Supreme Court News
In-depth reporting and commentary on the Court’s rulings and their influence on law, politics, and society.
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Issues Between Amy Acton, Progressives Get Worse
This week, Dr. Amy Acton’s team held a virtual meeting nearly a month after the Ohio Democrat gubernatorial nominee offered comments on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision upholding state laws protecting women’s sports. As Acton told the Toledo Blade on June 30, “I do not support boys playing in girls sports. This is already settled… -
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Appeals Court Blow to Trump Sets Up Supreme Court Fight Over Immigrant Detentions
The Trump administration’s policy of detaining illegal immigrants without bond hearings until removal is likely headed to the Supreme Court, as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday ruled against the administration and added to a maze of divided rulings on the matter. When circuits split on a matter, the high court usually grants… -
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Court Stops Michigan From ‘Harming Children’ by Forcing Transgender Double Standard, Lawyer Says
A district court judge blocked Michigan from enforcing a “conversion therapy” law, in a ruling that protects children, according to the attorney representing Catholic therapists challenging the law. “Michigan was harming children—pushing kids toward a lifetime of harmful, irreversible medical interventions by muzzling compassionate counselors who could help them,” Luke Goodrich, senior counsel at the… -
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TPS Is Over, It’s Time to Go Home
Springfield, Ohio, and its Haitian population have been in the news all year as the fate of individuals granted Temporary Protected Status hung in the balance. A ruling last month from the U.S. Supreme Court, however, allowed the Trump administration to end the status, which came to an end on Monday. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine offered… -
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail-in Ballot Restrictions
President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow implementation nationwide of his executive order aimed at tightening rules for mail-in voting ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide control of Congress. In a filing, the Justice Department requested that the justices put on hold a judge’s ruling preventing the… -
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Will Amy Acton Lose This Democrat Candidate’s Support Over Protecting Women’s Sports?
Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton called the Supreme Court’s decision on protecting women’s sports “settled law,” but many on her left disagree—and now they’re making demands. Some candidates and caucuses are taking issue with Acton’s words and are seeking to meet with the Democrat nominee. Arienne Childrey, who is transgender, is meeting with Acton on… -
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Supreme Court Rejects Another End Run Around the Second Amendment
Hawaii’s most recent Second Amendment defeat at the U.S. Supreme Court was both a major victory for the right to bear arms and entirely predictable. Since the court’s landmark decision four years ago in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, Hawaii’s anti-gun lawmakers had been trying to accomplish what Bruen had already forbidden: preventing ordinary,… -
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This Ohio Senator Is on a Mission to End Birthright Citizenship, With Some Help From Late Democrat Icon
Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a blow to President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, is still looking to take action, and he’s using a late Democrat Senate icon to do it. This past week Moreno introduced a bill to eliminate birthright citizenship, citing longtime Nevada Sen…. -
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Why Does Colorado Keep Losing at the Supreme Court?
Despite multiple losses at the U.S. Supreme Court, Colorado continues to try to force an LGBTQ agenda on residents, and it costs taxpayers a great deal. “There’s just double down after double down after double down,” Jonathan Scruggs, senior counsel and vice president of litigation strategy at Alliance Defending Freedom, told the Daily Signal in… -
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Christian Therapist Explains the Central Problem With ‘Gender-Affirming Care,’ and Presents a Solution
Kaley Chiles, the counselor who prevailed at the Supreme Court against a Colorado law restricting therapy for unwanted same-sex attraction and gender dysphoria, told the Daily Signal that the medical sector bypasses the rightful course of treatment when it comes to transgender issues. “We’re treating this issue in some special way that we don’t treat… -
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Susan Collins Blasts Political Attacks on SCOTUS, as Barrett, Kagan Ask Senate for Funding Boost
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins called out the top Senate Democrat and other public officials for potentially encouraging violence against Supreme Court justices. Collins, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, warned about heated rhetoric during a Tuesday hearing on the Supreme Court’s budget request that featured testimony from Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan…. -
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Barrett, Kagan Warn of Growing Threats to Justices, Say Supreme Court Needs More Security
As House appropriators consider the budget for Supreme Court security and operations, Justice Amy Coney Barrett told members on Tuesday that in 2022 she had to take a bulletproof vest home due to “particularly intense” death threats. Barrett and Justice Elena Kagan testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government on… -
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Are Democrats in Disarray Over Protecting Women’s Sports?
Even Amy Acton, the Democrat nominee for Ohio’s governor, acknowledges that protecting women from having to compete against men is “settled law” in the state. In doing so, she’s irked progressives. Her comments appeared in a June 30 article from The Toledo Blade, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states are allowed to protect… -
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Pro-Life AG Suggests a Reason Why the Trump Admin Hasn’t Cracked Down on the Abortion Pill
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, faulted the Food and Drug Administration for failing to quickly restrict access to mifepristone, the key drug in the abortion pill regimen. “There’s obviously a political calculus that has gone on in the administration for pro-life issues,” Marshall told the Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday. He acknowledged… -
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Justices Barrett, Kagan to Face House Grilling: What to Expect
While two Supreme Court justices are scheduled to field questions from a House panel Tuesday about the court’s budget, it’s plausible, if not likely, that members will use the opportunity to press the justices about some highly contentious cases. Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan will appear before members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee… -
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Defending America’s Founding Principles in a Divided Age
The United States nation faces threats that extend beyond the familiar divide between Democrats and Republicans. Increasingly, two ideological movements—one on the far left, one emerging on the populist right—share a willingness to undermine the principles that have long defined the American experiment. On one side stands the Democratic Socialists of America, whose influence within… -
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How a Pro-Reality Sports Brand Aims to Compete With Transgender-Aligned Nike
XX-XY Athletics, a sportswear company championing women, aims to compete against the brand behemoth Nike, which XX-XY accuses of failing to stand up for women by pushing transgender ideology. “My goal is to have a successful business that actually truly stands out for female athletes—not that does it in a fake way, like Nike, where… -
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Supreme Court Defies Woke Commandments on Sex
It’s worth the time to read the entire Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J., because this case may mark the beginning of the end of the gender ideology delusion. In my book “The Ten Woke Commandments (You Must Not Obey),” the Fourth and Fifth are “You Shall Not Know What is a Man”… -
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After Contentious Rulings, 2 Supreme Court Justices to Appear Before Congressional Panel Next Week
After a highly eventful session of Supreme Court rulings, two justices will testify before Congress next week. Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan will testify before the House Appropriations Committee July 14 about the budget for the Supreme Court. Barrett, nominated by President Donald Trump in 2020, is considered part of the conservative wing… -
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Not Just West Virginia or Idaho: Supreme Court Protects Women’s Sports in Several States
As part of the cases handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court this term, the six conservative justices delivered a win for women’s sports last week. While the cases came out of West Virginia and Idaho, the high court’s majority sent a message that reverberated in 25 states, including Ohio. In the combined cases of…