Tag Archives: Supreme Court

Law & Crime reports: The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court were uninterested in Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake’s far-reaching attempt to ban Dominion Voting Systems’ machines from use in Arizona elections and beyond, sending her petition to the dust bin despite the hype generated around the failed effort. In an orders list on Monday, SCOTUS jettisoned the case …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether the Biden administration can lawfully regulate so-called ghost guns — firearms that are made from kits available online that people can assemble at home. The justices took up a Biden administration appeal in defense of regulations that a lower court invalidated. The provisions in question are currently in …

Liz Cheney writes in a New York Times op-ed: On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Donald Trump’s arguments that he is immune from prosecution for his efforts to steal the 2020 presidential election. It is likely that all — or nearly all — of the justices agree that a former president who attempted to seize power and remain …

Reuters reports: Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday signaled skepticism toward an obstruction charge brought by the Justice Department against a Pennsylvania man in the 2021 Capitol attack – a case with possible implications for the prosecution of Donald Trump for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss. The justices heard arguments in Joseph Fischer’s appeal of a lower …

ABC News reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a high-stakes case that could invalidate felony obstruction charges for more than 300 individuals connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack — including former President Donald Trump. At issue in the case of Fischer v. United States is whether a federal law enacted in 2002 to prevent …

The Washington Examiner reports: The Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit filed by a group of House Republicans challenging the establishment of metal detectors in the House of Representatives following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The rejection comes after three House Republicans, Reps. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) and Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) and former Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), appealed to …

USA Today reports: The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Mike Lindell, the MyPillow founder and prominent election denier, who unsuccessfully argued his rights were violated when FBI agents seized his phone in 2022. The federal government was investigating the sharing of sensitive information from Colorado’s computerized voting systems. Lindell was a key ally of Donald …

NBC News reports: Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was not present at the court for oral arguments on Monday, with the court giving no reason for his absence. Chief Justice John Roberts said in court that Thomas “is not on the bench today” but would “participate fully” in the two cases being argued based on the briefs and transcripts. …

The Washington Post reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee sent a subpoena Thursday to conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo as part of a months-long inquiry into undisclosed gifts to Supreme Court justices and he promptly rejected it, calling the move “politically motivated.” “I am not capitulating to his lawless support of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and the left’s dark money effort to …

Axios reports: Special counsel Jack Smith in a filing asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject former President Trump’s claims that he’s immune from prosecution in the 2020 federal election case said “no person is above the law.” “The Framers never endorsed criminal immunity for a former President, and all Presidents from the Founding to the modern era have known …

CBS News reports: A Florida man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for threatening to kill a U.S. Supreme Court justice, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Neal Brij Sidhwaney, 43, pleaded guilty in December after he made a July telephone call from Florida to the Supreme Court and left an expletive-filled voice message twice threatening to kill an …

Axios reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed unlikely to broadly restrict access to medication abortion in the court’s biggest abortion-related case since overturning Roe v. Wade two years ago. The justices heard oral arguments in a challenge to mifepristone — one of the drugs used in medication-induced abortions, which account for about two-thirds of all abortions. It wasn’t clear …

Politico reports: On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in one of the most closely watched cases of its current term: a challenge to the FDA’s rules for the abortion pill mifepristone. The plaintiffs — who want to overturn FDA decisions that increased access to mifepristone by, among other things, allowing it to be prescribed online and mailed …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday tackles whether to maintain widely available access to the abortion pill mifepristone as it weighs a high-stakes challenge to the Food and Drug Administration’s drug approval process. The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, hears oral arguments on the Biden administration’s appeal of lower court rulings that restricted access to the …

The New York Times reports: Former President Donald J. Trump urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to rule that he is absolutely immune from criminal charges stemming from his attempts to subvert the 2020 election. “The president cannot function, and the presidency itself cannot retain its vital independence,” the brief said, “if the president faces criminal prosecution for official acts …

NBC News reports:  The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce a contentious new law that gives local police the power to arrest migrants. The conservative-majority court, with three liberal justices dissenting, rejected an emergency request by the Biden administration, which said states have no authority to legislate on immigration, an issue the federal government has sole authority over. …

CNN reports: The Supreme Court on Monday indefinitely blocked Texas from enforcing an immigration law that would allow state officials to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally. The so-called administrative stay will remain in place while the court considers emergency appeals from the Biden administration and others, who want the justices to block enforcement of …

Politico reports: Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser in Donald Trump’s White House, appears to be heading to jail. Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday turned down Navarro’s emergency motion to stave off his imminent jail sentence — set to begin Tuesday at 2 p.m. in a Miami federal prison — for his defiance of a subpoena from the House …

Politico Magazine reports: Fifty percent of respondents said that they believe Trump is guilty of the alleged crimes charged in Manhattan. There was a predictable and sizable partisan split, with only 14 percent of Republicans reporting that they believe Trump is guilty, while 86 percent of Democrats held that view. Among independents, 54 percent said that Trump is guilty. By …

The Washington Post reports: The Supreme Court seems likely to reject a Republican-led effort that could reshape how politicians communicate with major social media companies — with sweeping consequences for government efforts to secure elections and combat health misinformation. A majority of justices from across the ideological spectrum expressed concern about hamstringing federal government communications with social media platforms on …