Supreme Court

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that brings same-sex marriage back into the national debate, featuring a familiar face for those who have followed this issue over the past dozen years. However, one retired Harvard constitutional law scholar thinks he knows what will unfold once the high court rules.

For the past ten years, same-sex couples have had the same freedoms as straight couples, including access to civil marriage and the legal protections that come with it.

The Supreme Court recently signaled what could be the end of the Voting Rights Act, according to one expert.

James Sample, a professor of constitutional law at Hofstra University, appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss Texas GOP "re-redistricting," and other key topics. Earlier in the interview, Sample said the current war over gerrymandering in Texas, California, and other states is the result of Chief Justice John Roberts' Supreme Court.

U.S. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has long telegraphed his desire to gut crucial portions of the Voting Rights Act, and he might finally get a chance to undermine protections ensuring equal rights for Black and Hispanic voters.

Thomas first laid out his objections to those protections in 1994, when only the late Antonin Scalia signaled a willingness to go along with him, but president Donald Trump has since packed the court with fellow right-wing ideologues, and a new case could give him a pretext to achieve his longtime goal, reported CNN.

A judge ruled from the bench on a lawsuit in New Hampshire on Thursday morning that tested a Supreme Court ruling on President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship order.

The move sidesteps the ruling from last month which declared that lower courts could not issue nationwide injunctions. It did so by declaring the case before the judge a class-action lawsuit — meaning it affects everybody with a possible claim.