The Supreme Court will consider whether the South Carolina legislature racially gerrymandered the congressional seat currently held by Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican. The case will be closely watched, given the Republicans’ thin current majority in the U.S. House of … Continue reading Supreme Court to consider if GOP lawmakers racially gerrymandered South Carolina district
The Supreme Court decided on May 15 to take up a long-running dispute between former President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over the former Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital. The case goes back to 2017, when Trump had … Continue reading Supreme Court agrees to hear dispute over Trump’s former DC hotel
Tina Trent (website) is sending out an urgent appeal to help a victim in need. Here it is: Dear Friends, Tina here. I have never sent an email like this one before, which is why you can see the … Continue reading Hate crime hoax victim, elderly daughter of Holocaust survivor, fighting for her life in Milwaukee
The Biden administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a high-profile case in which Republicans want the court to recognize state legislatures’ power to regulate federal elections without interference from state courts, which they say the U.S. Constitution requires. … Continue reading Biden DOJ asks Supreme Court to dismiss major GOP election lawsuit
The Supreme Court ruled 8–1 against journalists seeking documents from a financial control board in Puerto Rico created to deal with the U.S. commonwealth’s fiscal troubles. The majority opinion in the case, Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico … Continue reading Supreme Court finds journalists cannot sue Puerto Rican control board
The Supreme Court unanimously overturned the public corruption conviction of Joe Percoco, formerly a longtime aide to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in a May 11 ruling. The new decision, a defeat for the Biden administration, is a blow to prosecutors and … Continue reading Supreme Court overturns corruption conviction of former Cuomo aide
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled May 11 in favor of a transgender illegal alien from Guatemala seeking asylum who claims he would face persecution if forced to return to his home country. The ruling, a defeat for the Biden administration, … Continue reading Supreme Court sides with transgender asylum claimant in deportation dispute
The Supreme Court narrowly upheld a voter-approved animal welfare law in California on May 11 that bans the sale of pork from hogs unless the animals were raised in a space that exceeds industry norms. The court split 5–4 in its … Continue reading Supreme Court upholds restrictive California pork production law
Two parents are suing state and local officials in Massachusetts in federal court for heavy-handed treatment during a bungled investigation into allegations of child abuse that were later discredited. The plight of the family received national attention in December 2022, … Continue reading Parents who had children taken in police raid sue Massachusetts in federal court
Texas billionaire Harlan Crow refused to answer questions from a Democratic senator who is examining whether gifts such as luxury vacations that Crow gave his friend Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas violated U.S. tax law. The relationship between Crow and … Continue reading Harlan Crow refuses to answer Democrats’ questions about Justice Thomas, casts probe as illegitimate
Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, 93, seemed to express sympathy in 2000 for elements of a controversial GOP-backed legal theory that would recognize state legislatures’ power to regulate federal elections without interference from state courts, according to the recently unveiled … Continue reading Ex-Supreme Court justice more sympathetic to GOP-backed election theory than previously thought
The U.S. Supreme Court is moving closer to deciding if it will issue an opinion in a high-profile case in which Republicans want the court to recognize state legislatures’ power to regulate federal elections without interference from state courts, which … Continue reading Supreme Court inches closer to decision in major redistricting case
A friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is pushing back against a new report that claims a wealthy Republican donor paid for the private school tuition of the justice’s grandnephew. During the presidency of Donald Trump, Mark Paoletta was … Continue reading ‘Another attempt to manufacture a scandal’: friend of Clarence Thomas hits back at new report targeting the justice
Democrats told a tense oversight hearing that the Supreme Court must adopt a code of conduct governing justices’ behavior or Congress will impose one on them, while Republicans pushed back, saying Democrats have manufactured a phony ethics crisis to justify … Continue reading Democrats say Supreme Court should adopt code of conduct as Republicans allege partisan attack
The Supreme Court agreed on May 1 to look at a federal investor protection law after a Wall Street whistleblower claimed his former employer fired him for refusing to paint an unjustifiably rosy picture of market outlooks. The law concerned … Continue reading Supreme Court takes up Wall Street whistleblower retaliation case
The Supreme Court decided on May 1 to consider rolling back a bureaucracy-empowering legal doctrine when it determined it will hear a case challenging a U.S. Commerce Department rule on fisheries inspectors. The court’s ultimate ruling could alter the current … Continue reading Supreme Court takes up major case that could roll back power of federal government
The Supreme Court turned away a challenge on May 1 to Indiana’s law requiring the cremation or burial of the remains of aborted babies. The lawsuit is one of many nationwide that have been adjudicated in the wake of the … Continue reading Indiana law mandating burial or cremation after abortion can stay, Supreme Court rules
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) threatened to push legislation to force a federal district court in Texas that has repeatedly ruled against the Biden administration to discourage alleged forum shopping by Republican plaintiffs. Schumer and Democrats are angry that Texas-based … Continue reading Schumer threatens legislation if Texas federal court won’t discourage judge-shopping
Teachers from a California middle school are suing officials in their school district in federal court over policies that they say force them to conceal the transgender status of young students from parents. The lawsuit happens to come after President … Continue reading California teachers sue school district over transgender policy allegedly forcing them to lie to parents
A 94-year-old Minnesota homeowner’s lawyer told a seemingly sympathetic Supreme Court on April 26 that local governments should not be allowed to take the full value of a home as payment for much smaller property tax debts—a practice critics call … Continue reading SCOTUS sympathetic to 94-year-old grandmother in ‘home equity theft’ dispute