The U.S. Supreme Court

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“Friends Of The Court” Urge SCOTUS To Slash Consumer Rights

Interest groups backed by conservative operatives and billionaire interests are pushing the high court to use upcoming Facebook and Nvidia cases to gut consumer protections.

https://www.levernews.com/friends-of-the-court-urge-scotus-to-slash-consumer-rights/?

ps:So who is really running the SCOTUS?? or at least whats to??

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Supreme Court rejects push to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from ballot in two swing states

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency appeal to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the presidential ballot in two battleground states.

https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-supreme-court-ballot-michigan-wisconsin-43d8fed8fe69d8e4bfefd3e2b391e9f5?

ps:Of course they would!!

Supreme Court’s conservative justices leave in place Virginia’s purge of voter registrations

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday left in place Virginia’s purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-virginia-voter-registration-purge-ba3d785d9d2d169d9c02207a42893757?

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Supreme Court will weigh in on new mostly Black Louisiana congressional district, after election

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will take up a new redistricting case involving Louisiana’s congressional map with two mostly Black districts.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-redistricting-congress-louisiana-voting-8a9e5123e30fa3ff114da508dde8557b?

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⚖️ SCOTUS waiting game

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has no plans to retire, people close to him tell The Wall Street Journal. Some conservatives have questioned whether Alito, 74, or Justice Clarence Thomas, 76, will/should step aside once Trump takes office so younger conservative justices can be appointed. 💡 Our thought bubble, from Axios court watcher Sam Baker: The beginning of a new president's term isn't necessarily the time you'd expect to see a strategic retirement. If Republicans look likely to lose the Senate majority two years from now, or if momentum is swinging toward Democrats in 2028, pressure on Alito and Thomas could grow. But Republicans simply aren't in the same situation Democrats were in when the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg refused to step aside. Alito and Thomas are younger, healthier and more powerful within the court than Ginsburg was. Conservatives have a solid majority and plenty of time to pass the torch if they decide they need to.

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Supreme Court steps into fight over FCC’s $8 billion subsidies for internet and phone services

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday stepped into a major legal fight over the $8 billion a year the federal government spends to subsidize phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas, in a new test of federal regulatory power.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-fcc-subsidies-telecommunications-01fe0754c2bf71d17d34bde21a3825de?

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Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to graphic cigarette warning labels

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear a challenge to a federal requirement that cigarette packages and advertising include graphic images demonstrating the effects of smoking.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-cigarette-warning-labels-cfe9776053b25cebf6a371d8f7ae5704?

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Regulators cracked down on sweet vapes after use by kids spiked. Now the Supreme Court is wading in

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vaping is coming before the Supreme Court next week as federal regulators ask the high court to uphold its block on sweet, flavored products following a spike in youth e-cigarette use.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-vaping-trump-youth-ecigarette-20804c8f7e145216bb5662b7049366e0?

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The Supreme Court will hear arguments over Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors In its waning days, the Biden administration, and families of transgender adolescents, are turning to a conservative-dominated Supreme Court after a presidential election in which Donald Trump and his allies promised to roll back protections for transgender people. Read more.

Why this matters: Most Republican-controlled states have adopted a ban similar to the one in Tennessee, and those laws mostly are in effect, despite legal challenges. The Tennessee case is the first time the nation’s top court will consider the constitutionality of the bans. A lawyer for Tennessee will argue that the “life-altering gender-transition procedures” are risky and unproven and that it’s the state’s role to protect children.   There are about 300,000 people between age 13 and 17, and 1.3 million adults who identify as transgender in the United States, according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. The fight over whether they can access puberty blockers and hormonal treatments is part of a broader effort to regulate the lives of transgender people, including which sports competitions they can join and which bathrooms they can use.   Trump nominated three justices in his first term who pushed the court in a more conservative direction. Yet one of Trump’s appointees, Justice Neil Gorsuch, also authored a ruling in 2020 that protected LGBTQ people from discrimination in the workplace under federal civil rights law. The Biden administration and families of transgender adolescents both rely on that decision to bolster their arguments.

Related coverage ➤ What medical care for transgender minors is at stake in Supreme Court case?  First transgender attorney to argue before the Supreme Court, challenging health care ban for minors  Supreme Court justices question block on flavored vapes, but don’t appear convinced FDA was unfair

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Supreme Court seems likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on medical treatments for transgender minors

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hearing a high-profile culture-war clash, the Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-transgender-health-tennessee-3fd2de125caeac6e323bd81ef7271837?

 

Transgender care

The Supreme Court appeared likely to endorse a divisive Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for minors after more than two hours of oral arguments on Wednesday. The case — US v. Skrmetti — could determine whether states can restrict puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender children and teens. A decision is expected by July 2025. During the arguments, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she was "suddenly quite worried" and "nervous" about conservatives' arguments in the controversy. Republican lawmakers who support the ban say decisions about care should be made after an individual becomes an adult. Opponents argue that in addition to violating the civil rights of trans youth, the laws also run afoul of parents' rights to make decisions about their child's medical care. 

