Josh Gerstein

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Josh Gerstein |Kyle Cheney

President Donald Trump can proceed with his plan to ban transgender people from the military, including by removing transgender troops currently serving, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. The order — delivered over the dissent of the three liberal justices — lifted a lower-court judge’s ruling that had paused the administration’s ban, concluding it was likely unconstitutional and based on distortions of limited research on the subject.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Daniel Lippman |Josh Gerstein

Tim Parlatore is a personal attorney and top adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. At the same time, he’s suing the Navy and defending private clients against the U.S. government. Parlatore, who represented Donald Trump in a criminal case two years ago and rejoined the Navy Reserve in March to aid Hegseth, was recently tapped to coordinate the leak investigation that led to chaos at the Pentagon.

1 week ago | politico.com | Josh Gerstein

The appeal asks the justices to lift a court order blocking Trump’s plan to curtail or end so-called temporary protected status for Venezuelan nationals. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, April 30, 2025, in Washington.

1 week ago | politico.com | Josh Gerstein

The Supreme Court justice warned Thursday that increasingly hostile rhetoric poses a dire threat to the country’s political fabric. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks to the 2025 Supreme Court Fellows Program, Feb. 13, 2025, at the Library of Congress in Washington.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Josh Gerstein

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow President Donald Trump to roll back immigration protections for about 600,000 Venezuelans living in the U.S.The emergency appeal from Solicitor General John Sauer is the latest of about a dozen expedited requests the Trump administration has brought to the high court in the past three months.