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🚨 BREAKING — HUGE SCOTUS WIN: The US Supreme Court just ruled in favor of President Trump RESTARTING swift deportations of illegal aliens to third countries for now, 6-3 Those are countries where the illegal is NOT from to make the process faster and get them out. The 3 liberals dissented, of course. MASS DEPORTATIONS WIN AGAIN 🔥 HUGE blow to activist judges and leftist pro-illegal alien groups who tried holding up this policy in court! The court says that oral arguments for this will be held later this year.

It's that time of the year again where we start watching all the new petitions being filed before the Supreme Court as we track them through the briefing and conference schedule. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses the 57 firearms cases that were scheduled for conference just yesterday so that you can get a flavor of what's before the court already. From the usual suspects that we see every year, to some very nuanced and creative arguments, this year's docket so far is packed with important cases. Today, we start highlighting some of the matters we should probably start...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday removed obstacles to the Trump administration deporting certain immigrants to “third countries” to which they have no previous connection. The justices, with the court’s three liberals dissenting, granted an emergency request filed by the government seeking to block an appeals court ruling that said the current process is unlawful because the affected people are not given a proper chance to raise concerns about safety risks in violation of federal immigration law. In the brief unsigned order, the court also said it would hear oral arguments in December and issue a definitive ruling on...

The Supreme Court on Monday announced that Justice Samuel Alito will not continue to participate in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, a significant dispute that will be argued in just one week, on Monday, Oct. 5, the first day of the 2026-27 term. Scott Harris, the clerk of the Supreme Court, revealed Alito’s last-minute recusal in a short letter to advocates involved in the case. Harris’ note does not provide an explanation for the decision, saying simply that “Justice Alito has determined that he will not continue to participate.” In Suncor Energy, the court is considering...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Trump administration to use an expanded federal database containing citizenship information, as the president encourages states to purge people from voter rolls. The justices, divided 6-3 on ideological lines with conservatives in the majority, granted an emergency request filed by the government after lower courts ruled that the Trump administration’s changes to the database were likely unlawful. Critics have said the data is unreliable and could lead to U.S. citizens being kicked off the voter rolls. But the court noted in its unsigned ruling that the National Voter Registration Act bars...

The Supreme Court cleared the way on Friday for the Trump administration to implement its overhauled immigration database, which it says is aimed at combatting voter fraud, in time for November’s elections over the dissent of the liberal justices.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett quick shut down an offer to respond to President Donald Trump's flurry of public attacks against the high court, saying she 'does not want' to talk about anything the commander-in-chief has to say. Her remarks came just days after Trump excoriated Justice Barrett and two of her conservative colleagues, Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, for blocking his effort to crack down on mail-in voting in the fast-approaching midterm elections. Just two justices - Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito - sided with the Trump administration in the case, prompting the president to unleash fury...

They tell SCOTUS that Washington's youth shelter laws, which hide and withhold runaways from parents who object to so-called gender affirming care, are "classic" example of a political majority targeting a minority, as late justice feared. Among the many battles between parents and governments, from public education to public health, none may be as consequential as when the state withholds children from their parents for not affirming the minors' gender confusion, for religious or other reasons. Yet parents of potential and actual runaways from the Pacific to the Rockies may never get to press their First and Fourteenth amendment rights...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a landmark decision just weeks before people head to the polls to vote in the midterms, the United States Supreme Court ruled that securing elections was unconstitutional. Despite efforts from the Trump administration to secure U.S. elections by restricting mail-in ballots and ensuring only citizens would be allowed to vote, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that declared any attempt to prevent widespread fraud from rigging elections to be a clear violation of the Constitution. "Making sure elections are legal is illegal," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the majority opinion. "There is no provision in the...

