Right-wing Supreme Court majority signals it may dismiss obstruction charges against January 6 insurrectionists Based on questioning during oral arguments Tuesday, the right-wing Supreme Court majority appears poised to rule in favor of dismissing some or all criminal charges against January 6 insurrectionists ... 04/17/2024 - 3:02 pm | View Link
Justice Thomas returns to Supreme Court after 1-day absence Thomas was in his usual seat as the court met to hear arguments in a case about the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. 04/17/2024 - 3:11 am | View Link
Supreme Court hears arguments over obstruction law used against January 6 rioters The Supreme Court will consider whether part of a federal obstruction law can be used to prosecute some of the rioters involved in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Follow here for the ... 04/16/2024 - 7:55 am | View Link
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas misses court session without explanation Justice Clarence Thomas, 75, is the Supreme Court's oldest member and the most senior associate justice. He joined the court in 1991. 04/15/2024 - 4:27 am | View Link
Justice Thomas misses Supreme Court session Monday with no explanation Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was absent from the court Monday with no explanation. Thomas, 75, also was not participating remotely in arguments, as justices sometimes do ... 04/15/2024 - 3:17 am | View Link
Former President Donald Trump railed against the gag order Judge Juan Merchan put in place that bars Trump from talking about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors' staff, court staff and the family members of court staff and prosecutors.
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to reporters after a bipartisan group of lawmakers voted to advance a bill that provides aid to Ukraine and Israel. Several hardline Republicans, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, were opposed to the bill. Republicans may move to oust him as House Speaker for allowing the vote.
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Rare is the member of Congress who represents a district that voted for the other party’s nominee for President. Gerrymandering has rendered those political survivors harder to find than unicorns while reducing the truly competitive House districts to so few they fit on a single whiteboard in strategists’ offices.
The rights of LGBTQ+ students will be protected by federal law and victims of campus sexual assault will gain new safeguards under rules finalized Friday by the Biden administration.
The new provisions are part of a revised Title IX regulation issued by the Education Department, fulfilling a campaign pledge by President Joe Biden.
Colorado lawmakers have again rejected a bill that would have allowed supervised drug-use sites to open in willing cities — the third time in a year legislators have killed the proposal.
On Thursday night, two Democratic senators joined with the Senate Health and Human Service Committee’s three Republicans in voting to kill House Bill 1028, two weeks after it passed the House.