"This Court has been extraordinarily unfriendly to the Voting Rights Act over the last couple of decades," a voting rights expert told Newsweek.

The Wyoming Judicial Branch writes: "You’ve read the headlines, but how do you know exactly what a judge, jury, or justice decided in any given case,

Mark Joseph Stern: Under federal law, Trump cannot remove Powell over a policy disagreement. Federal law expressly allows for the removal of the Fed’s board members only for “cause”—something like abuse of office or malfeasance. That means Trump can’t just sack Powell because Trump wants to slash rates and Powell wants to keep them steady.

The Supreme Court cleared the way for mass Education Department layoffs, bolstering President Donald Trump’s federal workforce cuts while legal battles continue.

WASHINGTON − An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed the Trump administration to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency. The court's three liberal justices opposed the order, the latest win for President Donald Trump at the high court.

The courts continue to be the only bulwark against an overreaching executive, writes Nancy Gertner, a former U.S. District Court judge. After the high court’s ruling on nationwide injunctions, it looked like Trump had won another victory,

The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to fire hundreds of Department of Education employees, a move that advances President Donald Trump’s plans to dismantle the department. The high court’s decision in McMahon v. State of New York was issued 6-3 along ideological lines.

"The 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court will decide what they want and then try to rationalize it," one First Amendment advocate told Newsweek.