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Stockard in the Swamp: Can we get a decent sound system in America’s highest court?

This week’s episode henceforth will be known as Stockard in the Swamp.

https://tennesseelookout.com/2024/12/06/stockard-in-the-swamp-can-we-get-a-decent-sound-system-in-americas-highest-court/?

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Supreme Court rejects appeal from Boston parents over race bias in elite high school admissions

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Boston parents who claimed a temporary admissions policy for the city’s elite high schools discriminated against white students and those of Asian descent.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-race-boston-school-admissions-cbde570043331f39f0da54fbbdf060e3?

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US Supreme Court dismisses Nvidia's bid to avoid securities fraud suit

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed on Wednesday an appeal by artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab seeking to avoid a securities fraud lawsuit by shareholders who accused the company of misleading investors about how much of its sales depended on the volatile cryptocurrency market.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-tosses-case-involving-securities-fraud-suit-against-nvidia-2024-12-11/?

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Ruling by a conservative Supreme Court could help blue states resist Trump policies

A major U.S. Supreme Court decision this summer was hailed as a conservative court’s broadside against a Democratic administration, giving red states more backing to delay or overturn policies they don’t like, such as transgender protections and clean energy goals.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/12/11/ruling-by-a-conservative-supreme-court-could-help-blue-states-resist-trump-policies/?

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TikTok asks Supreme Court to block law that could ban popular app

WASHINGTON — TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a law that could ban the video-based social media app, which has millions of American users.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/tiktok-asks-supreme-court-block-law-ban-popular-app-rcna184355?

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Supreme Court will hear arguments over the law that could ban TikTok in the US if it’s not sold

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear arguments next month over the constitutionality of the federal law that could ban TikTok in the United States if its Chinese parent company doesn’t sell it.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-tiktok-china-us-ban-08d6fffdcd2dde5100fcdf8a452dd5cc?

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🕺 Supreme Court's TikTok dance

Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios

President-elect Trump's last-minute effort to give TikTok a stay of execution is one more twist in a case that already scrambles every ideological dividing line, Axios court watcher Sam Baker writes. The court is set to hear oral arguments tomorrow over TikTok's future. A new, overwhelmingly bipartisan law requires the app's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to either sell TikTok by Jan. 19 or shut it down within the U.S. State of play: Republicans in Congress supported the law, which President Biden signed, and GOP attorneys general have weighed in to help Biden defend the law in court. Trump previously advocated for a ban, then flip-flopped. He filed an amicus brief on Dec. 27 urging the court to pause the law. Between the lines: The conservative Supreme Court usually (but not always) sides with people making First Amendment claims. And it usually (but not always) sides with the federal government when the government says there's a national-security issue. In this case, it won't be able to do both.

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Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case

WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s final bid to put his New York hush-money case on hold, clearing the way for him to be sentenced for felony crimes days before he returns to the presidency.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-hush-money-appeal-12f9e883b71d8c37178b0ea32193e8c4?

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Supreme Court signals it will uphold ban on TikTok over national security concerns and other takeaways from oral arguments

A majority of the Supreme Court appeared likely to uphold a controversial ban on TikTok over concerns about its ties to China, with justices lobbing pointed questions at lawyers for the social media app and a group of its content creators.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/politics/takeaways-tiktok-supreme-court/index.html?

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. on Jan. 19

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-tiktok-china-speech-security-72fa68dd677df96a3b3526a1bddb0aa8?

Supreme Court seems likely to uphold TikTok ban

The Supreme Court seemed inclined Friday to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the U.S.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/supreme-court-tiktok-ban?

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Supreme Court seems open to age checks for online porn, though some free-speech questions remain

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to a Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing online pornography, though the justices could still send it back to a lower court for more consideration of how the age verification measure affects adults’ free-speech rights.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-pornography-texas-minors-8aa396102ec0cdf5c86e90c1e573d562?

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Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that could ban TikTok in the U.S.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/17/supreme-court-tiktok-ban-trump-biden?

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Supreme Court rejects Republican-backed Montana case based on controversial election law theory

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the potential to change the way elections are run across the country.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-elections-montana-1cc0847baca59254751eb6abbc66f655?

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Supreme Court could revive lawsuit against Texas officer who shot motorist stopped for unpaid tolls

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid tolls.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-police-shooting-black-motorist-texas-f8c420b609150907e843ac974b9676d4?

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Supreme Court will weigh approval for US’ 1st publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-religious-charter-school-oklahoma-a4a31ba7ffc35811ad94a401cb85502f?

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Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting ban for people convicted of some crimes

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber theft.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-voting-rights-mississippi-felon-disenfranchisement-66e42dfdc5106d40ed5fcb6a62ed06af?

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What Marbury v. Madison means for the Supreme Court — and America

WASHINGTON (AP) — When it comes to respecting the rulings of courts, President Donald Trump has been of two minds.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-marbury-madison-trump-musk-constitution-81281e29b46b409984dc5a2e0cf7a06c?