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October 8, 2025 | Supreme Court Stays Order Blocking Roving Immigration Patrols in CA

Category: Supreme Court Decisions

SCOTUS Grants Death Row Inmate New Trial in Glossip v. Oklahoma

SCOTUS Grants Death Row Inmate New Trial in Glossip v. Oklahoma

In Glossip v. Oklahoma, 604 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted death row inmate Richard Glossip a new trial. The Court ruled that a new trial was warranted because prosecutors violated their obligation to correct false testimony, and t...

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SCOTUS Allows Termination of Dept of Education Employees

SCOTUS Allows Termination of Dept of Education Employees

In McMahon v. New York, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to stay a district court order requiring the government to reinstate Department of Education employees fired as part of a reduction in force. Facts of the Case On Marc...

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Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law

Supreme Court Upholds Texas Age-Verification Law

In Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring online publishers with a significant amount of sexually explicit content to verify the age of their users. By a vote of 6-3, the just...

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Student Disability Claims are Not Held to a Heightened Standard

Student Disability Claims are Not Held to a Heightened Standard

In A.J.T. v. Osseo Area Schools, Independent School District No. 279, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that schoolchildren bringing claims related to their education under either Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act or Se...

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SCOTUS Rejects Non-Delegation Challenge to FCC Telecom Access Program

SCOTUS Rejects Non-Delegation Challenge to FCC Telecom Access Program

In Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the universal-service contribution scheme does not violate the Constitution’s nondelegation doctrine.  According to the six-m...

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SCOTUS Holds LGBTQ+ Curriculum With No Opt-Out Violates Free Exercise Clause

SCOTUS Holds LGBTQ+ Curriculum With No Opt-Out Violates Free Exercise Clause

In Mahmoud v. Taylor, 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court sided with parents challenging the Montgomery County Board of Education’s introduction of certain “LGBTQ+- inclusive” storybooks, along with the board’s decision to deny pare...

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SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Decision Limits Lower Courts’ Power to Issue Nationwide Injunctions

SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Decision Limits Lower Courts’ Power to Issue Nationwide Injunctions

In Trump v. CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Government’s applications to partially stay three injunctions entered by lower courts blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenshi...

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Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Law Banning Transgender Care for Minors

Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee Law Banning Transgender Care for Minors

In United States v. Skrmetti, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that Tennessee’s law prohibiting certain medical treatments for transgender minors is not subject to heightened scrutiny under the equal protection clause of the 14th ...

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Supreme Court Rejects Mexico’s Suit Against U.S. Gun Manufacturers

Supreme Court Rejects Mexico’s Suit Against U.S. Gun Manufacturers

In Smith & Wesson Brands v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Mexican government can’t hold gun manufacturers liable for aiding and abetting gun trafficking and drug cartels that have injured ...

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SCOTUS Sides With Employee in Reverse Discrimination Case

SCOTUS Sides With Employee in Reverse Discrimination Case

In Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, 605 U.S. ____ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Sixth Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule, which requires members of a majority group to satisfy a heightened evidentiary standard t...

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The Amendments

  • Amendment1
    • Establishment ClauseFree Exercise Clause
    • Freedom of Speech
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    • Freedom of Assembly, and Petitition
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Preamble to the Bill of Rights

Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.

THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.

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