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WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the closely divided House of Representatives. The court’s order is the latest twist in the nation’s mid-decade redistricting competition. It was kicked off last year by President Donald Trump urging Republican-controlled states to redraw their lines and was supercharged by a recent Supreme Court ruling severely weakening the Voting Rights Act that opened up even more winnable seats for the GOP.

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision allowing the abortion pill to continue to be dispensed through the mail as a Louisiana lawsuit proceeds. Key Takeaways: * The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision on May 14 stating that the abortion pill can continue to be dispensed through the mail as Louisiana's lawsuit proceeds. * Following the filing of a lawsuit by the State of Louisiana that sought to reverse the FDA's 2023 changes to abortion pill regulations, the Fifth Circuit paused mail order dispensing. * The abortion pill manufacturer Danco Laboratories filed an emergency application before the...

Jay Jones, the Virginia attorney general who fantasized about executing a Republican colleague and wished death on his children, has not developed a reputation for thoughtful reflection. So perhaps it’s unsurprising that, in his typographically-challenged frenzy to salvage Virginia Democrats’ gerrymandering efforts, he has accidentally made a case to the U.S. Supreme Court against the months-long “election season” that his fellow Democrats prize. The only thing that could make the cosmic irony sweeter would be the Supreme Court taking Jones up on his request to interpret the Constitution as mandating a single Election Day. The Virginia Constitution requires constitutional referendums,...

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito had some choice words for their Supreme Court colleagues on Thursday over their “remarkable” decision “undermin[ing]” the court’s historic Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. The stinging rebukes came in an order the high court handed down to temporarily pause an appellate court ruling that halted a Biden-era FDA rule allowing the mailing of mifepristone to women without an in-person doctor visit. In agreeing to halt the policy, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals found that the FDA’s “progressive relaxation of mifepristone’s guardrails likely lacked a basis in data and scientific literature,” and noted...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Tennessee judge has denied a request for a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit over the state's new congressional districts, court documents show. Judge William L. Campbell, Jr., the Chief U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, issued the order on Thursday. In it, Campbell said the reasons for the denial would be in a "forthcoming Memorandum." Additionally, Campbell's order also canceled a hearing set for May 20. The lawsuit was filed by multiple Tennessee Democrats, including the current representative for District 9, Steve Cohen, as well as the Tennessee Democratic Party following the...

The Supreme Court decided Thursday to allow women to have access to the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth visits as the issue makes it way through lower courts. The high court previously placed a pause on an appeals court decision that would block access to the abortion drug amid an ongoing lawsuit, which was set to expire Thursday. Conservative Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the order, which granted emergency requests brought by drugmakers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro seeking to block the appeals court ruling, per NBC News. The case involves mifepristone, one of the two...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ensured that the abortion pill mifepristone can continue to be available by mail without an in-person appointment with a clinician. A ruling by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on May 1 had imperiled widespread access to the pill. Now, the Supreme Court has granted emergency requests brought by drugmakers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro seeking to block that ruling. The decision, a loss for the state of Louisiana, ensures there will not be any disruption to the availability of the drug as litigation continues. On May 4, in an order...

We're making our roads safe one way or another. The Supreme Court just handed down a ruling which will make trucking companies shake in their boots while billboard lawyers are dancing in the streets. This expands your ability to sue freight companies if they hire trucking companies with bad safety ratings and cause a car accident. Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC looked at a law called the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act, which bans states from imposing economic regulations (like rate controls, routing mandates, or service requirements) that could affect with the interstate flow of goods. The law, however,...

The Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in Montgomery v. Caribe Transport II, LLC, this morning. It was unanimous. Nine to zero. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the opinion. Justice Brett Kavanaugh filed a concurrence, joined by Justice Samuel Alito, saying the case was closer than the majority opinion suggested, but agreeing with the result. A negligent-hiring claim against a freight broker is not preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act. The FAAAA’s safety exception, 49 U.S.C. Section 14501(c)(2)(A), saves it. States retain authority to regulate safety “with respect to motor vehicles,” and require a...

