In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of its own.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block enforcement of an anti-money laundering law that forces millions of business entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners to the Treasury Department,
The Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a challenge by a death row inmate in Oklahoma who claims prosecutors “sex-shamed” her during her trial, referring to her as a “slut puppy” and holding up her thong for the jury.
Owners and part-owners of an estimated 32.6 million small businesses must register personal information with Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN.
The U.S. Supreme Court has stayed the preliminary injunction in the Texas Top Cop Shop case, allowing FINCEN Beneficial Ownership Interest Reporting to proceed.
The Supreme Court unanimously found the new law that could lead to a ban of TikTok does not violate the First Amendment rights of the platform or its users.
The justices heard arguments over whether courts must limit their scrutiny of challenges to police shootings to “the moment of threat.”
In an unsigned opinion, the Court sided with the national security concerns about TikTok rather than the First Amendment rights. There were no noted dissents.
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. So at the last conference, the Supreme Court acted on a ton of relists.
The Corporate Transparency Act, which requires businesses to disclose ownership information, was blocked by a federal judge as beyond Congress’s authority.
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to reinstate a federal anti-money laundering law at the federal government’s request as a legal challenge proceeds in a lower court. The court’s