President Donald Trump raged against the Supreme Court’s decision to reject mail-in voting restrictions pushed by his administration on Tuesday, insisting the move “really let our country down.” In a lengthy Truth Social post, Trump insisted the move creates an “open field” for “Dumocrats” to cheat in elections: Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting “disaster,” which is a laughing stock all...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump ’s mail ballot restrictions for now, capping a flurry of last-minute legal action with voting in the midterm elections already underway. The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots under the same processes they’ve used for years. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the brief order. Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed that the restrictions should not go into effect for the midterms but indicated he might rule in favor of the Trump administration later. The Trump administration had asked the court, once again at the center of a...

The Supreme Court today rejected a last-ditch effort by Missouri Republicans to use a newly drawn congressional map, which was designed to maximize their political power, for this year’s midterm elections. In a brief order issued by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the court left in place a Missouri Supreme Court ruling from last week that said the map could not be used while a ballot initiative moves forward that could lead to the redrawn map being tossed out by voters. Kavanaugh handles emergency requests that arise from Missouri. The 2025 Republican redistricting plan, part of a wave prompted by Trump, was...

The construction of a massive White House ballroom is moving full steam ahead after the Supreme Court found a historic preservation group likely had no right to stop it. "We have a lot of very happy construction workers," President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. The $400 million project on the site of the former East Wing, he said, was "under budget and ahead of schedule." * * * The Supreme Court's majority held in the ballroom case that one member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's "mere offense, disagreement, or distaste" was not enough to...

The Supreme Court could decide multiple Second Amendment cases as appeals accelerated since it decided two cases about gun rights in June. The Supreme Court agreed to hear Viramontes v. Cook County on June 30, and announced Friday the hearing would occur on Dec.2, taking up a Second Amendment challenge to a ban on modern semiautomatic firearms passed by the Illinois locality days after issuing rulings on two Second Amendment cases. The high court, though, received four petitions asking it to hear cases since the end of July, while it has considered taking up one case for a record number...

A group of Democratic congressional candidates urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to reject an effort by Republican Senate and House campaign committees to halt an appeals court ruling finding coordinated advertisement buys between political parties and joint fundraising committees are not entitled to cheaper candidate rates. The National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee filed an emergency petition to the Supreme Court earlier this week asking the court to halt the order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and restore the cheap ad buy rates for parties and joint fundraising committees. Lawyers...

A petition asking the Supreme Court to hear a Second Amendment case from a trucker argued that Minnesota’s refusal to honor out-of-state concealed carry permits violated the constitutional provision protecting the right to keep and bear arms.Liberty Justice Center first filed the lawsuit in January 2025 against Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jacobson over the state’s refusal to recognize the out-of-state permits of two truck drivers, David A. McCoy II and Jeffrey A. Johnson Sr. In the petition filed Aug. 24, the group claimed Minnesota’s approach was turning the Second Amendment into a “second-class right.”The Second Amendment is...

Another summer has come and gone, which means that the U.S. Supreme Court is gearing up for yet another blockbuster term. Like those before it, this year’s docket is piling up with cases touching on some of the biggest policy issues in American society. From religious liberty to parental rights, here is a breakdown of the biggest legal battles set to be argued before the high court during its 2026-2027 term.

The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Monday that construction of the White House ballroom can continue, lifting a block on above-ground work as President Trump asserts the project is necessary for national security. It halts a lower court ruling that would’ve restricted construction until Congress provided additional approvals. Five of the court’s conservative justices, including all three of Trump’s appointees — Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — sided with the president. They ruled a preservationist group likely has no right to sue over one of its members’ concerns about the project. Chief...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Monday in a case over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much can be implemented before the fast-approaching midterm elections.The decision leaves room for additional court challenges that could further slow Trump's order, and other similar cases have already been filed. The U.S. Postal Service laid out how it would implement the order last week, but time is running short to impose major changes with some states beginning to send mail ballots to voters in just a few weeks.The court's conservative majority...

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with President Donald Trump for now in his effort to impose sweeping new restrictions on distributing mail ballots, putting on hold a lower-court ruling that had blocked key parts of the plan ahead of November’s midterm elections. The justices, over three dissents, paused a ruling by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston that prevented the Trump administration from carrying out portions of a March executive order involving the U.S. Postal Service and voter eligibility lists.