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www.theguardian.com
3 months ago
US politics

Kavanaugh will step up' to keep Trump on ballots, ex-president's lawyer says

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is expected to help Donald Trump in legal battles related to his incitement of insurrection.
Kavanaugh's appointment was a result of Trump's efforts to secure a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. [ more ]
www.mediaite.com
3 months ago
US politics

Trump Attorney Alina Habba Singles Out Brett Kavanaugh While Hoping Supreme Court Rules for Client in Ballot Cases: He'll Step Up'

Donald Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, predicts that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will rule in Trump's favor in a case concerning his removal from the ballot due to insurrection.
Trump's legal team has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule decisions by the Colorado and Maine Supreme Courts that barred him from the ballot due to insurrection. [ more ]
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Supreme Court sides with Arizona death row inmate seeking to challenge sentence in federal court

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of an Arizona death row inmate who argued he should be able to challenge his sentence in federal court but was stopped from doing so by a state procedural rule.Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned the 5-4 majority decision, which was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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Above the Law
3 months ago
Law

Alina Habba Tells Justice Kavanaugh That It's Time To 'Step Up' For Trump

Alina Habba, Trump's 'legal spokeswoman,' suggested that Justice Brett Kavanaugh should help make an election interference prosecution go away.
Other members of Trump's legal team have been cautioning the Supreme Court against taking up the case too quickly. [ more ]
HuffPost
3 months ago
Law

Trump Lawyer Slammed For Saying The Quiet Part 'Out Loud' On Supreme Court Hopes

Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba expressed hope that the conservative-majority Supreme Court will rule in Trump's favor after recent decisions that removed him from state GOP primary ballots.
Habba specifically mentioned Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as someone who Trump fought for and believed would rule in his favor. [ more ]
www.mediaite.com
3 months ago
Law

Trump Attorney Alina Habba Singles Out Brett Kavanaugh While Hoping Supreme Court Rules for Client in Ballot Cases: He'll Step Up'

Donald Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, predicts that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will rule in Trump's favor in a case concerning his removal from the ballot due to insurrection.
Trump's legal team has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule decisions by the Colorado and Maine Supreme Courts that barred him from the ballot due to insurrection. [ more ]
Above the Law
3 months ago
Law

Trump Lawyers Run Out Of Bad Arguments, Move On To Terrible Ones In Immunity Appeal

Trump's lawyers are relying on arguments that undermine their own case
They cite Brett Kavanaugh's articles on presidential immunity [ more ]
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Law

Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports

Of the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, only Justice Clarence Thomas (seated second from left) and Justice Samuel Alito (seated fourth from left) did not file their financial disclosures.They asked for and were granted extensions.Olivier Douliery /AFP via Getty Images The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court released their financial disclosure reports for 2022 under the Ethics in Government Act on Wednesday, but Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito asked for and were granted extensions.
Southern Coalition for Social Justice
10 months ago
Social justice

SCSJ Celebrates Historic Victory in Allen v. Milligan

ALABAMA - The U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the continued importance of the Voting Rights Act today in Allen v. Milligan by upholding a lower court's unanimous decision that Alabama's state congressional map discriminated against Black voters.In 2021, the Alabama state legislature produced new congressional maps which only allowed one Black majority district within the state's Black Belt, an 18-county region marked by historic discrimination and socioeconomic struggles.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

Supreme Court financial disclosures detail flower gift from Oprah, book royalties and overseas travel

Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch were flown to Italy.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received a $1,200 congratulatory floral arrangement from Oprah Winfrey.And Justice Sonia Sotomayor received nearly $150,000 in book royalties from her publisher.These are a few of the things detailed in the annual financial disclosure forms released Wednesday by seven members of the Supreme Court.
Fatherly
5 years ago
Fathers

For Kids' Sake, Don't Conflate Sex and Sexual Assault

In an attempted face-saving interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh played the V-card, using his high school and college virginity to rebuff allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez.
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Law

Democrats are expected to advance SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Jackson Brown to floor vote

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives for the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month.
www.cnn.com
11 months ago
US politics

Supreme Court upholds California pork regulations

The Supreme Court upheld a California law that bars the sale of pork produced in other states unless the sow was housed in conditions that allowed her to move freely.The law was the brainchild of animal rights activists in the state, who worked for its passage saying it was necessary to reduce disease from crowded conditions.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

Supreme Court won't review contempt conviction of anti-Chevron environmental lawyer

The US Supreme Court left in place the conviction of attorney Steven Donziger a long-time foe of Chevron Corp. who sought to challenge the appointment of private attorneys to prosecute criminal contempt of court.In the 1990s, Donziger represented thousands of farmers and indigenous people who, he said, suffered environmental and health problems caused by oil drilling in Ecuador.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

Where's the birth certificate?

