SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court on Wednesday [4-25-18] will consider whether President Donald Trump can legally restrict entry to the U.S. for travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, tackling a central issue of his presidency. The case traces back to a defining moment in Mr. Trump’s campaign, when he called for ‘a total […]
Category: Supreme Court
4/17/2018
CONGRESS/IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today’s Court decision means that Congress must close loopholes that block the removal of dangerous criminal aliens, including aggravated felons. This is a public safety crisis that can only be fixed by….” -Donald Trump, T witter.com, April 17, 2018 4:34 PM […]
4/17/2018
IMMIGRATION/NEIL GORSUCH/ SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Justice Neil Gorsuch joined liberal justices to provide the tie-breaking vote in a Supreme Court ruling Tuesday [4-17-18] that said a federal immigration law requiring deportation for certain crimes was unconstitutionally vague. The case, Sessions v. Dimaya, focused on a Filipino with permanent U.S. residency who had been convicted […]
3/21/2018
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Department of Justice should have urged the Supreme Court to at least hear the Drivers License case on illegal immigrants in Arizona. I agree with @LouDobbs. Should have sought review.” –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Mar. 21, 2018 5:52am […]
3/20/2018
ABORTION/CALIFORNIA/SUPREME COURT: “Supreme Court justices on Tuesday [3-20-18] questioned the intent of a California law that the state says aims to inform pregnant women of their rights to reproductive health care, but antiabortion groups say forces them to promote abortion. The 2015 law requires facilities offering pregnancy-related services—including crisis pregnancy centers that seek to persuade […]
2/27/2018
IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a lower-court decision affording bail hearings to thousands of noncitizens held in federal lockups while they appeal deportation orders. Voting 5-3 along ideological lines, the justices found that the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had stretched the reading of federal immigration law when it […]
2/27/2018
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court held Tuesday [2-27-18] that under immigration law, a certain class of non-citizens facing deportation are not required to have a bond hearing if they’ve been held in detention for more six months. The 5-3 ruling, however, avoided a judgment on whether the Constitution requires such hearings, returning that issue to […]
2/26/2018
DREAMERS/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court on Monday [2-26-18] denied a Trump administration appeal that sought the swift cancellation of a program protecting undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. The court’s move means the program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, will remain in place for the near […]
2/26/2018
BUSINESS/SUPREME COURT: “Technology companies will square off with law enforcement on Tuesday [2-27-18] as the Supreme Court hears arguments on whether emails and other customer data stored overseas are subject to U.S. search warrants. The case is one of several legal battles on law-enforcement access to private online data, and it requires the justices to […]
2/25/2018
LABOR/SUPREME COURT: “Public-employee unions face a reckoning Monday [2-26-18] when the Supreme Court hears a long-anticipated lawsuit seeking to strip them of the power to bill collective-bargaining costs to employees who don’t want to pay. The case arrives at the court as a dispute between a state employee in Springfield, Ill., and the union that […]
2/24/2018
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTING: “President Trump added his voice on Saturday [2-24-18] to the continued conservative outcry over the court-ordered redistricting of the Pennsylvania congressional map, calling the decision ‘very unfair to Republicans and to our country.’… The Supreme Court this month denied a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to stop the state’s highest court from […]
2/23/2018
LABOR/SUPREME COURT: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday [2-26-18] will consider for the second time in two years whether to choke off a critical funding stream for public-employee unions, potentially reducing organized labor’s influence in the workplace and at the ballot box. The nine justices will hear a challenge backed by anti-union groups to the […]
2/22/2018
GOP/SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “Two top Pennsylvania state senators and eight of the state’s GOP members of Congress filed a federal lawsuit Thursday [2-2-18] in a bid to block a new congressional map imposed by the state’s high court. The move comes a day after Pennsylvania Republicans filed a new emergency appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court. […]
2/20/2018
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court imposed a new congressional map for the state that appeared to give Democrats a big boost in their effort to retake the U.S. House of Representatives in November’s midterm elections. The new map could flip at least four Republican-held seats in those contests, according to an analysis from the […]
2/14/2018
