Monday’s batch of orders brought a rare bit of good news at the Supreme Court. The justices announced that they will hear _Kian v. Florida_ next year, setting the stage for the court to strike down Florida’s Jim Crow–era law allowing six-member criminal juries.
The Sixth Amendment requires, among many other things, that criminal trials be conducted before an “impartial jury.” In nearly every…
Recent Supreme Court decisions have eased the way for states to enact more partisan gerrymanders. Now legislatures are racing to redraw their congressional maps in rare mid-decade redistricting efforts that may reconfigure the calculus of who will win the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives after the midterm elections this November.
These endeavors were inspired by President Donald…
A federal judge in Rhode Island struck down a slew of President Trump’s policies halting immigration processing and freezing out asylum-seekers, ruling that a federal agency was motivated by “anti-immigrant sentiments that it is forbidden from letting influence its decision-making.”
Following a deadly attack on a National Guard member in Washington, D.C., last November, Trump ordered an asylum…
India and the United States are “about 99 per cent” done with the first tranche of a trade deal, the commerce minister said, as a US delegation began talks in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The delegation, led by Assistant US Trade Representative for South and Central Asia Brendan Lynch, is holding three days of talks with Indian trade officials, as the two sides seek to close negotiations.
“About 99…
South Carolina has decided not to get involved in President Donald Trump’s redistricting war.
The state Senate voted 24–20 Tuesday to leave their House districts alone for the upcoming midterm elections. Twelve Republicans broke ranks to join all Democrat state senators in the decision, which will likely save the state’s one blue seat held by Representative James Clyburn.
A few Republican…
LGBTQ+ advocates in Wisconsin are calling on two major hospitals to resume gender-affirming care for youth, arguing that providers are now protected by a federal court ruling blocking the Trump administration’s policy.
On Thursday, more than 65 Wisconsin organizations published an open letter to both the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Children’s Wisconsin, which suspended the services…
Plus, the latest on Obamacare enrollments.
Many hospitals that cut off youth from gender-affirming care over concerns around the Trump administration are remaining silent on whether they will resume care, despite a federal court giving their programs legal clearance.
Last December, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, directed hospitals across the country to…
Donald Trump is still not happy that his tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court, and he said Tuesday that he would “remember” the companies that don’t seek refunds.
The president spoke to CNBC’s _Squawk Box_ __ over the phone in a morning interview, and anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin asked him about large companies, such as Apple and Amazon, that haven’t sought tariff reimbursements because…
Supervisors vote against hiring outside counsel for sheriff, anniversary of The Battles of Lexington and Concord, and Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate information.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down key pieces of Assembly Bill 290, a law designed to limit how much dialysis companies could profit from privately insured patients who receive premium assistance from charity groups.
“There’s seemingly this mentality building,” Carolyn Schenck, a former national fraud counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, tells _The Wall Street Journal’_ s Richard Rubin. The mentality, Shenck says, is “the IRS isn’t going to catch me.” It isn’t that people are getting more corrupt. It’s that the president of the United States is inviting them not to pay.
I know that sounds harsh, but…
Inland Empire Law Weekly has joined a coalition asking the Supreme Court to unseal documents related to the Riverside Sheriff's investigation of the November election. Plus: election coverage and cold cases reopened.
A majority of the justices during Wednesday's oral arguments were skeptical of Solicitor General D. John Sauer’s arguments that the citizenship clause of the Constitution's 14th Amendment was only intended to grant citizenship to the children of newly freed African American slaves, not immigrants.
“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…
Donald Trump doesn’t think the federal government should fund child care, Medicare, or Medicaid.
At an Easter Lunch reception at the White House Wednesday, the president told guests what exactly he thought about what the U.S. should be prioritizing, and it doesn’t bode well for the government’s most widely used and popular social programs.
“I said to [Office of Management and Budget Director…
The events at Albert Park in March of 2023 look less like the high-water mark of an unstoppable cultural consensus, and more like the moment the consensus began to crack.
Three AIPAC-backed Democrats could determine whether Donald Trump must seek approval before escalating the war in Iran. (Cheriss May / NurPhoto via…
WASHINGTON: While US President Donald Trump on Monday threatened countries with steep increases in import duties if they chose to “play games” with tariffs, China urged America to cancel the unilateral measures and European Union lawmakers declared they would put trade deal with Washington on hold after the Supreme Court ruling.
“Any country that wants to ‘play games’ with the ridiculous supreme…
Utah, which has four seats in the House of Representatives, all held by Republicans, may soon add a Democratic congressional seat thanks to court-ordered redistricting.
A three-judge federal panel on Monday refused to block a new congressional map for the state that puts the mostly Democratic Salt Lake County, the home of state capital Salt Lake City, into one district, paving the way for the…
The Supreme Court has enabled many of the Trump administration’s worst abuses over the past 14 months, particularly when it comes to his mass deportation plans. The justices’ shadow docket has largely served as a Pez dispenser for injunctions to stay the most significant lower court rulings against Trump. And while the Roberts court bucked its own deferential tendencies to declare the president’s…
Four journalists and a lawyer were arrested in Cameroon trying to cover Donald Trump’s secret deportation program.
The journalists were interviewing deported immigrants at a government detention center in the capital, Yaoundé, when they were detained by police along with a lawyer representing most of the 15 detainees. The compound was known to house African immigrants deported by the U.S.…