The Supreme Court has rejected another challenge to former President Donald Trump’s ban on so-called bump stocks, which allow a semi-automatic weapon to fire rapidly like a machine gun. The ruling came on Nov. 14, after the court recognized a … Continue reading Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Trump-era bump stock ban
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito received a standing ovation from a hall full of lawyers at a black-tie dinner on Nov. 10 for authoring the landmark legal decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 high court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. … Continue reading Justice Samuel Alito receives standing ovation for overturning abortion ruling
The Supreme Court agreed Nov. 10 to hear the appeal of a Texas man convicted of health care fraud who argues that he was unjustly separately convicted under a federal aggravated identity theft law because a form he filed contained a patient’s name. The granting of the single petition on Nov. 10 was unexpected. The court previously announced it would issue new orders on Nov. 14. The case is Dubin v. United States, court file 22-10. The court provided no explanation why it granted the petition for review. Only four of the nine justices need to vote to hear a case in … Continue reading Supreme Court agrees to hear Texas man’s appeal against identity theft conviction in Medicaid fraud case
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor turned away an emergency application on Nov. 10 to halt New York City’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate that applies to firefighters, police officers, and other government employees. The appeal was from workers who were fired after the … Continue reading Supreme Court’s Sotomayor denies NYC workers’ bid to halt vaccination mandate
A federal law aimed at preventing non-Indian families from adopting Native American children is discriminatory and unconstitutional and should be struck down, parents told the Supreme Court on Nov. 9. The Biden administration supported the federal law at the court … Continue reading Biden administration defends racially discriminatory adoption law at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court seemed skeptical Nov. 8 of an Indiana-based government health care provider’s argument that the family of a Medicaid-eligible nursing home patient was barred by federal law from suing to enforce the man’s legal rights. Some legal commentators say … Continue reading Indiana tells Supreme Court that nursing home patient on Medicaid had no right to sue over mistreatment
A security technology company and an accountant claiming unfair treatment at the hands of federal agencies’ in-house administrative tribunals urged a seemingly receptive Supreme Court on Nov. 7 to make it easier to challenge their structure. The Supreme Court could use the opportunity to rein in the so-called administrative state and reaffirm the separation of powers doctrine that prevents any specific branch of the government from exercising the core functions of another. The idea behind the doctrine is to discourage the concentration of power and make sure there are checks and balances. Critics of the administrative state claim that in-house adjudications are … Continue reading Supreme Court receptive to pitch to allow court challenges to administrative state powers: Litigants say they should be able to challenge Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission tribunals
Over the dissent of two conservative justices, the Supreme Court refused on Nov. 7 to take up the case of a man who claimed that it was unconstitutional for Arizona to convict him using a jury made up of just eight people … Continue reading Supreme Court refuses to hear challenge to 8-person juries in criminal trials: Conservative Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh say they would have heard the Arizona case
The Supreme Court agreed Nov. 4 to hear a dispute about whether an Indian tribe has the right to draw water from the Colorado River. The case pits the Navajo Nation, a large Indian reservation occupying territory in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, against the states of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. One hundred years ago an interstate compact spelled out the water rights relating to the Colorado River. The tribe, based in the arid Western part of the United States, says it needs access to the river … Continue reading Supreme Court agrees to hear Indian tribe’s bid to access water from the Colorado River: 9th Circuit previously sided with the Navajo Nation, allowing the lawsuit to proceed
New York City firefighters, police officers, and other government employees who were fired after the city refused their request to be exempted on religious grounds from the city’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court late … Continue reading NYC firefighters, police, teachers ask Supreme Court to halt vaccination mandate
A businessman whose initial fine of $50,000 for violating an obscure tax-filing rule ballooned to $2.72 million at the insistence of the IRS urged the Supreme Court on Nov. 2 to reduce the fine. The case came as the Biden … Continue reading Supreme Court hears businessman’s appeal after IRS increases penalty for a paperwork mistake by 5,400%: Pro-abortion rights protesters who condemned reversal of Roe v. Wade disrupt the hearing
The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal on Oct. 31, leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that allowed the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to require the wearing of masks on airplanes, trains, and buses during the COVID-19 … Continue reading Supreme Court leaves TSA mask mandate ruling in place
Most Supreme Court justices seemed receptive on Oct. 31 to a student group’s argument that racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges are unconstitutional and must be struck down. The Biden administration countered that such policies should be allowed to … Continue reading Racially discriminatory college admission policies receive rough ride at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court turned away a request by Ankara to throw out lawsuits filed by protesters who say they were injured by Turkish agents outside its ambassador’s home in Washington during a 2017 protest against visiting President Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey argued unsuccessfully … Continue reading Supreme Court refuses to toss out lawsuits against Turkey over injuries at US protest
A left-wing civil rights group is asking the Supreme Court to review the felon disfranchisement provision of the Mississippi Constitution that permanently prevents certain felons from voting, claiming the law is rooted in racial animus. The appeal is not expected to affect the approaching Nov. 8 elections. The petition (pdf) in the case, Harness v. Watson, is expected to be docketed by the Supreme Court in the coming days. The respondent, Michael Watson, is Mississippi’s Republican secretary of state. The petitioners, Roy Harness and Kamal Karriem, are black Mississippi residents. Harness was convicted of forgery in 1986. Karriem, a former Columbus … Continue reading Supreme Court asked to restore felon voting rights in Mississippi: Civil rights group claims voting bar is rooted in racism
The Biden administration has urged the Supreme Court to reject a Republican bid to re-empower state legislatures to regulate congressional and presidential elections as they say the U.S. Constitution requires, including removing the judiciary’s power to weigh in on redistricting … Continue reading Biden DOJ urges Supreme Court not to take away judges’ power to intervene in federal elections: High court to hear case about Trump-backed ‘independent state legislature doctrine’ on Dec. 7
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the leak earlier this year of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade made conservative justices “targets for assassination” and changed the atmosphere at the court. Alito’s comments came during a moderated conversation at … Continue reading Justice Alito: Leak of Supreme Court’s abortion decision made conservative justices ‘targets for assassination’: Alito also took aim at campus cancel culture during wide-ranging talk at Heritage Foundation
Former President Donald Trump is urging the Supreme Court to hear a case from Florida that asks the court to decide if states have the power to regulate how social media companies moderate content on their platforms. Last week, 16 states also … Continue reading Trump asks Supreme Court to take up Florida social media censorship case: The state’s law is needed to make ‘platforms state their censorship policies and apply them consistently,’ brief says
A Christian baker in California has prevailed in a lawsuit that a lesbian couple filed against her for refusing to bake a wedding cake to celebrate their marriage on religious grounds. The left has been targeting Christian bakers for years for political … Continue reading California judge refuses to force Christian baker to make wedding cake celebrating same-sex marriage
I found an old reference to me online by leftist shill and ACORN apologist Lorraine “Lori” Minnite. The quotation appears at a January 31, 2011 entry at the website for the Society for the Study of Social Problems, whatever that … Continue reading Vadum as “chief propagandist” in the downfall of ACORN