Author: Jack Birle

The Supreme Court typically takes its time when deciding cases, but the Left’s flurry of lawsuits against the Trump administration has filled up the high court’s emergency docket and forced the justices to issue consequential emergency orders, frustrating some of the liberal justices. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson have expressed increasing…

The Supreme Court issued its ruling limiting nationwide injunctions in a case about President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order a month ago, but courts are still finding ways to issue sweeping injunctions. As lower courts continue to navigate the various lawsuits regarding Trump’s birthright citizenship order, which is poised to return to the Supreme Court…

The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Trump administration to fire three Democratic-appointed members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission as litigation continues in lower courts, months after the justices allowed Trump’s firing of two other independent agency heads to proceed. The order, decided by a 6-3 majority, stayed a lower court’s order, which ruled…

President Donald Trump‘s bids to replace a litany of independent agency heads have prompted legal challenges from the Left, which could end up with the Supreme Court revisiting a 90-year-old precedent related to the president’s firing power. Since Trump returned to the White House in January, the president and his administration have aggressively worked to…

The Trump administration faces another legal challenge from Democrat-led states over cutting federal grants. Several states filed a lawsuit Wednesday over the cancellation of disaster prevention funds. A coalition of 19 state attorneys general, all Democrats, and Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, seeking…

The Supreme Court announced Thursday it will hear a pair of cases over the constitutionality of state laws banning biological males from competing in women’s sports. The high court will hear arguments in Little v. Hecox and B.P.J. v. West Virginia State Board of Education in the upcoming term, with the justices wading into whether…

A federal judge on Wednesday allowed the deportation of the family of Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the man accused of firebombing a solidarity walk for Israeli hostages, to move forward, tossing another court’s order that had paused the family’s removal. Judge Orlando Garcia of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas dismissed the…

Liberal groups that are challenging President Donald Trump‘s agenda are exploring an expanded use of class action lawsuits now that the Supreme Court has slapped down judges’ reliance on universal injunctions. In a lengthy opinion handed down last week, a majority of the justices said district courts likely lack the power to issue sweeping blockades…

The Supreme Court‘s ruling on universal injunctions Friday is expected to have effects beyond the legal challenges to President Donald Trump‘s birthright citizenship order, as it is poised to change the landscape of various legal fights over Trump’s actions. While the Supreme Court ruling has thwarted one massive tool used to block the president’s agenda…

The Supreme Court sided on Friday with a group of Maryland parents who argued that preventing them from opting their children out of LGBT curriculum infringed on their religious freedom rights. The 6-3 ruling from the high court marked the latest win for religious liberty advocates handed down by the justices this term. Justice Samuel…