The Supreme Court has rejected another challenge to former President Donald Trump’s ban on so-called bump stocks that allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire as rapidly as a machine gun. The ruling came on Nov. 14 after the court recognized a constitutional right to bear firearms in public for self-defense in a June decision striking…
Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenge to Trump-Era Bump Stock Ban
November 14, 2022
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Justice Samuel Alito Receives Standing Ovation for Overturning Abortion Ruling
November 11, 2022
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito received a standing ovation from a hall full of lawyers at a black-tie dinner on Nov. 10 for authoring the landmark legal decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 high court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. The court ruled 5–4 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June…
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Texas Man’s Appeal Against Identify Theft Conviction in Medicaid Fraud Case
The Supreme Court agreed Nov. 10 to hear the appeal of a Texas man convicted of health care fraud who argues that he was unjustly separately convicted under a federal aggravated identity theft law because a form he filed contained a patient’s name. The granting of the single petition on Nov. 10 was unexpected. The…
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Texas Man’s Appeal Against Identity Theft Conviction in Medicaid Fraud Case
The Supreme Court agreed Nov. 10 to hear the appeal of a Texas man convicted of health care fraud who argues that he was unjustly separately convicted under a federal aggravated identity theft law because a form he filed contained a patient’s name. The granting of the single petition on Nov. 10 was unexpected. The…
Supreme Court’s Sotomayor Denies Big Apple Workers’ Bid to Halt Vaccination Mandate
November 10, 2022
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor turned away an emergency application Nov. 10 to halt New York City’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate that applies to firefighters, police officers, and other government employees. The workers were fired after the city refused their request to be exempted on religious grounds. Many people who object to the various COVID-19 vaccines…
Supreme Court’s Sotomayor Denies NYC Workers’ Bid to Halt Vaccination Mandate
November 10, 2022
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor turned away an emergency application on Nov. 10 to halt New York City’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate that applies to firefighters, police officers, and other government employees. The appeal was from workers who were fired after the city refused their requests to be exempted on religious grounds. Many people object to…
Biden Administration Tells Supreme Court to Let House Democrats have Trump’s Taxes
President Joe Biden’s administration is urging the Supreme Court to let House Democrats get access to former President Donald Trump’s tax documents. In a 30-page brief filed Nov. 10, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said that earlier rulings finding House Democrats’ request had legitimate legislative intent were correct, and that the nation’s top court should not…
Biden Administration Defends Racially Discriminatory Adoption Law at Supreme Court
A federal law aimed at preventing non-Indian families from adopting Native American children is discriminatory and unconstitutional and should be struck down, parents told the Supreme Court on Nov. 9. The Biden administration supported the federal law at the court sitting, while a lawyer representing Texas argued the federal law filled with racial-preference standards is…
Goodbye Affirmative Action, Hello Individual Freedom and Dignity
Commentary The Supreme Court just heard arguments in the case Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. It’s about affirmative action—universities using race and ethnicity in their admissions policies. Students for Fair Admissions argues that both universities violate the U.S. Constitution in their discriminatory admissions policies….
Indiana Tells Supreme Court That Nursing Home Patient on Medicaid Had No Right to Sue Over Mistreatment
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Nov. 8 of an Indiana-based government health care provider’s argument that the family of a Medicaid-eligible nursing home patient was barred by federal law from suing to enforce the man’s legal rights. Some legal commentators say if the provider wins, Medicaid patients will lose the ability to enforce Medicaid treatment…
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