The entire anti-choice debate is pure stupidity.
This is not a debate about conception or where life begins, this is a debate about where the government's interest begins.
time.com
1 year ago
US politics

How Supreme Court Justices Responded to a Lawsuit That Could Upend the Internet

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments of a case that has the potential to transform the internetwhether tech companies can be held liable for the content on their platforms.But if the initial rounds of questioning were any indication, it does not seem likely that the court is ready to disrupt the status quo of Section 230, which shields platforms like YouTube and Facebook from lawsuits over the content they host.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Television

Trevor Noah Celebrates a Shocking Victory for Abortion Rights in Kansas

"Congratulations, Kansas.It's moments like these I wish I knew which one of these states you were," Noah joked on Wednesday.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

Protesters rally outside US supreme court justices' homes ahead of pro-choice marches

Pro-choice demonstrators continue to turn up outside the homes of supreme court justices, with the latest target being conservative Amy Coney Barrett, who signed on to a majority draft opinion that was leaked to reveal an intention to overturn the constitutional right to seek an abortion in the US.
Politics NY
1 year ago
Brooklyn

Women led City Council rebukes leaked Supreme Court decision striking down Roe V. Wade

Several members of the majority women City Council rallied on the City Hall steps Tuesday morning in a stark rebuke of a leaked majority opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion acorss the county last night.
Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 year ago
Washington DC

A Documentary About Brett Kavanaugh's Sexual Assault Allegations Will Debut at Sundance - Washingtonian

The Sundance Film Festival announced Thursday that it would debut Doug Liman's documentary Justice, which examines the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018.Three women accused Kavanaugh of assault as the Senate Judiciary Committee considered whether he should be seated on the nation's highest court; he denied them all.
emptywheel
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Watching The Circus - emptywheel

As I write this, the House is adjourned until 8:00 pm Eastern, which is when futile voting can begin again.Somewhere H.L. Mencken said that he didn't mind paying taxes, because every morning he would read the newspaper and laugh his head off at the dullards in Congress.And Twitter is carrying on this tradition watching House primates throw poop at each other.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Adam Carrington: The illegitimate attacks on the Supreme Court's legitimacy

Legitimacy.The word has dominated discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court for years.Some, mostly on the left, claim that the court has lost its legitimacy.
Theregister
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Supremes 'doxxed' after overturning Roe v Wade

The US Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade last month may have been doxxed - had their personal information including physical and IP addresses, and credit card info revealed - according to threat intel firm Cybersixgill.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Ilhan Omar Urges Impeachment Investigations Into Right-Wing Justices

Rep. Ilhan Omar on Sunday demanded that the U.S. House launch impeachment probes into right-wing Supreme Court justices as part of a broader plan to reform the nation's chief judicial body following its decision to end the constitutional right to abortion.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Supreme Court Overturns "Roe," Opening Door to Abortion Bans Across the Country

Extremist right-wing Supreme Court justices voted to overturn on Friday, the result of the far right's decades-long disinformation and funding campaign to restrict bodily autonomy and the right to an abortion in the U.S.
time.com
1 year ago
US politics

Here's How Much the Supreme Court Justices Made Last Year

New financial-disclosure reports released Thursday reveal how much the U.S. Supreme Court Justices made last yearand show that some of them were able to add six figures to their salaries through lucrative book deals.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

Roe v Wade: US supreme court preliminary vote overturns abortion ruling, leaked draft shows - live updates

Voices on both sides of the political divide in the US have reacted with shock to the leak of the US supreme court's draft decision on Roe v Wade.Here is a selection:
Find more reaction here:
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gets her own bobblehead

The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum unveiled its bobblehead of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

Susan Collins calls the cops over polite abortion message chalked outside home

A Republican US senator called local police to investigate a pro-abortion rights - but otherwise harmless - message written in chalk in front of her home, according to authorities.
kvue.com
1 year ago
Austin

Travis County judge arrested over drunk driving, records say

Judge John Lipscombe was booked into the Travis County Jail around 9 a.m. on Saturday after his arrest near The Domain.
Austin Monitor
2 years ago
Austin

City wins digital billboard battle at Supreme Court - Austin Monitor

Friday, April 22, 2022 by Jo Clifton
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Supreme Court rules against Boston in case on Christian flag

"We conclude that Boston's flag-raising program does not express government speech."
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