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The app for testing the new rules from Apple is already ready
Music platform Spotify has announced that it is developing an update to its iOS app which will allow users to use payment options that aren’t Apple’s. The update would allow creators to accept payment from outside of the Apple system, Spotify said. This comes after the US Supreme Court ruled against Apple’s requirements to tell…
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The Supreme Court will be the venue for the challenge of the U.S. ban
US President-elect Donald Trump has urged the US Supreme Court to delay a ruling on the constitutionality of TikTok’s ban until he enters office. Trump filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court calling on the court to delay any ruling until he enters office and can help negotiate a solution. TikTok had challenged the…
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The Supreme Court allowed Virginia to remove people from voter rolls
The US Supreme Court has issued a stay of a federal judge’s ruling that halted the removals of voters from Virginia’s voter list, six days before election Day. The court said it will not stop the state from removing voters “too close to an election”. The high court’s order will stay the removal of voters…
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The real-crime drama at the Supreme Court pits Oklahoma against its top criminal court
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard the appeal of Oklahoma’s Attorney General against the state’s highest court for a new trial in the case of Richard Glossip, a man convicted of the murder of a businessman. Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that Glossip’s star witness had lied and did nothing to correct the lie, as…
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The sentencing of President Trump in New York has been delayed
The US Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump can immunity from prosecution for all his “official acts” if he won the 2020 presidential election. However, the court also said that it was not clear if Trump was covered by a provision in the 14th amendment that says people who engage in insurrection are…
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The Supreme Court gave a reprieve to Donald Trump and other future presidents
The US Supreme Court on Friday said President Donald Trump may not be prosecuted for exercising his core constitutional powers, but he is entitled to an immunity from prosecution for all of his official acts. This comes in a case arising out of the protests at the US Capitol in January. The court ruled that…
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The Supreme Court ruled that regulators are kneecapped
The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court’s ruling that had allowed federal agencies to interpret ambiguous language in legislation. The lower court had sided with a farmer who argued that the Chevron deference law, which allows courts to defer to federal agencies when there are disputes over how to interpret ambiguous language,…
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Supreme Court rules that the government can talk to social media companies
The US Supreme Court has said that a case against government agencies and social media platforms in which they accused them of coercion is an “attractive model” for future officials who want to control what people say, hear, and think. In the case filed by attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri, they claimed that government…
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Supreme Court seems hesitant about banning government contacts with social media
Jameel Jaffer, Executive Director of Knight First Amendment Institute, said that presidents and members of Congress can and do say a lot of “nasty things” about social media companies in public, but it’s the private communications that make people suspicious. Jaffer was appearing before the US Supreme Court in a case involving government influence over…
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Trump is on the Colorado ballot after the Supreme Court restored him
The US Supreme Court ruled that US President Donald Trump cannot be removed from the presidential election ballot as he had engaged in “incitement to insurrection”. However, the court said that the federal enforcement of Section 3 is in no way at issue. Trump had asked the Supreme Court to intervene, setting out more than…
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The abortion issue is already playing out on the campaign trail
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday denied a bid by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham to block a proposal in the House of Representatives to bar federal aid to abortion clinics. The ruling comes after US Supreme Court overturned the state law that had banned most abortions in Alabama. This comes…
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The New York Times reports on Big Tech’s latest power grab
Social media company NetChoice has asked the US Supreme Court to stop Texas from implementing a law that would prohibit tech companies, including Google, Facebook and Twitter, from discriminating on the basis of viewpoint when they take posts off their platforms. NetChoice said the law was “facially discriminatory”. The court will hear the case on…
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There are conversations and insights about the moment
The US Supreme Court has said it will decide ex-President Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from criminal prosecution for rest of his days in office even if he leaves office, quickly. The court said this in a unanimous opinion. Trump’s lawyers want the trial to be delayed indefinitely at the federal courthouse in Washington DC.
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The Supreme Court has a big Trump test
Former US President Bill Clinton has urged the US Supreme Court to overturn a Colorado court’s ruling disqualifying Donald Trump from running in the state’s Republican presidential primary. “I’d love to live in a country where Americans had never elected Mr. Trump,” he added. “It would be unfair to bar Mr. Trump…because of…many years of…
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The Supreme Court disqualified Trump from being on the ballot
The US Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s ruling that said the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution applies to President Donald Trump as well. The lower court ruled that the clause doesn’t apply to Trump because he’s not a citizen of the country. The court said Trump’s use of the amendment in his campaign…
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The law prohibiting guns for accused domestic abusers is likely to be upheld by the high court
The US Supreme Court will hear the case of a man, who was convicted of beating his ex-girlfriend after she ordered him to stop harassing her, to decide if a law that bans domestic abusers from owning guns is constitutional. The man has challenged the ban on convicted felons from owning guns. Earlier, the court…
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South Carolina’s case may add to the number of Democrats in the House
The US Supreme Court is set to hear a case over the new congressional district map in South Carolina. The court will determine whether the state’s map, which was redrawn in 2016 by the Republican-led legislature, is racial or partisan. South Carolina maintains its map wasn’t racial, but it was partisan. Both sides have requested…
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The congressional map of Louisiana has been blocked by an appeals court
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the redrawing of congressional boundaries in New Mexico. A federal judge had ruled that the Democratic-controlled state’s re-drawing of the 18th Congressional District violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Last year, the state’s 2nd Congressional District had previously covered entire southern part of the state, including part of…
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What the Supreme Court’s rejection of a controversial theory means
The US Supreme Court has ruled that state lawmakers’ authority over congressional elections isn’t exempt from “ordinary constraints” imposed by state law. This comes in the case of a Republican-led Ohio court’s order to draw a new map. The court said the court had no jurisdiction in the case since it doesn’t interfere with the…
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The grandma’s house is the focus of the property rights test case
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard the last scheduled case of the term – a case brought by a 94-year-old woman in Minneapolis whose condo was seized for failure to pay property taxes. The county took possession of the property under state law and sold the condo at auction for $40,000. Tyler’s lawyer said…
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The messaging bill is related to the culture war campaign
US President Donald Trump said that his administration was working on an approach to protect children’s privacy from social media companies. “If it’s a good way to protect children, then it’s a good way to protect children,” he added. Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court allowed companies to block access of parents to children’s…
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The Justice Department persuaded a federal judge that Donald Trump used his attorneys in furtherance of a crime
The US Supreme Court has turned down Donald Trump’s request to review classified documents recovered from his Mar-a-Lago resort. Trump had asked the Supreme Court to reverse a federal appeals court and allow a special master to review about 100 documents marked classified. Trump had asked the justices to reverse a federal appeals court and…
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The 2 people who searched Trump properties for classified documents testified before a federal grand jury
The US Supreme Court has dismissed ex-President Donald Trump’s attempt to block the National Archives from sharing documents with the House Select Committee about his time in the office. Trump had sued the committee and the National Archives last year to block the release of Jan 6 documents but a court ruled against him last…
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The places where abortion is on the ballot this week are listed here.
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has said that Congress should pass a bill to ensure that the “robust protections” provided by the 1973 Roe v Wade decision aren’t put at risk. “We need to end these extreme steps in our country,” she added. The US Supreme Court had ruled in 1973 that a woman’s right…
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The Supreme Court has a problem of trust.
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted an emergency request by a state to allow the execution of a death row inmate who had been blocked by a lower court. This is the third time in less than a year that the justices have granted a state’s emergency request to allow an execution that lower…