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(Background) WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 7: People pass outside the U.S. Supreme Court on October 7, 2024 in Washington, DC. The new Supreme Court term starts as the justices of the country's highest court return from summer break with new cases on the docket and the possibility that emergency election-related cases could arise in the coming weeks as the presidential election looms in the distance. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images) / (Center) WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: Lisa DeNell Cook, nominee to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, is sworn in during a Senate Banking nominations hearing on June 21, 2023 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, Cook would be the first Black woman to sit on the Board of Governors in its 108-year history. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

SCOTUS: Oral arguments to be heard Jan. 2026 in Federal Reserve case involving Lisa Cook

The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) announced on Wednesday that it will hear oral arguments on January 21, 2026, in Trump v. Cook, a media-frenzied case testing the president’s authority to remove members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

(Background) PORTLAND, OREGON - OCTOBER 04: Federal agents, including members of the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol, and police, clash with protesters outside a downtown U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility on October 04, 2025 in Portland, Oregon. The facility has become a focal point of nightly protests against the Trump administration and his announcement that he will be sending National Guard troops into Portland. A federal judge is currently hearing Oregon’s case against sending troops into the city, and a decision is expected on Saturday. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) / (L) PORTLAND, OREGON - SEPTEMBER 28: Federal agents confront protesters outside of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building on September 28, 2025 in Portland, Oregon. In a Truth Social post on September 27th, President Trump authorized the deployment of military troops to "protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists." (Photo by Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump admin from sending out-of-state Nat’l Guard troops to Oregon

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, calling the 47th president’s request for additional troops an attempt to sidestep a previous court order.

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SCOTUS faces criticism on Trump rulings from 12 ‘anonymous’ Federal Judges

A dozen federal judges, who asked to remain anonymous, have jointly condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s handling of Trump-related cases — highlighting their unease over “heightened scrutiny” of lower court rulings.

(L) WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: U.S. Associate Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson attends inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) / (R) WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 04: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy listen as US President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Amy Coney Barrett slams Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ‘extreme’ dissenting opinion in Trump v. CASA case

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett harshly critiqued Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissenting opinion in Trump v. CASA, a landmark case concerning President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship.

MIAMI - FEBRUARY 02: A judges gavel rests on top of a desk in the courtroom of the newly opened Black Police Precinct and Courthouse Museum February 3, 2009 in Miami, Florida. The museum is located in the only known structure in the nation that was designed, devoted to and operated as a separate station house and municipal court for African-Americans. In September 1944, the first black patrolmen were sworn in as emergency policemen to enforce the law in what was then called the "Central Negro District." The precinct building opened in May 1950 to provide a station house for the black policemen and a courtroom for black judges in which to adjudicate black defendants. The building operated from 1950 until its closing in 1963. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The ‘Least Dangerous Branch’: District Judges v. Trump

The judiciary is historically referred to as the ‘least dangerous branch’.

SCOTUS declines to hear Second Amendment cases involving AR-15s and magazines

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear two significant Second Amendment challenges, effectively allowing a Maryland law banning what gun control extremists label as “assault-style” weapons—including the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle—and a Rhode Island law restricting large-capacity magazines.