The United States has held eight migrants at a military base in Djibouti while court cases played out. The federal government sought to deport them to South Sudan.
The United States has held eight migrants at a military base in Djibouti while court cases played out. The federal government sought to deport them to South Sudan.
The New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak recaps this Supreme Court term, which was defined by a disproportionate amount of emergency docket cases. Liptak explains why these cases tended to go in the Trump administration’s favor.
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 justices seldom hear arguments in cases on their emergency docket, and they rarely hold special argument sessions. And they usually know the precise question before them.
The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are at least 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds.
Maryland parents have a religious right to withdraw their children from classes on days that stories with gay and transgender themes are discussed, the court ruled.
Supporters of parents seeking the ability to withdraw their children from classes with storybooks with L.G.B.T.Q. themes, seen outside the Supreme Court in April.
The Supreme Court has said that federal laws like Medicaid, which give money to states but only if they accept certain conditions, must “unambiguously confer individual federal rights” to give affected individuals the right to sue.
After the justices let the administration deport migrants to countries with which they had no connection, a federal judge blocked the removal of eight men.
Damon Landor, whose faith requires him to let his hair grow long, said guards threw a court ruling in the trash before holding him down and shaving his head to the scalp.
The Vernon Hills, Ill., warehouse of Learning Resources, one of two companies who had asked the Supreme Court for expedited review of their case against President Trump’s tariffs, in 2020.
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.
Created under the 1970 Clean Air Act, the California waiver has for decades allowed the state, which has historically had the most polluted air in the nation, to enact tougher state-level clean air standards than those set by the federal government.
In its biggest ruling of the term, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Tennessee law that prohibits some medical treatments for transgender youths, shielding similar laws in more than 20 other states. Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times, describes the three factions of justices in the 6-to-3 decision.
Learning Resources and hand2mind, the toy companies suing the administration, argued that the law President Trump relied on, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, does not authorize tariffs.
The question for the justices is whether the centers may pursue a First Amendment challenge to a state subpoena seeking donor information in federal court.
The precise question the Supreme Court agreed to hear in the case involving First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, which runs five centers that say they “offer free medical services and material support to women facing unplanned pregnancies,” is a narrow one.
The handful of notable firms that were targeted by the president for punishment but chose to fight have uniformly won. Nine others have nonetheless pledged almost $1 billion in free legal work.
Several law firms chose to capitulate to President Trump’s demands in the face of threats to lift security clearances, cancel contracts and bar entry to government buildings.
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