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “In Pennsylvania, a Republican lawmaker unhappy with a State Supreme Court ruling on gerrymandering wants to impeach the Democratic justices who authored it… Rather than simply fighting judicial rulings, elected officials in some states across the country — largely Republicans, but Democrats as well — are increasingly seeking to punish or restrain judges […]
2/13/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “A second federal judge Tuesday [2-13-18] has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled that DACA participants and states are likely to succeed in their challenge that the way […]
2/9/2018
GOP/SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “The two top Republicans in Pennsylvania’s Legislature submitted a new state congressional map Friday [2-9-18] evening, the latest turn in a high-stakes drama that could help determine control of the U.S. House. Leaders in the GOP-led state Senate and House sent proposed redrawn districts to Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, beating a deadline imposed […]
2/6/2018
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “The Supreme Court partly granted on Tuesday [2-7-18] a request from North Carolina Republicans to block a voting map drawn by a federal court there. That court had interceded after finding that a map drawn by state lawmakers for the General Assembly had relied too heavily on race and had violated state laws. […]
2/4/2018
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “The Supreme Court is facing a sensitive choice on whether to intervene in a partisan battle over Pennsylvania’s congressional map, a decision expected within days that could have considerable political and legal ramifications for the midterm elections. With the state’s primary vote about three months away, Pennsylvania candidates and voters don’t know what […]
2/1/2018
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When President Donald Trump’s administration took its fight to end a controversial immigration program directly to the U.S. Supreme Court last month, skipping over a California federal appeals court in the process, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said it was a ‘rare step’ to ensure a quick and fair resolution. But the […]
1/22/2018
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “Pennsylvania’s congressional district map is a partisan gerrymander that ‘clearly, plainly and palpably’ violates the state’s constitution, the state’s Supreme Court said on Monday [1-22-18], joining a string of court decisions that have struck down political maps that unduly favor one political party. The court banned the current map of 18 House districts […]
1/19/2018
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court on Friday [1-19-18] agreed to consider the legality of President Donald Trump’s latest ban on travelers from certain countries, giving the justices a chance to settle a yearlong legal battle over one of the White House’s most controversial initiatives. The justices in a brief written order said […]
1/18/2018
LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “European lawmakers and companies worry that a lawsuit the U.S. government has brought to the Supreme Court could clash with European Union law, trapping tech companies between complying with U.S. data requests and strict EU data-privacy rules. The case, set to be heard next month, stems from a dispute between the Justice Department […]
1/18/2018
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday [1-18-18] blocked a lower court’s order for North Carolina to rework its congressional map because Republicans violated the Constitution by drawing electoral districts intended to maximize their party’s chances of winning. The conservative-majority court granted a bid by Republican legislators in North Carolina to suspend the Jan. […]
1/16/2018
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “The Justice Department on Tuesday [1-16-18] announced plans to seek direct Supreme Court review of a judge’s ruling that blocked President Donald Trump from shuttering a program that gave work permits and other protections to some people who entered the U.S. illegally as children. The administration is also appealing the ruling to […]
1/15/2018
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “In October, when the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could reshape American politics, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. registered an objection. There was math in the case, he said, and it was complicated… The statistics in the recent gerrymandering cases were more complicated, but not by much. Just as […]
1/12/2018
SUPREME COURT/TAXES: “The Supreme Court on Friday [1-12-18] said it would consider whether states can broadly require online retailers to collect sales taxes even if they lack a physical presence in the state, taking a case that could have a major impact on online commerce. The justices agreed to hear an appeal by the state […]
1/12/2018
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “The Supreme Court announced Friday [1-12-18] that it plans to hear a significant voting rights case, agreeing to review a lower court opinion that invalidated congressional and statehouse maps in Texas. The order adds another case touching on voting disputes to the court’s docket at a time when the justices are already considering […]
1/10/2018
