President Donald Trump wants to prosecute flag burning, but can he make that happen without violating Supreme Court precedent? Trump contends it’s possible in an Aug. 25 executive order that The post The Supreme Court and flag burning: an explainer appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: The post The morning read for Friday, August 29 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

Updated on Aug. 29 at 11:05 a.m. South Carolina asked the Supreme Court to pause an order by a federal appeals court that requires a public school in the state The post Transgender student’s bathroom case comes to the Supreme Court on the emergency docket appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

I was born and raised in New Jersey, and I live there now (not off of any exit, thank you very much). And, although I resided in the Big Apple The post New Jersey’s long history of trouncing New York at the Supreme Court appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

Writing that it “wants out of this abhorrent system of racial discrimination,” Louisiana on Wednesday told the Supreme Court in the case of Louisiana v. Callais to leave in place The post Louisiana urges Supreme Court to uphold order barring race-based redistricting map appeared first on SCOTUSblog.