The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week with profound legal and political consequences: whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In addition to establishing a potentially historic ruling about the scope
Nearly two years after overturning the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court will consider Wednesday how far state bans can extend to women in medical emergencies.
The court’s decision — whenever it comes — will go a long way in determining a trial date for Trump in one of the four criminal prosecutions that he faces
The court will consider whether Trump is immune from prosecution in a federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The Supreme Court of Virginia has again ruled against the state and ordered the release of a man who said he earned credits to be let out from prison early but was wrongfully denied by the Department of Corrections.
Students get to view oral arguments, interact with justices.
A California landowner won his challenge to the constitutionality of a fee a California county charged him to obtain a building permit on Friday. In 2016, George Sheetz of Placerville, CA, attempted to build a home on a parcel of land he owned. When he applied for a building permit, he was gobsmacked to learn that in addition to typical fees, he had to pony up $24,000 for a "traffic impact mitigation fee." A unanimous Supreme Court agreed with Sheetz that the "mitigation" fees he had been...
Montana Supreme Court Tries To Move The State Left Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Montana State Supreme Court. (Screenshot via GoogleMaps) Commentary The Epoch Times reported on March 28 that the Montana Supreme Court struck down four state “election integrity” laws. The court’s decision appears to be part of a wider judicial effort to reverse conservative electoral trends in Montana. Manipulating elections might not seem like a proper role for...
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Nevada Supreme Court unanimously reversed a lower court’s decision, which blocked the state’s ban on ghost guns – firearms without serial numbers – to go into effect.
SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – David K. Thomson is New Mexico's 43rd chief justice since statehood. Justice Thomson was sworn in on Wednesday, April 17. Thomson was chosen by his colleagues and will serve a two-year term, according to the Administrative Office of the Courts. As chief justice, he will act as the administrative head of budgetary []
The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Monday over a challenge to a law letting cities fine homeless people, potentially radically changing the lives of the hundreds of thousands without homes. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that cities cannot ticket homeless people for camping in public when there were no alternative
When Helen Cruz pitched her tent in a city park a few years ago and made it her home, she chose the location for one reason: She wanted to be close to the houses she cleans for a living but could never afford for herself. “People see the irony of it,” said Cruz, 49. “I never looked at it like that.” What Cruz didn’t realize then was that living in a park in Grants Pass, Oregon, would place her in the middle of a national debate that will reach the Supreme Court on Monday about whether cities can...