GOP/SUPREME COURT: “State Republicans vowed Wednesday [1-10-18] to appeal a federal-court ruling that North Carolina’s congressional districts were improperly drawn to maximize the GOP’s partisan advantage. Leaders of the state House of Representatives and Senate said they planned to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the decision, issued late Tuesday, rather than require legislators […]
1/8/2018
SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court on Monday [1-8-18] ordered lower courts to consider claims by a black convict from Georgia who alleges his death sentence was tainted with racial bias. Keith Tharpe was convicted of the 1990 murder of his sister-in-law, Jacquelyn Freeman, who had been accompanying his estranged wife. After shooting Ms. Freeman with […]
1/8/2018
LGBTQ/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court declined Monday [1-8-18] to consider a challenge to a Mississippi law authorizing individuals and merchants to deny service to same-sex couples on the basis of ‘sincerely held religious beliefs or moral convictions.’ The brief order comes as the justices grapple with a case posing many of the same issues in […]
12/20/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court on Wednesday [12-20-17] issued what appeared to be a compromise ruling that laid out guidelines for lower courts as they wrestle with legal issues stemming from the Trump administration’s decision to wind down the immigration program providing quasi-legal status and work permits to so-called Dreamers. Less than two […]
12/11/2017
LEGAL/LGBTQ/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court said on Monday [12-11-17] that it would not hear an appeal in a case that could have resolved whether a federal law prohibits employers from discriminating against gay and lesbian workers. The case concerned Jameka Evans, who said a Georgia hospital discriminated against her because she is a lesbian. She […]
12/8/2017
DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “A divided Supreme Court on Friday [12-8-17] temporarily blocked a lower court from requiring the Trump administration to release internal documents related to its September decision to end a program protecting undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. The court’s emergency action halting the document release comes just days after it […]
12/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court on Monday [12-4-17] said the Trump administration for now can implement all parts of its latest ban on travelers from certain countries, a significant boost to the White House after a string of setbacks in lower courts. The high court’s action came in a brief written order […]
12/4/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday [12-4-17] handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his latest travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries to go into full effect even as legal challenges continue in lower courts. The nine-member court, with two liberal justices dissenting, granted his administration’s […]
12/31/2017
LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “Chief Justice John Roberts said Sunday that the federal judiciary would assess its own policies for addressing sexual harassment involving judges and court employees, joining a national reckoning that, after exposing sordid activity by Hollywood titans, superstar journalists and elected officials, claimed the career of a prominent U.S. circuit judge. ‘Events in recent […]
11/29/2017
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SEC/SUPREME COURT: “The Trump administration on Wednesday [11-29-17] abandoned its defense of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house judicial system, siding with opponents who say the hiring process for the SEC’s judges is unconstitutional. In a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers for the Justice Department wrote they now consider the SEC’s […]
11/29/2017
SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court will hear a major case involving privacy in the digital age on Wednesday [11-29-17], and will grapple with how to apply established legal rules to rapidly changing technology. The case concerns whether investigators need warrants to obtain cell tower data in order to track and reconstruct the movements of cell […]
11/27/2017
GUNS/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court on Monday [11-27-17] turned down two appeals seeking to expand access to firearms, leaving in place a Maryland law banning semiautomatic rifles and a Florida restriction on carrying guns openly. Gun dealers and firearms enthusiasts had challenged a Maryland law enacted following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in […]
11/21/2017
IMMIGRATION/JUSTICE DEPARTMENT/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Monday [11-20-17] to fully reinstate its travel restrictions on residents of six Muslim-majority countries, the latest move in a legal battle over entry to the U.S. that has raged since the Trump administration’s first days… U.S. Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the […]
11/17/2017
NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In a move certain to please conservatives, President Donald Trump on Friday [11-17-17] added five names to his list of candidates for a prospective U.S. Supreme Court vacancy as he presses ahead with a campaign to move the federal judiciary to the right. Two of them are appellate judges who were […]
11/13/2017
