State officials have asked the justices to allow it to use a newly redrawn map for the 2026 midterms, part of a nationwide redistricting push by President Trump.
Protesters in the rotunda of the Texas Capitol in August as lawmakers debated a redrawn congressional map. The map created five new Republican-favored seats.
The temporary ruling by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, blocking a lower court order to fully fund the aid, added to the uncertainty around the nation’s largest anti-hunger program.
A lower court judge had temporarily blocked the administration’s policy requiring that passports reflect sex as found on an original birth certificate.
“Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth,” wrote the justices who signed the emergency order.
The groups challenging the president’s tariffs assert that the measures overstep the principle that Congress cannot cede its legislative powers to other branches of government.
Under Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes in the 1930s, the Supreme Court used the nondelegation doctrine extensively to strike down legislation from the New Deal.
President Harry Truman seized the Youngstown Sheet and Tube works in 1952 after workers at the mill threatened to strike in the midst of the Korean War.
As Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, D. John Sauer laid out an expansive vision of presidential power. Now the solicitor general, he will offer a new broad view of the president’s authority.
As the Trump administration’s leading advocate before the justices, D. John Sauer will offer a new broad view of presidential power as he defends Mr. Trump’s tariffs.
Neal Katyal, who has argued over 50 cases before the court, represents a group of businesses. Benjamin Gutman, Oregon’s solicitor general, represents a coalition of states and is making his first appearance.
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