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4 Takeaways From SCOTUS Redistricting Case That Could Shape Who Controls Congress
In a closely watched case that could have a significant impact on which party controls Congress and that could have national consequences when it comes to drawing congressional maps, the Supreme Court heard a second round of arguments Wednesday pertaining to a congressional redistricting case out of Louisiana. Liberal groups are sounding the alarm that… -
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How Supreme Court Showdown Over Illinois Election Law Could Change Future of Ballots
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday about an Illinois law that allows ballots to be counted that arrive up to 14 days after Election Day. The plaintiffs, Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., and two presidential electors from the state, contend that federal law established Election Day and Illinois allows votes to come in two weeks longer… -
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Supreme Court Skeptical of Colorado’s ‘Conversion Therapy’ Law
On just its second day of the 2025-26 term, the Supreme Court heard arguments in one of its most important cases. Chiles v. Salazar involves a challenge to a Colorado law that allows licensed counselors to address issues of sexuality and gender only from the state’s approved ideological perspective. The Supreme Court’s decision will have… -
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5 Supreme Court Cases That Could Significantly Help or Hinder Trump’s Agenda
The Supreme Court hasn’t yet determined all the cases it will hear regarding legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive actions. But oral arguments have been scheduled for several cases involving trade as well as separation of powers when it comes to so-called independent agencies within the executive branch. Meanwhile, a decision on a case… -
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At the Supreme Court This Fall: Men in Women’s Sports, Anti-Trans Counselors, Gerrymandered Districts
On Monday, the Supreme Court justices took their seats for the first oral arguments of the October 2025 term—marking the start of what many have suggested is shaping up to be yet another controversial season at the court. The Supreme Court has already agreed to hear over 40 cases—and its fall schedule has the justices… -
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4 Cases to Watch at the Supreme Court This Term
The Supreme Court’s recent refusal to grant a stay of a lower court decision telling South Carolina it has to allow a transgender girl to use the boys’ bathroom in a public school emphasizes the importance of issues the court will be reviewing when its new term starts Oct. 6. The court’s last term featured… -
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US Supreme Court Looks to Start Consequential New Term
THE CENTER SQUARE—The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the first oral arguments of its new term on Monday, with several high-profile cases already on the docket. The high court announced it will hear arguments on such consequential cases as the president’s power to fire individuals on federal boards, the president’s authority to impose tariffs, transgender… -
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Supreme Court Rules on Trump Bid to Remove Lisa Cook From the Fed
Lisa Cook will keep her post on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors for now at least, as the Supreme Court denied an emergency appeal by the Trump administration. The high court will hear arguments in January 2026 in the case of Trump v. Cook, and decide the case later that year. President Donald Trump… -
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Supreme Court Could Overturn One of the Worst Decisions of the Progressive Era
If the Supreme Court wants to correct one of the worst decisions of the progressive era, one that violated basic separation of powers principles and vitiated the constitutional authority of the president as head of the executive branch, it will finally overturn Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S. after 90 years of poisoning the government well. If you’ve never heard of… -
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Supreme Court Finally Reconsiders Humphrey’s Executor
The Supreme Court Monday announced it would take up a case that gets to the heart of why the deep state exists—it will revisit a precedent that defended the bureaucracy against the executive power vested in the president. In Donald Trump v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the Supreme Court blocked a lower court order forcing the… -
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I Went to Supreme Court to Preserve the America My Parents Came Here For
Editor’s note: The following commentary is an excerpt from remarks presented before the Presidential Religious Liberty Commission on Sept. 8, with minor edits made only for readability.As a child, my parents often spoke of the great freedoms America offers. These freedoms and the opportunities they provide are why my parents moved here from Nigeria. They… -
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Supreme Court Lets Girl Use Boys’ Restroom
The Supreme Court moved Wednesday to allow a female identifying as male to use a male restroom while her case is heard. The one-page unsigned order keeps South Carolina from enforcing a law requiring public school students to use restrooms aligning with their sex. The law, enacted as part of South Carolina’s 2024-2025 budget bill… -
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Supreme Court Stays Order Requiring Trump to Pay $4B in Foreign Aid
The Supreme Court moved Tuesday to block a lower court order that required the Trump administration to spend $4 billion in foreign aid by Sept. 30. The high court’s judgment came in response to an emergency appeal filed Monday morning by the Trump administration that alleged it would suffer “irreparable harm” if forced to spend… -
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Supreme Court Hands Victory to Trump in His Fight to Control ‘Independent’ Agencies
The Supreme Court said Monday that President Donald Trump could fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission, marking a victory for Trump as he seeks to exert more control over so-called independent agencies. The order, issued by Chief Justice John Roberts, temporarily halted a lower court demand that the Trump administration reinstate the fired… -
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4 Cases to Watch in Next Supreme Court Session
On Oct. 6, just a few short months from now, the Supreme Court marshal will utter the traditional “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!”—marking the start of yet another Supreme Court term. The court’s last term, which ended in June, featured hot-button topics ranging from nationwide injunctions to parental rights to religious liberty, and it delivered no shortage… -
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The Left’s Latest Supreme Court-Packing Scheme Exposes an Existential Threat to Our Republic
Why are Democrats bringing up court-packing again? Back in 2020 and under President Joe Biden, the institutional Left would tell anyone foolish enough to listen that we needed to add seats to the Supreme Court. In October 2024, however, much of the court-packing rhetoric vanished, almost on cue. Now, it’s back, as Democrats strain to… -
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Justice Kagan Hits the Nail on the Head in Her Complaint About How the Supreme Court Restrains the Judicial Insurrection
District court judges have usurped President Donald Trump’s control over the executive branch, too often requiring the Supreme Court to intervene to stop the judicial insurrection. Unfortunately, the court has often done so via the “shadow docket” by acting on emergency petitions the administration has appealed to the top. While the court has often made… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Lawsuit Against School District Which Secretly Transitioned Tween Girls Added to SCOTUS Docket
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—America First Policy Institute and Illumine Legal asked the Supreme Court to hear the case of two families whose daughters were exposed to transgender ideology behind their backs. In 2021, Erin Lee’s 12-year-old daughter was invited by her art teacher to come to art club after school in the Poudre School District… -
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Supreme Court Tells Judge to Fall in Line
In polite but firm judicial language, the Supreme Court made it clear on July 3 that Massachusetts federal district court Judge Brian Murphy wouldn’t get away with dodging the stay the court had issued against him in an important immigration case. According to the court, Murphy is bound by the prior order and cannot “enforce… -
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Allows Trump’s ‘Transformation of the Federal Bureaucracy’ to Proceed
The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed a district judge’s injunction blocking President Donald Trump from carrying out a “critical transformation of the federal bureaucracy.” Trump signed Executive Order 14210 on Feb. 11, implementing the Department of Government Efficiency Workforce Optimization Initiative. On Feb. 26, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought and Office of Personnel…