A state Superior Court ruling said the justices did not believe the claim that the state’s law prohibiting a person from possessing a firearm if they had been convicted of a list of 38 offenses was invalidated by the higher court’s ruling in the case of a New York law struck down in 2022.
A state Superior Court ruling said the justices did not believe the claim that the state’s law prohibiting a person from possessing a firearm if they had been convicted of a list of 38 offenses was invalidated by the higher court’s ruling in the case of a New York law struck down in 2022.
BATON ROUGE - The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday a Baton Rouge police officer's trial against Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson may proceed, but justices wouldn't weigh in on what they thought of Mckesson's claim that he enjoyed First Amendment protection for his actions.Former BRPD officer Brad Ford was hit in the face with a piece of asphalt thrown by protesters in the days after the shooting of Alton Sterling. Ford says Mckesson is responsible because he summoned a crowd to Baton...
A California landowner won his challenge to the constitutionality of a fee a California county charged him to obtain a building permit on Friday. In 2016, George Sheetz of Placerville, CA, attempted to build a home on a parcel of land he owned. When he applied for a building permit, he was gobsmacked to learn that in addition to typical fees, he had to pony up $24,000 for a "traffic impact mitigation fee." A unanimous Supreme Court agreed with Sheetz that the "mitigation" fees he had been...
Next Big Mineral Trade Revealed By Morgan Stanley Abandoning petrol-burning vehicles and adopting low-carbon technologies to power tomorrow's economy are trends accelerating across the nation. To do this, access to rare earth metals, key ingredients in many of these 'green' technologies, must be sourced domestically - not from China, an emerging national security threat to the US. As the world fractures into a multipolar state, there is a big push domestically to revive America's...
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South Dakota's near-total abortion ban makes it one of the states Just the Pill has focused on. The organization has provided service to more than 7,500 patients since starting as a nonprofit in 2020.
The right against ‘adverse effects of climate change’ is part of constitutional guarantees, the court said.
Ahead of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court immunity hearing, briefs have poured in from parties who are not directly involved in his case. One of them comes from Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. You might wonder: What business does Meadows have weighing in here? Recall that he’s not charged in the federal election interference case, which is the subject of the upcoming April 25 hearing. But he is charged in the overlapping Georgia state prosecution, where Trump is also charged...
Supreme Court Faces 'High Stakes' Decisions On Trump-Related Cases Authored by Sam Dorman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Joe Biden issued a rare primetime threat to the Supreme Court during his State of the Union address on March 7, warning the justices that they could cause political backlash for their 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “With all due respect, justices, women are not without electoral or political power,” President Biden said. (Illustration by...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii hopes its victory before the Hawaii Supreme Court over Maui County homeless sweeps will bolster its case against Honolulu when its lawsuit over Oahu’s homeless policies goes to trial in October.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to intervene in a case involving a prominent Black Lives Matter advocate could have a chilling effect on people hoping to organize and demand racial justice. The high court on Monday virtually outlawed the right to mass protest in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas when it declined to step in and