Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) declared that, until 1981, the Supreme Court was all white men, as he delivered a speech on Thursday in support of Biden’s pledge to nominate a black female justice to the court. However, in his rush to anoint the president as an agent …
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The White House has claimed the Supreme Court has blocked “common-sense life saving requirements for employers” by opposing President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 mandate on US businesses. In a Thursday statement, the president said he is “disappointed” in the court’s decision and claimed his much-contested mandate for businesses with 100 or …
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Stotomayor dissented from the decision not to halt the law – known as SB 8 – in the meantime, ahead of November. Justices will next be deciding whether the federal government can challenge the law and “obtain injunctive or declaratory relief against the State, state court …
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The Justice Department is seeking to block the law from coming into effect while the fight over its constitutionality continues in the courts. It has been statutory since September, excepting a 48-hour period ordered by a district court. The Biden administration filed on Monday to reverse a ruling by the …
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The court’s ruling was in response to Trump’s team filing an emergency order in October 2020, seeking to shield his financial records from prosecutors. The ruling was made without comments or dissent. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance simply promised that “the work continues” in response to the win. Trump slammed …
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Religious organizations have been battling with California for months now, as the state’s lockdown restrictions have meant that indoor services have been banned across most of the state – a move that has drawn criticism, in particular, because Hollywood productions have been allowed to move forward. The Supreme Court ruled …
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The job fell to Leahy (D-Vermont), president pro tempore of the Senate, on Monday because the US Constitution provides for the chief justice to serve as judge only when a sitting president or vice president is impeached. In fact, the Constitution doesn’t specifically make provision for a former president at …
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Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt led his colleagues from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia in filing the amicus brief to the US Supreme Court on Wednesday. The amici “have a strong interest in ensuring …
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Speaking alongside Trump in the Rose Garden, minutes after he officially tapped her to fill the SCOTUS seat left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barrett reaffirmed her commitment to the judicial philosophy of her mentor, former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. “I clerked for Justice Scalia …
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“The bottom line is we won the election, we have an obligation to do what’s right and act as quickly as possible,” Trump said during a Fox News interview on Monday. The president specified that the Senate should vote on his nominee to the highest court “before the election” and …
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