ABORTION/CALIFORNIA/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court agreed Monday [11-13-17] to hear an antiabortion group’s challenge to a California law that requires ‘crisis pregnancy centers’ to notify patients that the state offers subsidies for contraception and abortion. The challengers say the disclosure law violates the 1st Amendment because it forces the faith-based pregnancy centers to send a […]
10/16/2017
SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether technology firms with U.S. operations have to retrieve electronic information stored abroad if American authorities demand it under U.S. law. Law enforcement officials say they need the ability to compel U.S.-based firms to comply with subpoenas and search warrants, but the companies argue that giving […]
10/11/2017
LEGAL/LGBTQ/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Dozens of businesses asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday [10-11-17] to find that federal law bars discrimination based on sexual orientation, putting companies including Apple Inc., Cigna Corp. , Morgan Stanley and Viacom Inc. at odds with the Trump administration. The businesses asked the court to hear the appeal of a […]
10/10/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court is one step closer to sidestepping a decision on President Donald Trump’s expiring travel ban, even while lawsuits on a new version of the ban move forward. The high court late Tuesday [10-10-17] dismissed one of two pending cases on Mr. Trump’s executive order from March that […]
10/5/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration on Thursday [10-5-17] urged the Supreme Court to dismiss a pending case on the president’s expiring travel ban, which it said was moot in light of new travel restrictions announced last month by President Donald Trump. The justices already had removed the travel ban case from the court’s […]
10/4/2017
NEIL GORSUCH/SUPREME COURT: “Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s appointee to the Supreme Court, joined liberal colleagues Wednesday [10-4-17] in sharply questioning government arguments that criminal defendants forfeit all rights to appeal after entering a plea bargain. Since his April appointment, Justice Gorsuch’s remarks and votes nearly always have placed him on the court’s right. […]
10/3/2017
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday [10-3-17] in a case that could reshape American democracy by considering whether extreme partisan gerrymandering — the drawing of voting districts to give lopsided advantages to the party in power — violates the Constitution. The Supreme Court has never struck down an election map on the […]
10/1/2017
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “How egregiously can a majority party gerrymander a political map before it violates the Constitution? The Supreme Court has tried to answer that question for 30 years. On Tuesday [10-3-17], it will try again, hearing arguments in a case involving the Wisconsin State Assembly that could remake an American political landscape rived by […]
10/1/2017
LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court begins a new term Monday [10-2-17] with a conservative majority and a docket filled with longtime conservative goals to go with it, with cases that could curtail the power of organized labor, expand religious exceptions to legal obligations and validate tougher scrutiny of voter rolls. As he steered the court […]
9/28/2017
LABOR/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court on Thursday [9-28-17] agreed to hear a case that could deal a crushing blow to organized labor. It was one of 11 cases the justices added to the court’s docket from the roughly 2,000 petitions seeking review that had piled up during the court’s summer break. In the labor case, […]
9/25/2017
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court on Monday [9-25-17] canceled arguments on President Trump’s travel ban that had been scheduled for Oct. 10. The court asked lawyers in the case to submit briefs by Oct. 5 discussing the effect of Mr. Trump’s new proclamation, issued Sunday, replacing his revised travel ban, which had […]
9/12/2017
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday [9-12-17] again ordered a reinstatement of the Trump administration’s restrictions on refugee entry into the U.S., another shift in the seesaw legal battle over President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban. The high court issued an emergency order that sided with the Trump administration, after a federal […]
9/11/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN: “The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday [9-11-17] to put on hold a federal appeals court ruling from last week that narrowed the scope of the travel ban as it applies to a certain class of refugees. In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, Justice Department lawyers said that […]
9/6/2017
GOP/SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “Breaking ranks with many of their fellow Republicans, a group of prominent politicians filed briefs on Tuesday [9-5-17] urging the Supreme Court to rule that extreme political gerrymandering — the drawing of voting districts to give lopsided advantages to the party in power — violates the Constitution. The briefs were signed by Republicans […]
