The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive ...
On Sept. 8, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6–3 split, lifted a lower court’s restraining order that had prohibited immigration authorities in Los Angeles from stopping or detaining people based ...
In 1833, a man named Dred Scott crossed a border. Scott didn’t traverse nations. Just a work trip, of sorts, from Missouri to Illinois. But as a slave in a pre-abolition (and rapidly fracturing) ...
It was a good week for Harvard University and the rest of the academic establishment. On Wednesday, Allison Burroughs, a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled in ...
A president ignoring a court order would, according to conventional wisdom, trigger a constitutional crisis. Yet, for all this rhetoric of warning, President Donald Trump has never come close to ...
The Supreme Court’s injunctions decision returns America to the constitutional horrors of Dred Scott
In ordinary times, someone could read the Supreme Court’s decision on the legality of so-called “universal injunctions” as just the latest example of an old dispute: the proper way to interpret the ...
Chief Justice John Roberts chastised President Donald Trump early on in his second term, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett pointedly questioned whether his administration would adhere to court orders. And ...
Get clear, smart takes on every major ruling. Subscribe to support Slate’s legal coverage. The Supreme Court has found a new way to shrink the Constitution without ever touching it. In Trump v. CASA, ...
The court granted Trump a win in its 6-3 ruling, which limited lower courts' power to universally block the president's executive order Meredith Kile is a Digital News Writer-Editor at PEOPLE. She has ...
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