Footnote three in Trump v. United States addressed the admissibility of public record evidence in a bribery prosecution of a former president

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The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States addressed whether a president could face criminal charges for official presidential conduct

The United States Constitution establishes legislative oversight and judicial review as institutional checks against executive branch misconduct

In McDonnell v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled an official act requires a pending matter and a formal decision or action

Under McDonnell v. United States, an official act does not require a final decision and can include preliminary administrative actions

Applying federal criminal bribery statutes to political negotiations risks creating constitutional vagueness and due process violations

Under the United States Constitution, each house of Congress is the judge of the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members

The United States Constitution protects members of the United States Congress through the Speech and Debate Clause of Article I

Convicting United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a Senate impeachment trial requires a two-thirds supermajority vote

The Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais made proving intentional racial discrimination under the Voting Rights Act more difficult

The Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais weakened legal protections that insulated majority-Black, Democratic-held congressional districts from being redrawn

The United States Supreme Court ruled on congressional redistricting in the case Louisiana v. Callais

Following the Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, the Tennessee General Assembly convened a special session to redraw Tennessee's single majority-Black district

Following the Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, Louisiana redrew its congressional maps to reduce its majority-Black districts from two to one

Mississippi state lawmakers considered redrawing Mississippi's congressional map, state House map, and state Senate map following the Louisiana v. Callais Supreme Court decision

Following the Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, Alabama implemented a new congressional map placing one of its two Black representatives at higher risk of losing his seat

The United States Supreme Court blocked the Federal Bureau of Prisons from enforcing President Donald Trump's executive order restricting healthcare for transgender inmates

United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis helped create the Federal Trade Commission during the progressive anti-monopoly era of the 1910s

United States federal courts of appeals have consistently upheld the constitutionality of federal child sexual abuse material statutes applied to digitally morphed imagery depicting identifiable, real children

In United States v. Anderegg, the district court declined to extend Stanley v. Georgia First Amendment protections to charges of producing or distributing obscene imagery depicting imaginary children

In Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition in 2002, the United States Supreme Court held that non-obscene, sexually explicit imagery depicting an imaginary minor is protected by the First Amendment