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Supreme Court to Decide if States Can Withhold Medicaid Funding From Planned Parenthood
The Supreme Court could soon strike a blow to America’s largest abortion provider. Amid growing concerns about the quality of care at Planned Parenthood facilities and the fact that taxpayer funding is going to facilities that provide abortions, the Supreme Court could effectively decide whether states can withhold taxpayer dollars from the organization in an… -
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Counselor Fights to Advise Minors Against Gender Transition in Supreme Court Case
When Erin Brewer was 6 years old, she and her older brother were accosted by two grown men. She was raped. Her brother was not. Brewer called herself a boy for the next several years because, she said, she felt vulnerable as a girl. She wore her brother’s hand-me-downs, used the boys bathroom at… -
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GOP Lawmakers File SCOTUS Brief Supporting Parents’ Lawsuit Against Schools Forcing Gender Ideology on Kids
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Dozens of congressional Republicans will file an amicus brief to the Supreme Court Tuesday morning in support of parents’ constitutional rights to opt their children out of left-wing gender ideology and sexuality content in schools. The 66 lawmakers signed on to an amicus brief in support of parents’ legal challenge to a Maryland… -
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Supreme Court Sides With One of the Nation’s Most Liberal Cities in Challenge to EPA’s Authority
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Supreme Court sided with San Francisco on Tuesday in its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency. A majority on the court held that the EPA exceeded its authority by issuing San Francisco a permit that did not clearly explain the limits on how much sewage it could discharge into the ocean but included… -
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The First ‘Mini-Me’ Executive Branch Case Gets to the Supreme Court on an Emergency Appeal
The first case involving judicial interference in the president’s executive authority has reached the Supreme Court in an emergency appeal filed over President Donald Trump’s firing of Hampton Dellinger, the Biden-appointed head of the Office of Special Counsel. In what acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris rightly calls an “unprecedented assault on the separation of powers”… -
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The Supreme Court’s Golden Opportunity to Restore Trump’s Authority Amid an Onslaught of Leftist Lawfare
Is Donald Trump a president in name only? The very idea seems absurd, but federal judges have issued injunction after injunction after injunction, blocking the president’s ability to exercise executive authority—the very authority the Constitution clearly vests in him. Trump has appealed one of these injunctions to the Supreme Court, urging the justices to uphold… -
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Senators Introduce Bill to Protect Supreme Court Justices
After an escalation in political violence over the past several years, including protesters at the homes of Supreme Court justices, several United States senators introduced legislation on Wednesday to increase the penalties for those that threaten federal judges, including Supreme Court justices. The bill, sponsored by Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.; Ted Cruz, R-Texas; Mike Lee,… -
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Tennessee’s Legal Warrior: Jonathan Skrmetti’s Biggest Case Awaits Supreme Court Verdict
Jonathan Skrmetti is on a winning streak. Tennessee’s attorney general is hoping it continues all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Skrmetti announced Thursday his latest win, a $7.4 billion settlement with members of the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma for fueling the opioid epidemic. Tennessee was among the 15 states that accused the… -
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Supreme Court Rebuffs Free Speech Defense in Upholding TikTok Divestment
At least one branch of the federal government is not prepared to make way for TikTok. On Friday, a mere seven days after oral arguments in TikTok v. Garland, the Supreme Court in a per curiam opinion unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the divestment law against challenges that it violated the First Amendment. The court… -
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Supreme Court Decides Chinese-Owned TikTok’s Fate
The Supreme Court unanimously decided that TikTok must divest from its Chinese-owned parent company, ByteDance. “There is no doubt that, for more than 170 million Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive and expansive outlet for expression, means of engagement, and source of community,” the opinion in TikTok v. Garland states. “But Congress has determined that divestiture… -
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‘It Stole My Childhood’: Supreme Court Urged to Protect Kids From Online Porn
Taylor Muthoka was first exposed to pornography at the age of 7. A friend showed it to her online, and all the children had to do to access the website was check a box saying they were 18. Little did she know that moment would lead to a 10-year addiction. “That one moment of exposure… -
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TikTok Tries to Head Off Divestment Law at the Supreme Court
TikTok and a coterie of its users came before the Supreme Court on Friday to mount their last-resort First-Amendment challenge to the law that will force ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to sell the platform or cease its U.S. operations in less than two weeks on Jan. 19. For 2 1/2 hours, lawyers led the… -
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5-4: Two Republican-Appointed Supreme Court Justices Agree With Democrat Appointees in Allowing Trump Sentencing to Proceed
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to block a New York court from sentencing President-elect Donald Trump in the "hush money" case involving porn star Stormy Daniels. A Manhattan jury convicted Trump on 34 counts of fraud in relation to the case last spring in a prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. New York… -
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Supreme Court Could Send Message on Climate Change Lawsuits
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether to hear cases with major impacts for the separation of powers and for left-leaning states’ and municipalities’ ability to use their state courts as pawns to establish national climate change policy. To preserve federalism, the stability of the rule of law, and separation of powers in our Republic,… -
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Supreme Court Justice’s Broadway Debut Puts Spotlight on Left’s Double Standard
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the Broadway cast of “& Juliet” in New York City this past Saturday. On the surface, Jackson is having fun and fulfilling what she said was a dream of hers, but the implications of such a stint are much more reprehensible than meets the eye. “& Juliet” is… -
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In Transgender Case, Can Supreme Court Cut to the Moral Heart of the Issue?
The Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in this term’s marquee case, United States v. Skrmetti. The case, out of Tennessee, nominally involves a state law banning minors’ use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for purposes of so-called gender-affirming care—which, stripped of all euphemism, means genital mutilation and chemical castration. And the justices… -
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Cruz Leads Brief to Supreme Court Over Mexico’s Lawsuit Against US Gunmakers
THE CENTER SQUARE—U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, led a bicameral coalition filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court requesting it to uphold American sovereignty in a $10 billion lawsuit brought by Mexico blaming U.S. gun manufacturers for cartel gun violence in Mexico. The bicameral appeal was made in concert with one by a… -
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Supreme Court Case on ‘Transgender’ Procedures for Kids Could Threaten Women’s Sports, Defendant Says
Does the fact that cross-sex hormones affect children differently based on their sex make it unconstitutional for states to protect minors from transgender medical procedures? This is the key issue of the case heard Wednesday by the Supreme Court, says Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, a Republican who is the named respondent in United States… -
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What I Saw Outside the Supreme Court Amid Oral Arguments About Whether States Can Protect Minors from ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
About 1,000 transgender activists and parental rights champions rallied outside the Supreme Court as it heard oral arguments in a case that will decide whether states may ban transgender medical interventions for children. LGBTQ+ activists with the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, the Human Rights Campaign, the Gender Liberation Movement, the Young Feminist Party, and other groups… -
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Understanding the ‘Transgender’ Case Before the Supreme Court
After the Civil War, the equal protection clause was added to the Constitution as part of the 14th Amendment to protect the rights of black Americans. Simply stated, the equal protection clause provides that every American is to be treated equally under the law. In the case United States v. Skrmetti, attorneys representing the U.S….