The Supreme Court appeared likely to side with the Trump administration in its effort to end the DACA program for 660,000 undocumented immigrants.
Author: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY
Impeachment: Chief Justice John Roberts would be the ‘umpire’ in Senate trial of President Trump
John Roberts was arguing a case before the Supreme Court during the Senate’s last impeachment trial. He could be presiding over the next one.
Supreme Court is divided over gay, transgender job bias in civil rights case to be decided during 2020 election
The three LGBT cases are among the most important on the court’s 2019 docket; the justices’ rulings will come during the 2020 presidential campaign.
Supreme Court agrees to rule on abortion restrictions, setting up contentious election year debate
The justices agreed to consider state restrictions on abortion despite their reluctance to become a partisan target.
Federal judge upholds Harvard’s use of racial preferences in case that could go to Supreme Court
A major challenge to the use of race in college admissions was turned aside by a federal judge who upheld affirmative action at Harvard University.
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens dead at age 99
John Paul Stevens, the second oldest and third longest-serving Supreme Court justice, was a Republican president’s nominee but led the liberal wing.
Affordable Care Act threatened as Trump administration, GOP states fight US House, Democratic states in court
The health care law has helped insure 20 million people since 2010 and survived two Supreme Court battles in 2012 and 2015, but it’s threatened again.
Trump administration begins printing 2020 census without citizenship question, signaling end of court battle
The Trump administration has begun printing 2020 census questionnaires without a citizenship question that it has long fought to include.
Supreme Court poised to issue 2018 term’s final rulings on census citizenship question, partisan gerrymandering
The Supreme Court will issue decisions on partisan gerrymandering and the Trump administration’s plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census.
Supreme Court allows religious display on state land despite challenge over church-state separation
The Supreme Court ruledthat a 40-foot Latin cross on state land in Maryland does not violate the Constitution’s separation of church and state.