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Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), is a landmark decision [1] of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the constitutionality of two provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Section 5, which requires certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices; and subsection (b) of Section 4 ...
This is a list of cases before the United States Supreme Court that the Court has agreed to hear and has not yet decided. [1] [2] [3] Future argument dates are in parentheses; arguments in these cases have been scheduled, but have not, and potentially may not, take place.
The bill was written in response to the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013, which struck down the system that was used to determine which jurisdictions were subject to that requirement. [2] [3] On August 24, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill by a margin of 219–212. [4]
The House is set to vote Tuesday on Senate-passed legislation that would provide security to family members of Supreme Court justices, which comes nearly a
The effort is particularly poignant for the California Democrat, who sat on the House Jan. 6 select committee that investigated Trump’s actions on the day a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to revive a lawsuit from three House Republicans after their pay was docked for not complying with a pandemic-era mask requirement on the chamber floor. In a ...
Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court. [1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.
The Supreme Court adopted a new code of ethics in November that says that justices shouldn’t engage in political activity and that they are supposed to step aside from cases if their ...