It sure would be nice if legislators would make policy, rather than delegating quite so much of their decision-making to unelected bureaucrats.
Indigenous group Apache Stronghold said it will take its case against a proposed copper mine in Oak Flat, Arizona, to the US Supreme Court.
A US Supreme Court justice faced calls on Friday to recuse himself from cases involving Donald Trump after an inverted American flag -- a symbol of the former president's false election fraud claims -- was flown outside his home."Flying an upside-down American flag -- a symbol of the so-called 'Stop the Steal' movement -- clearly creates the appearance of bias," Durbin said.
The upside-down flag at the justice’s house after the Capitol attack reveals how disgraceful our supreme court has becomeThese people can’t help themselves. Last week, the New York Times revealed that during the days after the violent attack on the Capitol on 6 January 2021, when the US supreme court was still considering whether to take up cases challenging Joe Biden’s election victory, the home of the supreme court justice Samuel Alito, in suburban Virginia, flew a pro-coup flag. The Times...
Court upholds funding design of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was under challenge by payday loan industryThe US supreme court on Thursday upheld the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s funding mechanism in a challenge brought by the payday loan industry, handing a victory to Joe Biden’s administration and a setback to the agency’s conservative critics.The 7-2 decision reversed a lower court’s ruling that the CFPB’s funding design –drawing money each year from the Federal Reserve...
Powered by its 6-3 conservative majority, the court has emerged in recent years as something of an ally in what has been called the "war on the administrative state," a longstanding conservative effort to weaken federal agencies that regulate key aspects of American business and life. The court on Thursday upheld the CFPB's funding mechanism - drawing money annually from the Federal Reserve rather than from budgets passed by Congress - in a challenge by the payday loan industry, handing a win...
Texas Rep. Jared Patterson, R-Frisco, made the request to Attorney General Ken Paxton after the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked enforcement of H.B. 900, which would require booksellers to rate books sold to schools.
Trump supporters displayed upside-down American flags sometime after Mr Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden
Ruling on map prevents yet another new one from being drawn, and boosts Democrats’ chances of gaining control of US HouseThe US supreme court on Wednesday ordered Louisiana to hold congressional elections in 2024 using a House map with a second mostly Black district, despite a lower-court ruling that called the map an illegal racial gerrymander.The order allows the use of a map that has majority Black populations in two of the state’s six congressional districts, potentially boosting Democrats’...
Justice Samuel Alito's home displayed an upside-down US flag (file photo pictured) favored by the 'Stop the Steal' campaign days after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in January 2021.
A North Carolina court ruled that the case of the Atlantic Coast Conference vs. Florida State's Board of Trustees will stay, or pause, during FSU's appeal to the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
The Supreme Court rejected a conservative-backed challenge to the way the