Top 10 2025 Supreme Court Stories

FOTP Friday List for . . . July 19th, 2024

Agrees to hear a case brought by a group of Texas legislators who want to subpoena doctors for records pertaining to those women who had abortions in the years between Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022) and Roe v. Wade (1973).

Rules that Donald Trump can run for another term as president in 2028, bypassing the 22nd Amendment, which limits a president to two terms, due to “still-troubling concerns the 2020 election was compromised and the current president was robbed of his Constitutional entitlement to seek another term.” Thus, the court concludes, “The only fair and equitable solution is to restart the presidential clock for President Trump with the 2024 results, which he won, and allow him to run again for president in 2028 (or for another 4-year term anytime in the future) if that is his wish.”

Rules that Secretary of Education Ryan Walters’ decision to withhold federal funding for public schools that don’t introduce “Bible-based” education is constitutional because his actions “do not specifically foster one particular religion in America over another and, thus, do not violate the protections afforded in the First Amendment.”