The American Founders would be appalled. That's the message from Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, who issued blistering dissents today accusing Chief Justice John Roberts of dragging the nation back to medieval serfdom with his majority opinion on birthplace citizenship.
Several lawmakers are calling for Congress to pass a constitutional amendment banning birthright citizenship in the wake of the Supreme Court permitting the policy.
The Supreme Court struck down a longstanding federal restriction on political party spending Tuesday, ruling that parties may now spend unlimited sums in coordination with their own candidates, as long as they otherwise comply with existing campaign finance law.
The Supreme Court issued a crushing blow to election integrity efforts, ruling 5-4 that a Mississippi law allowing mail-in ballots received after Election Day for federal elections may be counted.
The Supreme Court refused Monday to take up President Trump's appeal in his defamation fight with writer E. Jean Carroll, leaving a $5 million judgment against him intact and clearing one more legal hurdle for Carroll.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police cannot use mass location data sweeps to identify criminal suspects without violating the Fourth Amendment, handing down a 6-3 decision that curbs a growing law enforcement tool known as a geofence warrant.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that President Trump acted lawfully when he fired two Democratic Federal Trade Commission commissioners last year, handing the administration a sweeping victory that dismantles nearly a century of limits on presidential removal power.
