daily Signal how it plans to navigate the Make America Healthy Again movement’s growing outrage. In a 7-2 decision on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Monsanto, now owned by Bayer,… -
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Justices Eye 2 More Election Integrity Cases After Clearing Mail Ballot Counting Case
Although the Supreme Court issued a stinging defeat to President Donald Trump and Republicans in an election integrity case, justices have more such cases in the pipeline. One solidly red state, Mississippi, and two battleground states, Arizona and Pennsylvania, were the focal point of election litigation on Monday. The high court ruled 5-4 to uphold… -
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Supreme Court Takes Up Case Challenging Laws That Treat ‘Non-Affirming Parents’ as Child Abusers
Can Washington state remove parental rights to enable runaway kids to access experimental transgender medical “treatments” without their parents’ knowledge or consent? The Supreme Court announced Monday that it would take up a case on this pivotal issue. In the case, a group of parents represented by International Partners for Ethical Care is challenging the… -
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Trump v. Slaughter: Supreme Court Says Constitution Allows the President to Be President
In a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court said that the Constitution grants the president—any president—the power to remove individuals who exercise executive authority. In doing so, it overruled its long-discredited 91-year-old New Deal-era decision of Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. Here’s what happened: Democrat operative Rebecca Slaughter was appointed… -
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‘Irresponsible Escapade’: Alito Rips SCOTUS Majority in Ruling Involving Big Tech Data and a Bank Robbery
The Supreme Court narrowed the conditions for law enforcement to obtain a warrant to access someone’s Google Location History data, ruling that it constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. In a case involving Big Tech and a bank robbery, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling Monday that individuals have a reasonable expectation of… -
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Trump Calls for SAVE America Act Passage After SCOTUS Ruling
President Donald Trump has called for the SAVE America Act to be passed after the Supreme Court upheld Mississippi’s policy to count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. Conservative Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Chief Justice John Roberts joined the three Democrat appointees on the court in drafting the majority opinion. The case of… -
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Supreme Court Deals Massive Blow to the Deep State, Reversing 90-Year Precedent in Humphrey’s Executor
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to strike down the 90-year-old precedent in Humphrey’s Executor that insulated deep state actors when even the president sought to fire them. “Nearly 250 years ago, the Framers decided to vest ‘[t]he executive Power’ in one person—‘a President of the United States of America,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in… -
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High Court Makes High-Stakes Ruling in Federal Reserve Case
The Supreme Court held in a 5‑4 ruling that the president can’t fire members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors without cause while litigation continues. The majority held that President Donald Trump’s attempted firing of Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook violated the statutory requirement that the removal be for cause only. The justices… -
Supreme Court Rebuffs Trump’s Appeal in E. Jean Carroll Case
WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters)—The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear President Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a $5 million verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll in a case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing the former magazine columnist and then defaming her. The justices turned away Trump’s appeal… -
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High Court Rules on Mail Ballots Arriving After Election Day
The Supreme Court determined in an 5-4 ruling that states can continue counting ballots that arrive after Election Day. Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the majority opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the three Democrat appointees on the court. The case of Watson v. Republican National Committee involved Mississippi’s policy of counting… -
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Religious Freedom Report Reveals How Secularism Forces Some Americans Out of Public Life
President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission released a 224-page report on Friday on the threats to religious freedom, recommending policy changes. The Religious Liberty Commission, established by executive order last May, interviewed more than 100 witnesses across seven hearings. The hearings produced a common theme: “Far too often in our national life, religion is treated… -
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DEA Chief Calls for IG Probe in Biden-Era Fentanyl Fast and Furious Program
The Drug Enforcement Administration chief requested an investigation into a Biden administration operation that allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to flood New Mexico. In a letter Thursday to Justice Department Assistant Inspector General M. Sean O’Neill, DEA Administrator Terry Cole requested a probe to assess how DEA supervisors responded to a whistleblower complaint… -
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Bolton Pleads Guilty in Classified Information Case
John Bolton, a former national security adviser to President Donald Trump who became a critic of the president, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of retaining national security information. This was a plea deal for Bolton, who also served as a recess-appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the George W. Bush administration. It…