Two prominent leaders in Republican politics have urged the Supreme Court to consider the Pennsylvania redistricting case as a part of this year’s intense political battle for control of the U.S. House of Representatives – an issue outside the constitutional issues at stake. The frankly political assessment of the case’s potential impact was laid out… Read More

A group of Democratic voters in Pennsylvania told a federal court on Friday that, if it barred the use of a congressional election map drawn up by the state’s Supreme Court, candidates seeking all 18 of the state’s seats in the U.S. House of Representatives would have to run statewide rather than in 18 separate… Read More

The Trump Administration on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to turn down a request that it move swiftly to review a second case testing the White House order limiting immigration from six Muslim-majority nations.  In a brief filing submitted one day before it was due, Administration lawyers argued that adding a new case would complicate… Read More

In a second significant setback this week for the Trump Administration on its immigration policy, a federal judge in Los Angeles has barred government officials from taking away legal protection of “DACA” immigrants without using a fair procedure.  The judge’s ruling Monday night in favor of those covered by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals… Read More

In a setback for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court refused on Monday to adopt a special, fast procedure to rule on the government’s power to shut down the program of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).  The brief order urged a federal appeals court to move “expeditiously” to decide an Administration appeal pending there,… Read More

A group of challengers who succeeded in a lower court on their claim that President Trump acted unconstitutionally in issuing the third version of his plan to block entry into the U.S. of foreign nationals from Muslim-majority nations asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review their case, too. This group specifically asked the Justices… Read More

A three-judge federal court in Harrisburg, PA, has refused – for now – to block Pennsylvania officials from going forward with plans to hold congressional elections this year using new districts drafted by the state’s Supreme Court. In a three-page order issued Friday afternoon, the panel indicated that it probably will not take any further… Read More

The Supreme Court on Friday picked the last scheduled day this term for hearings – April 25 – to hear lawyers argue the validity of President Trump’s plan to deny future entry to the U.S. of tens of millions of foreign nationals from six Muslim-majority nations. The April argument list issued Friday morning still left… Read More

Ten elected Republican legislators, state and federal, in Pennsylvania asked a federal court on Thursday to issue an immediate order barring the use of a new districting map drawn by the state Supreme Court in this year’s election of 18 members of the U.S. House of Representatives. The claim of a violation of the federal… Read More

Arguing that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unconstitutionally seized the power to draw new congressional districts away from the state legislature, the two top Republican lawmakers in the state returned to the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday night with a plea to block the judge-drawn map.   The new request was filed 16 days after a similar plea… Read More