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The Supreme Court will consider whether prosecutors went too far in charging Jan. 6 rioters with an Enron-era statute, in a case that could have implications for the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump.Former Boston Police of
A fight over an Oregon city’s attempt to outlaw homelessness would make headlines in any other term. But the case, said to be the first of its kind in decades and set for argument April 22, has flown under the radar.The justices are being aske
Arguments in the challenge to the abortion drug mifepristone suggest the Supreme Court will nix the dispute on technical standing grounds.Justices from across the ideological spectrum suggested the anti-abortion doctors at the center of the ca
Lower court rulings that largely halted Biden administration communication with social media companies to combat misinformation about Covid and the 2020 election faced skepticism from Supreme Court justices.Cases and Controversies hosts Kimber
The Biden administration and others are asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on state bans on gender-affirming care for transgender kids despite its refusal to resolve related disputes over youth sports and student bathroom use.The ACLU’s Li N
Headlines touting the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision to keep Donald Trump on the Colorado presidential ballot obscured division among the justices over the Constitution’s insurrection clause.UC Davis School of Law professor Ashutosh Bhagwa
It was a big week at the Supreme Court with arguments over social media and guns, and a grant on Donald Trump’s bid for immunity from prosecution over alleged election interference.Cases and Controversies hosts Kimberly Robinson and Lydia Whee
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in fights over laws in Florida and Texas that seek to stop social media platforms from censoring conservative speech online.At issue are provisions that require platforms to keep up certain kinds of
Supreme Court justices have a number of things to sort out before deciding whether to take up or reject the question of whether Donald Trump can be prosecuted for election interference.Should the justices give Trump another crack at the DC Cir
Supreme Court arguments in Colorado’s bid to remove Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot tested a number of legal principles and scenarios.The justices dove into the potential impact on their deliberations of a case from t
The Supreme Court will hold a special session Feb. 8 to consider whether Colorado can keep Donald Trump off the primary ballot.Notre Dame Law School professor Derek Muller joins Cases and Controversies to explain the legal issues at play and t
Supreme Court justices will soon hear argument on Donald Trump’s appeal to stay on the Colorado primary ballot, but another question for the court is whether the former president will attend the proceedings.Trump has done so in other court hea
The conservative-led Supreme Court seems primed to nix a bedrock principle governing the relationship between administrative agencies and federal courts.Cases and Controversies hosts Kimberly Robinson and Lydia Wheeler break down the 3 1/2-hou
Big challenges to federal agency regulatory powers at the Supreme Court could end up as a footnote to what’s shaping up to be a momentous term.Hosts Lydia Wheeler and Kimberly Robinson discuss how the court set up a historic sitting in agreein
The Supreme Court’s January sitting starts Monday and most of the focus will center on administrative law cases. But important arguments on government gamesmanship and property rights are also on tap.Anastasia Boden of the Cato Institute joins
Arguing at the Supreme Court is no walk in the park. The justices ask tough questions and give hypotheticals that can trip up even the most prepared advocate.As the year comes to a close, Cases and Controversies hosts Lydia Wheeler and Greg St
The Supreme Court added two high profile disputes to its docket and suggested it will fast-track a third involving former President, adding to an already consequential term.Hosts Kimberly Robinson, Lydia Wheeler, and Greg Stohr discuss the new
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor solidified her legacy as the first female jurist to sit on the Supreme Court.One of her former clerks, Tamarra Matthews Johnson, joins Cases and Controversies to discuss her former boss as a justice and as a role mo
The Supreme Court appeared likely to require the Securities and Exchange Commission to bring certain enforcement actions in federal court, rather than resolve them in-house.The only question appeared to be whether the justices' ruling will ens
The Supreme Court’s inaugural code of conduct, issued under pressure from transparency advocates and Congress, does little to quell concern over how the justices conduct themselves on ethics, critics say.The Brennan Center’s Jennifer Ahearn jo
A lopsided Supreme Court appeared ready to side with the Biden administration in a Second Amendment challenge to a federal gun ban for those subject to domestic violence restraining orders.The real issue for the justices is how to apply their
The justices searched for the proper line to balance free speech protections for public officials and their constituents online, in the first of several disputes involving social media this term.The Electronic Frontier Foundation's David Green
Justice Amy Coney Barrett made news this week when she became the latest justice to back a high court ethics code, but her tale of rocking out to the turn-of-the-century hit "Who Let the Dogs Out" in the stately halls of the highest court in th
Fresh off last term’s win in an Alabama redistricting case, civil rights groups returned to the Supreme Court to argue that voting maps drawn by South Carolina Republicans disenfranchise Black voters and should be redrawn.But arguments in Alex
Whether funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unlawful or not could rest with conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, one court watcher says.Brennan Center for Justice President and CEO Michael Waldman joi
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