The Trump Administration wants the controversy over the “DACA” program for younger undocumented immigrants to be back at the Supreme Court in time for initial action before the Justices’ summer recess.  If the Justices agreed by late June to hear the case, it would mean it would be ready for an early hearing this Fall…. Read More

Even as the Supreme Court takes more time than expected to decide its part in the constitutional controversy over how voting is to be done this year for the 18 House of Representatives members from Pennsylvania, a federal trial court in Harrisburg, PA, is pondering a complex question of states’ rights that could end the… Read More

The high-profile constitutional fight in Pennsylvania over voting for Congress this year will remain in limbo at least for the next few days, with no action at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., and a lengthy hearing but no decision in a federal court in Harrisburg, PA, on Friday.   The Supreme Court closed for the… Read More

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