Supreme Court

New York 08/30/21, 16:19

Due to the eviction moratorium, an Air Force veteran who holds three houses in upstate New York has to live in her car since her tenants have stopped paying rent. Brandie LaCasse, an Air Force veteran, said that she is owed more than $23,000 in overdue rent, but she can not ask ...

News 08/27/21, 04:22

The Supreme Court on Thursday, Aug. 26, barred the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from implementing the federal statutory prohibition on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.  According to NBC News, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the landlords in a 6-3 vote, saying that “if a federally imposed ...

U.S. 08/21/21, 03:06

A U.S. Supreme Court justice on Friday, Aug. 20, issued a temporary restraining order on resuming a border policy enacted by the Trump administration.  A lower court ordered the Biden administration to reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, commonly known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, making asylum seekers reside ...

Washington 08/16/21, 17:59

A Washington state court will let a homeless man sleep inside his vehicle in peace on Aug. 12. King County Superior Court recently ruled Steven Long is exempt from Seattle's 72-hour parking rule because he lives on the streets. Long will be able to spend the night in his 2000 GMC ...

U.S. 07/30/21, 05:27

Almost all Republican members of Congress on Thursday, July 29, called on the Supreme Court to roll back the federal protections for abortion and, if possible, topple the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized the procedure. Almost all 231 GOP lawmakers joined a congressional filing to urge the high court to ...

U.S. 07/20/21, 21:45

Alaska's top court ruled political opponents of the Last Frontier's Republican governor are legally permitted to pursue a recall election campaign on July 16. The state's Supreme Court confirmed the recall campaign against Gov. Mike Dunleavy is legitimate and may proceed. The decision came despite the governor only having about 17 ...

U.S. 07/05/21, 18:45

Following a landmark ruling by the Iowa Supreme Court, a ban on funding firms linked to the abortion industry from receiving state funds to provide sex education programs was determined.  In 2019, the state of Iowa had already implemented a law prohibiting abortion provider firms such as Planned Parenthood from providing ...

U.S. 07/02/21, 00:46

President Joe Biden said on Thursday, July 1, that he was dissatisfied with a 6-3 vote by the Supreme Court that ruled Arizona’s new voting law does not breach the Voting Rights Act. “I am deeply disappointed in today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court that undercuts the Voting Rights ...

U.S. 07/01/21, 19:39

The Supreme Court maintained Arizona voting regulations that limit ballot harvesting and provisional ballot submission outside of one's home precinct, following a challenge from the Democratic National Committee. In a 6-3 decision on Thursday, June 1, the court ruled that neither the policy requiring provisional ballots to be completely disregarded if ...

U.S. 06/22/21, 15:39

Former President Donald Trump has expressed his dissatisfaction with two justices that he nominated to the Supreme Court after they vote to save the controversial Affordable Care Act which he sought to strike down during his presidency. During an interview with Just the News on Monday, June 21, Trump said that ...

U.S. 06/19/21, 02:23

In a case pitting so-called homosexual rights against the conscience rights of a Catholic foster care agency, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of religious freedom, leads to a conservative victory that could shift the balance between LGBTQ rights and the First Amendment's protection of religious freedom.‘The ...

U.S. 06/17/21, 16:08

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a joint lawsuit brought by 17 Republican states to overturn the controversial Obama-era health care law. In a 7-2 vote, the court's justices decided to leave the entire law intact when they ruled Thursday, June 17, that the plaintiff Republican states lacked standing to sue ...

U.S. 06/03/21, 01:42

On Tuesday, June 1, the Supreme Court overturned a California court's ruling that presumed asylum seekers were telling the truth unless an immigration judge had made an "explicit" conclusion that they were unreliable.The court unanimously agreed that a previous judgment from the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in ...

U.S. 04/29/21, 04:53

Democrats are rushing bills through Congress "because they know if the people have the chance to weigh in… they're toast," Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said. The 2022 midterm elections are "driving a lot of their haste," the Tennessee Senator told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Tuesday. "It's like they've ...

U.S. 04/20/21, 03:16

Almost six months after the Nov. 3, 2020 election, the Supreme Court still refused to hear a case about a Pennsylvania voting dispute. On Monday, April 19, the court dismissed an appeal from a Republican congressional candidate's challenge to the state's mail-in ballot measures. The Supreme Court wrote in an order: “The ...

U.S. 04/10/21, 16:45

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Friday, April 9, that the state does not need to remove about 70,000 people from the voter rolls who were listed as possibly having moved in 2019 — a victory for Democrats who had fought the switch vehemently. The contentious voter rolls case has been ...

U.S. 04/09/21, 19:01

President Joe Biden on Friday ordered the creation of a commission to study possible reforms to the Supreme Court, including a much-heralded increase in the number of justices, which is a key issue for left-leaning members of the Democratic Party.  It will also look at broadening the federal judiciary base as ...

U.S. 04/06/21, 18:50

The Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) has filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court in favor of Students for Fair Admission's petition for a writ of certiorari appealing the First Circuit's ruling upholding Harvard College's race-based affirmative action admissions policy (Students for Fair Admission v. President & Fellows of Harvard College ...

U.S. 04/05/21, 17:19

In a long-running copyright lawsuit over the usage of Java application programming interface (API) code in Android, the Supreme Court sided with Google against Oracle on Monday, April 5. The Supreme Court ruled 6-2, with one justice (Amy Coney Barrett) absent from the decision since the case was argued before she ...

U.S. 03/31/21, 14:57

The Supreme Court admitted a case on abortion, the first since the appointment of the conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, last year under the administration of the then president, Donald Trump.  The verdict she may issue could show the direction of the court to both pro-life citizens and pro-choice abortionists given ...