Rudy Giuliani lost his New York law license on Tuesday, after a state appeals court found he had lied in arguing that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from his client, former President Donald Trump. The court found that Giuliani, 80, “baselessly attacked and undermined the integrity of this country’s electoral process” and “actively contributed to the national strife that has followed the 2020 presidential election, for which he is entirely unrepentant.” Read more.
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away appeals challenging a Democratic-backed ban in Illinois on assault-style rifles such as AR-15s and sidestepped several other gun-related disputes on Tuesday, though it already has agreed to hear one major firearms case in its next term concerning homemade “ghost guns.” Read more.
After ending its current term with a pair of decisions that will make it easier to challenge regulations issued by U.S. agencies, the Supreme Court has a ripe opportunity in its next term to declare that dozens of the most important federal commissions in the U.S. are unconstitutionally structured. Alison Frankelhas the story on a little-noticed June 14 petition with potentially “seismic” consequences.
