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Sotomayor: US Should Learn Limits of Presidential Power

'Do we understand what the difference is between a king and a president?'

(Newser) - Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor cautioned Tuesday that a shaky grasp of civics is leaving Americans unsure where presidential power stops and monarchy begins. Speaking at a New York Law School event, Sotomayor argued that too few citizens understand the constitutional limits set on the presidency—a gap she...

SCOTUS Halts SC Ban on Trans Student's Restroom Use

9th-grader can use boys restroom while legal fight plays out

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has allowed a transgender ninth-grader in South Carolina, known as "John Doe" in court documents, to keep using the boys restroom at school while a legal fight over the state's bathroom ban continues. This interim decision comes as Doe challenges a state rule that...

Alex Jones Wants to Take Sandy Hook Fight to SCOTUS

Conspiracy theorist has asked Supreme Court to hear his appeal in $1.4B judgment

(Newser) - Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked the US Supreme Court to hear his appeal of the $1.4 billion judgment a Connecticut jury and judge issued against him for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax staged by crisis actors. The Infowars host is arguing that the...

Supreme Court Grants Trump 'Lighting-Fast' Tariffs Hearing

High court will hear administration's appeal in November

(Newser) - The Supreme Court granted an unusually quick hearing on President Trump's sweeping tariffs on Tuesday, putting a policy at the center of his economic agenda squarely before the nation's highest court, the AP reports. The justices will hear the case in November, a lightning-fast timetable by the Supreme...

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Keep Foreign Aid Frozen
Roberts Says Trump Can
Keep Foreign Aid Frozen
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Sep 9, 2025 5:52 PM CDT

Roberts Says Trump Can Keep Foreign Aid Frozen

Chief justice issues temporary order in 'pocket rescission' case

(Newser) - Supreme Court Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily kept in place the Trump administration's decision to freeze nearly $5 billion in foreign aid. The high court order is temporary, though it suggests that the justices will reverse a lower court ruling that withholding the funding was likely illegal, the...

SCOTUS Drops Restrictions on LA Immigration Raids

Judge in lower said there was a 'mountain of evidence' that Constitution was being violated

(Newser) - The Supreme Court has removed restrictions on immigration raids in the Los Angeles region, overturning a lower court's limits that were set after evidence surfaced of agents allegedly targeting individuals based on race and other characteristics. The high court's majority provided no explanation, which is typical for...

Chief Justice Lets Trump Remove FTC Member—for Now

Case of Rebecca Slaughter is the latest before the Supreme Court dealing with 'Humphrey's Executor'

(Newser) - Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday let President Trump remove a member of the Federal Trade Commission, the latest in a string of high-profile firings allowed for now by the Supreme Court. Trump first moved to fire Rebecca Slaughter in the spring, reports the AP , but she sued and lower...

Trump Takes Tariff Battle to the Supreme Court

High court asked to decide limits of presidential trade authority

(Newser) - The Trump administration is seeking quick action from the Supreme Court to uphold President Trump's wide-reaching tariffs on foreign imports, following a significant legal setback, the New York Times reports. Last month, a federal appeals court invalidated the administration's most aggressive tariffs, ruling that Trump had overstepped...

Court: Trump Can't Use 1798 Law to Justify Deportations

Judges say mass migration does not equal armed invasion in 2-1 ruling

(Newser) - A federal appeals court has ruled against the Trump administration's attempt to use a centuries-old wartime law to quickly deport Venezuelan migrants, a move that will likely push the case to the Supreme Court. In a 2-1 decision, the Fifth Circuit panel ruled the administration's claim—that...

Amy Coney Barrett: Roe v. Wade Got It Wrong

In memoir, Supreme Court justice defends vote to overturn the abortion law

(Newser) - Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends the landmark vote to overturn Roe v. Wade in her forthcoming memoir. CNN got an advance look at Listening to the Law , in which Coney Barrett makes the case that the 1973 law "was getting ahead of the people" in regard...

