The Supreme Court has upheld a law banning TikTok in the United States, paving the way for the platform to go dark on Sunday. The justices ruled today that the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act is constitutional, rejecting TikTok’s argument that it violates the First Amendment. The ruling was unanimous. …
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It’s not every day that the highest court in the land talks about the constitutional laws around pornography, but such cases have regularly made for landmark rulings. And should today’s Supreme Court arguments about an age-verification law for websites like Pornhub go down in history, future legal scholars will be …
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Donald Trump’s winning streak at the Supreme Court has come to an end. Today, the conservative-dominated panel announced it won’t block the president-elect’s sentencing in his New York criminal trial. Trump was convicted in his hush-money case in May. He was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business …
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TikTok could be banned in the United States in a little over a week. Its last hope to stay in app stores is the Supreme Court, which on Friday heard oral arguments in the massively popular platform’s case to block the law that could lead to its digital excommunication. The …
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In his first term as president, Donald Trump built a conservative 6-3 supermajority on the Supreme Court. Ever since, the nation’s highest court has repeatedly issued increasingly extreme, far-right decisions on topics of abortion, race, the environment, corruption, and much more. The Supreme Court has eliminated federal protections for abortion …
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President-elect Donald Trump, who signed an executive order in 2020 that threatened to ban the use of TikTok, urged the Supreme Court to let him “save” the social media platform. A nationwide TikTok ban is set to go into effect starting Jan. 19, if its Chinese parent company doesn’t sell …
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On the morning of December 10, a rare thick white fog enveloped Washington, D.C., creating an ominous tenor for the day. As I disembarked from the metro at Union Station, I followed a group of young Capitol Hill staffers up the hill and into the gloom. Some broke off to …
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About 100 cities have banned people from sleeping outside since June when the Supreme Court ruled that a city in Oregon was allowed to criminalize homelessness despite a lack of public shelters. The policy has support from politicians across the country, Democrats and Republicans alike. As housing becomes more expensive …
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A new 20-month Senate investigation into ethical conflicts and legal violations at the Supreme Court has uncovered and underscored a raft of dubious behavior by justices both living — and dead. The new 95-page report reveals that deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — who expired in 2016 on a …
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Supreme Court Justice (and theater fanatic) Ketanji Brown Jackson made her Broadway debut over the weekend. As she joined & Juliet on Saturday, Jackson made history by becoming the first member of the Supreme Court to perform on Broadway. The Justice appeared in a one-night-only role during Saturday night’s showing …
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