U.S. Supreme Court

Mississippi Argues High Court Should Overturn Roe v. Wade

Published by Derek Noehren on Wed, 07/28/2021 - 2:00am

The U.S. Supreme Court should overturn its landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide and let states decide whether to regulate abortion before a fetus can survive outside the womb, the office of Mississippi’s Republican attorney general argued in papers filed last Thursday with the high court.

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Democrats Still Questioning Kavanaugh’s Background Check

Published by Derek Noehren on Tue, 07/27/2021 - 5:00am

Senate Democrats are raising new concerns about the thoroughness of the FBI’s background investigation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after the FBI revealed that it had received thousands of tips and had provided “all relevant” ones to the White House counsel’s office.

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Supreme Court Backs Minnesota Amish in Septic Tank Fight

Published by Derek Noehren on Thu, 07/08/2021 - 2:00am

The U.S. Supreme Court sided last Friday with members of an Amish group in Minnesota who are fighting efforts by authorities to compel them to install septic systems, sending their appeal back to a state court for reconsideration in light of the high court’s recent ruling in a religious freedom case.

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Conservative Wins Cap Unusually Agreeable Court Term

Published by Derek Noehren on Wed, 07/07/2021 - 5:00am

An unusually agreeable Supreme Court term ended with conservative-driven decisions on voting rights and charitable-donor disclosures that offered a glimpse of what the coming years of the right’s dominance could look like for the nation’s highest court.

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Tribes Say Voting Access Hurt by Supreme Court Ruling

Published by Derek Noehren on Wed, 07/07/2021 - 3:00am

The largest Native American reservation in the U.S. includes parts of three Arizona counties, all of which had different approaches to precinct voting in the 2020 general election.

Voters in Apache County had to cast ballots at the polling location they were assigned. People registered in Navajo County could vote anywhere in the county. Coconino County used a hybrid model.

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Justices Turn Away Florist Who Refused Same-Sex Wedding Job

Published by Derek Noehren on Wed, 07/07/2021 - 12:00am

The Supreme Court last Friday declined to take up the case of a florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding, leaving in place a decision that she broke state anti-discrimination laws.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have agreed to hear the case and review the decision. Four justices are needed for the court to take a case.

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Conservative High Court Upholds State Voting Restrictions

Published by Derek Noehren on Tue, 07/06/2021 - 5:00am

Flexing its new strength, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Thursday cut back on a landmark voting rights law in a decision likely to help Republican states fight challenges to voting restrictions they’ve put in place following last year’s elections.

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Supreme Court: California Can’t Collect Charity Donor Names

Published by Derek Noehren on Tue, 07/06/2021 - 4:00am

The Supreme Court last Thursday ordered California to stop collecting the names and addresses of top donors to charities, calling the state’s requirement a “dragnet for sensitive donor information.”