8/28/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration may be headed for trouble in the Supreme Court. It has twice switched sides in important Supreme Court cases, on workers’ rights and voting rolls, abandoning the positions of the previous administration for ones favored by conservatives. Such legal U-turns can try the justices’ patience. In the Obama […]
8/24/2017
GOP/LEGAL/POLITICS/SUPREME COURT: “A U.S. court on Thursday [8-24-17] rejected a bid by Republican voters to throw out congressional districts drawn by Democratic lawmakers in Maryland. The three-judge panel sitting in Baltimore, divided 2-1, also put any further action in the case on hold pending the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming decision in a similar case from […]
8/21/2017
LEGAL/RACISM/SUPREME COURT: “As North Carolina lawmakers rush to adopt new state legislative maps not based on race, they can’t escape the very issue they are trying to remove: race. Both the state Senate and the House of Representatives have proposed new maps to address a lower-court ruling—upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court—that found the existing […]
8/17/2017
ETHICS/NEIL GORSUCH/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is slated to headline a September event at the Trump International Hotel. The ‘Defending Freedom Luncheon,’ hosted by the nonprofit Fund for American Studies, is an invitation-only event to celebrate ‘the constitutional framework that has protected our free society and made America exceptional,’ according to the […]
8/1/2017
SUPREME COURT: “North Carolina does not have to hold special elections ahead of its 2018 spring legislative session, a panel of three federal judges ruled in a gerrymandering case. But the judges on Monday [7-31-17] set a September 1 deadline for state lawmakers to ‘adopt and enact remedial districting plans’ after they had ruled last […]
7/19/2017
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday [7-19-17] a bid by President Donald Trump to include grandparents and other relatives in his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries. But in a partial win for Trump, the court gave the government more leeway to enforce a separate ban on […]
7/15/2017
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN: “The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the State of Hawaii to respond by Tuesday [7-18-17] at noon to President Donald Trump’s motion to block a judge’s ruling that prevented his travel ban from being applied to grandparents of U.S. citizens and refugees already being processed by resettlement agencies, the court’s public information […]
6/27/2017
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “…About four out of 10 refugees who come to the United States have no family ties in the country, according to independent estimates. In some cities known for taking in refugees — like Boise, Idaho; New Haven; and Fayetteville, Ark. — those with no family ties are a majority. On […]
6/26/2017
RELIGION/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court ruled on Monday [6-26-17] that states must sometimes provide aid to religious groups even when their state constitutions call for a strict separation of church and state. The decision concerned a state program to make playgrounds safer that excluded those affiliated with churches, and it had implications for all kinds […]
6/26/2017
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN: “Great day for America’s future Security and Safety, courtesy of the U.S. Supreme Court. I will keep fighting for the American people, & WIN!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 26, 2017 09:31pm […]
6/26/2017
SUPREME COURT: “Very grateful for the 9-O decision from the U. S. Supreme Court. We must keep America SAFE!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 26, 2017 01:25pm […]
6/26/2017
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court Monday allowed parts of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to go into effect and will hear oral arguments on the case this fall. The court is allowing the ban to go into effect for foreign nationals who lack any ‘bona fide relationship with any person or entity […]
6/23/2017
POLITICS/SUPREME COURT: “The U.S. Supreme Court has never declared a voting-district map unconstitutional for giving one party a political edge, but a pair of legal scholars hopes a metric they devised will change that. On Monday [6-19-17], the high court announced it would hear the appeal of a U.S. District Court decision that invalidated the […]
6/22/2017
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court on Thursday [6-22-17] narrowed the grounds on which naturalized citizens can have their citizenship revoked. The case concerns a naturalized citizen who was deported after lying on her naturalization application. The court unanimously ruled on the decision. Newly appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch issued his first separate opinion in the case, […]
6/21/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN: “The Trump administration on Wednesday [6-21-7] made its final plea to the U.S. Supreme Court to allow its proposed ban on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries to go into effect as the justices weigh how to handle the hotly contested dispute. The court papers filed by President Donald Trump’s administration complete the […]
6/19/2017
