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The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States held that presidents receive broad immunity for certain official acts — absolute immunity for core presidential functions and at least presumptive immunity ...
The most credible allegation tied to Representative Jasmine Crockett’s “most publicized” lawsuit centers on an , but reporting is limited and inconsistent about any civil suit stemming from that incid...
The federal power to withhold or condition grants to states flows principally from the Spending Clause—Article I, Section 8—which gives Congress broad authority to spend for the “general Welfare” and ...
for evidence and immunity disputes in ’s criminal cases are a February 2024 opinion rejecting sweeping and the ’s July 1, 2024 decision that recognized at least presumptive and in some core instances ...
The ’s 6–3 decision in v. established a new constitutional framework granting former presidents absolute immunity for a narrow set of “core” presidential functions, presumptive immunity for a broader ...
Major episodes cited by critics as examples of Donald Trump “ignoring” court rulings center on aggressive enforcement choices and rapid executive actions that courts blocked or limited, most prominent...
The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States (July 1, 2024) holds that presidents receive broad immunity for some official acts—absolute immunity for “core” executive functions and presumpti...
’s decision in creates a clear doctrinal shift: candidates challenging rules that govern the counting of votes in their own elections now have at the threshold, which will on its face reduce the share...
The Supreme Court’s 2024–25 decision in Trump v. United States established a three-tiered immunity framework: absolute immunity for “core” or “exclusive” presidential powers, presumptive immunity for ...
The Supreme Court treated the citizenship-question fight as a mixed legal outcome: it recognized the Secretary of Commerce’s statutory authority to ask about citizenship but blocked the specific 2020 ...
The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States held that former presidents enjoy absolute criminal immunity for exercises of “core” presidential powers, presumptive immunity for other official acts, and ...
’s recent jurisprudence treats the as a constitutional and statutory obligation to enumerate “whole persons,” but it has not uniformly embraced efforts to exclude or to single out noncitizens; instead...
appointed by — and (with in the majority of other Trump‑appointed blocs)—have authored opinions since 2024 that reshaped discrete doctrines: Barrett wrote a key opinion constraining and directing lowe...
The Supreme Court held in Trump v. United States that former presidents enjoy at least presumptive immunity from federal criminal prosecution for "official acts" taken while in office and absolute imm...
The Supreme Court’s 2012 decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius upheld most of the Affordable Care Act by treating the individual mandate as a tax while simultaneously rul...
Two intertwined streams—administrative policy shifts (prioritization, moratoria, expansions of expedited removal and asylum restrictions) and high-stakes court rulings over those policies—drove much o...
The Supreme Court’s July 1, 2024 decision carved presidential acts into three immunity buckets — absolute for core constitutional functions, presumptive for acts within the “outer perimeter” of offici...
Two separate emergency Supreme Court orders determined when and to whom Donald Trump’s tax records could be released: the Court declined in February 2021 to halt turnover of Mazars-held records to Man...
No—there is no record in the reporting provided that the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Donald Trump to “pay” anything within 72 hours for tax fraud; the Supreme Court’s actions in the long-running disput...
The Supreme Court decided the pair of July 9, 2020 cases differently in emphasis: in Trump v. Vance the Court rejected a claim of absolute presidential immunity from a state criminal subpoena in a 7–2...