WASHINGTON (AP) — A 2018 Supreme Court decision opened the floodgates to legalized sports-betting industry, now worth billions of dollars a year, even as it recognized that the decision was controversial.

The ruling could have major implications for states like Tennessee, where gun ownership is part of daily life and marijuana remains illegal under both state and federal law.

The United States Supreme Court is set to decide if a federal law that prohibits illegal drug users from owning guns is a violation of the Second Amendment of the constitution.• Video Above: What do the different “schedules” of drugs mean?

Attorneys General from half of the United States, led by those from Tennessee and Iowa, filed a brief with the Supreme Court Friday challenging the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering Trump's National Guard deployment in Chicago amidst legal and constitutional debates.

UC on Thursday asked the California Supreme Court to block the release of a UCLA settlement proposal sent by the Trump administration in August. It outlines a $1.2-billion fine and vast campus changes.

For decades courts have used section two to protect the voting power of racial minorities when legislatures draw electoral-district maps. That era may soon end, however, and if it does, the change may offer Republicans new and potent possibilities for partisan gerrymandering to entrench party power.