The Supreme Court batted away an appeal Monday from a man trying to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot and shot down a request from a Trump lawyer who wanted to erase a lower-court ruling that he had probably engaged in illegal activity surrounding his advice after the 2020 election.
The U. S. Supreme Court building stands quietly before dawn in Washington, Friday, Oct. 5, 2018. The U.S. Senate will start the process of voting on Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation as a Supreme Court Associate Justice today.
“We don’t know if he recused because of his wife Ginni’s activity, or because of his close relationship with Eastman,” said Josh Blackman, a professor at South Texas College of Law.’s lengthy list of orders, which disposed of more than 800 appeals, part of a traditional house cleaning at the start of the justices’ new session each October.heard its first oral argument of the new term on Monday in a case involving how courts should interpret the First Step Act of 2018.
Should the justices rule against the CFPB, it could upend the bureau’s previous work and could call into question other major independent regulatory bodies, such as the Federal Reserve. Mr. Castro asked the justices to decide whether he has legal standing to challenge Mr. Trump’s place on the ballot.It’s possible the justices will revisit the issue, given the slew of other similar challenges working their way through lower courts.
• A man who claimed he was fired from his job in a Defense Department school because of his accent, which he said amounted to discrimination based on national origin. Lower courts had said the issue wasn’t his accent so much as that he was unintelligible, which made his service as a teacher problematic.
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