Tagged: Scotus

Supreme Court rules Trump administration must 'facilitate' return of mistakenly deported man

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FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Bold Plan to Reform the Supreme Court and Ensure No President Is Above the Law | The White House

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FACT CHECK: Biden’s 5 Lies About the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Trump’s Immunity

Via: • News Viners • 214 Comments • 9 months ago

The SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity ( Trump v. United States ) applies to all former, current, and future Presidents. The ruling does not apply to only Donald Trump. The immunity ruling...

Judicial Activism in 2024

By: • Critical Thinkers • 164 Comments • 9 months ago

There is a twisted irony in saying, as the majority does, that the person charged with “tak[ing] Care that the laws be faithfully executed” can break them with impunity. SCotUS Ruling The...

Supreme Court Upholds Trump-Era Tax Provision - The New York Times

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Supreme Court Justice Alito's Beach House Displayed 'Appeal to Heaven' Flag - The New York Times

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Historian debunks 'five key errors' about Trump's disqualification from CO ballot

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Gay Couple Cited by Christian Web Designer who Won Supreme Court Case may not Exist

By: • The Banned Played On • 16 Comments • 2 years ago

Gay couple cited by Christian web designer who won Supreme Court case may not exist A report in the New Republic raised questions about a 2016 inquiry that the plaintiff in a major Supreme...

SCOTUS makes landmark decision recognising transgender person's pronouns | The Independent

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Supreme Court Limits Environmental Protection Agency's Authority

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The White House Expected to Name Supreme Court Nominee Soon

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Supreme Court Permits Continued Enforcement of Texas Six-Week Abortion Ban - WSJ

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 41 Comments • 3 years ago

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court allowed Texas’ six-week abortion ban to remain in effect indefinitely, issuing an order Thursday blocking litigation against the law while the state’s highest...

Supreme Court considers whether detained immigrants entitled to bond hearings

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 3 years ago

The Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled over whether immigrants in custody awaiting deportation are entitled to bond hearings during prolonged detention periods. The Biden administration urged...

Politics: When Pundits Hold Court

Via: • Books • 14 Comments • 4 years ago

When Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement in 2018, giving President Trump a second opportunity to elevate a judge to the Supreme Court, Ian Millhiser posted this charming reflection on...

Welcome to pro-life America. Enjoy your forced childbirth. Hope you don't die. | Opinion | Orlando | Orlando Weekly

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New Supreme Court Term Set to Be One for the Ages

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 4 years ago

A ccording to the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal. The same cannot be said for all Supreme Court terms. Each one, now stretching from the first Monday in October to...

SCOTUS Justice Brett Kavanaugh Tests Positive for COVID-19

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Supreme Court rejects Texas' effort to overturn election in fatal blow to Trump legal blitz to stop Biden

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Sanity.

Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Refused to Step Down - The New York Times

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Trump's Supreme Court List: Potential Candidates Being Considered by the President - WSJ

Via: • We the People • 2 Comments • 5 years ago

President Trump on Wednesday unveiled a new list of 20 potential Supreme Court nominees , adding to the 21 names he had released in 2016 and 2017 . The list is unconventional, including not...

Vox's Ian Millhiser & Justice Alito -- A Vile Smear | National Review

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Supreme Court rules Trump can use military funds for border wall construction

Via: • We the People • 149 Comments • 6 years ago

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Trump administration can start using military funds to construct a wall on the southern border, handing the president a major legal victory. The...

Supreme Court to hear case that could bring major changes in school choice laws

Via: • We the People • 1 Comments • 6 years ago

The Supreme Court is gearing up to decide next term whether states can ban students from using student-aid programs to attend religious institutions – an education dispute that could...

Supreme Court tosses citizenship question from 2020 census forms, a victory for Democratic states

Via: • We the People • 49 Comments • 6 years ago

June 27, 2019, 10:48 AM EDT By Pete Williams WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration cannot include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census form...

Supreme Court allows gerrymandering in North Carolina, Maryland, setting back reform efforts

Via: • We the People • 36 Comments • 6 years ago

une 27, 2019, 10:18 AM EDT / Updated June 27, 2019, 10:25 AM EDT By Pete Williams WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to find that political partisanship was so extreme in...

