Supreme Court

The press corps' letter was sent to the chief justice a year ago, but there has been no response.

The decision makes it easier to win approval for highways, bridges, pipelines, wind farms, and other infrastructure projects.

The Supreme Court has effectively ended a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, dividing 4-4. Thursday's outcome keeps in place an Oklahoma court decision that invalidated a vote by a state charter school board to approve the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School.

The Trump administration seeks to challenge the constitutional provision that guarantees automatic citizenship to babies born in the U.S. But the arguments are likely to focus on a different question.

Justice David Souter was appointed by Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1990, but was a reliably liberal vote on abortion, church-state relations, freedom of expression and the accessibility of federal courts.

The emergency appeal asks the justices to halt a lower-court order keeping in place temporary legal status for more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

At issue is whether school systems are required to allow parents to opt their kids out of classes because of religious objections to classroom materials.

Trump issued an executive order on day one of his administration that sought to limit birthright citizenship, an idea widely considered a fringe view because the Supreme Court ruled to the contrary 127 years ago, and that decision has never been disturbed.

The decision ends a decade-long fight led by 11 young Oregonians and 10 of their peers across the nation against the U.S. government over climate inaction.

In an order, the justices left in place a lower court order that so far has only required the Trump administration to pay contractors for foreign aid work that has already been completed — roughly $2 billion.