Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) filed an amicus brief (“friend of the court” legal brief) at the Supreme Court on Monday, joined by follow leftwing partisan Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Richard Durbin (D-IL), and presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), demanding that the Supreme Court back out of a case over one of the […]
Supreme Court Gives Green Light on Warrantless Blood Draw…
In a halting endorsement of police forgoing warrants when a suspected drunken driver is unconscious, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Thursday that the driver’s blood is likely to be tested anyway for diagnostic purposes. “Police officers most frequently come upon unconscious drivers when they report to the scene of an accident, and under those circumstances, […]
OPINION ANALYSIS: Court Orders Do-Over on Citizenship Question in Census Case…
The fate of a question about citizenship on the 2020 census remains up in the air today. Although the Trump administration had hoped that the Supreme Court would clear the way for it to include such a question, the justices instead sent the issue back to the Department of Commerce. Chief Justice John Roberts joined […]
SCOTUS OPINION: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ET AL. v. NEW YORK ET AL….
OPINION ANALYSIS: No Role for Courts in Partisan Gerrymandering…
The Supreme Court issued a decision today that could have a significant and long-term effect on elections and legislatures across the country. By a vote of 5-4, the justices ruled that courts should stay out of disputes over partisan gerrymandering – that is, allegations that redistricting maps were drawn to favor one political party at […]
SCOTUS OPINION: RUCHO ET AL. v. COMMON CAUSE ET AL….
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Challenge to Trump’s Steel Tariffs…
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to question President Donald Trump’s imposition of more than $4 billion in steel tariffs, turning away an appeal that challenged his use of national security as the legal justification for his trade agenda. The appeal by a steel industry trade group and two of its members contended that the provision […]
ANALYSIS: Justices Reverse Death Sentence for Mississippi Inmate…
In 2010, Curtis Flowers stood trial for the 1996 murders of four people in a Mississippi furniture store. The local district attorney, Doug Evans, who is white, struck five of the six potential black jurors in the jury pool, resulting in a jury with just one black member. Flowers was convicted and sentenced to death. […]
McConnell: Senate Would Work with Trump to Fill Hypothetical Supreme Court Vacancy in 2020…
Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that if President Donald Trump would get the opportunity to nominate a Supreme Court justice in 2020, an election year, the Senate would assist the President in filling the vacancy. “Oh, we’d fill it,” he said with a smile to laughs from the audience at a Chamber of Commerce […]
Justices Reverse in Part on Indiana Abortion Law…
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