The Vermont Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the law license of Addison County State's Attorney Eva Vekos, who faces a pending criminal DUI case. The court ruled on Wednesday that Vekos impeded a parallel probe into her fitness to practice law. The interim suspension of Vekos' license does not prevent her from staying on as the county's top prosecutor, but it does limit the duties she can perform. Vermont State Police arrested Vekos in January when troopers said she arrived drunk...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed a Texas law to take effect that enables state law enforcement to arrest people they suspect are illegally entering the United States from Mexico. The three liberal justices publicly dissented from the court’s order that clears the way for the controversial statute, S.B. 4. The order is not a final decision, and []
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito once again extended his freeze of a Texas law enabling state law enforcement to arrest people they suspect are illegally entering the United States from Mexico. For a second time, Alito on Monday extended his administrative pause as the court weighs the Biden administration’s emergency application seeking to block the []
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The Supreme Court's anti-abortion majority is set to consider whether to order a reversal in U.S. drug laws and restrict women from obtaining abortion medication at pharmacies or through the mail. A ruling to restrict the most common method of abortion would limit the rights of women in California and other states where abortion remains legal. "We may have thought we were protected because California is supportive of abortion, but this decision [on abortion pills] will be national in scope,"...
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A new Texas law known as SB4 that gives state officials permission to detain and jail migrants suspected of crossing the U.S. southern border without authorization took effect Monday after the Supreme Court declined to act.The justices did not address an emergency request from the Justice Department to pause the law before 5 p.m. ET, when an earlier administrative stay expired. The move means Texas can being enforcing the controversial law, one of Gov. Greg Abbott's signature immigration...
The case is the most significant abortion question to come before the court since it overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
The case is the most significant abortion question to come before the court since it overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
The case is the most significant abortion question to come before the court since it overturned the constitutional right to abortion.
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