Tag: SCOTUS

CNN panel roars with laughter after Jake Tapper cuts of Trump’s rant over SCOTUS ballot hearing

Former President Donald Trump rebuked Thursday’s Supreme Court hearing pertaining to his eligibility to run on the Colorado primary ballot, dubbing the case a “phony hoax” in remarks outside his Mar-a-Lago residence. The comments came during Trump’s first public appearance since the more than two-hour proceeding kicked off and included digs at President Joe Biden alongside self-exaltation […]

Experts say ruling “dismantled” Trump argument so bad SCOTUS won’t touch it

Tuesday’s appeals court ruling rejecting former President Donald Trump’s immunity claim is so “unimpeachable” that the Supreme Court is likely to avoid taking up the case, legal experts say. A three-judge D.C. Circuit panel issued a 57-page ruling rejecting Trump’s claim of blanket presidential immunity for acts he committed while in the White House. “For […]

Experts say immunity ruling may have doomed Trump’s Supreme Court appeal

A federal appeals court’s unanimous rejection of former President Donald Trump’s immunity bid has laid the groundwork for it to be upheld if appealed to the Supreme Court, legal experts say. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday issued a 57-page opinion finding that Trump does not […]

Aderholt joins GOP lawmakers supporting Texas’ defiance of SCOTUS order

Jan. 30—Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Alabama, 4th District) has joined a number of GOP lawmakers who have expressed support for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott‘s defiance of a Supreme Court order to allow federal agents access to the Texas-Mexico border. During a community luncheon hosted by the Cullman Area Chamber of Commerce Friday, Jan. 26, Aderholt described […]

SCOTUS fisheries case could challenge Chevron Doctrine

I have often thought that after Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson was our worst president. By worst is meant least faithful to the Constitution and most destructive of personal liberty. With the exception of Lincoln’s dictatorship — during which the federal government used violence to crush the states’ natural right to secede from a union they […]