Students get to view oral arguments, interact with justices.
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 United States government has provided assurances requested by the High Court in London which could finally pave the way for WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange to be extradited from the United Kingdom. Last month, the High Court ruled that, without certain US guarantees, Assange, 52, would be allowed to launch a new appeal against being […]
The opinion stops short of saying lawyers can carry guns into courtrooms, but hints that will probably change once someone files another lawsuit.
The Iowa Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday on whether the state’s six-week abortion ban should go into effect after a Polk County Judge temporarily blocked the law from being enacted. The court heard arguments Thursday on the constitutionality of an abortion ban in the state. State Solicitor General Eric Wessan argued the court should
Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to Arizona to promote the killing of the unborn following a historic ruling from the state supreme court upholding an 1864 law that bars nearly all abortions.
McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Prosecutors have announced they will seek the death penalty against the man charged in a deadly stabbing at a Motel 6 in McAllen. Carlos Antonio Cardenas Jr. is facing charges of capital murder of multiple persons and criminal attempted murder. Cardenas was arrested in connection to a stabbing on March 18, []
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will not hear Mckesson v. Doe. The decision not to hear Mckesson leaves in place a lower court decision that effectively eliminated the right to organize a mass protest in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Under that lower court decision, a protest organizer faces potentially ruinous financial consequences if a single attendee at a mass protest commits an illegal act. It is possible that this outcome will be temporary. The Court did...
Some of the 27 states that have the death penalty have not executed anyone in years but others still do – and the divide is rooted in historyThe execution of Brian Dorsey in Missouri on Tuesday, despite an extraordinary campaign asking for his sentence to be commuted, brought into focus the issue of the death penalty in the US – one of the few countries in the western world that still uses corporal punishment.Dorsey, 52, was executed for the 2006 murders of his cousin and her husband, after the...
Justices to rule whether abortion bans should undo Emtala, the Reagan-era law requiring hospitals to treat emergency patientsOne of the only universal rights to healthcare in the US is to be treated in the emergency room – a place where doctors are required to stabilize patients if their future health or life is in serious jeopardy.That right, guaranteed by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known across the country by healthcare professionals as Emtala, was borne out of what was...