U.S. Courts News Reporter
Getting on this White House’s Supreme Court shortlist is a matter of showing that you will be loyal to the president above all else.
Of the many Trump judges who are angling for a promotion to the Supreme Court, no one is campaigning harder than Fifth Circuit judge James Ho, whose primary metric for success is the number of times the Wall Street Journal editorial board cites him with approval each week. But in an opinion published Tuesday, Ho debuted
At 6:56 a.m. on Thursday, a razor-thin majority of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a sweeping budget bill that would impose draconian cuts to critical public services, allocate billions of dollars to executing President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, and gift $ 1.5 trillion in tax breaks to the wealthiest people in the country. The bill now moves to the Senate, where it will only need a simple majority to pass.
The most prominent victims of House Republicans’
On Monday morning, in an all-caps social media post, President Donald Trump wished a happy Memorial Day to “USA HATING JUDGES WHO SUFFER FROM AN IDEOLOGY THAT IS SICK, AND VERY DANGEROUS FOR OUR COUNTRY.” Trump also made a plea, still in capslock, for the U.S. Supreme Court to “SAVE US FROM THE DECISIONS OF THE MONSTERS WHO WANT OUR COUNTRY TO GO TO HELL.”
Against all odds, the “monsters” to whom Trump refers are not Stephen
The Supreme Court on Tuesday was sympathetic to a group of Maryland parents who want to be able to opt their elementary-school-aged children out of instruction that includes LGBTQ+ themes. The parents argued that the local school board’s refusal to give them that choice violates their religious beliefs and therefore their constitutional right to freely exercise their religion. During nearly two-and-a-half hours of oral argument, a majority of the justices seemed to agree with them, with several justices questioning whether … Read the rest
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On Wednesday, March 26, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term.
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In 2022, the Louisiana legislature adopted a congressional map that included only one majority-Black district among the six allotted to the state, though a third of the state’s population is Black. The map was challenged in federal court as a dilution of the votes of Black residents and in 2024 the legislature drew another map, this time with two majority-Black districts.
On Monday, the Supreme Court will take up the latest stage in the struggle over Louisiana’s congressional map. … Read the rest
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Just over two years ago, following the launch of ChatGPT, SCOTUSblog decided to test how accurate the much-hyped AI really was — at least when it came to Supreme Court-related questions. The conclusion? Its performance was “uninspiring”: precise, accurate, and at times surprisingly human-like text appeared alongside errors and outright fabricated facts. Of the 50 questions posed, the AI answered only 21 correctly.
Now, more than two years later, as ever more advanced models continue to emerge, I’ve revisited … Read the rest
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read: