In a 30-page amicus brief, the coalition argues that the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause — which states that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" are citizens — has been interpreted too broadly.

The ruling could have major implications for states like Tennessee, where gun ownership is part of daily life and marijuana remains illegal under both state and federal law.

A federal judge in Chicago already blocked deployment of Guard troops to the Chicago area for two weeks. On Wednesday, Judge April Perry agreed to extend that order by 30 days. But she said each party could discuss the extension further before meeting again at 3 p.m. local time, noting they would not be able to issue another one.

Attorneys General from half of the United States, led by those from Tennessee and Iowa, filed a brief with the Supreme Court Friday challenging the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

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President Trump is asking the Supreme Court for a definitive ruling on his reinterpretation of more than a century of legal precedent around birthright citizenship.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial.

The case concerns the same law former President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden was convicted of violating before his father pardoned him.

Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Kyle Hawkins to the state's highest court after a former justice said he wasn't seeking reelection earlier this year. Hawkins most recently served as part of the transition team to the Trump administration for the U.

For decades courts have used section two to protect the voting power of racial minorities when legislatures draw electoral-district maps. That era may soon end, however, and if it does, the change may offer Republicans new and potent possibilities for partisan gerrymandering to entrench party power.