Virginia Republicans lose in U.S. Supreme Court racial gerrymandering case

Via: • We the People • 16 Comments • 6 years ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed Republican legislators in Virginia a defeat, leaving in place a ruling that invalidated state electoral districts they drew because...

U.S. Supreme Court declines to expand 'double jeopardy' protections

Via: • We the People • 7 Comments • 6 years ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to limit the ability of federal and state prosecutors to separately charge people for the same underlying crime, a decision with...

Supreme Court tosses ruling against bakers who refused cake for gay couple

Via: • We the People • 32 Comments • 6 years ago

The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a ruling against two Oregon bakers who refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. The couple, Melissa and Aaron Klein, cited religious...

Immigrant-rights groups ask Supreme Court to delay decision on 2020 census

Via: • We the People • 1 Comments • 6 years ago

Immigrant-rights groups asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to postpone ruling on their legal challenge to the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census until allegations...

New evidence shows GOP strategist played role in Trump push for citizenship question

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 6 years ago

Newly uncovered evidence shows that a Republican redistricting strategist played a significant role in the Trump administration’s efforts to add a citizenship question to the census, undercutting...

Justice Clarence Thomas Blasts Abortion As A Tool Of Racist Eugenicists

Via: • We the People • 162 Comments • 6 years ago

MAY 28, 2019 By Madeline Osburn The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld part of an Indiana law requiring aborted infants to be cremated or buried after an abortion. However, they...

Alabama Senate debates bill banning nearly all abortions

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 1 Comments • 6 years ago

(Reuters) - Alabama’s state Senate on Tuesday began final debate on a bill that would outlaw nearly all abortions, allowing exceptions only to prevent a serious health risk to the mother. The...

Rubio to introduce legislation to keep Supreme Court at 9 seats

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 23 Comments • 6 years ago

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Wednesday he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment to limit the Supreme Court to nine justices after some Democrats have floated expanding the...

Supreme Court upholds federal power to detain and deport immigrants for long-past crimes

Via: • We the People • 7 Comments • 6 years ago

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday bolstered the Trump administration’s power to arrest and indefinitely jail legal immigrants who committed past crimes that could trigger deportation,...

Supreme Court expands scope of census citizenship question case

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 16 Comments • 6 years ago

March 15, 2019, 5:23 PM EDT By Dartunorro Clark The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it is expanding the scope of the case against the Trump administration's decision to add a...

DeVos moves to allow religious groups to provide federally-funded services to private schools

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 112 Comments • 6 years ago

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Monday her agency will no longer enforce a federal provision that prohibits religious organizations from giving private schools federally funded...

Dems hope to draw blood from potential Trump SCOTUS pick

Via: • We the People • 59 Comments • 6 years ago

When the conservative lawyer Neomi Rao appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week, she’ll be interviewing for a job on the country’s second most powerful court. But both her...

2019 could be an incredible and historic year for the Supreme Court – Here’s why

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 59 Comments • 7 years ago

The year ahead has the potential to be historic for the U.S. Supreme Court. With Justice Brett Kavanaugh replacing the inconsistent Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, conservatives have a majority on...

Manafort could be affected by double jeopardy case before Supreme Court

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 45 Comments • 7 years ago

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court hears a challenge Thursday to its long-standing rule that putting someone on trial more than once for the same crime does not violate the Constitution's...

Birthright Citizenship and what lawmakers intended

By: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 87 Comments • 7 years ago

We are now engaged in a national debate over President Trump's announcement that he will use an executive order to end the "birthright citizenship" clause in the 14th Amendment. There is no doubt...

Transgender fight could prove major test for Supreme Court

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 166 Comments • 7 years ago

The fight over civil rights protections for transgender people could prove to be a major test for the Supreme Court, particularly its conservative wing, as justices weigh whether to take up...

I’m An Immigrant, Minority Woman Going Republican Over Democrats’ Treatment Of Kavanaugh

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 20 Comments • 7 years ago

I have become a unicorn. My metamorphosis didn’t require a magic spell or potion, or even a trip to a well-reviewed plastic surgeon to add a horn to my head. All it took was Democrats’...

Unfinished Business

By: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 69 Comments • 7 years ago

Now that Brett Kavanaugh has taken his place upon the Supreme Court, there is something very sinister which needs to be attended to. It's the story of the well coordinated liberal machine which...

