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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow $4 billion in foreign aid cuts

The case marks a showdown over the president's power to unilaterally withhold funds allocated by Congress.
President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, 2025.
President Donald Trump during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, 2025.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett says country is not in a 'constitutional crisis'

Speaking to Free Press founder Bari Weiss to promote her new book, the conservative justice said the American people should trust the Supreme Court.
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justice law supreme court amy coney barrett

DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow Trump to fire FTC commissioner

The move directly challenges a 1935 court precedent that upheld restrictions on the president's power to remove FTC members without cause.
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter
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In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases

Judges tell NBC News the court needs to explain its rulings better, with some urging Chief Justice John Roberts to do more to defend the judiciary.

Trump appeals to the Supreme Court to preserve his sweeping tariffs

A federal appeals court ruled the president doesn't have the authority to set sweeping tariffs under the emergency powers law he invoked.
Image: President Trump Meets With His Cabinet At The White House
Image: President Trump Meets With His Cabinet At The White House

Louisiana urges Supreme Court to bar use of race in redistricting in attack on Voting Rights Act

The court filing is in response to the justices’ call for a new briefing and arguments in the Louisiana case, which they first heard earlier this year. Arguments will take place Oct. 15.
Jeff Landry
Jeff Landry

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt billions in foreign aid payments

The administration has made aggressive moves to gut the U.S. Agency for International Development, including placing much of its staff on leave.
Somali internally-displaced persons children look out from family's makeshift homes in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.
Somali internally-displaced persons children look out from family's makeshift homes in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.

Supreme Court allows Trump's cuts to health research grants over DEI policies

A federal judge had ruled that the more than $1 billion in cuts to research grants, like studies into HIV prevention, violated federal law.
National Institutes of Health headquarters.
National Institutes of Health headquarters.

Supreme Court allows Mississippi social media law requiring age verification for kids

Social media companies have argued such laws violate free speech rights of minors who can't get parental approval or don't want to verify their age.
Close up of a minor using cell phone
Close up of a minor using cell phone

Decade of Supreme Court rulings have given states more unfettered power in redistricting

The Voting Rights Act imposes some restraints, but the court has signaled it could further weaken the law that protects minority voters.
Texas Legislature Redistricting
Texas Legislature Redistricting

Supreme Court raises the stakes in a Louisiana redistricting case

The court ordered new briefing, suggesting it could be poised to further weaken the landmark Voting Rights Act.
Group photograph of the Supreme Court justices
Group photograph of the Supreme Court justices