The US Supreme Court rejected an appeal by a Canadian-born former Guantanamo detainee who was seeking to wipe away his war crimes convictions.
WASHINGTON >> The U.S. Supreme Court restored a Louisiana electoral map that has two of the state’s six congressional districts with Black-majority populations for use in the Nov. 5 election — a ruling today with potential implications for which party will control the U.S. House of Representatives.
Thach Setha asked judges to undo a conviction for writing bad checks that brought an 18-month prison sentence.
(The Center Square) — The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay order on Wednesday in a Louisiana congressional redistricting case. The decision means the latest maps, which created two majority Black districts, will be used in the upcoming elections. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed the request with the court on May 10, with state officials saying that they don't have enough time to draw new maps under a legal concept called the Purcell principle that...
The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear the latest appeal by convicted killer Danny Lee Hill.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons. The court did not elaborate on the denial, as is typical. It would have been unusual for the justices to take up a case at this point, since a […]
The Supreme Court has declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons
Lee Ann Daigle, 60, argued that her sentence was illegal because the court used current sentencing guidelines in its analysis.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has the right to appeal against his extradition to the U.S., a high court in London found Monday.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has found himself under scrutiny over his judicial decisions and accepting lavish gifts from a billionaire Republican, is dismissing the criticism as "nastiness" and "lies," according to U.S. media."There's certainly been a lot of negativity in our lives, my wife and I, over the last few years, but we choose not to focus on it," the New York Times quoted Thomas as saying Friday at a judicial conference in the southern U.S. state of...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won the right to appeal his extradition to the United States. Assange’s lawyers argued before the British High Court that the U.S. government provided “blatantly inadequate” assurances that Assange would have the same free speech protections as an American citizen if extradited from Britain. Assange has spent more than a decade facing the threat of extradition to the U.S., where he faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing classified documents...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and the other justices are considering if Donald Trump is immune from prosecution for 2020 election crimes.