Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Grandmother Jailed In Alleged Retaliation
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a grandmother who was jailed for alleged retaliation, according to Fox News. The Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling in favor of former City Council Member Sylvia Gonzalez of Castle Hills, Texas, upholding her First Amendment rights. The case revolved around allegations that local authorities, including […]
Supreme Court Rules 6-3 to Uphold Conviction of Drug Mule Caught with Meth at Southern Border
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 against a drug trafficker who was fighting his conviction by arguing that expert testimony by special agents of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) violated the Federal Rules of Evidence. In 2020, Delilah Diaz was stopped at a checkpoint on the US-Mexico border. Border Patrol agents searched her vehicle and found […]
Texas grandmother jailed in alleged political retaliation wins at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of a former female city council member from Texas who was jailed in an act of political retaliation. Sylvia Gonzalez and her lawyers are a nonprofit organization Justice Research Institute (IJ) sued Castle Hills Mayor JR Trevino and other officials, alleging they violated her First Amendment rights […]
How the Supreme Court could rule on Trump immunity
The Supreme Court is poised to decide the most high-stakes case of 2024, one that will determine whether former President Donald Trump can claim absolute immunity from his criminal indictments. The justices are slated to hand down new decisions Thursday and Friday morning at 10 a.m. local time as they seek to whittle down the […]
Holder worried Supreme Court will come to 'dangerous' conclusion on Trump immunity
Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday he worries the Supreme Court will reach a “dangerous” conclusion on former President Trump’s claim of executive immunity, in part because the court has been slow to issue its decision. Trump has claimed immunity from federal charges related to storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, vacation home, […]
Supreme Court Strikes Down Bump Stock Ban
The Supreme Court tossed out a Trump administration-era ban on bump stocks Friday. In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its authority when it issued a rule classifying firearms equipped with bump stocks as machine guns. The case, Garland v. Cargill, challenged the […]
Senate GOP blocks Democratic effort to ban bump stocks after Supreme Court ruling
Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked Democrats from passing a bump stock ban bill following a Supreme Court ruling that overturned a Trump-era federal ban on bump stocks. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-Minn.), the author of the BUMP bill, called for unanimous approval of the proposal, but Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) blocked it. The move came days […]
Senate Democrat: Supreme Court 'readying to fundamentally rewrite' Second Amendment
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said in an interview Sunday that the Supreme Court seems poised to “radically rewrite” the Second Amendment, and expressed concern about the court’s decision to strike down a Trump-era bump stock ban. In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Murphy said he was concerned the Supreme […]
Donalds says Supreme Court should 'intervene' in Trump hush money case
Rep. Byron Donald (R-Fla.) on Sunday urged the Supreme Court to “intervene” in former President Trump’s hush money lawsuit, calling on the court to quickly hear Trump’s appeal of his conviction. Trump was convicted this month of 34 felony counts of falsifying business documents in connection with the illegal concealment of hush money paid to […]
Byron Donalds calls on Supreme Court to ‘step in’ after Trump conviction
The Supreme Court should address former President Donald Trump’s recent conviction in New York, according to Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL). The Florida lawmaker told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that the high court should “step in” after Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury of 34 counts of falsifying business records. “The only ability […]