Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer rejected a request from Maine healthcare workers Tuesday evening to halt the state’s requirement for them to get vaccinated or lose their jobs. It’s the third time a justice has refused to step in and block…
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Mike Pence sides with football coach blocked from praying on 50-yard line in Supreme Court case
Former Vice President Mike Pence is weighing in on a pending case before the Supreme Court on the right of a public school teacher to pray. Joseph Kennedy, a public high school assistant football coach in Bremerton, Washington, regularly kneeled and sa…
Biden’s Supreme Court commission splits over court-packing proposals
Members of President Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court divided Friday over its draft report about how — or if — to pack the high court. The lengthy hearing was the fourth public meeting the group has held since it was formed by execut…
Supreme Court weighs death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday from the Justice Department for why the justices should reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, even though the Biden administration has paused federal executions. The death …
Texas limits distribution of abortion-inducing drugs, is appealing fetal heartbeat ruling
The state of Texas further limited abortion in a little-noticed move recently. Shortly after Texas banned abortions once a fetal heartbeat was detected, Gov. Greg Abbott enacted a law to halt the mailing of abortion drugs into the state and limited the…
Lucy Haeran Koh, 9th Circuit nominee, quizzed over COVID ruling against religious liberty
President Biden’s nominee for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was in the hot seat with Republican senators during her confirmation hearing Wednesday over her COVID-19 rulings against religious liberty in California. At the Senate Judiciary …
Justice Alito pushes back against media, lawmakers criticism of Supreme Court
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. criticized the media and politicians Thursday for propagating what he says is an inaccurate and damaging image of a Supreme Court that hands down controversial decisions in the dead of night. Speaking at the University of No…
Supreme Court takes up campaign finance case launched by Sen. Ted Cruz
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case brought by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz over federal campaign finance laws concerning candidates’ personal loans to their own campaigns. Earlier this year, the Republican lawmaker who argued many times before the hi…
Senate Democrats hold hearing over Texas’ fetal heartbeat abortion law
Republicans accused Democrats of playing politics with the Supreme Court during a hearing on Wednesday over Texas’ contested abortion law, which bans abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, the top Republican on th…
Biden’s DOJ urges Supreme Court not to overturn Roe v. Wade
The Biden administration on Monday urged the Supreme Court not to overrule its nearly 50-year precedent granting a woman a right to an abortion in a legal battle over Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. In its filing to the high court, the Depart…