He was there again on Tuesday, accompanied by Justices Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, both appointed by President Trump; Justice Elena Kagan, appointed by President Barack Obama; and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, a Reagan appointee who retired in 2018.
The Justice Department dropped its Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act case against Idaho on Wednesday. However, one health system will continue the legal fight to preserve emergency abortions in the state.
President Donald Trump blasted news outlets for speculating on his first address to Congress without contacting him for clarification. Chief Supreme Court Justice John Roberts was in the U.S. Capital Tuesday to listen to Trump’s speech alongside Justices Elena Kagan,
A divided U.S. Supreme Court turned down the Trump administration’s request to freeze billions of dollars in foreign aid that Congress had already approved. In a 5-4 ruling on Wednesday, the Supreme Court did not say right away when the money had to be released. This meant that the White House could keep arguing about it in lower courts.
Chief Justice John Roberts hates attending presidential addresses, where judicial decorum requires that judges maintain an impartial equanimity amid a partisan free-for-all. "To the extent the State of the Union has degenerated into a political pep rally,
The Supreme Court appeared split Wednesday on the question of whether the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license private, temporary offsite storage of nuclear waste. In the case,
The US Supreme Court appeared divided over whether Texas and companies that own land in the oil rich Permian Basin had the right to challenge a federal plan to let as much as 40,000 tons of highly radioactive waste be temporarily stored at a privately owned off-site facility.
President Donald Trump is addressing a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, six weeks into his historic return to the White House. The speech comes after markets tumbled fo