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A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial. That high-court ruling is back in the spotlight after the arrests on Thursday of more than 30 people,
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Tennessee joins 24 states in Supreme Court brief on birthright citizenship
In a 30-page amicus brief, the coalition argues that the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause — which states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" are citizens — has been interpreted too broadly.
The ruling could have major implications for states like Tennessee, where gun ownership is part of daily life and marijuana remains illegal under both state and federal law.
The United States Supreme Court is set to decide if a federal law that prohibits illegal drug users from owning guns is a violation of the Second Amendment of the constitution.• Video Above: What do the different “schedules” of drugs mean?
Attorneys General from half of the United States, led by those from Tennessee and Iowa, filed a brief with the Supreme Court Friday challenging the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
President Trump is asking the Supreme Court for a definitive ruling on his reinterpretation of more than a century of legal precedent around birthright citizenship.
Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Kyle Hawkins to the state's highest court after a former justice said he wasn't seeking reelection earlier this year. Hawkins most recently served as part of the transition team to the Trump administration for the U.
As the Supreme Court is about to revisit some major decisions, Justice Thomas said there's nothing sacred about precedent.
The appeal over gun rights for drug users joins another case already on the docket this term regarding concealed carry.
The case concerns the same law former President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden was convicted of violating before his father pardoned him.
For decades courts have used section two to protect the voting power of racial minorities when legislatures draw electoral-district maps. That era may soon end, however, and if it does, the change may offer Republicans new and potent possibilities for partisan gerrymandering to entrench party power.