U.S. Supreme Court

Senate Filibuster’s Racist Past Fuels Arguments for Its End

Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 04/15/2021 - 4:00am

Once obscure, the Senate filibuster is coming under fresh scrutiny not only because of the enormous power it gives a single senator to halt President Joe Biden’s agenda, but as a tool historically used for racism.

Truck Was Seized Over ‘Munitions of War,’ 5 Forgotten Bullets

Published by Nikki Ratay on Thu, 04/15/2021 - 4:00am

Gerardo Serrano ticked off the border crossing agents by taking some photos on his phone. So they took his pickup truck and held onto it for more than two years.

High Court Halts California’s Rules Limiting Home Worship

Published by Nikki Ratay on Wed, 04/14/2021 - 3:00am

The Supreme Court is telling California that it can’t enforce coronavirus-related restrictions that have limited home-based religious worship including Bible studies and prayer meetings.

The order from the court late last Friday is the latest in a recent string of cases in which the high court has barred officials from enforcing some coronavirus-related restrictions applying to religious gatherings.

Biden Assigns Study on Delicate Issue of Court Expansion

Published by Nikki Ratay on Tue, 04/13/2021 - 5:00am

President Joe Biden ordered a study of adding seats to the Supreme Court, creating a bipartisan commission that will spend the next six months examining the politically incendiary issues of expanding the court and instituting term limits.

Another Murder Conviction Tossed Citing McGirt

Published by Nikki Ratay on Tue, 04/13/2021 - 12:00am

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals last Thursday overturned another state murder conviction because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that much of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation.

Breyer Says Big Supreme Court Changes May Diminish Trust

Published by Nikki Ratay on Fri, 04/09/2021 - 5:00am

Justice Stephen Breyer said liberal advocates of big changes at the Supreme Court, including expanding the number of justices, should think “long and hard” about what they’re proposing.

Politically driven change could diminish the trust Americans place in the court, Breyer said in the prepared text of a long speech he gave remotely Tuesday to Harvard Law School students, faculty and alumni.

Cherokee Nation AG: Congress Must Allow State-Tribe Compacts

Published by Nikki Ratay on Fri, 04/09/2021 - 12:00am

The U.S. Congress must take action to allow American Indian tribes to compact with state governments to prosecute crimes in Indian Country, Cherokee Nation Attorney General Sara Hill said Tuesday.

Supreme Court Sides With Google in Oracle Copyright Fight

Published by Nikki Ratay on Wed, 04/07/2021 - 4:00am

The Supreme Court sided Monday with Google in an $8 billion copyright dispute with Oracle over the internet company’s creation of the Android operating system used on most smartphones worldwide.

To create Android, which was released in 2007, Google wrote millions of lines of new computer code. But it also used 11,330 lines of code and an organization that’s part of Oracle’s Java platform.

Supreme Court Dismisses Case Over Trump, Twitter Critics

Published by Nikki Ratay on Wed, 04/07/2021 - 3:00am

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a case over former President Donald Trump’s efforts to block critics from his personal Twitter account.

The court said there was nothing left to the case after Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter and ended his presidential term in January.

Supreme Court Nixes Jones’ Appeal in Newtown Case

Published by Nikki Ratay on Wed, 04/07/2021 - 2:00am

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was fighting a Connecticut court sanction in a defamation lawsuit brought by relatives of some of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

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