A historic order of nuns who minister to the elderly poor gained a reprieve from the Supreme Court Wednesday. A majority of justices upheld a Trump administration rule exempting employers with religious and moral objections from providing contraception in group healthcare plans. 

But the ruling may not bring an immediate end to the seven-year legal battle by the Little Sisters of the Poor.

The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed on Wednesday that the government shouldn’t second guess who fills religiously significant roles in faith-based organizations. The justices ruled 7-2 in favor of two Catholic schools that fired teachers. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented.

The Catholic nuns of the Little Sisters of the Poor have crossed what looks like the finish line at the end of their yearslong defense against the federal government mandate that they pay for birth control. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled 7-2 to uphold a U.S.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that presidential electors may not act as free agents and must vote for the candidate a state’s voters choose. The unanimous decision means states with laws forbidding so-called “faithless electors” are constitutionally allowed to remove or fine delegates who go rogue.

The two cases stem from 2016, when four “faithless electors” from Colorado and Washington sued their states. They argued that individual electors have agency and discretion in how they vote and that states only have the authority to decide how to choose delegates.

The state of Montana violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by barring students from using public tax breaks to pay for tuition at religious schools, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.

The U.S. Supreme Court sided against the state of Louisiana Monday, striking down a regulation that required abortion providers to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.

Updated Tuesday, June 30

As predicted below, Chief Justice John “Flipper” Roberts has indeed, at least temporarily, gained his praise from The Washington Post.