Jimmy Hoover

March 13, 2024 | National Law Journal

"University policy prohibits '[p]ublic behavior that is disruptive, lewd, or indecent,'" Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote. "Drag shows...violate this policy by celebrating conduct that causes many to feel demeaned and objectified."

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

March 12, 2024 | National Law Journal

The justices appeared at a Washington event together to stress the importance of civil disagreement and civic engagement.

By Jimmy Hoover

3 minute read

March 12, 2024 | National Law Journal

Justice Samuel Alito Jr. has extended a freeze on Texas' controversial new immigration law while the Supreme Court weighs a challenge from the Biden administration.

By Jimmy Hoover

3 minute read

March 11, 2024 | National Law Journal

The state's solicitor general told the justices to allow the law to take effect, calling it necessary to stop the "crisis" of illegal immigration at the border.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

March 08, 2024 | National Law Journal

The justices heard the congressional-map challenge in October and have yet to issue their decision.

By Jimmy Hoover

6 minute read

March 07, 2024 | National Law Journal

Both cases involve the plaintiffs' heightened pleading requirements that resulted from the 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform Act.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

March 06, 2024 | National Law Journal

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk upheld the school's ban, finding drag shows to be "sexualized" exhibitions not protected by the First Amendment.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read

March 05, 2024 | National Law Journal

"Today, the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President," Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a concurrence.

By Jimmy Hoover

7 minute read

March 04, 2024 | National Law Journal

Immigration law is the province of the federal government, not the states, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices.

By Jimmy Hoover

3 minute read

March 04, 2024 | National Law Journal

"[T]he Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3 [of the Fourteenth Amendment] against federal officeholders and candidates," the high court stated in its unsigned "per curiam" opinion.

By Jimmy Hoover

4 minute read