SSA Whistleblower Quits Amid 'Panic and Dread'

Charles Borges cites cloud security risks, workplace retaliation concerns at Social Security Administration

(Newser) - Charles Borges, the Social Security Administration's chief data officer, stepped down on Friday after filing a whistleblower complaint accusing Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staff of uploading the entire nation's Social Security data to an insecure cloud platform. His resignation was confirmed by the Government Accountability Project,...

In Trump's Attempted Firing of Fed Gov, a 'Legal Gray Area'

Lisa Cook's fight for her job seems likely to head to Supreme Court

(Newser) - President Trump's fight to get rid of a Federal Reserve governor doesn't look to be over anytime soon—and likely will end up in front of the highest court in the land. That's per ABC News , which notes that "no president has ever tried to terminate...

Giuffre's Family Rips DOJ, Maxwell Interview

Accuser's family says transcripts allow convict to 'rewrite history'

(Newser) - The family of Virginia Giuffre has criticized the Justice Department for releasing transcripts of its interview with Ghislaine Maxwell, saying it gave Jeffrey Epstein's imprisoned accomplice a "platform to rewrite history" and undermine the voices of survivors like Giuffre. "The content of these transcripts is in...

Supreme Court Gives Trump Partial Win on DEI Health Cuts

Justices split on process for challenging federal research grant reductions

(Newser) - The Supreme Court on Thursday gave partial approval to the Trump administration's cuts to National Institutes of Health grants as part of efforts against diversity, equity, and inclusion policies. In a 5-4 decision, the justices allowed certain funding cuts to proceed but left in place a ruling that...

Hillary Clinton Issues Warning on Same-Sex Marriage

Former secretary of state says Supreme Court could toss rights regarding marriage equality

(Newser) - Saying the US Supreme Court could "do to gay marriage what they did to abortion," Hillary Clinton recently suggested that the court might well reverse its landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Speaking on Fox News' The Five and the Raging Moderates podcast, Clinton encouraged LGBTQ+ couples considering...

DOGE Gets the OK to Access Sensitive Federal Data
DOGE Scores Another Court Win
Aug 13, 2025 8:19 AM CDT

DOGE Scores Another Court Win

Judges allow review of Americans' data from Treasury, Education Departments

(Newser) - A federal appeals court has ruled that teams from the Department of Government Efficiency can tap into sensitive databases at several federal agencies, reversing a previous block on their access . The 2-1 decision Tuesday by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals permits DOGE to retrieve information from the Treasury...

County Clerk Brings Gay Marriage Fight to SCOTUS

Kim Davis wants high court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling

(Newser) - Kim Davis, the former county clerk who was briefly jailed after refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses in Kentucky in 2015, is now bringing the same-sex marriage fight back to the Supreme Court. Davis is appealing the ruling ordering her to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the gay...

Poll: Independents Help Drive Supreme Court Approval Down

Partisan gap widens, with public confidence hitting 25-year low

(Newser) - The US Supreme Court's standing with the public has taken a record drop, with a new Gallup poll showing its approval rating sinking below 40% for the first time since polling began in 2000. The court now draws a 39% approval rating, down five points from earlier this...

Brazil's President: Trump Will Get No 'Subservience' From Me

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva calls out disrespect in tariff threats, warns of retaliation

(Newser) - Brazil's leader is pushing back hard against President Trump's tariff threats, vowing his country won't be bullied or negotiate "as if it were a small country up against a big country." In his first New York Times interview in 13 years, President Luiz Inacio...

Maxwell Asks SCOTUS to Overturn Conviction

Her lawyers say Epstein's Florida deal should shield her from prosecution

(Newser) - Ghislaine Maxwell is asking the US Supreme Court to overturn her 2022 sex-trafficking conviction, arguing that a deal Jeffrey Epstein struck with federal prosecutors should have protected her from prosecution. The core of Maxwell's appeal centers on a 2008 non-prosecution agreement (NPA) Epstein reached with authorities in Florida—...

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