U.S. Supreme Court

D.C. 04/05/22, 05:38

America's highest court lowered the mandatory criteria to sue authorities for detaining individuals without proper reason on April 4. The U.S. Supreme Court no longer requires acquittals or statements of innocence before hearing wrongful arrest matters. In a six to three vote, associate justices ruled complainants can immediately pursue Fourth Amendment lawsuits ...

D.C. 04/05/22, 04:42

Two Republicans defied fellow party members by supporting a judiciary candidate for the nation's highest court. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah) recently broke ranks with the GOP and promised to vote for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. Murkowski agreed with Joe Biden's selection based on the judge's ...

D.C. 04/04/22, 15:04

A Republican from Missouri will not support a judiciary candidate for the nation's highest court. Sen. Roy Blunt refused to vote in support of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. "She is certainly qualified [and] I think she has got a great personality ... but the judicial philosophy seems to be ...

D.C. 03/28/22, 16:46

Different Republicans have complete confidence in a judiciary official whose spouse approves of the previous president's push for free and fair voting. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) joined Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in endorsing Clarence Thomas. "I admire and respect Clarence Thomas. I think he has ...

D.C. 03/22/22, 13:46

A federal judge, who wants to be appointed to the nation's highest court, should answer for freeing high risk offenders during the pandemic. This is the conclusion Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) reached at a confirmation hearing for the next U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Since the pandemic started the senator has been ...

D.C. 03/21/22, 22:44

A judiciary official received urgent medical attention after experiencing a respiratory ailment on March 18. Clarence Thomas became hospitalized in the nation's capital after reporting influenza-like symptoms. The U.S. Supreme Court associate justice was thoroughly tested for coronavirus and other diseases at Sibley Memorial Hospital, 5 miles northwest of downtown Washington. "He underwent ...

D.C. 03/15/22, 16:08

A judiciary official's family member openly supports Donald Trump's quest for election integrity. Virginia Thomas, whose husband sits on the U.S. Supreme Court, admitted she attended the 2021 "Stop the Steal" rally. She also described the subsequent Capitol riots as a shocking experience. "I was disappointed and frustrated that there was violence ...

D.C. 03/08/22, 23:50

Republican senators warned a federal executive office not to prosecute Donald Trump otherwise, a political battle could begin. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) want the Department of Justice (DOJ) to refrain from prosecuting the previous president over the 2021 Capitol riots. The trio warned if the ...

D.C. 02/23/22, 02:59

America's highest court rejected the previous president's lawsuit to block the Capitol riots inquiry from examining his documents on Feb. 22. The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear Donald Trump's arguments for why the House Select Committee should not declare former Trump administration records to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on ...

Opinion 02/01/22, 16:06

Discriminating against civil servants based on skin color will only upset and annoy people, a U.S. senator warned. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) criticized the Biden administration for promising to only appoint a female African American justice to the U.S. Supreme Court. "The fact that he [President Biden] is willing to make a ...

U.S. 01/31/22, 02:15

Nearly all voters prefer evaluating every nomination for U.S. Supreme Court justice regardless of race. More than three quarters (76%) of Americans want the president to consider all potential candidates no matter what their skin color is. The latest ABC News/Ipsos poll found only 23% of 510 respondents support Joe Biden's plan ...

News 01/18/22, 23:52

A Democrat-appointed judge keeps hearing cases remotely because her conservative colleague will not cover his nose and mouth. Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor remotely attends U.S. Supreme Court matters because fellow GOP Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch is maskless. The 67-year-old former President Barack Obama nominated for the job, has regularly worn a face ...

U.S. 01/18/22, 16:13

Joe Biden's administration pedalled election reform policy on a historical civil rights leader's remembrance day. Kamala Harris demanded new voting rights legislation on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. public holiday. The vice president urged the U.S. Senate to "do its job" and pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis ...

New York 11/03/21, 17:01

America's highest court began deciding whether to strike down New York's gun permit law on Nov. 3. The U.S. Supreme Court heard different arguments about whether the Empire State's prohibition on carrying concealed firearms in public violates the Second Amendment. The regulation, which took effect in 1913, requires gun owners to apply ...

Central America 10/26/21, 16:58

Joe Biden will delay complying with a court order until Mexico endorses the previous Trump administration's immigration policy. The Biden administration refuses to immediately act on a Supreme Court order to restart the "Remain in Mexico" policy in November. The federal government blames Mexican authorities for failing to agree with the ...

Middle East 09/30/21, 18:10

Joe Biden's administration will resist a judicial ruling to bring back the previous administration's immigration policy on Sept. 29. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will completely eliminate the Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" program. The move came despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision to reinstate the policy. The program, also known as ...

Texas 09/21/21, 16:22

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office launched legal action to overturn the Biden administration's June guidance that protects lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees. BL understands the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's guidance includes one rule, requiring employers to let workers to use restrooms that match the gender they identify most ...

U.S. 09/21/21, 14:29

America's highest court will revisit legislation that recognizes a woman's right to terminate pregnancy on Dec. 1. The U.S. Supreme Court will review its 1973 Roe versus Wade ruling on abortion. Mississippi state is appealing two federal court blocks against the 2018 Gestational Age Act, which bans abortion after 15 weeks ...

Opinion 09/06/21, 17:59

A religious leader is very disappointed with the president and House speaker for refusing to protect the lives of unborn babies. San Francisco's archbishop strongly rebuked Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi for criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court's latest decision to uphold Texas's new pro-life "Heartbeat" law. Salvatore Cordileone described abortion as the ...

Texas 09/03/21, 18:36

Different Republican leaders and conservative groups applauded Texas's new pro-life "Heartbeat" law. They are now preparing to introduce similar bills in different states. A majority of Republican states passed increasingly stringent limits on abortion procedures in recent years. Republicans previously resorted to various legal strategies to find new ways to remove ...