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Chair Jerome Powell refused to comment on the Supreme Court case that could impact President Trump's trade agenda, citing ongoing court proceedings.
The Supreme Court is considering whether President Trump should be able to fire the head of the Federal Trade Commission and other independent agencies without cause. We discuss why Congress created these independent agencies in the first place and the broader impact of the court eroding the 90-year-old precedent that protects them from presidential politics.
Congress has enacted limits on how much money a political committee can spend in coordination with a federal candidate.
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Supreme Court questions limits on political party spending in federal elections, hearing GOP appeal
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared to back a Republican-led drive, supported by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.
The Supreme Court’s ruling, expected by summer 2026, will determine whether the 14th Amendment secures what one brief calls a “sweeping…grant of U.S. citizenship” to virtually all people born on American soil, or whether, as critics argue, citizenship should instead depend on a “mutual recognition of allegiance” between family and state.
Updated on Dec. 10 at 10:37 a.m. The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered a challenge to a federal law limiting the amount of money that political parties can spend in […]
Alabama told the Supreme Court on Wednesday the state should be allowed to execute a man federal courts have repeatedly said was intellectually disabled.
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Supreme Court struggles over whether Alabama can execute man found to be intellectually disabled
The Supreme Court is taking up an appeal from Alabama, which wants to put to death a man who lower federal courts found is intellectually disabled and shielded from execution.
A federal judge deemed a government defendant's appeal "frivolous," and the state Supreme Court will have an abbreviated oral argument schedule next week.
The Supreme Court on Monday will grapple with President Donald Trump’s power to capture control of independent agencies in an important case that could reshape large swaths of the federal government and unwind a precedent that has been on the books since Franklin D.
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