TheSupreme Courthas a 6-3 conservative majority, after Mr Trump appointed three justices while in the White House and all but one of the nine sounded doubtful about backing the lower court's ruling in Thursday's opening session. Share Play Video 'See you on the trail' Colorado...
Justice Elena Kagan The tenor of the questions suggested the court was leaning heavily against those seeking Trump’s removal from the 2024 ballot, and seemed inclined to overturn the ruling of the Colorado Supreme Court that deemed Trump ineligible to be president again. The justices appeared host...
Trump’s Supreme Court supermajority didn’t help him steal the election in 2020 — but now, justices are laying down his 2024 victory path.
Judge Neil Gorsuch (L) speaks after U.S. President Donald Trump nominated him for the Supreme Court, at the White House in Washington, D.C., the United States, Jan. 31, 2017. U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday night he picked judge Neil Gorsuch as the new justice for the...
However, in the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts did write that “the president enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the president does is official. The president is not above the law.” The lower courts now get to decide what constitutes a personal versu...
Justice Brett Kavanaugh, one of the three justices appointed by Trump, suggested the court should be thinking about democracy and the right of the people to elect their preferred candidate when reaching a decision. "Your position has the effect of disenfranchising voters to a significant degr...
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the majority. He divided presidential conduct into three categories: official acts that are part of presidents' "core constitutional powers"; other official acts that are outside their "exclusive authority"; and unofficial acts. Presidents have "absolu...
The three liberal justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as Trump-appointed Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, however, criticized their five conservative colleagues for delving deeper than necessary into resolving Trump's case by concluding that the enforcement ...
Justice Elena Kagan questioned the implications of a single state banning a candidate in a presidential election. "Why should a single state have the ability to make this determination not only for their own citizens, but for the rest of the nation?" Kagan asked. All three of the court's ...
Washington —President Trump offered JudgeAmy Coney Barrettthe nomination to the Supreme Court three days after JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburgdied, according to Barrett's questionnaire submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee and released Tuesday. But the president at that time continued to publicly assert...