The Supreme Court allowed for Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan's decision on Friday after rejecting Trump's request to halt the proceeding in a 5-4 decision on Thursday. Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Coney Barrett, broke with conservatives to side with the court's three liberal justices.
Two Republican appointees, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Barrett, joined the court’s three liberals in ordering the president-elect to face sentencing on Friday.
In the first test of how receptive the court may be to Trump, 4 of the court's 6 conservative members said they would have granted his emergency request.
During oral arguments, the Supreme Court appeared torn about how to keep kids safe and protect free speech at the same time.
In their attempt to determine whether the Texas law is constitutional, the justices cited antiquated instances of accessing porn
The adult entertainment industry asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a Texas law requiring porn sites to verify user ages Wednesday, and the justices wanted to know more about the sites' offerings.
During oral arguments, justices grappled with questions of how to protect children while preserving free speech and privacy.
A majority of the Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that Texas may be permitted to require some form of age verification for pornographic sites, but left open the possibility that deeper First Amendment questions may not be resolved immediately.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to upholding a Texas law requiring age verification for accessing pornography online, though the debate turned murkier on the standard of scrutiny that
The Supreme Court heard a challenge from PornHub and other sites to the Texas law that requires age verification — via government-issued ID or face scan — for certain websites, including porn sites.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled it may send a Chicago political scion’s appeal of his conviction for lying to regulators back to a lower court to flesh out the difference between false and
President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers urged the U.S. Supreme Court to block his sentencing in New York for falsifying business records to