Law enforcement’s use of warrants sweeping smartphone location data requires privacy protections, court rulesUS supreme court decisions – live updatesThe US supreme court has ruled that law enforcement’s use of sprawling warrants that sweep up smartphone location data requires privacy protections under the fourth amendment, in a boost to critics who view their use as an unconstitutional dragnet.Justice Elena Kagan wrote the majority opinion. Continue reading...
President Donald Trump reacted to a major Supreme Court loss Monday by pressuring five Republican senators to flip their positions and vote to pass the SAVE America Act. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration and upheld a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots to be counted if they’re postmarked by Election Day […]
President Donald Trump pledged to “continue the fight” in his appeal of a New York jury’s unanimous ruling that he defamed and sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll and owes her $5 million in damages, despite the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the case. Trump previously asked the Supreme Court to overturn the case, […]
The Supreme Court has demolished Republicans’ efforts to delegitimize mail-in ballots, upholding a Mississippi law that allows a grace period to count ballots received after Election Day.In a 5-4 decision Monday split across ideological lines, the court ruled that ballots are valid up to five days after Election Day, so long as they were postmarked before it. Justice Amy Comey Barrett and Chief Justice Roberts were the two conservatives who sided with the liberal justices, and Barrett authored the majority opinion. Eighteen states and territories, including Mississippi, currently allow for mail-in ballots to be received after Election Day. That includes big Democratic states like California, Illinois, and New York. The ruling also protects states and territories that allow a grace period for ballots returning from overseas, such as for military service members.“The Constitution’s Elections Clause empowers state legislatures to ‘prescrib[e]’ the ‘Times, Places and Manner of holding’ congressional elections. Congress may ‘override’ most of these choices,” Barrett wrote for the majority. “By ‘default,’ however, ‘responsibility for the mechanics of congressional elections’ belongs to States. As Alexander Hamilton put it, the Constitution lodges power over congressional elections in state legislatures ‘primarily’ and in Congress ‘ultimately.’” Mail-in voting is a very basic, safe tactic that Trump himself has even used, despite crusading against it as fraudulent. By upholding it, the court has protected voting rights for thousands of Americans voting at home and abroad. This story has been updated.
Every living former Fed chair and former Treasury secretaries filed a rare amicus brief arguing Trump's removal power threatens economic stability.
The Supreme Court will hand down all of its remaining opinions from this term Tuesday, setting the stage for a blockbuster day with decisions expected on birthright citizenship, transgender athlete bans and campaign finance. Chief Justice John Roberts made the announcement as the court concluded its session Monday. Here’s what the court will hand down…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team says the demands being placed on him for his yearslong corruption case are comparable to Israel’s treatment of a Nazi war criminal. Defense attorney Amit Hadad, who is representing the prime minister as he continues to navigate a corruption trial that began in 2019, said at the Jerusalem […]
President Trump on Monday applauded the Supreme Court’s latest expansion of presidential powers, usurping legal precedent in one of the high court’s final rulings of this term. “BIG WIN just moments ago at the Supreme Court, in the Slaughter Case, confirming Presidential Power in our Country to remove Executive Branch Officers and Agency Appointees, or…
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal law allows states to count non-military mail-in ballots received after Election Day. In a 5-4 ruling written by Trump-appointed Justice Amy […]