WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the nation mourns the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, talk on Capitol Hill is raging about the possibility that President Barack Obama will fill the seat of the deceased conservative lion and how Sen. Mitch McConnell can bloc…
Author: Ken Klukowski
Federal Courts Invalidate Virginia and North Carolina Legislative Maps
Election politics and race are back at the Supreme Court this spring, as first one, and now two, states fight to get the justices to reverse lower-court decisions that threw out the legislative district lines adopted by state lawmakers, decisions hold…
Supreme Court to Decide Historic Case on Presidential Power and Immigration
WASHINGTON—This week the Supreme Court announced that it will hear arguments in the legal challenge to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for illegal aliens, marking only the second time in American history that the Court will hear a challenge brought by a majority of the states in the Union against the federal government.
Donald Trump: Ted Cruz Needs Court Ruling on Citizenship; A GOP Candidate Must Sue Him
Donald Trump told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Thursday night that he believes Sen. Ted Cruz should get a declaratory judgment from a federal court, ruling that Cruz is a natural born citizen eligible to run for president. What Trump may not know—but which his lawyers should have told him—is that Cruz can only get such a ruling if Trump sues him first.
Abortion and Marriage: Supreme Court Asked to Take First Amendment Case on Conscience Rights
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today top religious-liberty scholars and lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that a state law requiring a person of faith to engage in actions that violate his religious conscience violates the First Amendment, in a case with profound implications for the hot-button issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.
Justice Breyer: No Comment on Donald Trump, but Detention Camps Unlikely
Justice Stephen Breyer will not express an opinion on Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, in keeping with two centuries of Supreme Court tradition. But he did express an opinion on a related point: American courts are unlikely to allow Muslims t…