WASHINGTON, June 24 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York state law that places restrictions on carrying a concealed handgun outside the home, a move likely to divide the nation further on the polarizing issue. The 6-to-3 ruling, which fell along ideolog...
When it comes to the Second Amendment, the Supreme Court moves with the all the dispatch of a giant tortoise; slow, plodding and deliberate. After all, it took the High Court 217 years from the time the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791 to finally figure out in 2008 that its guarante...
Washington —The fallout from the Supreme Court's landmark Second Amendment decision handed down last year was on display Tuesday when the justices weighed a high-stakes case that pits the right to bear arms against a federal law that seeks toprotect victims of domestic violenceby keeping guns ...
This case presented the Supreme Court with its first opportunity toclarify its June 2022 decisionthat expanded the scope of the Second Amendment. In that ruling inNew York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen,the justiceslaid out a new standardwhich says gun laws must fit with the natio...
"On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court had its first opportunity in seven decades to address one of America's most impassioned constitutional debates: does the right to possess firearms, as stated in the Second Amendment, apply to individuals? Yes, the Court ruled, it does. And, with that ...
Trump’s Supreme Court supermajority didn’t help him steal the election in 2020 — but now, justices are laying down his 2024 victory path.
This case isn’t a close call. Three judges in Alabama ruled that the state’s congressional district lines likely violated the Voting Rights Act. But a bare majority of the Supreme Court allowed those district lines to be used for the 2022 elections. That is why Thursday’s r...
Supreme Court leans toward Utah oil railway plan, but may not make broad environmental ruling The Supreme Court seemed to favor a Utah oil railroad expansion in arguments on Tuesday, but appeared more skeptical of putting strict new limits on a key national environmental law. December 11, 2024...
The Supreme Court recently decided Moore v. United States, --- U.S. --- (June 20, 2024), a case focusing on the constitutionality of the Mandatory Repatriation Tax (MRT). While the majority opinion, authored by Justice Kavanaugh, upheld the MRT, Justice Thomas published a strong dissent ...
The Supreme Court has issued its ruling in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago. The court found, in a 5-4 vote, that local and state authorities could not effectively ban handgun ownership. The ruling prompted Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein to exclaim that she is "extremely dismayed...