The U.S. Supreme Court on June 26 declined to hear the defense by a North Carolina public charter school that was blocked from requiring female students to wear skirts in school. The justices turned away an appeal from the Charter Day School in Leland, North Carolina, and left in place a decision by a lower…
US Supreme Court Turns Away Case on Charter School’s Mandatory Skirts for Girls
Alabama Governor Calls Special Session After Supreme Court’s 5–4 Decision
The Alabama legislature will initiate a special session in the coming weeks to redraw the state’s congressional districts after a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling, according to an announcement from Gov. Kay Ivey. Earlier this month, in a 5–4 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that the state’s congressional district likely violated the Voting Rights Act…
Biden Says He’s ‘Not Big on Abortion’ as a Catholic
President Joe Biden said at a fundraiser on Tuesday that, being a “practicing Catholic,” he’s “not big on abortion,” though he was critical of state laws restricting abortion, according to The Hill. His schedule included two campaign reception events in Chevy Chase, Maryland. “I’m a practicing Catholic. I’m not big on abortion, but guess what?…
Supreme Court Rejects Republican Effort to Empower State Lawmakers in Making Election Rules
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 against North Carolina Republicans who argued that state legislatures have sweeping authority to make the rules for federal elections in the states without interference from the courts. At issue is the once-obscure independent state legislature doctrine, under which Republicans argue that the Constitution has always directly authorized state legislatures…
Supreme Court Poised to Issue Blockbuster Rulings This Week
The Supreme Court is poised this week to issue a series of rulings covering the hot-button issues of affirmative action, student loan forgiveness, the intersection of religious freedom with free speech and employment law, and how much power state legislatures should have in the congressional redistricting process. It was this month last year that the…
Texas Supreme Court Rules ERCOT is Immune From Lawsuits Over 2021 Deadly Winter Storm
The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has sovereign immunity from lawsuits. In a split decision, the Supreme Court ruled that ERCOT qualifies as a government entity and cannot be sued for Winter Storm Uri in February 2021, which left millions of Texans without power for days and…
Florida Supreme Court Says State Attorney Waited Too Long To File Case Against DeSantis
June 26, 2023
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State attorney Andrew Warren’s latest push to overturn Governor Ron DeSantis’s decision to suspend him from his job has been struck down by the Florida Supreme Court. Warren is a twice-elected Democrat in Hillsborough County, which contains a large part of the Tampa Bay region. He has argued that the Republican governor misused his power…
Supreme Court Rejects Music Lawsuit Accusing Google of Stealing Song Lyrics
June 26, 2023
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by music website Genius Media Group after a lower court threw out its lawsuit against Alphabet, the parent company of Google, for stealing millions of song transcripts. On June 26, Supreme Court left in place a ruling that dismissed the suit by Genius, which accused Google…
Federal Judge Blocks Florida’s Law Banning Children at Drag Shows
June 26, 2023
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A federal judge dealt Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s “war on woke’” a setback on Friday. U.S. district judge Gregory A. Presnell blocked the DeSantis administration from enforcing its new law protecting minors from exposure to drag shows. Presnell also denied a motion by Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office to dismiss a lawsuit by HM Florida-ORL.,…
Supreme Court to Decide Scope of Congress’s Taxing Power
June 26, 2023
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The Supreme Court agreed on June 26 to consider a challenge to an arguably unconstitutional wealth tax that was levied on capital gains a Washington state couple never received. The Mandatory Repatriation Tax, also known as the Section 965 Transition Tax, was part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed by the then-Republican-controlled Congress…
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