Posts Tagged ‘supreme’

How Easily Can Cops Steal Your Stuff, and Other Hard Questions For the Supreme Court

Police departments use civil asset forfeiture to seize millions of dollars’ worth of property every year. In Culley v. Marshall, the justices will decide whether to help them get away with it. Source

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Missouri v. Biden

The Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments over the Fifth Circuit’s grant of a preliminary injunction in Missouri v. Biden. As I mentioned in previous posts, the injunction would bar officials from the White House, CDC, FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Surgeon General’s office from coercing or significantly encouraging social media platforms to censor constitutionally […]

Supreme Court allows federal government to continue suppressing social media content

(NaturalNews) The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to review a lower court ruling that prevented key Biden administration officials from communicating with social… Source

Iran’s supreme leader labels Israeli assault on Gaza ‘genocide’

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced Israel’s siege of Gaza on Tuesday as a “genocide.” The Iranian leader called on the country to immediately halt its indiscriminate bombardment of neighborhoods in Gaza which have killed thousands in the territory. “If the crimes continue, Muslims will be impatient, resistance forces will be impatient, and nobody will be able… […]

India’s Supreme Court Refuses To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage, Saying It’s Up To Parliament

The ruling disappointed campaigners for LGBTQ+ rights in the world’s most populous country. Source

Victory!’ New York State Supreme Court Upholds Ruling That Struck Down COVID Vaccine Mandate for Health Workers

The ruling late last week by the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court means that even though the state rescinded its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, an earlier Supreme Court ruling that struck down the mandate will stand — meaning the state’s health department, governor and health commissioner “lack the legal […]

How the Supreme Court can rein in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 

The agency faces a crucial test of its legitimacy. Source

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Landlords’ Case Seeking to End Rent Control

The Supreme Court will not take up the latest attempt by landlord lobbyists to upend New York City’s 50-year-old rent control laws. But two other related cases may yet make it to the highest court. The court denied the petition for writ of certiorari—a formal request to review a lower court decision—on Monday morning. The […]

The Biden interview: the President talks about the Supreme Court, threats to democracy and Trump’s vow to exact retribution

In a sit-down conversation with ProPublica, Biden discusses Kevin McCarthy’s “terrible bargain,” the fear of change that drives threats to democracy and the Supreme Court’s need for an ethics policy. Source

Supreme Court could trigger hundreds of billions in corporate tax cuts ‘with the stroke of pen’

“The Roberts Court could decide with the stroke of a pen to simultaneously forgive big business decades of tax dues.” Source

BREAKING: GATEWAY PUNDIT CASE WITH BIDEN WHITE HOUSE-FBI GOES TO US SUPREME COURT – Biggest First Amendment Case in Modern US History! (UPDATE) SCOTUS To Take the Case

BREAKING: GATEWAY PUNDIT CASE WITH BIDEN WHITE HOUSE-FBI GOES TO US SUPREME COURT – Biggest First Amendment Case in Modern US History! (UPDATE) SCOTUS To Take the Case Source

Durbin: Justices hitting Supreme Court’s reputation with ‘wrecking ball’

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Friday said the Supreme Court “is in a crisis of its own making” as justices “continue to take a wrecking ball” to the court’s reputation. Durbin made the comments in a Friday statement criticizing Justice Samuel Alito’s decision not to recuse himself from a case involving an… […]

Mexico’s Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion Nationwide

Mexico’s Supreme Court has decriminalized abortion nationwide two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state. Source

We can enact ethics reform for the Supreme Court, judiciously

We should not change how the court is appointed, its term of service, or the secrecy of its deliberations Source

Fossil fuel companies ask Hawaii Supreme Court to dismiss Honolulu’s climate case

Honolulu has sued Big Oil over the costs of adapting to weather extremes – including bigger fire risks. Source

Supreme Court Revives Whistleblowers’ Medicare, Medicaid Fraud Lawsuits

Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court resurrected two whistleblower lawsuits against companies for allegedly defrauding Medicare and Medicaid. The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington on June 7, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times) The cases concern the federal False Claims Act (FCA), a key tool the government uses […]

