The U.S. Supreme Court has halted the execution of an Alabama inmate whose attorneys argue that dementia has left the 67-year-old unable to remember killing a police officer three decades ago. Justices issued a stay Thursday night, the same evening that Vernon Madison was scheduled to receive a lethal injection […]
Victory! Supreme Court rules in favor of Trump travel ban
The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to fully enforce a ban on travel to the United States by residents of six mostly Muslim countries. The justices say in an order Monday that the policy can take full effect even as legal challenges against it make their way through […]
Supreme Court may reverse sports betting ban
The Supreme Court on Monday suggested it may side with New Jersey in its effort to make sports gambling legal, a case that could make betting on football, basketball and other sports widely available. The justices heard New Jersey’s challenge to a federal law that bars states from authorizing gambling […]
Supreme Court throws out travel ban appeal
President Trump achieved another victory on Tuesday when the Supreme Court dismissed the final case challenging his travel ban. The state of Hawaii brought on a lawsuit challenging the 90-day travel ban on nationals from six majority Muslim countries, and the 120-day halt on the U.S. refugee resettlement program. SCOTUS […]
Police helicopter BOMBS Venezuela’s Supreme Court [video]
A police helicopter fired on Venezuela’s Supreme Court and Interior Ministry in what President Nicolas Maduro said was a thwarted terrorist attack aimed at ousting him from power. The confusing incident, which may ratchet up tensions in a country already paralyzed by months of deadly anti-government protests, took place as […]
See you in court! Supreme Court to decide on travel ban future
BREAKING: “The Supreme Court on Monday said it would allow the Trump administration’s controversial travel ban to largely go into effect, while setting a hearing on the entire executive order for October,” Fox News reported. “The court’s decision means the justices will now wade into the biggest legal controversy of […]
Supreme Court releasing travel ban decision this weekend?
The Supreme Court has almost certainly decided what to do about President Donald Trump’s travel ban affecting citizens of six mostly Muslim countries. The country is waiting for the court to make its decision public about the biggest legal controversy in the first five months of Trump’s presidency. The issue […]
Report: Justice Kennedy retiring Monday!?
Conservative legal experts in Washington, D.C. are buzzing over the rumor that Justice Anthony Kennedy may be retiring soon. Insiders say his resignation from the Supreme Court could come as soon as Monday, June 26th — and the prospect of President Donald Trump getting a second nominee for the Supreme […]
Trump set to make first Supreme Court visit
President Donald Trump is making his first Supreme Court visit at a moment of high legal drama. The justices are weighing what to do with the president’s ban on travelers from six mostly Muslim countries. But the reason for his high court trip Thursday is purely ceremonial, to mark Justice […]
Supreme Court rules on religious hospital pension case
Religious hospitals don’t have to comply with federal laws protecting pension plans, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case that affects retirement benefits for roughly a million workers nationwide. The justices sided with three church-affiliated nonprofit hospital systems being sued for underfunding their employee pension plans. The hospitals […]