Fight Over SCOTUS Reveals How Far We Have Wandered From Our Constitution
By Don Jans People are rioting (those on the left, but really what is new) and arguing over a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States of America. For many, the Supreme Court appointment is more consequential than who wins the presidency. This just proves how far we have moved from […]
Trump’s List of Supreme Court Nominees Down to 12 Women
BY MATTHEW VADUM News Analysis President Donald Trump pared his sizable list of possible Supreme Court nominees on the weekend by indicating he intends in the coming week to name a woman to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died at 87 on Sept. 18. There are now 12 women on the list, topped by two Trump lower […]
Biden In 2016: SCOTUS Confirmation Can Happen ‘A Few Months Before A Presidential Election’ If Senate Is Involved In Pick
Mary Margaret Olohan |Social Issues Reporter . Former vice president Joe Biden said in 2016 that he would have considered a Supreme Court justice nominee in an election year if the president had consulted the senate on the nominee. “I would go forward with the confirmation process as chairman even a few months before a […]
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87
By Joan Biskupic and Ariane de Vogue, (CNN)Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, the court announced. She was 87. Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton and in recent years served as the most senior member of the court’s liberal wing consistently delivering progressive votes on the most divisive social issues of the day, […]
Supreme Court asked to enforce the constitutional right to proper notice in tax foreclosures
Can the government give a private company tax-delinquent land—and the owner’s equity in it—without providing adequate notice to the property owner? That’s the question that Walter Barnette is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to answer. Barnette owned a plot of land in an Omaha, Nebraska, suburb, but fell on hard times and was unable to pay his property taxes […]
Supreme Court Blocks Lower Court Ruling Suspending Idaho Election Rules
BY MATTHEW VADUM The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a judge’s order that relaxed election rules to give an Idaho activist group additional time to gather signatures for a ballot initiative amid the current pandemic. The vote on the unsigned order issued late in the day on July 30 was apparently 5 to 2. It is the […]
Supreme Court Rejects House Democrats’ Request To Expedite Trump’s Financial Docs
By Jake Dima The Supreme Court denied a request by House Democrats Monday that sought to expedite the process of obtaining President Donald Trump’s financial documents. Chief Justice John Roberts denied the motion, according to a court document. The Supreme Court ruled earlier in July that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s subpoena that demanded access to […]
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Christian Student’s Case Against Restrictive Campus Speech Policy
BY MATTHEW VADUM The Supreme Court agreed to review a First Amendment lawsuit in which a Georgia college belatedly expanded free speech on campus after a Christian student ran afoul of its constitutionally suspect campus “speech zone” policy. The court granted a petition for certiorari July 9 in a case known as Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski. According to its […]
Supreme Court Protects Religious Freedom in Labor Law and Contraception Rulings
BY MATTHEW VADUM The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 this morning that the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause exempts religious organizations from employment discrimination lawsuits and from a requirement to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees. Both rulings are victories for the Trump administration. The high court issued 7-2 decisions in two separate sets of cases, Our Lady of Guadalupe […]
Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds ‘Faithless Elector’ Laws
BY MATTHEW VADUM The Supreme Court has unanimously affirmed the constitutionality of “faithless elector” laws that allow states to fine or remove Electoral College members who fail to vote for the presidential candidate they were pledged to support. While some states have laws that punish such electors for not voting for the candidate to which they pledged support, […]
