WASHINGTON (AP) — A call to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide is on the agenda Friday for the justices’ closed-door conference. Among the new cases the justices are expected to consider is a longshot appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After the U.S. Supreme Court used a conservative legal principle called the “major questions” doctrine to blow holes in Democratic former President Joe Biden’s agenda, will Republican President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs suffer the same fate? That is a key question as the court decides the legality of tariffs that…
In early December, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in cases asking the justices to overrule two longstanding precedents – Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, a 1935 decision upholding a federal law that limits the president’s power to fire members of the Federal Trade Commission, and Federal Election Commission v. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign…
By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled their willingness on Wednesday during arguments in a case involving Louisiana electoral districts to undercut a key section of the Voting Rights Act, the landmark 1965 federal law enacted by Congress to prevent racial discrimination in voting. Arguments in the case…