Arguing that one of President Trump’s Cabinet secretaries should not have to answer lawyers’ questions about why he plans to ask everyone in America about their citizenship as part of the 2020 census, the Administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to delay a trial on that issue, now set to start next Monday. Commerce… Read More

Escalating its rhetoric in a final plea to the Supreme Court to shut down an imminent trial on the federal government’s role in global warming, the Trump Administration argued on Wednesday that the case may stretch on for years. “It could well be years into the future,” a new Administration filing argued, “before the government… Read More

Moving swiftly to try to keep alive a wide-ranging constitutional challenge to government climate policies, lawyers for 21 children and teenagers told the Supreme Court on Monday that the trial they are seeking will in no way interfere with the federal government’s operations and will not put any high official on the stand to testify. … Read More

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., on Friday evening ordered at least a temporary halt in a children’s lawsuit seeking to hold the federal government legally to blame for climate change in the form of global warming, severe storms and worsening wildfires.  The proceedings in a federal trial court are thus on hold at least for the… Read More

The Trump Administration, out of patience with lower courts’ handling of a sweeping, three-year-old lawsuit demanding that the government act to create a safer environment, asked the Supreme Court on Thursday morning to end that case altogether and, in the meantime, to halt any move toward a trial at the end of this month. In… Read More

Lawyers for the Trump Administration, applying pressure for prompt resolution in court of the future of the “DACA” program for young undocumented immigrants, vowed on Wednesday to go directly to the Supreme Court unless a federal appeals court issues a decision by the end of October. DACA is the six-year-old program of Deferred Action for… Read More

Lawyers for the Trump Administration plan to ask the Supreme Court on Wednesday to halt a trial set to begin in two weeks of a massive lawsuit against government environmental policy stretching back decades. The case, Juliana v. U.S., seeks to establish a constitutional right to “a climate system capable of sustaining human life.”  The… Read More

The North Carolina Republicans’ 10 to 3 dominance of the state’s delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives appears likely to continue with the existing election districts unchanged for the November 6 election.   In a brief order Tuesday, a federal three-judge trial court that had ruled those districts unconstitutional — as a partisan gerrymander —… Read More

Finding that Texas and other states waited too long to challenge a program to spare hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants from deportation, a Texas federal judge on Friday added a new layer of judicial protection for the policy that has been in effect for more than six years but has been under challenge… Read More

Efforts by the Democratic Party to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the November election appear to have been set back on Friday by new developments in a high-profile partisan gerrymandering case in North Carolina.  The chances diminished that new district election maps, very likely to favor Democratic candidates, would be put… Read More