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2nd court blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order
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Trump has racked up a nearly unbroken string of Supreme Court wins on emergency appeals. Justice Kagan said the court should explain those decisions.
The Trump administration came once again to the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon and asked the justices to pause an order by a federal court in Massachusetts that would require […]
In remarks before judges and lawyers in California, the justice said she believed the court had a responsibility to share its reasoning.
Justice Elena Kagan, the second-longest-serving liberal on the Supreme Court, decried threats to judges, vitriolic reactions to rulings and the defiance of court orders.
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A divided federal appeals court on Thursday said California's first-of-its-kind law requiring firearm owners to undergo background checks to buy ammunition is unconstitutional, violating the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
A judge had reinstated three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, a federal agency set up by Congress to be independent of political pressure.
Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges in an appeal of damages owed to a gay couple after denying them a marriage license.
Justices granted emergency request from the DOJ, which argued the president has authority to remove commissioners without cause.