Birthright citizenship on line. Supreme Court to decide
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The Supreme Court debated limits on presidential power to fire FTC board members, signaling a potential shift in agency independence.
A bedrock legal doctrine called "stare decisis," Latin for "to stand by things decided," calls upon courts to respect their prior precedents when resolving new cases on similar matters. A basic tenet of U.S. law is that stare decisis promotes consistency and predictability in the law.
The court’s conservative majority seemed ready to overturn or strictly limit a landmark decision from 1935 in a case dealing with President Trump’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission.
SCOTUS is considering whether to overturn a 90-year precedent limiting when presidents can fire board members of federal agencies.
A Tennessee license plate was revoked because it may have referred to sexual domination. The Supreme Court has declined to weigh in.
The dispute before the court involved a Republican effort to lift limits on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with candidates.
President Donald Trump warned that the Supreme Court ruling against him in a key case on his power to apply tariffs would be the “biggest threat in history to United States National Security”. “We would be financially defenseless,
The Supreme Court will take up Trump-related cases in its new term, as well as cases dealing with gay and transgender issues and campaigns.