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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday for a Wisconsin Catholic charity requesting a religious exemption from an unemployment insurance tax. Catholic Charities Bureau, the petitioners, argued that Wisconsin law disfavored Catholic Charities because the organization served and hired non-Catholics and did not proselytize, meaning that they did not engage in typical religious activities. Justice [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Biden-era federal regulations on “ghost guns,” or mail-order kits that allow people to build untraceable weapons at home, handing gun control groups a rare win at the conservative high court. Justice Neil Gorsuch delivered the court’s opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena [...]

In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court refused to grant a stay to block Louisiana’s execution of an inmate by use of nitrogen gas. 46-year-old Jessie Hoffman Jr. became the first person ever to be executed in the state through this method on Tuesday evening . The Louisiana State Penitentiary scheduled Jessie Hoffman’s execution by nitrogen gas [...]

The US Supreme Court sided with the city and county of San Francisco on Tuesday in a dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), finding the EPA cannot penalize the city if water quality levels fall below the agency’s standards when the city is, under permit, discharging pollution, including sewage, into the Pacific Ocean. The [...]

Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. On Wednesday morning, I walked up to an unusually quiet Supreme Court building to attend oral arguments for Ames v. Department of Ohio Youth Services, a case in which the Court has been asked to clarify [...]

Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. On Friday, I braved the cold to sit in the press box for the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in TikTok, Inc. v. Garland. This time-sensitive case concerns a federal law that would require social media giant [...]

The US Supreme Court refused to halt president-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money criminal case by a 5-4 vote Thursday. The court reasoned that the likely sentence of an “unconditional discharge” would not hamper Trump’s transition to the presidency and that evidentiary issues raised by Trump’s lawyers could be resolved through regular appeals. A [...]

Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. Wednesday morning I attended oral arguments at the United States Supreme Court for United States v. Skrmetti, a case concerning whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1’s (SB1) ban on gender-affirming care for minors violates the Equal Protection [...]

Missouri carried out the execution on Tuesday of a man whose capital conviction had been marred by controversies over insufficient evidence, compromised witness testimony, and racial discrimination. In a statement, the Innocence Project, an advocacy group devoted to exonerating wrongfully convicted death row inmates, wrote of Williams’ passing: Mr. Williams’ story echoes that of too [...]

The US Supreme Court on Thursday, in a 5-4 decision, allowed the enforcement of an Arizona election law requiring prospective voters to provide “satisfactory evidence of citizenship” upon registering to vote. However, the court kept two lower court blocks on related laws that prevent those with unverified citizenship status from voting in presidential elections or [...]