The justices paused a lower court order pending a decision on whether the Supreme Court will take up the case, a major challenge to the Voting Rights Act.
Voters filling in their ballots at voting booths in Bismarck, N.D., in 2022. If the justices agree to hear the North Dakota matter, it will be the second major voting rights case in the upcoming term, which begins in October.
In an appearance on Thursday, Justice Elena Kagan discussed the Supreme Court’s handling of emergency docket rulings and said the court could be doing more to explain its reasoning on such cases.
Even as top Justice Department officials brokered an interview with a longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein’s, they asked the Supreme Court to reject her appeal.
The move by the justices represents an expansion of executive power, allowing President Trump to dismantle the inner workings of a government department.
The emergency application to the justices stemmed from efforts by the Trump administration to sharply curtail the federal government’s role in the nation’s schools.
At a bar association event in Indiana, the justice told those gathered that she is focused on drawing attention to what is happening to the government.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, photographed last year, is the Supreme Court’s most junior member, but she wrote an unusually large number of concurring and dissenting opinions during the court’s most recent term.
The justices announced they were not ruling on the legality of the specific downsizing plans but they allowed the Trump administration to proceed for now with its restructuring efforts.
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