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Jordan Rubin
Deadline: Legal Blog writer
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Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro," a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro," a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
On Monday, the justices agreed to hear an appeal from Republicans challenging campaign finance restrictions, which comes from the National Republican Senatorial Committee and others.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued its final decisions in cases argued this term, capping off another year with contentious rulings that split the justices along party lines.
The 6-3 decision didn’t decide the underlying legality of President Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict birthright citizenship. Litigation will continue on the issue in the lower courts.
The Supreme Court has ruled in a dispute over whether parents can keep their elementary school kids out of public school instruction they say violates their religious beliefs on gender and sexuality.
The last six cases of the Supreme Court’s term include birthright citizenship injunctions and a parental bid to keep kids from LGBTQ-themed instruction in public school.
The Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority rejected a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood and one of its patients, over dissent from the court’s Democratic appointees who said the ruling portends “tangible harm to real people.”
