Supreme Court permits migrant deportations under wartime law, for now April 9, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court issued a ruling April 7 allowing the Trump administration to continue to deport migrants accused of gang membership using a wartime powers law for now, overturning a lower court that had paused such deportations. However, the high court also stressed that individuals subject to such deportations are entitled to judicial review, prompting an emergency filing before a federal court in New York the following day.
Supreme Court hears case over effort to bar Planned Parenthood from Medicaid funds April 3, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument April 2 in a case concerning South Carolina’s attempt to prevent Planned Parenthood from participating in its Medicaid health program, in what could determine the nation’s largest abortion provider’s ability to use public funds in states that have restricted abortion.
Supreme Court hears Catholic agency’s case seeking religious exemption to state program March 31, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Catholic Charities, News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court on March 31 heard oral arguments in a case from the Catholic Charities Bureau of the Diocese of Superior, Wisconsin, in which the agency argued that a decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court discounted its religious identity.
Supreme Court upholds effort to regulate ‘ghost guns’ March 26, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Gun Violence, News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court March 26 upheld a Biden administration effort to regulate so-called “ghost guns,” or unserialized, untraceable firearms that can be assembled in as little as 30 minutes from kits purchased online.
Roberts issues rare statement rebuking Trump’s call to impeach a federal judge March 19, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Supreme Court, World News Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare public statement March 18 rebuking President Donald Trump’s call to impeach a federal judge who ruled against his administration in a case concerning deportations.
Heightened threat environment for judiciary raises concerns March 18, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News A heightened threat environment for Supreme Court justices comes amid a series of high-profile or controversial rulings by the nation’s highest court on topics including abortion, presidential immunity, the administrative state and gun policy.
Supreme Court to review Colorado ‘conversion therapy’ ban for minors March 11, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court said March 10 that it will hear a First Amendment challenge to a Colorado law banning professional counseling services that practice “conversion therapy” for minors, efforts intended to change one’s gender identity or sexual orientation.
Supreme Court rejects Trump administration’s request to freeze foreign aid payments March 5, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Disaster Relief, Feature, News, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court on March 5 rejected the Trump administration’s request to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments, directing the White House to abide by a lower court order. Catholic nongovernmental organizations are among those impacted by the freeze.
Supreme Court allows pause to payments on already completed foreign aid work, for now February 27, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Supreme Court, World News Chief Justice John Roberts granted the Trump administration’s request late Feb. 26 to pause a lower court’s midnight deadline for the government to resume more than $1.5 billion in foreign aid payments for already completed aid work that have been suspended for several weeks, a pause impacting some Catholic entities.
Supreme Court throws out death penalty conviction over dubious testimony February 27, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court on Feb. 25 threw out the murder conviction and death penalty for Richard Glossip, an Oklahoma man who has been on death row for a quarter century.
Supreme Court declines to hear abortion clinic ‘bubble zone’ challenges February 26, 2025By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The Supreme Court will not hear a pair of cases that may have allowed sidewalk counselors and protesters at abortion clinics to get as close as 8 feet away from people entering them.
Supreme Court considers Texas death-row inmate’s request for DNA testing February 25, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court Feb. 24 considered the case of a Texas death-row inmate who is seeking to obtain post-conviction DNA testing on evidence that he claims would show he did not directly participate in a 1998 murder and lead to the repeal of his death sentence.
