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Supreme Court rules for Starbucks in union case over terminated employees

Supreme Court on Thursday The lower court’s decision was overturned The court ordered Starbucks to reinstate seven Memphis employees who were fired during a unionization drive. The ruling makes it more difficult to immediately block lawsuits alleging unfair labor practices because they move through administrative procedures that sometimes take years. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the […]

Pelosi: Supreme Court made 'correct decision' on abortion pill access

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) praised the Supreme Court’s decision to allow access to the abortion pill mifepristone, calling it “the right decision.” “Today’s Supreme Court decision affirming full access to safe and effective mifepristone is the right decision for millions of women across the country,” House Speaker Pelosi said in a statement after […]

Supreme Court backs Starbucks over fired pro-union workers

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of coffee chain Starbucks Co. in a challenge to a judicial order ordering the company to rehire seven Memphis employees who were fired for trying to unionize, a decision that could make it harder for courts to quickly halt labor practices that are challenged as unfair […]

Fani Willis asks Georgia appeals court to toss Trump’s bid to oust her

The Georgia Court of Appeals should reject Donald Trump’s attempt to remove Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the election fraud lawsuit against the former president because former lead prosecutor Nathan Wade, with whom Willis had an affair, is no longer involved in the case, new court documents say. The former president, along with […]

Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill in unanimous ruling

The Supreme Court unanimously rejected a petition to tighten restrictions on access to mifepristone, one of a combination of two drugs commonly used in abortions. In a 9-0 decision written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court concluded that the anti-abortion doctors who brought the case lacked standing to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s […]

Unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Racine mobile voting van, keep polling places

Conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court say an order banning mobile voting vans in Racine County while leaving other polling places in the city, which are heavily Democratic, open is meaningless. The liberal-majority court unanimously ruled that Racine and other Wisconsin cities cannot use vans to collect ballots. A Racine County judge said the same […]

Republicans block bill requiring Supreme Court to adopt enforceable ethics code

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican senators on Wednesday blocked a bill that would have required the Supreme Court to adopt a code of conduct and create a mechanism to enforce it, following several high-profile controversies. The bill, the Supreme Court Ethics, Challenge and […]

Atlanta bus hijacking suspect interviewed as witness after food court shooting

The man who hijacked a bus in Atlanta on Tuesday and shot dead a passenger witnessed a shooting at a downtown food court hours earlier, authorities said, and rambled about his mental state in an interview with reporters. Suspect Joseph Greer, 39, was arrested Tuesday after holding the bus driver at gunpoint and taking the […]

McConnell blasts Democrats’ attempts to undermine Supreme Court

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrats’ recent attempts to undermine the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have come under concentrated attack from Democrats in recent years, with such scrutiny intensifying after the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, […]