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Justice Sonia Sotomayor grilled Solicitor General D. John Sauer on Monday over his argument that the president should be permitted to fire independent agency heads without cause, claiming such a ruling would be a radical change of the government’s current structure.
President Trump’s push to fire independent regulators led to a heated debate over the justices’ fundamental views on the structure of the government.
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For Once, the Supreme Court May Not Give Republicans What They Want
The Supreme Court appeared uncertain about whether it would strike down a major campaign-finance restriction during oral arguments on Tuesday, with some of the court’s conservative members questioning a right-wing push to do so.
When in power, Democrats champion the democratization of the only branch of government that's explicitly meant to be undemocratic: the courts.
Liberal justices used terms such as "destroy" and "monarchy" in warning what happens if Trump wins the case on a fired FTC employee.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability when the death penalty is on the table in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers to avoid execution if their IQ falls short of certain standards.
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Trump dismisses calls for Alito, Thomas to step down from Supreme Court, calling them ‘fantastic'
President Donald Trump calls Supreme Court justices Alito and Thomas "fantastic" amid calls for their retirement before the midterm elections.
The Supreme Court grappled on Wednesday with how courts consider multiple intelligence quotient tests when evaluating if a person is sufficiently intellectually disabled to be disqualified from the death penalty,
The dispute before the court involved a Republican effort to lift limits on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with candidates.