On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ended Trump’s quest to narrow who can be considered a citizen if born in the United States, a harsh loss for the president. But just one day before, it handed him a form of power that the dissenting justices said even English monarchs of the past did not possess.
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The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday directed federal prosecutors to prioritize investigations of so-called birth tourism schemes after the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States.
The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a painful defeat on Tuesday by rejecting his move to restrict birthright citizenship on the final day of its momentous term, while also letting states ban transgender student athletes from women’s sports teams and striking down more campaign finance limits.
The U.S. Supreme Court backed on Monday state laws that allow mail-in ballots received after Election Day to be counted, rejecting a Republican-led challenge to a five-day grace period in Mississippi and dealing a setback to President Donald Trump.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to wrap up its current term in the coming days, with several major cases yet to be decided, including three involving Donald Trump’s far-reaching assertion of presidential powers, two important election-related cases and one involving a crackdown by states on transgender athletes.
The Texas Board of Education on Friday approved mandated reading lists for public school children that include passages from the Bible – the latest effort by leaders there to infuse the education system with conservative and religious ideals.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Thursday a Hawaii law restricting the carrying of handguns on private property open to the public, like most businesses, without the owner’s permission in the latest ruling by the justices expanding gun rights.
A federal judge in Boston blocked implementation of President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to tighten rules for mail-in voting, preventing it from taking force ahead of November elections that will decide control of Congress.
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld a court order blocking the Justice Department from obtaining Michigan’s voter rolls, dealing a blow to the Trump administration’s push to boost the federal government’s role in elections.
Eight people were each sentenced to 30 to 100 years in prison on Tuesday in connection with violence at a Texas federal immigration facility last year that prosecutors called domestic terrorism.