High-stakes Supreme Court ruling on Trump immunity due Monday
The Supreme Court is expected to rule Monday on Donald Trump‘s claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution surrounding his four-count indictment on an alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The strongest possibility that legal experts have suggested is that the case will be returned to a lower court, where a judge will […]
What DOJ should do about Trump’s Jan 6 prosecution after Supreme Court’s Fischer ruling
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JD Vance says the president has 'immunity' ahead of anticipated Supreme Court ruling
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said Sunday he believes a president has legal immunity for acts committed while in the White House, but stopped short of saying Biden shouldn’t be prosecuted for unspecified criminal acts. Vance, who was considered a finalist to be former President Trump’s running mate, predicted in an interview with Margaret Brennan on […]
Supreme Court Thoroughly Rebukes Biden DOJ For Abusing Law To Go After Trump And His Supporters
The Supreme Court held Friday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) interpreted an obstruction statute too broadly when using it to charge hundreds of defendants for their behavior in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The court sided 6-3 in Fischer v. United States with a defendant who challenged the statute, Section 1512(c)(2), which holds up […]
Supreme Court's Idaho decision deepens abortion uncertainty
The Supreme Court’s rejection of an Idaho challenge to a federal emergency medical law provided temporary relief for doctors and patients in the state but did not end questions about whether federal law allows doctors to perform abortions in medical emergencies. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Thursday to dismiss the case for “rashly approving,” […]
Supreme Court Denies Steve Bannon’s Request To Stay Out Of Jail
The Supreme Court denied Friday former Trump advisor Steve Bannon’s request to stay out of jail pending his appeal. Bannon will now be required to report to prison by July 1, as a federal judge ordered him to do earlier this month. He will serve a four-month sentence for his contempt of Congress conviction, which […]
Ex-Trump official lauds Supreme Court ruling on Jan. 6 riot cases: 'Absolutely right'
Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker (R-Ill.) said the Supreme Court was “absolutely right” to block the Justice Department from prosecuting the January 6 rioters on obstruction charges. Whitaker, who served as Trump’s acting attorney general for three months after Attorney General Jeff Sessions left the role at the president’s request in 2018, said he […]
Iowa Supreme Court Upholds Six-Week Abortion Ban
The Iowa Supreme Court upheld the state’s six-week abortion ban on Friday. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the law in July 2023 prohibiting abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detected. A district court blocked the law a few days after it had been signed, and the state Supreme Court ruled 4-3 to reverse the order, […]
Why Idaho's position in the Supreme Court emergency abortions case is concerning
The right to not be turned away in a hospital emergency room remains protected for now. The US Supreme Court this week did not rule on whether states can block hospitals from treating patients with medical emergencies who need abortions, ruling that the case should not have come before the Supreme Court and will continue […]
Supreme Court Delivers Crippling Blow To Permanent Bureaucracy’s Power Over Americans’ Lives
The Supreme Court handed small fishing companies a victory Friday in their lawsuits against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), overturning a decades-old precedent that expanded the power of the administrative state. Siding 6-3 with the fishermen, the Supreme Court reversed its 1984 landmark case, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, which lower courts […]