In a ruling that potentially could be a political boon to Democrats running for Congress this year in Pennsylvania, a sharply divided state Supreme Court on Monday struck down 2011 maps for electing 18 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.  Those maps have been used in elections since 2011, with Republican candidates winning 13… Read More

With Congress mired in a deepening controversy over the future of the “DACA” program for younger undocumented immigrants, the Trump Administration stepped up its efforts to get the Supreme Court to set an unusually fast schedule to review the program’s legal fate. Government lawyers on Friday afternoon asked the Justices to examine at their next… Read More

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday afternoon to consider the state of Hawaii’s claim that President Trump imposed an unconstitutional “Muslim ban” when he ordered strict new limits on entry into the U.S. by foreign nationals from six nations with Muslim-majority populations. That constitutional question was added as the Justices also agreed to review whether… Read More

With time running out for the Supreme Court to take on new cases in the current term, the Trump Administration asked Thursday evening that one more case be taken up swiftly: the controversy over the planned shutdown of the “DACA” program that has spared nearly 700,000 undocumented young immigrants from being deported.  (DACA is short… Read More

Over two Justices’ dissents, the Supreme Court on Thursday temporarily blocked a lower court order that would have required North Carolina’s legislature to quickly adopt new election maps for the state’s 13 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, to replace maps that strongly favored Republican candidates. The Justices’ order put on hold – probably… Read More

The Trump Administration urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule on the constitutionality of the President’s third version of an executive order strictly limiting entry to the U.S. by foreign nationals from countries with Muslim-majority populations.  If, as expected, the Court agrees to rule on other legal issues in the case, the question of… Read More

The Trump Administration will ask the Supreme Court this week to uphold its power to end the “DACA” program that protects younger immigrants from deportation, and it will ask that the Justices not wait for a ruling by a federal appeals court, the Justice Department said Tuesday. (The five-year-old program is titled “Deferred Action for… Read More

Years of declining consumer purchases at retail stores and malls, as shoppers increasingly chose to buy online, have cost state treasuries huge amounts of sales tax revenue, but the Supreme Court might be coming to their rescue.   On Friday afternoon, the Justices agreed to reconsider a half-century-old constitutional bar to state taxes on out-of-state retailers…. Read More

Moving with unusual speed, the Supreme Court indicated on Monday that it will take its first look just 11 days from now at the Trump Administration’s new appeal seeking to defend the President’s third immigration order.  That will no doubt force an earlier reply by the order’s challengers, and an earlier decision by the Justices… Read More

Returning to the Supreme Court with a new appeal on immigration, the Trump Administration on Friday asked the Justices  for unchecked power to bar entry to the United States of foreign nationals of six countries with Moslem-majority populations. This request, in a case from Hawaii, is the first of two that the government is expected… Read More