As Supreme Court takes up homeless ban, a city’s unhoused feel abandoned A consequential Oregon case, opening Monday, will decide whether governments can enforce laws against people sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go. 04/20/2024 - 8:35 am | View Link
The Supreme Court Just Dealt a Massive Blow to the Right to Protest The Supreme Court’s inaction has effectively abolished the right to mass protest across three states, allowing a lower court’s ruling to seemingly infringe upon the Constitution’s First Amendment. 04/15/2024 - 6:05 am | View Link
Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law.It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other ... 04/20/2024 - 1:20 pm | View Website
Justices Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr., is the 17th Chief Justice of the United States, and there have been 104 Associate Justices in the Court’s history. 04/20/2024 - 4:59 am | View Website
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Sharp v. Murphy Sharp v. Murphy, 591 U.S. ___ (2020), was a Supreme Court of the United States case of whether Congress disestablished the Muscogee (Creek) Nation reservation. After holding the case from the 2018 term, the case was decided on July 9, 2020, in a per curiam decision following McGirt v. Oklahoma that, for the purposes of the Major Crimes Act, the ... 04/18/2024 - 7:34 pm | View Website
Donald Trump took another hit to the ego in the PA primary on Tuesday, as tens of thousands of Republicans voted for Nikki Haley instead. Via the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Sure, he won the primary in the my swing state with 82.5 percent of the vote, amounting to more than 788,000 votes.
But Nikki Haley still received 16.5 percent, with 156,950 votes.
Poor Don.
Madge Greene is now screeching that Democrats want Donald Trump to be “murdered in jail.” This was during an interview with whacko Alex Jones, natch. Via the Independent:
The right-wing lawmaker made the remarks during an interview with Infowars host Alex Jones, in which she suggested that the four criminal cases Mr Trump is facing - including an ongoing trial where he has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts relating to alleged hush money payments - are an intentional effort by his political rivals to imprison the former president until he dies.
She added that Democrats are also attempting to strip Mr Trump of his presidential Secret Service detail to accomplish their goal.
The Federal Trade Commission voted yesterday to adopt a historic and far-reaching ban on noncompete agreements, which are common now in almost all job markets. Thanks, Lina Khan! Via HuffPost:
The agency has said that the agreements, in which workers are forbidden from seeking a job with a competing business for a certain period of time, lead to an “unfair method of competition” and violate federal law.
Donald Trump’s ongoing New York criminal trial hinges on payments of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels. It’s not the hush money, per se, that is illegal, it’s the fact that Trump allegedly falsified business records to cover up the payment and avoid damage to his presidential campaign. Nevertheless, compulsive liar Trump denies he ever had an affair with Daniels.
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If you look closely, you'll notice that Zhanna Polupanova is wearing a sweatshirt with the English words "Follow Your Dreams." Apparently, hers includes a new roof for her modest house in the country, which with any luck will be repaired with what the Russians call "coffin money." Zhanna also rather cold-bloodedly says she does not feel sympathy for her sons going to war in Ukraine as they are meant to serve the Motherland.