The Supreme Court heard arguments challenging access to the abortion pill Mifepristone. Rachel Maddow joins Joy Reid to discuss.
Former Supreme Court Judge N Santosh Hegde said today he was "totally disappointed" Arvind Kejriwal, who was arrested in connection with an excise policy linked money-laundering case.
Imagine being not yet seventy years old and being told, not exactly politely, that in the interest of liberalism you have to be put out to pasture. When that message went out to Justice Stephen Breyer in 2021, he was at least over eighty when the leftists told him his time was up on the Supreme Court. With Justice Sonia Sotomayor, despite being over ten years younger than Breyer when he retired, Josh Barro writing for The Atlantic announced that it was time for her to withdraw in the interest of...
Imagine being not yet seventy years old and being told, not exactly politely, that in the interest of liberalism you have to be put out to pasture. When that message went out to Justice Stephen Breyer in 2021, he was at least over eighty when the leftists told him his time was up on the Supreme Court. With Justice Sonia Sotomayor, despite being over ten years younger than Breyer when he retired, Josh Barro writing for The Atlantic announced that it was time for her to withdraw in the interest of...
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The state had sought Rs 18,171.44 crore from the Centre’s National Disaster Response Force as 223 out of 236 taluks have been hit by drought.
Supreme Court deliberations happen behind closed doors. Can we peek behind them using the voting record? Employing techniques from statistical physics and complexity science, Eddie Lee, a postdoctoral researcher at the Complexity Science Hub, along with his colleague George Cantwell of Cambridge University, analyzed U.S. Supreme Court voting data from 1946 to 2021.
The Supreme Court handed down a brief order on Tuesday allowing an unconstitutional Texas state immigration law to go into effect. The case is known as United States v. Texas. Though this order is temporary, the result is shocking. Texas’s law, which allows state officials to arrest migrants and state courts to order them deported to Mexico, violates 150 years of settled law establishing that the federal government, and not the states, gets to decide which foreign nationals may enter or remain...
The state has also challenged the governor’s action of referring the bills to the president after keeping them pending for as long as two years.
In the first major abortion case since overturning Roe v. Wade, the high court is considering restrictions on a drug used for medication abortions.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is speaking out about the court's direction ahead of upcoming cases with major implications, including its biggest case on access to abortion since it overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, and a decision on whether former President Donald Trump should have immunity from criminal prosecution.In his new book, "Reading the Constitution," Breyer, who stepped down from the Supreme Court two years ago, makes the case for his judicial philosophy. Breyer spent his career...
The court ordered this transfer of cases based on a transfer petition by the Indian government, urging a consolidation of all the cases against the IT Rules, 2021 to one high court to avoid divergence of opinions.