Supreme Court Slaps Down Challenge That Could Have Gutted Financial Regulatory Agency
The Supreme Court rejected a challenge on Thursday that could have paved the way for a consumer protection regulator to be dismantled. The court ruled by 7-2 vote that the unconventional way the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) receives funding is constitutional, dealing a blow to the business interests who brought the challenge. Two trade […]
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sold Anheuser-Busch stock during Dylan Mulvaney boycott
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is speaking out against Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch, amid a social media boycott over the brand’s controversial advertising partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney. He sold his stock and bought stock in rival Molson Coors. Mr. Alito sold between $1,000 and $15,000 of AB InBev stock on […]
Supreme Court Declines To Hear Challenge To Maryland Gun Ban
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Maryland’s ban on so-called “assault weapons.” Then-Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley signed the ban into law in May 2013. According to the list of orders, the court denied the specific writ petition. released Monday. (Related: Exclusive: Republican state legislators join push to end blue state […]
Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Maryland ban on assault-style weapons
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Maryland’s ban on certain assault-style semiautomatic rifles, leaving the law in place for now. The court did not elaborate on its decision, but it would be unusual for the justices to agree to take up the case since it is still being considered by […]
US Supreme Court rejects former Guantanamo Bay detainee’s appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Omar Khadr’s attempt to vacate his conviction for the 2002 murder of a U.S. soldier and other crimes he committed when he was 15 years old. The justices declined to hear the appeal, noting that Khadr waived his right to appellate review as part of his 2010 plea agreement. […]
Trump slams NY court system while touting he’s going ‘to win’ Empire State
Former President Trump criticized New York’s judicial system in comments ahead of Monday’s court appearance and emphasized that he believes he can win the historically blue Empire State this election cycle. “The criminal justice system is on trial in New York,” President Trump read an excerpt from legal expert and attorney Alan Dershowitz on Monday […]
International Court Seeks Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Hamas Leaders
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan on Monday formally requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Galant, and several leaders of the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas. Mr. Khan equated Israel’s self-defense operations against Hamas in Gaza with the widespread atrocities committed in Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7, […]
During Oral Arguments at the Arizona Court of Appeals in Kari Lake’s Election Lawsuit, Her Attorney Alleged Numerous Lies by Election Official
A panel of three Arizona Court of Appeals judges heard oral arguments on Thursday in Kari Lake’s Rule 60(b) appeal of her election lawsuit. Lake’s attorney, Kurt Olsen, alleged that Maricopa County Co-Elections Director Scott Jarrett told numerous lies. Lake’s team filed the Rule 60(b) motion requesting a second trial based on newly found evidence, but the […]
Biden on Trump’s next Supreme Court pick: ‘Do you think he’ll put anybody who has a brain?’
President Biden told an audience at the NAACP Detroit Chapter dinner that if former President Trump were elected to the White House for a second term, he would fill the hypothetical vacancy on the Supreme Court with “someone with a brain.” I asked them to think about whether or not they thought so. In a […]
Julian Assange faces judgement day in years-long fight to stay out of US court
After more than a decade of legal battles, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to make a final decision in Britain’s High Court on Monday on whether to extradite the suspected leaker to the United States. Mr. Assange has been in British custody since 2019 after the Ecuadorian government revoked his political asylum status and […]