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Justice Barrett, Trump v. Slaughter, and Presidential Removal Power from 1989 to 2009

Presidential non-acquiescence in Humphrey's Executor from 1989 to 2009.

Reason

The Fourth Amendment's Erratic Year at the Supreme Court

The right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure had a rocky 2025.

Reason

SCOTUS Sounds Ready To Let Trump Fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter

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Supreme Court sounds open to presidential firing of agency officials - Roll Call

The Supreme Court appeared ready Monday to give presidents more power to remove officials from the FTC and similar agencies.

Roll Call

Merry Jewish Christmas: How Chinese food and the movies became a time-honored tradition for American Jews

There is a meme that circulates every holiday season, an image of a sign in a restaurant window. “The Chinese Restaurant Association of the United States would like to extend our thanks to the Jewish people,” it says. “We do not completely understand your dietary customs … but we are…

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Supreme Court's Texas map ruling could spark redistricting race - Roll Call

The Supreme Court decision Thursday allowing Texas to use its newest congressional map will intensify the redistricting race, experts said.

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Supreme Court lets Texas use GOP-redrawn congressional map - Roll Call

A divided Supreme Court allowed Texas to use a new congressional map that targets five seats held by Democrats in next year's elections.

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Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on Rebecca Slaughter firing - Roll Call

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over President Donald Trump’s decision to fire Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter.

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The Tariff Case and Veto Overrides

It always takes a veto-proof majority to claw back the President's powers.

Reason

On Tariffs, It Was Gorsuch vs. Trump at SCOTUS

The legal challengers to Trump's tariffs had a good day in court.

Reason

Dick Cheney’s expansive vision of presidential power lives on in Trump’s agenda

Former Vice President Dick Cheney will be remembered for many things. He was arguably the most powerful vice president in American history. He was a paragon of conservatism. He was the architect of many of the more extreme measures in President George W. Bush’s “war on terror.”

The Conversation

Voting Rights Act on the line: key takeaways from supreme court hearing

Majority of US justices appear sympathetic to weakening key civil rights law in Callais v Louisiana case

The Guardian - US

Becoming Justice Barrett

Justice Barrett's new book is not a memoir. Though she sprinkles the book with some anecdotes about her family, Listening Law… The post Becoming Justice Barrett appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power

President Donald Trump set the tone for his second term by issuing 26 executive orders, four proclamations and 12 memorandums on his first day back in office. The barrage of unilateral presidential actions has not yet let up.

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Supreme Court Hands Trump A Major Win, Allows $4 Billion In Foreign Aid Freeze To Stay In Place As Congressional Deadline Looms

On Friday, the Supreme Court gave the Donald Trump-led administration permission to keep $4 billion in foreign aid frozen, which was set to expire on Sept. 30.

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Supreme Court allows US to cancel $4 billion in foreign aid funds - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to effectively cancel about $4 billion in appropriated foreign aid funds.

Reason

What Should We Call the "Shadow Docket"?

Should it be the interim docket? The emergency docket? The emergency orders docket? The short order docket? Something else?

The Independent UK

‘They don’t have our backs’: Judges slam Supreme Court’s scant rulings in Trump cases as president asks for another appeal

With its conservative majority, the Supreme Court has frequently overturned lower courts’ decisions in Trump’s favor — but offered only brief explanations to support those rulings

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Trump Can Fire a Lot of People. What's Special About the Federal Reserve?

"The Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity," the Supreme Court wrote in a ruling this year.

The Guardian - US

The US supreme court paved the way for Texas’s gerrymandering mess

In a 2019 case, John Roberts said federal courts shouldn’t intervene in such matters. Trump’s team is taking advantage

Reason

Justice Kavanaugh on the Peril of Writing Shadow Docket Opinions

Rushing out opinions can lock in erroneous conclusions and create problematic precedent.

Al Jazeera

US Supreme Court says Trump can remove Democrats from consumer safety panel

The nation’s highest court has frequently ruled in favour of Trump’s expansive interpretation of presidential powers.

Roll Call

Supreme Court permits firings at consumer product safety agency - Roll Call

Supreme Court ruling impacts three members of the five-member consumer product agency who were appointed by former President Joe Biden.

Reason

Justice Kagan on Universal Injunctions in 2022

Justice Kagan said "it just can't be right" that a single court judge can stop a federal policy in its tracks nationwide.

The Guardian - US

Liberal supreme court justices’ dissents reveal concerns that the US faces a crisis

As the supreme court upends precedent again and again, the liberal justices reveal the divisions within the legal body

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