The justices’ decision to hear the cases involving student athletes signals that they are willing to delve back into the culture war over transgender rights.
A recent Supreme Court ruling could allow President Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship to go into effect in some states. Abbie VanSickle, a reporter covering the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times, explains how the decision also upends the power of federal judges to freeze policies for the entire country.
At a conference with federal judges, the chief justice did not mention the court’s decision sharply limiting their power, focusing instead on the danger of threats to the judiciary.
The Trump administration filed 19 emergency applications in the first 20 weeks of the president’s second term, the same number the Biden administration filed over four years and more than the eight applications filed over the 16 years of the George W. Bush and Barack Obama presidencies.
The Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. The state used a contested map to hold elections in 2024; voters elected a second Black Democrat, Cleo Fields, to their congressional delegation.
The ruling clears a major hurdle to President Trump’s agenda and could reshape American citizenship, at least temporarily, as lower court challenges proceed.
In a tangled decision, the justices ruled against a disabled firefighter who sued her former employer for refusing her health benefits after she had retired.
One section of the Americans With Disabilities Act specifies that it is illegal to discriminate in compensation because of a disability. The justices wrestled with whether the section included retirees.
The decision to uphold the Tennessee law will most likely mean a patchwork of laws throughout the country, a map that traces current political polarization.
Gerald Bostock, whose case let to the Supreme Court agreeing that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 guaranteed nationwide protection from workplace discrimination to gay and transgender people, at his home in Atlanta in 2019.
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