Counting heads at oral argument in a quest for the Supreme Court to allow local and state governments to require remote sellers to collect sales tax is never an easy task.
Local and state governments stand to lose funding if a citizenship question is added to the census, so California's lawsuit is not a surprise.
The nationwide injunction issue in the travel ban litigation has implications outside the context of just the travel ban. But will the Supreme Court even rule on it?
For once the heat is off of sanctuary cities and on a so-called sanctuary state—California.
In NIFLA v. Becerra, the Supreme Court tackles the question of whether local governments can continue to treat commercial speech less favorably than other speech.
Justice Gorsuch's silence in the union dues case did not keep the oral argument from being interesting.
Academics Challenge Legal Doctrine That Favors Local Government
A second ruling against the Trump administration's rescinding of DACA might encourage the Supreme Court to get involved in this case soon.
Artis is a simple case, although it took the Supreme Court almost 40 pages and more emotion than one might expect to complete its opinion.