The US Supreme Court has blocked California from enforcing a state law that prohibited public schools from notifying parents if a child expresses gender nonconformity or seeks to change their name or pronouns at school.
Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent in the Supreme Court case Gutierrez v. Saenz argued that the Constitution does not require states to offer any postconviction relief, effectively closing the courthouse doors once a conviction is handed down.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA, Inc. has significantly weakened judicial checks on presidential power, allowing President Trump’s contested executive order limiting birthright citizenship to begin taking effect in many parts of the country.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ruben Gutierrez, a man sentenced to death in Texas, can move forward with a federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s DNA testing procedures.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 4-4, effectively ending taxpayer funding for the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School in Oklahoma, leaving the broader issue of religious charter schools funded by taxpayer dollars unresolved.