The justices unanimously limited the federal government’s power to strip immigrants of their hard-won status.
After a lower court ordered unusual legislative contests this year to mitigate unconstitutional racial gerrymandering, the justices temporarily stayed the order.
If nominated, Ketanji Brown Jackson wouldn’t necessarily change the Court’s balance. But she would make history.
Legal scholars say the bipartisan legislation could run into trouble at the high court.
The conservative justices seem eager to deal a fatal blow to one of the major constituencies of the Democratic Party.
A case being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court would limit representation to eligible voters—favoring wealthier, whiter, and more conservative citizens.
Her experience more than two decades ago as Stephen Breyer’s clerk suggests that much about the current Court will be familiar to her.
By accepting Trump’s argument for keeping his finances secret, the Court could strip Congress of its ability to hold this, or any, president to account.
Defying the tenor of the 2016 election, during a case over the president’s power to appoint temporary heads of agencies, the Supreme Court tries to function as it should.