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A mother’s claim that police used excessive force in the death of her son could change the way officers are held accountable in the future.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to allow President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship to take effect.
At issue before the Supreme Court is whether the federal statute barring gun ownership for unlawful drug users is similar enough to other historical restrictions on firearm possession. Credit - Cecilia Sanchez—AFP via .
Senator Lisa Murkowski joined Democrats in filing a Supreme Court brief challenging President Donald Trump’s tariff authority.
The United States Supreme Court is set to decide if a federal law that prohibits illegal drug users from owning guns is a violation of the Second Amendment of the constitution.• Video Above: What do the different “schedules” of drugs mean?
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Tennessee joins 24 states in Supreme Court brief on birthright citizenship
In a 30-page amicus brief, the coalition argues that the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause — which states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" are citizens — has been interpreted too broadly.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial.
Attorneys General from half of the United States, led by those from Tennessee and Iowa, filed a brief with the Supreme Court Friday challenging the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Kyle Hawkins to the state's highest court after a former justice said he wasn't seeking reelection earlier this year. Hawkins most recently served as part of the transition team to the Trump administration for the U.
For decades courts have used section two to protect the voting power of racial minorities when legislatures draw electoral-district maps. That era may soon end, however, and if it does, the change may offer Republicans new and potent possibilities for partisan gerrymandering to entrench party power.
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