Supreme Court greenlights immigration stops in L.A. By Paul Katula • Sep 8, 2025 Critics call it racial profiling, while supporters hail a win for law enforcement. The ruling revives a debate over Fourth Amendment rights.
Trump can fire US Ed. Dept. staff By Paul Katula • Jul 14, 2025 SCOTUS agreed Trump can proceed with dismantling the U.S. Ed. Dept. by firing more than a thousand workers.
SCOTUS reconfigures the religious liberty playing field By Paul Katula • Jun 28, 2025 The Supreme Court decided another religious liberty case and opened the door for legal challenges to what schools can and can't do.
Student favored in school disability discrimination case By Paul Katula • Jun 13, 2025 A unanimous SCOTUS has ruled to make it easier for students with disabilities to sue schools that don't respond to their educational needs.
SCOTUS will hear Okla. religious charter school case By Paul Katula • Jan 24, 2025 The case concerns conflicts in the 1st Amendment: Can public funds be given to a sectarian "charter school"?
On the 10 Commandments in public school classrooms By Paul Katula • Jul 17, 2024 Is it constitutional to require schools to display a specific religious text in every classroom? The Supreme Court may soon answer once again.
SCOTUS keeps guns away from domestic abusers By Paul Katula • Jun 21, 2024 The Supreme Court says the government may restrict the right of suspected domestic abusers to own firearms.
In Close Call, Court Upholds Voting Rights Act By Paul Katula • Jun 8, 2023 The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that race may play a role in congressional districting maps in the interest of nondiscrimination.
A Black woman now sits on the Supreme Court By Paul Katula • Oct 4, 2022 Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson takes her role as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court, beginning a high-profile term.
In Kennedy v Bremerton, Lemon finally falls By Paul Katula • Jun 28, 2022 A Supreme Court decision Monday eroded, to a certain extent, the proverbial wall between church and state.