The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to soon decide whether to take up a case brought by Arizona Republican candidates Kari Lake and Mark Finchem challenging the use of machines to count votes. The court set the duo’s case for its conference schedule on Friday, when the justices will discuss cases and vote on which […]
In his last protest march, Martin Luther King Jr. led a parade of demonstrators down Beale Street in Memphis, lending his support to striking sanitation workers. After a few young black men started breaking storefront windows, the indiscriminate police response killed one suspected looter and injured dozens of protesters. Under a legal theory blessed by […]
STORY: “No person is above the law” – not even a U.S. president. That’s what Special Counsel Jack Smith is arguing in a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to reject Donald Trump’s bid for immunity from prosecution – on charges of plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss. “…They’re not taking […]
When North Carollna lawmakers passed a provision in last year’s Farm Act that prevented development only in wetlands protected by the federal government, they couldn’t answer a key question: How many acres of wetlands here would lose protection? A new Environmental Defense Fund analysis uses a U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s National Wetlands Inventory and flooding […]
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that if they do not grant him absolute immunity against prosecution for his effort to overturn the 2020 election it would “incapacitate every future president.” Trump’s lawyers outlined their arguments ahead of oral arguments scheduled for April 25 arguing that Trump should have full […]
President Joe Biden criticized US Supreme Court justices in the State of the Union address. He hit out at the decision to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion rights ruling. The president said the backlash from female voters would soon be felt. President Joe Biden directly challenged US Supreme Court justices in his State of […]
Conservative attorney and frequent Trump critic George Conway blasted Monday’s Supreme Court decision that saw former President Donald Trump reinstated to the Colorado primary ballot. The ruling from the court’s conservative majority specified that only Congress, and not states, has the power to enforce the Constitution’s ban on insurrectionists holding federal office, a decision Conway called […]
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) railed against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up Donald Trump’s argument that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took while president, urging the Court to move rapidly on a decision. “This was an obvious case not to take up, and just let the D.C. Circuit Court ruling […]
Rachel Maddow had strong feelings about the news Wednesday that the Supreme Court will take up Donald Trump’s “presidential immunity” claims, but won’t hear the case until late April. Maddow appeared alongside fellow MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell as a guest on Wednesday’s “All In With Chris Hayes” where, during their discussion, she explained why the […]
John Oliver is offering Clarence Thomas $1 million a year to leave the SCOTUS bench. The comedian highlighted what he said were Thomas’ many conflicts of interest. “HBO is not putting up the money for this. I am personally on the hook,” Oliver said. John Oliver says he will give Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas […]
Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to block a lower-court ruling that rejected his argument claiming he has presidential immunity for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, arguing that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling last week is “a stunning breach of precedent and historical norms.” The former president insisted […]
CNN cut away from Donald Trump’s speech after the U.S. Supreme Court appeared favorable to his case on whether Colorado can disqualify him from the 2024 ballot. The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday in a case that will determine whether states can ban Trump from their ballots on the grounds that he violated the […]