The Supreme Court Is Playing a Dangerous Game If the chief currency of the Supreme Court is its legitimacy as an institution, then you can say with confidence that its account is as close to empty as it has been for a very long time. 03/21/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Supreme Court NetChoice v. Paxton could be the most consequential First Amendment case in a generation—one that could even outlive the headline-grabbing Trump v. Anderson. 03/20/2024 - 10:37 am | View Link
WV Supreme Court to issue landmark ruling on whether opioid distribution can cause a public nuisance A federal appeals court asked West Virginia’s highest court Monday whether opioid distributions can cause a public nuisance as it reviews a landmark lawsuit against three major U.S. drug ... 03/19/2024 - 1:54 am | View Link
Supreme Court rejects appeal from parents who lost custody of trans teen WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court declined to decide Monday whether an Indiana couple who believe children should be raised based on their sex at birth should have lost custody of their teenager ... 03/18/2024 - 4:03 am | View Link
Supreme Court Wary of States’ Bid to Limit Federal Contact With Social Media Companies The justices must distinguish between persuading social media sites to take down posts, which is permitted, and coercing them, which violates the First Amendment. 03/18/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said the Republican party is currently threatening democracy and that the nation is undergoing a political shift, USA Today reports.
Said Cheney: “Certainly, what’s happening in the Republican party is dangerous. We now have one of our two major political parties that has abandoned the Constitution.”
She added: “We know Trump tried once not to leave office, and he will have no incentive to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power and to leave office should be selected again.
“Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro told Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Wednesday he had no reason to have sought asylum at the Hungarian embassy, after the court summoned him to explain why he stayed at the diplomatic compound for two nights in February,” Reuters reports.
The White House announced a new rule to curb so-called “junk health insurance,” rolling back a Trump-era expansion of short-term health insurance plans, CNN reports.
“A judge ruled Wednesday that the Georgia Republican Party’s first vice chairman, Brian Pritchard, violated state election laws when he voted nine times while serving probation for a felony check forgery sentence,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
On Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s website is a campaign event created by a supporter called “the Save RFK Jr. Rally” which demands that he fire his campaign manager — who is RFK’s daughter-in-law — for “promoting a CIA, feminist agenda.”
“Kari Lake, a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona who has amplified former president Donald Trump’s false claims about rigged elections, has decided not to defend statements she made about a top election official in the state’s most populous county who sued her for alleged defamation,” the Washington Post reports.
“Attorneys for Lake, her 2022 campaign for governor and an affiliated nonprofit group on Tuesday asked a judge to begin the process of determining damages as part of a lawsuit brought by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer (R), in his personal capacity.”