The US Supreme Court split, 6-3, Friday in ruling that President Donald Trump cannot use a federal emergency powers law to impose tariffs.
The US Supreme Court overturned Friday a controversial 40-year-old precedent that called for courts to defer to government agencies’ interpretations when considering ambiguous laws. The end of so-called “Chevron deference” arrives as North Carolina’s top court prepares to consider its own deference case.
Had left-leaning justices gone along with conservative stalwart Clarence Thomas, they might have secured a better outcome for upcoming election disputes.
Three days after its ruling in North Carolina’s Moore v. Harper redistricting case, the U,S. Supreme Court has ordered Ohio’s top court to apply that ruling to a Buckeye State battle over a congressional election map.
In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the use of race in admissions policies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University.
The U.S. Supreme Court has voted 6-3 to affirm the N.C. Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling against a congressional map drawn by a Republican-led legislature. Tuesday’s decision in Moore v. Harper could have little practical impact, since the state’s highest court overturned its 2022 ruling in April.
Not surprisingly, the leak of a draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ignited a firestorm of protests and media coverage. Most of the media coverage—and all of the protests—have focused on the reasoning and outcome of the draft. But there’s another aspect to the story: the apparent erosion of confidentiality and trust at the Supreme...
In a landmark victory for N.C. Republican lawmakers, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled gerrymandered congressional districts are a political issue, which federal courts should not decide as a matter of law. In writing the 5-4 majority opinion for Common Cause v. Rucho, Chief Justice John Roberts said drawing district boundaries inevitably and intentionally includes...
