Topline House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stopped short Thursday of joining other Democratic House members who have called for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to resign, but she said his wif...
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Two-Thirds Of Americans Want Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed To Supreme Court, Poll Finds
Topline A broad majority of Americans say they would vote for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation to the Supreme Court if they were senators, a new Marquette Law School poll finds, as Jackson a...
Fox News’ Shannon Bream Says Ketanji Brown Jackson Will Likely Get ‘A Handful Of Republican Votes’
Fox News Channel’s Shannon Bream during the confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Fox News Channel Fox News Channel anchor Shannon Bream—the network’s top Supreme Court correspond...
Manchin Says He Will Vote To Confirm Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
Topline Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said on Friday he will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court—all but ensuring her nomination to become the first Black woman on the nation...
Most Americans Don’t Think Supreme Court Acts In A ‘Serious And Constitutional Manner’ And Want Reforms, Poll Finds
Topline Less than 40% of Americans believe the U.S. Supreme Court is nonpartisan based on its recent decisions and a majority want the court to impose reforms, according to a new C-SPAN/Pierrepont pol...
Florida Lawmakers Pass 15-Week Abortion Ban — Other States Will Likely Follow
Topline The Florida Senate passed legislation on Thursday prohibiting most abortions after 15 weeks—which will now go to Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to sign—the first in a likely series of statewide abortio...
3 GOP Senators Who Voted For Supreme Court Nominee In Past Won’t Promise To Do It Again
Topline President Joe Biden nominated U.S. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court Friday—paving the way for a potentially bipartisan Senate confirmation vote, though the three Republ...
Here’s How Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Confirmation Process Is Expected To Play Out
Topline President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday kicked off what’s expected to be a swift Senate confirmation process—here’s what to expect a...
Republicans Have Already Started Attacking Biden’s Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
Topline A number of Republican lawmakers and officials swiftly criticized President Joe Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday, painting the D.C. Circuit Cour...
Supreme Court Takes Case Of Web Designer Who Wants To Refuse LGBTQ Clients
Topline The Supreme Court has taken a case from a Colorado web designer who doesn’t want to create wedding sites for same-sex weddings—claiming anti-discrimination laws would violate her First Amendme...
Admission To College Is Valuable, But Is It “Property”?
The process of gaining admission to an elite college can generate anxiety and worry. It can also lead to prison. In 2019, the Department of Justice charged dozens of parents, coaches and others in sev...
Sarah Palin Loses Defamation Case Against New York Times As Judge Says He’ll Dismiss It
Topline The New York Times did not commit defamation when it incorrectly linked former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) to a 2011 mass shooting, the judge in the case ruled after a weeklong trial, saying h...
Appeals Court Won’t Immediately Reverse Block Of Biden’s Federal Employee Vaccine Mandate
Topline An appeals court left in place a national block on President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees Wednesday, declining to overrule a lower court ruling that halted a key ...
Arkansas Cop Who Threatened To Tase An Innocent Mom Faces New Legal Challenge
An Arkansas police officer who received legal immunity after holding two innocent boys at gunpoint and pulling a Taser on their mother when she tried to deescalate the situation now faces a new legal ...
Supreme Court Leaves In Place Alabama Congressional Map Tossed Out By Lower Court Due To Racial Imbalance
Topline The Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Monday to halt a lower court order requiring Alabama to create a new congressional district map that better represents Black voters, after the lower court argued...
Legal Scholars Push For Supreme Court Ethics Code As Gorsuch And Thomas Come Under Fire
Topline More than two dozen legal ethics scholars asked Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts Thursday to impose a code of conduct for the court’s judges, as the conservative-leaning court faces de...
Sen. Ben Luján Hospitalized Following Stroke, Threatening To Delay Democrats’ Agenda
Topline Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) was hospitalized after suffering a stroke Tuesday and underwent surgery to ease swelling from his brain, though he is expected to make a full recovery according to ...
T-Mobile Will Reportedly Terminate Office Workers Who Are Not Fully Vaccinated Against Covid By April 2
Topline T-Mobile US will fire corporate employees who aren’t fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by April 2, Bloomberg reported Saturday, in what would be one of the strictest Covid policies instituted ...
The Supreme Court’s Ruling On Vaccine Mandates Threatens The Federal Government’s Ability To Protect Public Health
AFP via Getty Images Public health law expert Lawrence Gostin explains how the Supreme Court’s ruling against OSHA’s ability to implement a vaccine-or-test mandate could potentially undermine the fede...