Needed: Ethics Standards for the Corrupted Supreme Court

by Admin · Published July 12, 2023 · Updated July 12, 2023 maisie, The Supreme Court is the highest court of law in the United States. By design, Supreme Court justices serve long terms in order to allow them to apply the law with only justice in mind, and not electoral or political concerns. However, […]

Supreme Court Rules AGAINST Affirmative Action

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled that race-based affirmative action programs are unconstitutional Hopefully this leads to more merit based decisions, especially in critical areas like medical schools. Comment:  I personally do not want a doctor who doesn’t know what he/she is doing.  Period.   Source

Christian Nationalists Launch ‘Major Push’ to Take Advantage of the Far-Right Supreme Court

Earlier this month, Right Wing Watch reported that religious-right activists are seeking to take advantage of the far-right majority’s control of the Supreme Court to start enacting Christian nationalist policies all across the nation. Emboldened by recent Supreme Court decisions upholding prayer in schools, crosses erected on public lands, and flying Christian flags on public buildings, right-wing activists […]

Where the FUCK is Congress?!?!?! Where’s the Supreme Court?!?!?! Where the FUCK is anybody in power to shut this barbaric state-sponsored crime spree down—FOREVER?!?!?! (Video)

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Nomination Process Begins to Replace Ex-supreme Court Justice Russell Brown

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has begun the search for a new Supreme Court of Canada justice. Qualified candidates interested in the job, who must be functionally bilingual and demonstrate a relationship with Western or Northern Canada, will have until July 21 to apply. A non-partisan advisory board is then expected to pick a shortlist of […]

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Dispute Over Trump’s Former DC Hotel

The Supreme Court decided on May 15 to take up a long-running dispute between former President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over the former Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital. The case goes back to 2017, when Trump had just become president, and Republicans controlled both houses of Congress. At that time, several Democrats […]

U.S. backed COUP in Pakistan backfires, Imran Khan freed by Supreme Court

These were the words of Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, who posted a glossy video showcasing Ukraine’s sci-fi-esque future to Twitter. The video boasts of Ukraine’s plans (after its victory over Russia, of course!) to become the “freest and most convenient country in the next 10 years.”  Source

Supreme Court upholds California Prop. 12

California’s Prop. 1, which bans the in-state sale of pork, eggs, and veal from animals “confined in a cruel manner,” was challenged by the corporate pork production industry. Source

POLITICO is named Pulitzer finalist for Supreme Court coverage

POLITICO was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court that would strike down Roe v. Wade and its subsequent reporting on the high court. Reporters Josh Gerstein, Alexander Ward, Peter S. Canellos, Hailey Fuchs and Heidi Przybyla were announced as finalists in the Breaking […]

Philippines Supreme Court Blocks Commercial Release of GMOs over Ecological Disaster Fears

Philippines Supreme Court Blocks Commercial Release of GMOs over Ecological Disaster Fears by Sustainable Pulse April 28, 2023   Genetically modified Golden Rice and Bt eggplant will remain off the market in the Philippines after the country’s Supreme Court (SC) issued a writ in favor of farmers and scientists who sought to stop the government […]

Alito: Dobbs Leak Made Supreme Court Justices ‘Targets of Assassination’

Leaking the draft Dobbs opinion overruling the infamous Roe v. Wade made Supreme Court justices “targets of assassination,” Justice Samuel Alito told the Wall Street Journal in a rare interview published Friday. Source

NC Supreme Court Rules Courts Cannot Decide on Gerrymandering Claims, Reverses Anti-Voter ID Ruling

The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday ruled that there is no legal mechanism to judge claims of “partisan gerrymandering,” giving the Republican-controlled state legislatures the ultimate authority to draw congressional maps without court intervention. Source

Roberts declines to appear at Senate’s Supreme Court ethics hearing

Chief Justice John Roberts has declined an invitation to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee to discuss ethics reform on the high court after a report revealed Justice Clarence Thomas’ close friendship with a GOP megadonor. “I extended an invitation to the Chief Justice, or his designate, in an attempt to include the Court in […]

Supreme Court Temporarily Preserves Access to Abortion Pill  

The Supreme Court issued an administrative stay on Friday that preserves access to the abortion pill while litigation plays out in lower courts.  Source

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