Topic: supreme-court
The Pentagon’s new religion office is likely legal; how it is used is the test
Courts have upheld the military chaplaincy for 40 years, so Hegseth’s office is on firm ground. Coercion and favoring one faith are the limits, and parts of his record press on both.
Courts ruled against 18 of Cohen’s 26 charges and settled two
Rep. Steve Cohen filed 26 impeachment articles. Courts have ruled against 18 at some stage, the Supreme Court has settled two, and eight have no court ruling at all.
FinCEN’s CTA Rollback: A Claim-by-Claim Fact-Check of the August 2026 Beneficial Ownership Exemption
FinCEN permanently exempts U.S. entities from BOI reporting and deletes collected data, going further than courts required in a move that serves both small businesses and anonymity-seekers.
Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order: What the Law Says, What Wong Kim Ark Held, and What the Supreme Court Decided
Trump’s Jan. 2025 EO on birthright citizenship is accurately described but overstates Wong Kim Ark’s scope. SCOTUS settled it 6-3 in June 2026: the EO is unconstitutional.
Did the Supreme Court ‘Take Restrictions Off Political Spending’?
Trump says the Court removed limits on political spending; a critic says it lets billionaires buy elections. It struck one limit, on coordinated party spending. Here’s what fell and what it changes.
Jeffries on the Mail-Ballot Ruling: Seven Claims, Checked
After the Supreme Court upheld state grace periods for mail ballots, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries indicted Trump’s whole record. The facts mostly hold; the framing is partisan.
Humphrey’s Executor Is Dead: Fact-Checking the FTC Firing Ruling
NPR reported the Supreme Court handed Trump at-will power over the independent agencies. We checked every load-bearing claim against the opinion itself: the reporting holds.
Court Packing vs. Court Stacking: A Fact-Check of Every Major Claim
Trump hasn’t ‘packed’ the courts (added seats), but McConnell’s vacancy blockade and 271 lifetime appointments across two terms constitute the most aggressive court-stacking operation in modern…
ICE Under the Constitution: A Legal Accounting of 2025-2026 Enforcement Actions
Federal courts have found ICE violated constitutional rights over 4,400 times through illegal detention, warrantless home raids, defiance of court orders, and deportation of people to torture…