As part of a rapidly escalating war on corporate and government diversity, equity and inclusion programs, President Donald Trump’s administration and his allies are relying heavily on a two-year-old Supreme Court precedent that says virtually nothing about diversity in the workplace.

Eight Republicans joined every Democrat in the Montana Senate to defeat the measure. In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Kentucky’s law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools was unconstitutional.

By Matt Vasilogambros Stateline Testing constitutional limits, Republicans in at least 15 states have introduced legislation this year that would require the Ten Commandments be displayed in public school classrooms.

The Louisiana Republican cautioned that once the courts no longer had "legitimacy," all three equal branches of government would collapse.

Senate Republicans are pursuing a ballot question to make the Kansas Supreme Court an elected office, dismantling a decades-old merit-based nomination system for justices that voters put in place after a notorious scandal.

The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in a legal dispute over a $2 billion freeze on federal foreign aid.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked a lower court order telling the Trump administration to pay nearly $2 billion by midnight in a fight over its hold on U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) money.

The Democratic National Committee is getting involved in the legal battle over a North Carolina Supreme Court seat and Republicans’ efforts to toss out more than 60,000 votes, filing a brief with the state's highest court as part of an effort to preserve Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs ' narrow victory last November.

Michigan Rep. Josh Schriver said he plans to introduce a resolution to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage.