The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if licensed guns owners have a right to carry their weapons at public places, including parks, beaches and stores. At issue are laws in California, Hawaii and three other states that generally prohibit carrying guns on private or public property. Three years ago, Supreme Court ruled that law-abiding gun owners had a 2nd Amendment right to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon when they leave home.
A ruling that stopped FDR from grabbing more power from Congress at the height of the New Deal is now on the chopping block - because Trump wants to do the same thing FDR was trying to do. Trump's Justice Department is also trying to convince the high court's six conservative justices that the principles they invoked to block President Biden's biggest executive actions do not apply to Trump's.
We live in an era where reasoned, thoughtful, rational, respectful discourse has been replaced by antagonistic, confrontational conversation, Kennedy, who was appointed to the supreme court during Ronald Reagan's presidency, remarked. It seems to me the idea of partisanship is becoming much more prevalent and more bitter. And my concern is that the court in its own opinions has to be asked to moderate and become much more respectful.
The Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, said that the "asserted harms" to Trump's conduct of foreign affairs "appear to outweigh the potential harm" faced by potential recipients of the foreign aid. The court said the emergency order is not a "final determination" on the freeze, as it plays out in the lower courts. "The relief granted by the Court today reflects our preliminary view, consistent with the standards for interim relief," the Supreme Court order said.
From June through September, the country was hit with wave after wave of political earthquakes. The pressure to release the Epstein files exploded, only to be dodged by the House adjourning early in August, fleeing rather than face a vote. But, that's about to end. You can't run away forever. The Supreme Court handed Trump carte blanche in a series of rulings that elevated him above the law, free from constitutional constraint.
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a ruling that lets transgender and nonbinary citizens select their gender identity on passports. In a filing late Friday, government lawyers urged the justices to halt a lower court order that permits applicants to choose male, female, or X on their passports, rather than being bound by the sex recorded on their birth certificate.
The Supreme Court is expected to get a chance to take a second look at a landmark 2007 decision that paved the way for federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, power plants, and other sources. But this time, legal scholars say, a shift in the makeup of the court may lead to a much different outcome, one that could have far-reaching implications for the nation's battle against climate change.
A majority of Brazil's supreme court judges found the 70-year-old guilty on Thursday of masterminding a failed military coup designed to stop the leftwing winner of the 2022 election, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, taking office. Nowhere in the world has complete immunity against the virus of authoritarianism that creeps in insidiously, distilling its poison to contaminate freedoms and human rights, Justice Carmen Lucia Antunes Rocha told a courtroom in the capital, Brasilia, as she cast the deciding vote. Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison.
