(The Center Square) – Texas law enforcement can begin charging illegal border crossers with a state crime after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a procedural ruling Tuesday. The court issued two rulings in less than 24 hours this week, ultimately allowing Texas' border bill, SB 4, to go into effect. The opinion sends the case back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to hear arguments on the merits. On Monday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito issued a third...
Former President Donald Trump says he will challenge the judgment in his New York civil fraud trial "all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary." “I’ll fight this all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary,” he said in an interview with Fox News, according to the conservative outlet. “They can’t take away your property before you’ve had a chance to appeal the decision of a Trump-hating, incompetent judge who has been overturned more than any judge in the state.” Trump told...
The U.S. Supreme Court has for the second time extended its stay of a controversial Texas law that would allow state and local police to arrest people they suspect of crossing the border illegally. In a Monday filing, Justice Samuel Alito extended a pause on the legislation as the court weighs an emergency application from the Biden White House to block the law. Unlike the two previous stays issued by the high court, this one doesn't end at a set time but rather when Alito or the full...
The Supreme Court on Monday wrestled with an unusual First Amendment appeal from the National Rifle Association against a New York financial regulator who persuaded banks and insurance companies to sever ties with the gun rights group. The NRA claims that Maria Vullo, the former superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, not only leaned on insurance companies to part ways with the gun lobby group but also threatened enforcement actions against those firms if they...
New York Attorney General Letitia James spoke at a rally outside the Supreme Court in support of access to the abortion pill mifepristone. Justices heard oral arguments over challenges to the medication's access.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear from the National Rifle Association on Monday in a lawsuit against a former New York state official who the NRA says pressured banks and insurance companies to blacklist the group after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Join our WhatsApp group Subscribe to our Daily Roundup
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices appeared receptive Monday to National Rifle Association claims that a former New York state official violated its free-speech rights by pressuring banks and insurance companies to blacklist the group after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The NRA is suing former New York State Department of Financial Services []
The Supreme Court will hear from the National Rifle Association on Monday in a lawsuit against a former New York state official who the NRA says pressured banks and insurance companies to blacklist the group after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The NRA says former New York State Department of Financial Services superintendent […]
MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. — Donald Trump attended Thursday's wake of a New York City police officer gunned down in the line of duty and called for “law
Surveillance video shows a man who reportedly threw lit containers of flammable liquid at a group of people on a New York City subway platform on February 5, 2024. The New York City Police Department is asking for the public’s assistance in identifying the person’s whereabouts.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday night ordered that a contentious new Texas immigration law be paused just hours after the Supreme Court said it could go into effect. A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals split 2-1 in saying in a brief order that the measure, known as SB4, should be blocked. The same court is hearing arguments Wednesday morning on the issue. The state law would allow police to arrest migrants who illegally cross the border from Mexico...
Just hours after the Supreme Court allowed a Texas law to take effect that gave state law enforcement the authority to arrest people they suspect are entering the country illegally, a federal appea