Tag: U.S. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court decided Monday against a high-stakes, election-year case about the competing rights of gay and lesbian couples and merchants who refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings. The justices handed…
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court is upholding a constitutional rule that allows state and federal governments to prosecute someone for the same crime, a closely watched case because of its potential implications for people…
HR 1, the legislation that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced in the first hours of the 116th Congress, is ambitious and remarkably wide-ranging. It proposes numerous electoral and public-ethics reforms. In most cases, these changes…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Anti-abortion leaders are promising to pursue a change in the Kansas Constitution if the states highest court rules that the document protects abortion rights. Several hundred abortion opponents rallied Tuesday inside…
When North Carolinas Republican legislative leaders have seen their work struck down in court as unconstitutional as they have many times they have frequently responded by attacking the judge or judges as partisan…
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing arguments for the first time in more than 25 years as she recuperates from cancer surgery last month. Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg…
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a high-profile case by rejecting appeals from Kansas and Louisiana in their effort to strip Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood, over the dissenting votes of three…
Once again, the courts have rebutted Kansass attempt to defund Planned Parenthood. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear arguments by Kansas and Louisiana requesting they be able to deny Medicaid funding for…
Its getting increasingly difficult to believe the U.S. Supreme Court can be an arbiter of justice. As illustrated with the recent appointment of Brett Kavanaugh, justices today are selected, more and more, because of their…
WASHINGTON (AP) Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine declared Friday she will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaughs Supreme Court nomination, all but ensuring that a deeply riven Senate will elevate the conservative jurist to…
