Humphrey's Executor Executed In Broad Shadow Docket Slaying - Above the Law
Chief Justice Roberts used the shadow docket to allow President Trump's firing of FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, undermining nearly a century of Humphrey's Executor precedent.
Trump's attempt to fire FTC Democrat gets a boost from Supreme Court
Humphrey's Executor (1935) bars presidential removal of FTC commissioners except for inefficiency, neglect, or malfeasance, and is pivotal to current litigation.
3 states push to put the Ten Commandments back in school - banking on new guidance at the Supreme Court
State laws requiring Ten Commandments displays in public schools face federal court blocks as litigation seeks to overturn a 45-year Supreme Court precedent.
Trump Declares Flag Burners Will Spend a Year in Jail: No Early Exits, No Nothing'
President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to criminalize flag burning despite Supreme Court rulings that protect flag desecration as free speech.