IMMIGRATION/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN: “While the most controversial provisions of the President’s revised ban blocking travel to the US remain tied up in the courts, a federal appeals court formally cleared the way late Monday [6-19-17] for different portions of the executive order to move forward. The Trump administration can now conduct internal reviews of other […]
6/19/2017
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “The Supreme Court announced on Monday [6-19-17] that it would consider whether partisan gerrymandering can violate the Constitution. The case could reshape American politics. The court has struck down election maps as racial gerrymanders that disadvantage minority voters. But it has never disallowed a map on the ground that it was drawn to […]
6/19/2017
9/11/BUSH FAMILY/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court ruled former high-ranking officials in the George W. Bush administration, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft and former FBI Director Robert Mueller, could not be held accountable in claims brought by non-citizens after 9/11. The decision was 4-2. Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor recused themselves because they dealt […]
6/15/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will travel to the Supreme Court on Thursday [6-15-17] to celebrate the appointment of Justice Neil Gorsuch, and pay a rare visit to a branch of government he vowed to reshape during the campaign. Trump’s visit is likely to be short, and Gorsuch’s swearing-in is ceremonial, but the […]
6/12/2017
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court on Monday [6-12-17] struck down a federal law that treats children born overseas to unmarried parents differently for purposes of citizenship depending upon whether the biological father or mother is a US citizen. Under the law, US citizen fathers have to spend at least five years in the states before […]
6/5/2017
SEC/SUPREME COURT: “The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday [6-5-17] scaled back the Securities and Exchange Commission’s power to recover ill-gotten profits from defendants’ misconduct, handing Wall Street firms a victory and dealing another blow to the regulator’s enforcement powers. In a 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court found that the SEC’s recovery remedy known as ‘disgorgement’ […]
6/2/2017
IMMIGRATION/SUPREME COURT/TRAVEL BAN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s administration filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday [6-1-17] night seeking to reverse rulings by lower courts in Hawaii and Maryland that blocked a temporary ban on travel to the United States from six majority-Muslim countries. The Trump administration says the Constitution gives the president […]
5/30/2017
POLITICS/SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “During a lull between elections, the Supreme Court is taking on a hot-button political issue that could change the way legislative lines are drawn across the country. It’s called gerrymandering — a term that arises from a district shaped like a salamander that was drawn during the 1810 term of Massachusetts Gov. Elbridge […]
5/30/2017
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “The U.S. Supreme Court will consider giving states more freedom to rid their voter rolls of people who haven’t cast ballots in a while. Agreeing to hear an appeal by Ohio, the justices said they’ll consider reinstating a purging technique used by the state before a federal appeals court barred the practice. The […]
5/15/2017
SUPREME COURT/VOTING: “The Supreme Court on Monday [5-15-17] announced that it would stay out of a fight over a restrictive North Carolina voting law. The move left in place a federal appeals court ruling that struck down key parts of the law as an unconstitutional effort to ‘target African Americans with almost surgical precision.’ As […]
5/7/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Having filled a Supreme Court vacancy, President Trump is turning his attention to the more than 120 openings on the lower federal courts. On Monday, he will announce a slate of 10 nominees to those courts, a senior White House official said, the first in what could be near monthly waves […]
5/1/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “Justice Neil Gorsuch has been on the bench for less than a month and conservatives are already preparing for the next Supreme Court confirmation fight. The only hitch: there’s no vacancy. But that hasn’t stopped some Republicans, including President Donald Trump, from talking openly about a next seat and even possibly […]
4/21/2017
POLITICS/SUPREME COURT: “A bipartisan group of voting rights advocates says the lower house of the Wisconsin Legislature, the State Assembly, was gerrymandered by its Republican majority before the 2012 election — so artfully, in fact, that Democrats won a third fewer Assembly seats than Republicans despite prevailing in the popular vote. In November, in a […]
4/10/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “Congratulations to Justice Neil Gorsuch on his elevation to the United States Supreme Court. A great day for America! #SCOTUS https://t.co/RM9lfTaePS” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 10, 2017 04:59pm […]
04/10/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “Justice Neil Gorsuch has yet to hear his first case, but the partisan conflict over President Donald Trump’s nominee on the Supreme Court already has left a legacy on the federal judiciary, further blurring the line between law and politics. More than any appointment in recent memory, Justice Gorsuch’s was tied […]
