This page addresses some of the questions about orders and opinion announcements that we have commonly received during our live blogs. ORDERS. Question: What do you mean by orders? Answer: When we talk about orders or the order list, we are usually referring to the actions that the court took at its most recent conference, which are reflected in a document (the order list) that the court ...

This election explainer was written by Amy Howe.It is part of SCOTUSblog’s 2020 Election Litigation Tracker, a joint project with Election Law at Ohio State.. When the losing side in a case decided by a federal court of appeals (or a state’s highest court) wants the Supreme Court to weigh in, it files a brief (known as a “petition for certiorari” or a “cert petition”) asking the ...

Jun 28, 2024 · This article was updated on June 28 at 3:46 p.m. In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretion of ambiguous laws. The decision will likely have far-

Jan 29, 2025 · SCOTUS NEWS Supreme Court will weigh in on effort to found nation’s first religious charter school. By Amy Howe on Jan. 24 at 5:49 p.m.. On Friday afternoon, the justices agreed to consider a Catholic school’s effort to become the nation’s first religious charter school after the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected the move on the grounds that it would violate the Constitution by using ...

Jun 28, 2024 · This article was updated on June 28 at 4:22 p.m. The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the charges against a former Pennsylvania police officer who entered the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks. By a vote of 6-3, the justices ruled that the law that Joseph Fischer was charged with vio

Issues: (1) Whether Congress violated the nondelegation doctrine by authorizing the Federal Communications Commission to determine, within the limits set forth in 47 U.S.C. § 254, the amount that providers must contribute to the Universal Service Fund; (2) whether the FCC violated the nondelegation doctrine by using the financial projections of the private company appointed as the fund's ...

Jan 1, 2021 · Correction appended. The Constitution gives the president the power “to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment.” In the days before Christmas, President Donald Trump used this power to pardon or commute the sentences of over 40 people, i

This election explainer was written by Amy Howe.It is part of SCOTUSblog’s 2020 Election Litigation Tracker, a joint project with Election Law at Ohio State.. Election litigation usually moves quickly. Often, a lower court will issue a preliminary ruling mere days or weeks before an election (or an important event related to the election, like the mailing of absentee ballots), leaving little ...

Date Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding); Sep 11 2024: Application (24A256) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from September 24, 2024 to October 11, 2024, submitted to Justice Alito.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Chief Justice John Glover Roberts Jr. was born on January 27, 1955. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976, and Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review, in 1979.