Tagged: Courts

UN judge from Uganda is convicted in the UK of forcing a woman into slavery - ABC News

Via: jeremy-in-nc • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 3 days ago

Cheer the Supremes' Grants Pass ruling that lets states clean up homeless encampments

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 1 Comments • 8 months ago

Supreme Court: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau funding doesn't violate Constitution | AP News

Via: evilone • News & Politics • 16 Comments • 10 months ago

Verdict in Donald Trump's civil fraud trial expected Friday, capping busy week of court action - ABC News

Via: jbb • News & Politics • 2 Comments • last year

Trump pays $110,000 fine for failure to cooperate with NY probe | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera

Via: jbb • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 3 years ago

Turley Advances Nonsense About Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson To Appease His Racist Fanbase - Above the LawAbove the Law

Via: steve-ott • News & Politics • 64 Comments • 3 years ago

But he’s inside the tent. And we’re making s’mores later. Interesting. When Amy Coney Barrett was up for the Supreme Court on the strength of less than three years of judicial...

Trump Judge So Excited To Blow Up Voting Rights He LARPs As Supreme Court Justice

Via: steve-ott • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 3 years ago

That might not be clear enough. Let’s try another one that gives Rudofsky more guidance: At the bottom. That means you get to write self-indulgent opinions about how you “regret being...

Supreme Court rejects Nevada church plea to allow larger congregation

Via: gordy327 • News & Politics • 25 Comments • 5 years ago

Judge Gleeson Comes Right Out And Calls Bill Barr Corrupt

Via: steve-ott • News & Politics • 99 Comments • 5 years ago

The Government’s ostensible grounds for seeking dismissal are conclusively disproven by its own briefs filed earlier in this very proceeding. They contradict and ignore this Court’s prior orders,...

Sidestepping Texas Law, Austin Becomes First U.S. City To Fund Abortion Support Services

Via: gordy327 • News & Politics • 20 Comments • 6 years ago

As Texas continues to enact laws making it harder for women to obtain abortions — and impossible for towns and cities to provide funding for abortion care — a liberal stronghold city is...

Over 40 Prosecutors Refuse To Enforce New Anti-Abortion Laws

Via: gordy327 • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 6 years ago

Dozens of state and local prosecutors released a statement Friday vowing not to enforce extreme anti-abortion restrictions recently passed in their states. “As elected prosecutors with charging...

Judge's order means Missouri clinic can keep doing abortions

Via: gordy327 • News & Politics • 73 Comments • 6 years ago

A judge issued an order Friday ensuring Missouri's only abortion clinic can continue providing abortions, acting just hours before the St. Louis Planned Parenthood facility's license was set to...

Supreme Court seems inclined to retain cross on public land

Via: gordy327 • News & Politics • 299 Comments • 6 years ago

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to rule that a 40-foot-tall cross that stands on public land in Maryland is constitutional, but shy away from a sweeping ruling. The case...

Why Trump will win the wall fight

Via: it-is-me • Op/Ed • 15 Comments • 6 years ago

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "If my fellow citizens want to go to hell, I will help them. It is my job." He was expressing the limited role of courts in challenges to federal law. It...

'Tennessee Natural Marriage Defense Act' seeks to strip gay marriage rights

Via: gordy327 • News & Politics • 88 Comments • 6 years ago

Nearly four years after the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal throughout the U.S. in its landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision, Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are attempting to turn...