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A Slate legal analyst said Thursday the Supreme Court's conservative majority delivered a seismic blow to multiple areas of American law in a single morning, expanding President Donald Trump's power in the process.

Appearing on a panel Thursday, Mark Joseph Stern, co-host of Slate's Amicus podcast, walked through three 6-3 rulings the court handed down, all authored by Justice Samuel Alito and all splitting along ideological lines.

One of the only two felony convictions won by federal prosecutors in President Donald Trump's vaunted Chicago deportation operation is now falling apart.

Anthony Gonzalez Alvarez, a 27-year-old Lyons man, pleaded guilty in April to a felony charge after striking a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle during Trump's Operation Midway Blitz last fall. His sentencing was set for July 22.

A Supreme Court watcher sounded the alarm on Thursday after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that the expert described as "freewheeling."

Mark Joseph Stern, a senior writer for Slate, argued in a new article that the Supreme Court's decision in Wolford v. Lopez, a gun rights case that arose out of Hawaii, was another "ad hoc nullification of any law that favors human life over the paranoid obsessions of gun enthusiasts."

Elon Musk told voters they had a random shot at $1 million. Now a judge has ordered him to answer for it under oath.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Hightower in Austin ordered Musk to sit for a deposition — sworn, on-the-record questioning by opposing lawyers — in a fraud lawsuit brought by two Arizona women who say his political action committee, America PAC, tricked them into handing over their personal information.

Onlookers were shocked on Thursday after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that some people called "inhumane."

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration is allowed to end Temporary Protected Status for more than 350,000 Haitian immigrants who fled political violence in their home country. The 6-3 decision from the court's conservative supermajority was seen as a big win for the Trump administration's immigration enforcement agenda, even as some political analysts described it as a "disgrace."

President Trump claimed a "fantastic" turnout at the kickoff rally for the Great American State Fair on the National Mall Wednesday night, a figure that sharply diverges from independent estimates of the crowd size.

A widely shared video clip shows a steady stream of people walking away from the stage area during the president's speech, and multiple news outlets reported that turnout was a disappointing start to the 16-day fair marking the nation's 250th anniversary.

Iran has discussed plans with its neighbors to extract billions from the global economy by setting up permanent tolls in the Strait of Hormuz—a direct result of President Trump's disastrous war that handed Tehran unprecedented leverage over the world's most critical oil artery.

According to the Wall Street Journal reporting, Iranian officials are boasting to Middle Eastern neighbors that a lucrative new revenue stream is imminent. The Islamic Republic estimated that charging for "security, safety, and environmental services" in the strait could generate $40 billion annually for "participating states."

President Donald Trump's ambassador to Italy has angered residents of his host country with plans to bring his $450 million superyacht to Venice during one of the city's most significant annual festivals, in a trip he has branded "coastal diplomacy."

Billionaire Tilman Fertitta, a hospitality mogul who owns the NBA's Houston Rockets, began a weeks-long tour of the Italian coast on June 13 in Civitavecchia near Rome to mark America's 250th anniversary, reported The Daily Beast, with stops planned in Naples, Genoa, Palermo and Cefalù.