The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on the legality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end the guarantee of citizenship to virtually everyone ...

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) ...

Last week, the Duke Law Federalist Society hosted an event with the provocative title: “Born Here, Belong Here? A Constitutional Conversation on Citizenship by Birth” where the underpinnings of the ...

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 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 ...

Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against federal courts issuing universal injunctions. Majority found lower court blocks on Trump’s citizenship order exceeded authority. Ruling narrows judicial power, leaves ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This outcome was as unnecessary as it was unwise. Witness the victory lap that President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi took in ...

Update, June 27 10:20 a.m.: The Supreme Court ruled Friday that nationwide injunctions “likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts,” allowing the Trump ...

On May 15, 2025, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. CASA, a case that poses an extraordinary threat to democratic rights, as the Trump administration asserts essentially unlimited ...

ST. LOUIS — After years of restoration, the Old Courthouse — home to landmark civil rights cases like Dred Scott v. Sandford and Virginia Minor's fight for women's suffrage — officially reopens to the ...