The Supreme Court has scheduled a special session to hear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump is ineligible to be president again.
then a university does but contemplate a necessity of our nature, and is but one specimen in a particular medium, out of many which might be abduced in others, of a provision for that necessity. Mutual education, in a large sense of the word...
When you plead guilty, you tell the court you committed the charged offense.1 A judge must hear this plea in court so that it becomes part of the court record. You essentially testify under oath that you understand the crime charged and acknowledge that you are guilty of committing it. Req...
conservative supermajority decisions have already stripped Americans of rights and threaten more of the same. But in a new essay published Wednesday inThe New York Times,former Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyersuggests a more pressing concern for the high court and the country: Are the justices ...
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Attorneys for the states have argued that it certainly does — and that has been recognized since the amendment's adoption, notably in an 1898 U.S. Supreme Court decision. That decision, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, held that the only children who did not automatically receive U...
Notably, Casey, the 1992 decision that has largely superseded Roe, does give states the right to regulate abortion, but only after the point of fetal viability — or the point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb, roughly 23 or 24 weeks. The Supreme Court has decided a number...
We teach schoolchildren that the U.S. Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter of our laws. But they need to learn that their states’ supreme courts have the final word when it comes to state laws.
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The Supreme Court will hear more than two hours of arguments over whether a ban on the platform,approved in April with bipartisansupport, can be squared with the First Amendment. If at least five justices believe that it can, TikTok would either need tofind a new owneror shut down in the...