4/8/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “Judge Gorsuch will be sworn in at the Rose Garden of the White House on Monday [4-10-17] at 11:00 A.M. He will be a great Justice. Very proud of him!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, April 8, 2017 02:58pm […]
04/07/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “The Senate handed President Donald Trump his biggest victory so far, confirming Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch after Republicans muscled past Democratic opposition with a unilateral rule change that may wind up poisoning the debate over the president’s agenda in Congress. With Vice President Mike Pence in the presiding officer’s chair, […]
04/06/2017
POLITICS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “More than a year of tension over an empty Supreme Court seat comes to a dramatic climax Thursday [4-6-17], when both parties in the Senate are poised to take action leading to an outcome neither party wants. It’s a head-scratching situation loaded with nuance, procedural twists and Senate history — not […]
04/05/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH; “It’s probably naive to think that there could be a nuanced conversation about Judge Neil Gorsuch’s citation of sources in his 2006 book, ‘The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia.’ But that’s precisely what we need. There’s no doubt that in at least one extended passage, Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee […]
04/05/2017
POLITICS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley has ended his marathon speech on the Senate floor against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. The Oregon lawmaker yielded the floor at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday [4-5-17] — 15 hours after he began highlighting his party’s opposition to Gorsuch. During his attention-grabbing talk-a-thon, Merkley stood next […]
04/05/2017
POLITICS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “Senate Republicans took their first procedural step Tuesday [4-4-17] toward implementing the ‘nuclear option’ to get Judge Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court over Democratic opposition when Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved to end debate on his nomination. A vote on that ‘cloture’ motion will take place Thursday. Democrats can […]
04/03/2017
POLITICS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether corporations can be sued by foreign individuals in U.S. courts for alleged violations of international law, including giving aid to terrorists. The high court on Monday said it would review an appeal by citizens of Israel and other nations who filed U.S. lawsuits against […]
03/30/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “Two Democratic senators from solidly Republican states announced their support on Thursday [3-30-17] for President Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, giving the nominee a measure of bipartisan sheen but doing little to dissuade leading Democrats from planning to block him. The lawmakers — Senator Joe Manchin III of […]
3/27/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “Delaware Sen. Chris Coons said he doubts Neil Gorsuch will get the necessary 60 votes in the Senate to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, and that he is bracing for Republicans to go for the so-called nuclear option to push the Trump administration’s pick through without any support from Democrats. […]
3/23/2017
POLITICS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “The top U.S. Senate Democrat on Thursday [3-23-17] pledged to pursue a procedural hurdle to try to block the confirmation of Republican President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, a move that could provoke a nasty partisan fight and change the way the Senate does business. Republicans hold a 52-48 […]
3/21/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “Gorsuch spent a bulk of the time trying to prove his judicial independence and said the Trump administration never asked him to make promises to rule certain ways on certain decisions. Asked specifically if he was asked to overrule Roe v. Wade, Gorsuch said no. He was further pressed on what […]
3/21/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “…Gorsuch appeared to distance himself from the President’s previous comments calling for the reinstatement of torture. Asked by Leahy whether he thinks the President has the right to authorize torture if it violates law, Gorsuch ticked off a list of precedents that ban torture. ‘We have a convention against torture and […]
3/21/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday [3-21-17] made it more difficult for the president to quickly fill vacant top government jobs in a case centered on the appointment powers of the executive. In a 6-to-2 ruling, the court limited the president’s ability to put certain high-level officials in positions in an acting […]
3/13/2017
SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE/NEIL GORSUCH: “Corporate tool. Enemy of disabled people. Deferential to the privileged, including the man who chose him. One week before Judge Neil M. Gorsuch is to sit for his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Democrats have zeroed in on their most prominent planned line of attack: Judge Gorsuch’s rulings have favored the powerful […]