The Supreme Court will be releasing Opinions this morning at 10:00.Scotusblog will be liveblogging the opinion release and we will be following along.There are opinions pending in 35 cases from the October 2025 term. A list of cases from this term can be found here.One case of interest is Trump v. Slaughter Issues: (1) Whether the statutory removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission violate the separation of powers and, if so, whether Humphrey’s Executor v. United States should be overruled. (2) Whether a federal court may prevent a person’s removal from public office, either through relief at...

The 6th Circuit upheld that 158-year-old law, while the 5th Circuit concluded it could not be justified as a revenue measure. If you search for "home still" on Amazon, you will see a wide variety of contraptions designed to separate and concentrate a liquid mixture's most volatile components. Many of them are explicitly advertised as appliances designed to produce alcoholic beverages such as whiskey, brandy, gin, and vodka. But if you bought one of those products with the intent to use it for that purpose, you would be committing a federal felony. The federal ban on home production of distilled...

The Supreme Court is continuing its agenda to allow states to impose race-neutral congressional district maps with a decision to allow Alabama to abandon a plan adopted by a lower court that demanded two black-majority districts, and the 6-3 majority left Sonia Sotomayor seething in rage. She claimed, as part of the minority, "The court today unceremoniously discards the district court's meticulously documented and supported discriminatory-intent finding and careful remedial order without any sound basis for doing so and without regard for the confusion that will surely ensue. As with all vacaturs of this kind from this court, the district...

State Rep. Juandalynn Givan (D-Birmingham) called U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Associate Justice Clarence Thomas an "Uncle Tom" and the "one who sold us out in Africa" after a recent redistricting ruling on Monday. SCOTUS struck down a 2023 federal court-ordered Alabama congressional map on Monday. The ruling paves the way for Republicans in Alabama to likely pick up at least one congressional seat in the 2026 midterms. Republicans currently have a narrow majority in Congress, and redistricting battles are happening in multiple states across the nation. A special master hired by a three-judge panel in Birmingham redrew the map for...

Judges in the American system, of course, do not make policy. But since the 1960s, when Joe Biden graduated law school by the skin of teeth, the progressive movement has viewed the courts as the primary vehicle for social change. And before Justice Jackson had completed her first day in her new position, the president who put her there made clear what was expected of her. Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee that March, Jackson, then a Court of Appeals judge, denied any desire to graft her views onto the law. 'I do not believe that there is a Living...

The Democrats have not been sending their best people for a long time, but at least they can avoid the errors an elementary school child makes. Not disgraced Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, however. As The Gateway Pundit reported, the Virginia Supreme Court overturned the Democrat Party’s rigged gerrymandering referendum last week in a 4-3 decision, ruling the entire sleazy process to sneak it onto the ballot was unconstitutional from the start. This was the latest devastating blow to radical Democrats’ blatant attempt to rewrite Virginia’s congressional maps mid-decade and hand themselves a super-majority in the U.S. House by turning...

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the liability order in Mississippi’s state Supreme Court judicial redistricting case. The move comes after the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais where the nation’s highest court struck down Louisiana’s congressional redistricting that added a new majority-minority district, saying that lawmakers relied too heavily on race. The high court’s 6-3 ruling deemed racial gerrymandering unconstitutional as it had been practiced under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Section 2 was being used as the justification for U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock’s order that mandated the redrawing of Mississippi’s...

Good News: Dems managed to spell Virginia correctly. Bad News: They sent their emergency application to SCOTUS to the wrong court. Baby steps.

🚨 BREAKING: Supreme Court just SLAMMED the libs – 6-3 decision vacates the ridiculous order forcing Alabama to draw TWO majority-Black districts! Alabama is officially MORE MAGA now. No more race-based gerrymandering to rig elections for Democrats. The Trump-era Supreme Court is delivering REAL justice and colorblind fairness. Liberals are melting down because they can't cheat with skin color anymore. America First wins again! 🇺🇸💪

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has allowed the state of Alabama to move forward with their choice to redraw their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. BREAKING: The Supreme Court of the United States has just CLEARED THE WAY for Alabama to redraw their Congressional maps AHEAD of the 2026 midterms, 6-3 Another MASSIVE WIN for Republicans! 🔥 Go ALL THE WAY, Alabama GOP! We want a 7R-0D map — NOT 6R-1D. GET IT DONE! pic.twitter.com/dZDGk02wYR — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 11, 2026 The U.S. Supreme Court has vacated a lower court ruling requiring Alabama to...