What Makes Our Supreme Court Special, And How Do We Get Back There

By: docphil • News & Politics • 84 Comments • 7 years ago

There is such a frenzy out there about the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and whether or not he should be approved by the Senate. That frenzy has it’s roots in the partisan political divide,...

Women Rally for Brett Kavanaugh: He ‘Treated Us with Kindness and Respect’

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 34 Comments • 7 years ago

By Lauren Lee | Saturday, September 22, 2018 Dozens of female colleagues, classmates and friends of Brett Kavanaugh rallied in support of the embattled Supreme Court nominee on...

Christine Ford moves the goal posts again, wants conditions and another week

By: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 324 Comments • 7 years ago

There is nothing like dealing with Chuck Grassley. After setting a deadline of 10:AM Friday for Christine Ford to decide if she would tell her story Monday, Ford's attorney announced late...

The 'forgotten' Supreme Court decision and its impact on our politics

Via: vic-eldred • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 7 years ago

Amid the current national debate over immigration policies, racial discrimination, LGBTQ rights, and executive power, the anniversary of an important legal and political dispute that has...

I’m a Liberal Feminist Lawyer. Here’s Why Democrats Should Support Judge Kavanaugh.

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 199 Comments • 7 years ago

Sometimes a superstar is just a superstar. That is the case with Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who had long been considered the most qualified nominee for the Supreme Court if Republicans secured the...

Supreme Court Says Foreign Nationals Have No Due Process Rights Here

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 44 Comments • 7 years ago

Contrary to what the liberal media and open-borders advocates say, immigrants are not owed same constitutional protections as regular Americans by Matt O'Brien | Updated...

Here Are the Top 5 Possible Trump Supreme Court Nominees (and 3 Dark Horses)

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 53 Comments • 7 years ago

Five names from President Donald Trump’s list of 25 top candidates for Supreme Court nominations appear to be the strongest contenders for the nod to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice...

The Four Dissenting Votes In The Travel Ban Ruling Are A Dangerous Sign

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 39 Comments • 7 years ago

The Supreme Court overturned the Ninth Circuit’s ruling against President Trump’s travel ban on Tuesday in Trump v. Hawaii. In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court held...

What will the angry left do now?

By: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 307 Comments • 7 years ago

With the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy the radical left is now beside itself. Kennedy was a swing vote from the Originalist side. Unlike their Conservative counter parts, activist judges...

U.S. top court backs Ohio voter purge; Democrats blast ruling

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 73 Comments • 7 years ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived Ohio’s contentious policy of purging infrequent voters from registration rolls in a ruling powered by the five conservative...

Judge agrees to halt fetal heartbeat abortion law in Iowa

Via: gordy327 • News & Politics • 18 Comments • 7 years ago

DES MOINES, Iowa — A judge agreed Friday to temporarily block the most restrictive abortion law in the country from taking effect in Iowa next month under an agreement between lawyers for the...

Union fees on the line: Five takeaways from the Supreme Court hearing

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 7 years ago

For the third time in four years, the Supreme Court heard arguments Monday about a case that would deal a financial blow to public sector unions, a major political force in California...

U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on California’s totalitarian law that requires pro-life centers to pitch abortion services.

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 8 years ago

Remember the days when Democratic politicians at least pretended that, although they wanted abortions to be “safe and legal,” they also wanted them to be “rare” ? Those days are long gone,...

SCOTUS To Review Law Forcing Pro-Life Centers To Promote Abortion

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 274 Comments • 8 years ago

In 2015, California passed a law forcing privately funded pro-life pregnancy centers to promote taxpayer-funded abortions, threatening crippling fines for noncompliance. That edict is now under...

Clarence Thomas: My Job Was Worth the Struggle

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 18 Comments • 8 years ago

To do what is right on the Supreme Court, 26 years after a brutal and partisan confirmation process, was ultimately worth the fight, Justice Clarence Thomas told Laura Ingraham on Fox News on...

The Most Important SCOTUS Order This Week Concerns A Case It Didn’t Take

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 8 years ago

On Monday, the Supreme Court added four new cases to its docket, none of which captured the attention of political pundits or the populace at large. Even less noticed—yet potentially more...