The Supreme Court denied on Sept. 3 Oklahoma’s emergency application to restore a canceled $4.5 million family planning grant. Justices Neil Gorsuch, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito dissented from the decision to deny the injunction against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal agency that withheld the grant. The three justices […]
The Supreme Court has turned down the Biden administration’s request to move forward with a $475-billion student loan relief plan after a lower court put the plan on hold. NTD spoke to Joe Luppino-Esposito, deputy legal policy director at the Pacific Legal Foundation, to find out more.
The Supreme Court on Aug. 28 turned down President Joe Biden’s request to reinstate a $475 billion student loan relief plan weeks after an appeals court blocked the program. Justice Brett Kavanaugh referred the application to the full court, which denied it. No dissents were recorded. The Supreme Court said it “expects that the Court […]
Attorneys General in 24 states have asked the Supreme Court to block the federal government’s methane standards for the oil and gas sector, arguing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overstepped its authority in issuing the final rule. The EPA has said the new standards are part of efforts to sharply reduce emissions of methane and […]
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urged the Supreme Court on Aug. 26 to uphold the cancelation of the visa of a Palestinian man who married a U.S. citizen and then was accused of a sham marriage. The new brief previews oral arguments the federal government will make when the court hears the case, Bouarfa v. […]
A Florida death row inmate has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution, which is scheduled for 6 p.m. ET on Thursday. Loran Cole’s request, submitted on Sunday, argues that his execution would violate his constitutional rights under the Eighth and 14th Amendments. The petition cites significant legal and medical concerns. Cole, 57, […]
Two energy companies in Montana want the Supreme Court to block the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from enforcing new mercury emissions and toxic metals standards, citing concerns over what they say is the high-cost burden associated with the rules. Utility providers Talen Montana and NorthWestern Energy asked for an emergency stay of the Mercury […]
U.S. Supreme Court justices have narrowly voted to approve a request from the Republican National Committee (RNC). Justices in a 5–4 vote agreed to reinstate a part of Arizona law that requires officials to reject state registration forms from voters who did not provide proof of citizenship. The restoration is in effect pending the outcome […]
Silicon Valley giant Nvidia urged the Supreme Court on Aug. 13 to turn away a shareholders’ fraud lawsuit, alleging they falsely claimed the company’s CEO made public statements that contradicted its own internal reports. The new filing previews arguments the company will make when the Supreme Court hears the appeal, known as Nvidia Corp. v. […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5–4 to reject the federal government’s bid to partially enforce its Title IX rule in 10 Republican-led states. In a ruling handed down on Aug. 16, the high court left intact two separate lower court orders that blocked the entirety of the rule in Louisiana and nine other states […]
Texas told the Supreme Court on Aug. 10 that it wants to press on with a pending emergency application to halt the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed student loan relief plan even after a federal appeals court blocked key parts of it. Alaska, South Carolina, and Texas filed an application in the complex, heavily litigated […]
Facebook told the Supreme Court on Aug. 9 that it did not violate U.S. securities regulations when it failed to publicly disclose that now-defunct political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had misused Facebook user data. The statement offers a preview of Facebook’s arguments in Facebook Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank, which the nation’s highest court is scheduled […]
The Republican National Committee (RNC) is asking on the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate an Arizona law requiring voters to prove their U.S. citizenship for the upcoming presidential election. In an application for emergency relief filed on Aug. 8, the RNC asked Justice Elena Kagan to block a previous lower-court ruling that put the state […]
The Minnesota Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 2023 state law returning voting rights to Minnesotans with felony convictions immediately after their release from prison. In its Aug. 7 ruling, the state’s highest court did not comment on the merits of the law but rejected a challenge from the nonpartisan organization Minnesota Voters Alliance (MVA), alongside […]
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch responded Aug. 4 to the Biden administration’s calls to reform the high court by urging proponents to “be careful” with such proposals, stressing that he believes it’s important for the judiciary to be independent. President Joe Biden last week proposed an 18-year term limit on justices, an enforceable code of […]
President Joe Biden unveiled a proposal for changes at the Supreme Court. He called on Congress to establish term limits, and an enforceable ethics code for the court’s nine justices. President Biden also pressed lawmakers to ratify a constitutional amendment limiting presidential immunity. William Jacobsen, a Cornell Law School professor, and the founder of the […]
President Joe Biden’s proposal to reform the nation’s highest court on Monday prompted support and criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. The president addressed his proposed reforms during a speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, where he commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. “The […]
President Joe Biden called for reforms to the Supreme Court in a speech at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. “We need a mandatory code of ethics for the Supreme Court, and we need it now,” he told the audience on […]
A Roman Catholic diocese is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a New York appeals court ruling requiring religious charities to provide abortion coverage in their employee health insurance packages. Lori Windham, vice president and senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, confirmed during an online press conference on July 25 that the Roman Catholic Diocese […]
The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that a law combining abortion restrictions with limits to gender-altering procedures for minors does not violate the state’s constitution, which requires bills to be confined to a single subject. The state’s high court acknowledged in a split decision on July 26 that abortion and gender-altering care are “distinct types […]
