Supreme Court won’t redefine American citizenship at Trump’s request
“The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. “We keep that promise today.”
Gun advocates have doggedly petitioned the Supreme Court for a review of assault weapons bans despite the justices’ reluctance to put the issue on their docket until now.
“The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land,’” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. “We keep that promise today.”
The Trump administration had vowed not to enforce coordinated expenditure limits, but a relic of the vice president’s Senate tenure gave Republicans an opportunity to nix the regulation for good.
With three of his nominees on the seven-member board, President Trump would have a majority if his predecessor’s appointee is nixed by the justices.
In dissent, the three liberal justices admonished their colleagues for giving presidents “a power unknown even to the English crown against which the founders revolted.”
Under federal law, Republicans argued that all ballots must be counted on Election Day — not five days later.
Despite scant evidence of noncitizen voting, Republicans are pushing for citizenship checks on voters in federal elections.
The president claims jurors in his civil defamation and sexual abuse trial shouldn't have seen evidence of other sexual assault charges, including the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape.