Tag Archives: Supreme Court

President Joe Biden said Tuesday that his administration “will be ready when any ruling is issued” on abortion rights, after the nation was rocked by the leak of a draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that confirmed the court is planning to overturn access to abortion. “I believe that …

Shefali Luthra, Abby Johnston, Terri Rupar Originally published by The 19th This developing story is being updated. On Monday night, Politico reported that Roe v. Wade — the 1973 decision that enshrined federal abortion protections — will be overturned, according to an initial draft authored by Justice Samuel Alito. The …

The United States Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO. “The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed …

by Jennifer Shutt, Iowa Capital Dispatch April 24, 2022 WASHINGTON — Abortion access throughout the country could soon depend on a patchwork of state laws if a U.S. Supreme Court dominated by conservatives overturns the constitutional right it established nearly 50 years ago. The court’s decision on Mississippi’s 15-week abortion …

by Jacob Fischler, Idaho Capital Sun March 29, 2022 Two dozen congressional Democrats are calling for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from cases involving the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, following revelations his wife communicated with the Trump White House about overturning the election. …

by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent March 28, 2022 The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee reopened partisan disagreements Monday as members scheduled a vote for April 4 on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Republicans’ criticisms of Jackson’s record and responses were either untrue or …

by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent March 24, 2022 WASHINGTON – Representatives of the American Bar Association reiterated their finding that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is well qualified to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, and law enforcement groups rebutted GOP accusations Jackson is soft on child pornographers during the final …

by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent March 22, 2022 WASHINGTON – Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday sharpened their criticisms of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, probing her work as a public defender on behalf of terrorism suspects, the judicial sentences she has handed down for child …

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas remains hospitalized with ‘flu-like symptoms,’ and is being treated for an infection. Court officials said Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, DC, on Friday evening after having flu-like symptoms. He was tested, was diagnosed with an infection, and is being treated with …

Read text of the opening remarks by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominee to the Supreme Court, on the first day of her confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, as delivered March 21, 2022. Watch the remarks here or below. Chairman Durbin, Ranking Member Grassley, and Distinguished Members of the …

by Jennifer Shutt, Missouri Independent March 21, 2022 WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson began her four-day confirmation process to become the nation’s first Black female associate justice on Monday, listening to hours of opening statements from Senate Judiciary Committee members before giving her own. In her first …

Candice Norwood, Terri Rupar Originally published by The 19th Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings began Monday, less than a month after President Joe Biden announced her history-making nomination. The Senate is charged with confirming nominees to federal courts, and it’s Jackson’s fourth Senate confirmation hearing but the first time …

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to block state court-ordered congressional maps in Pennsylvania and North Carolina before the 2022 midterm elections, in two orders late on Monday, handing a win to Democrats. In a pair of rulings issued late in the day, the court opted to allow redistricting maps drawn …

The Department of Labor announced Tuesday that it would withdraw its vaccine-or-test requirement for large private employers after the United States Supreme Court dealt the Biden administration’s coronavirus strategy and the rule itself a decisive blow when it blocked its enforcement earlier this month. Effective Wednesday, the temporary standard – …

The United States Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would revisit the question of affirmative action in higher education, deciding to hear a case challenging Harvard and the University of North Carolina‘s use of race in college admissions. The Justices will consider the policies at Harvard University and the …