The High Court will soon decide whether states can protect kids from irreversible sex change procedures, stemming from a case dealing with Tennessee’s law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for children. The Biden administration joined the ACLU and several teenage plaintiffs suing to stop the law, and a Tennessee district court initially blocked it in April 2023. But in September 2023, a sixth circuit court upheld Tennessee’s protections for children.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, 70, who has type 1 diabetes, is allegedly resisting leaving the court, reportedly disappointing leftists who want her to step down because of her health.
The rule would require existing coal and new natural gas-fired plants eventually to reduce emissions including by capturing and storing carbon dioxide.
The US Supreme Court returns from its summer recess on Monday with regulation of “ghost guns” — firearms made from kits — and medical care for transgender youth on a docket that risks being gate-crashed in the event of a contested presidential election.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Thursday to allow Arizona to require proof of citizenship when people register to vote using the state’s voter registration form.
The Supreme Court rejected on Monday an effort to freeze sentencing and a gag order in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case against Donald Trump until after the November election in which the former president is seeking another term in the White House.
The Supreme Court on Friday returned a criminal case against former president Donald Trump to a lower court, and ordered the United States government to make restitution to Trump for his trouble.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of former President Donald Trump on Monday, holding in a 6-3 decision that presidents are covered by limited immunity from criminal prosecutions for actions taken while in office.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Friday that it is not “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment to remove homeless people from encampments and to imprison them for repeatedly violating anti-camping laws.
In a massive decision handed down that will limit the power of unelected agencies in the executive branch to interpret laws that Congress had left ambiguous, and a power Democratic administrations have used to impose additional regulations, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn the 1984 ruling in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that the government cannot prosecute January 6 defendants under 1512(c)(2), the “Enron” statute, for generally obstructing “an official proceeding” unless they interfered with objects or documents. The bombshell decision could result in hundreds of convictions against non-violent January 6 defendants being overturned — and could result in at least some charges being dropped against President Donald Trump as well.
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on transgender medical services for children.
The justices will weigh an appeals court ruling that upheld the state’s ban on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgery for minors.
The Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on April 25, the final day of its argument calendar, on former President Donald Trump’s claims of immunity from criminal prosecution that could determine if he will face a trial before the November election on charges that he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.