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TikTok Begs Supreme Court for Emergency Order to Prevent US Ban

TikTok has submitted a request to the Supreme Court to beg for an emergency order to prevent the social media app from being banned in the United States next month. Attorneys for TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance are requesting that the high court intervene on an urgent basis…

Supreme Court Refuses to Stop Affirmative Action in Boston schools

The Supreme Court has tossed a case seeking to prevent schools in Boston, Massachusetts from using race-based affirmative action for admissions. The case was an appeal from white and Asian parents whose kids faced racial discrimination from Boston's elite high schools. The refusal to review the appeal is a shocking…

Biden’s Justice Department Requests Court Deny TikTok’s Effort to Avoid Ban

Social media platform TikTok is appealing to the United States Supreme Court in an attempt to delay a bill that would ban the popular app. On Wednesday, the lame-duck President Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ) requested a federal appeals court step in to deny this move. Last Thursday, the…

Senators Manchin and Welch Propose Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices

Senator Peter Welch (D-VT) and outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) have proposed adding term limits for Supreme Court justices. The change would require a constitutional amendment as justices are currently appointed for life, Fox News reported. Like everything else in politics, the Supreme Court has increasingly become a target of…

Supreme Court Deals Major Blow to Green Card Fraud in Unanimous Decision

The United States Supreme Court unanimously upheld the authority of the government to revoke visas for fraudulent marriages. The high court found that such decisions fall within the discretion of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and cannot be reviewed by courts. The case was brought by Amina Bouarfa, a…

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch Steps Aside from Environmental Regulation Case

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is stepping aside from an upcoming case about environmental regulation. Gorsuch will not hear the case due to an apparent undisclosed conflict. On December 10, the court will wade into a legal battle over a proposed railway project in rural Utah, the Uinta Basin Rail.…

Republican States Ask U.S Supreme Court to Protect Women’s Sports

The attorneys general of 24 Republican states have called on the United States Supreme Court to protect women's and girls' sports from radical leftist ideology. The state AGs are asking the high court to stop allowing males in female sports. The move is just the latest shot in a culture…

Supreme Court Green Lights Multi-Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta

The Supreme Court has given the green light for a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit to proceed against Mark Zuckerberg's Meta. Facebook's parent Meta is being sued over the massive privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm. Earlier this month, the justices heard arguments in Meta’s bid to shut down the…

Supreme Court Rejects First Amendment Appeal in Jan 6 Case

The Supreme Court rejected the appeal of a Jan. 6 defendant who challenged his conviction related to charges stemming from the Capitol protests in 2021. John Nassif, the defendant who filed the appeal, was convicted on charges of “parading, picketing, and demonstrating” at the Capitol. The misdemeanor charge is one…

Justice Sotomayor Refuses Democrat Demands to Step Down So Biden Can Replace Her

Justice Sonia Sotomayor is refusing to comply with Democrat demands that she step down from the Supreme Court so President Joe Biden can replace her before his term ends. Democrats are demanding that 70-year-old Sotomayor, who has type 1 diabetes, step aside for a younger liberal nominee before President Donald…