Donald Trump wanted two favors from the Supreme Court he helped build - Raw Story - Celebrating 16 Years of Independent Journalism. 'Game on': Legal experts react to bombshell Supreme Court ruling in Trump tax case - Raw Story - Celebrating 16 Years of Independent Journalism. In a major blow to Donald Trump, the Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for prosecutors in New York City to receive the former president tax returns.Nearly immediately, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said simply that the work goes on.
The work continues. — Cyrus Vance, Jr. (@Cyrus Vance, Jr.)1614004747.0. Supreme Court is ignoring Trump's tax returns — in a strange departure from precedent: report - Raw Story - Celebrating 16 Years of Independent Journalism. On Thursday, CNN reported that the Supreme Court is defying ordinary precedent by sitting on lower court decisions about former President Donald Trump's tax returns without acting on them.
"For nearly four months, the court has refused to act on emergency filings related to a Manhattan grand jury's subpoena of Trump tax returns, effectively thwarting part of the investigation," reported Joan Biskupic. Supreme Court News. Supreme Court News H/T Skinny-D.
SCOTUS Rejects Seditious Texas Lawsuit Out Of Hand. The United States Supreme Court denied the state of Texas a shot at usurping the November election and turning this nation into an autocracy Friday.
In a brief statement, the Court said "Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. " Indeed. However, Justices Alito and Thomas partially dissented. "In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original discretion," Alito wrote. He went on to say that he would grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, nor express any view on any other issue. ‘Alito is deep state now!’ MAGA fans mocked over conservative Supreme Court refusing to save Trump from election loss.
Supporters of President Donald Trump believed that conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito would save the presidency from President-elect Joe Biden based on a series of false “voter fraud” claims.
Pray that the SCOTUS and Justice Alito have a constitutional outcome for what should #stopthesteal of PA voters. Going on right now 9am-12pm today pic.twitter.com/eWolAEMdbV— SteelKRAKEN! Ann Vandersteel (@annvandersteel) December 8, 2020 While Alito was the one who dismissed the claims, he did so without dispute from other conservative justices, including Clarence Thomas and the three justices Trump appointed to the High Court. Clarence Thomas = RINO. (@IronDuke_1815) December 8, 2020. Supreme Court overturns ruling allowing officer's lawsuit against black activist - Knowhere.
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(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) Remember last week when conservative gadflies were clutching their monkey’s paws and hoping against hope that they could see TWO open Supreme Court seats? Thomas was going to retire — like they assert every year — and the “stronger rumor” claimed Alito was also eyeing retirement. It was a weird wish for conservatives because as we all know it’s impossible to fill a Supreme Court vacancy during an election year. Mitch McConnell couldn’t have been lying to cover a dereliction of his constitutional duty back then! But earlier today, all those conservative smiles turned upside down as Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh joined the majority in shooting down Trump’s meritless arguments that the president never has to comply with subpoenas for his records. Thomas and Alito must have walked out of that conference wondering, “and they plan to replace us with cucks like these guys?”
NPR Choice page. Here’s what happens when Supreme Court justices defy expectations. Supreme Court to hear dispute over Democrats' access to Mueller materials. Supreme Court is set to decide the future of the Electoral College. Supreme Court rules Trump administration illegally ended DACA. In a Thursday decision, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Trump administration violated federal law when it ended the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) — upholding protections from deportation for roughly 649,000 unauthorized immigrants in the U.S.
Why it matters: It's an unexpected victory for immigration activists. In the opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts, who sided with the liberal justices, wrote that the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) decision to rescind DACA in the fall of 2017 was "arbitrary and capricious. " Between the lines: The Trump administration has legal authority to end DACA, but the court found that the way it rescinded the program in 2017 violated federal law. "The dispute before the Court is not whether DHS may rescind DACA. All parties agree that it may.
By the numbers: DACA recipients were brought to the U.S. illegally as children — under 16 years of age — and many have grown up in the country. President Obama tweeted: NPR Choice page. The Echo Chamber. Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can pull you over for the wrong reason. The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a police officer can make a traffic stop for the wrong reason so long as they have a “reasonable” understanding of the law they are enforcing, NBC News reported on Monday.
“To be reasonable is not to be perfect,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court’s 8-1 decision. “And so the Fourth Amendment allows for some mistakes on the part of government officials, giving them ‘fair leeway for enforcing the law in the community’s protection.’” The case concerned the 2009 arrest of Nicholas Heien near Dobson, North Carolina. Sgt. Matt Darisse pulled Heien over for having only one working brake light, then found a bag of cocaine while searching his vehicle and charged him with attempted drug trafficking. King v. Burwell: How Supreme Court Could Wreck Obamacare in States. More than 800,000 Floridians would see their monthly insurance premiums rise, from an average of around $70 to an average of around $350, or roughly a factor of five.
More than 600,000 people in Texas, about 325,000 in North Carolina, and another 275,000 in Georgia would see insurance premiums soar by similar amounts. Nationwide, more than 4 million people living in 37 states would be in situations like these. Most would have no way to pay the higher bills, forcing them to drop insurance coverage altogether. Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant To Search Cell Phones.
Supreme Court Makes Sweeping Endorsement Of Digital Privacy. Police officers must get a warrant before searching the contents of a cell phone seized during an arrest, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, an opinion that amounts to a sweeping endorsement of digital privacy.
"Modern cell phones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans 'the privacies of life,'" Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the opinion. "The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought. Our answer to the question of what police must do before searching a cell phone seized incident to an arrest is accordingly simple — get a warrant. " Roberts shot down the Obama administration's argument that searching a cell phone is “materially indistinguishable” from physical searches.
Six Supreme Court decisions to watch for this month. Supreme Court Rejects James Risen's Bid To Protect His Source. WASHINGTON (AP) — A reporter who has been ordered to divulge the identity of the source of classified information lost his bid Monday to get the Supreme Court to clarify whether journalists have a right to protect their confidential sources. Without comment, the justices rejected an appeal from New York Times reporter James Risen to revisit the court's 42-year-old ruling that has raised questions about journalists' ability to shield from public view the names of people who tell them government secrets. Risen detailed a botched CIA effort during the Clinton administration to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. His reporting is at the center of criminal charges against former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling of disclosing government secrets. Notes from a meeting with journalists last week taken by Associated Press General Counsel Karen Kaiser show that Holder said, "as long as I'm the attorney general, no reporter who is doing his or her job will go to jail.
Supreme Court Makes Big Decision On When Cops Can Enter Your Home. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that police may search a home without a warrant when two occupants disagree about allowing officers to enter, and the resident who refuses access is then arrested. The justices declined to extend an earlier ruling denying entry to police when the occupants disagree and both are present.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote the court's 6-3 decision holding that an occupant may not object to a search when he is not at home. "We therefore hold that an occupant who is absent due to a lawful detention or arrest stands in the same shoes as an occupant who is absent for any other reason," Alito said. Police found a shotgun, ammunition and a knife when they searched the Los Angeles apartment that Walter Fernandez shared with his girlfriend, Roxanne Rojas.
Fernandez told police they could not enter. Fernandez is serving a 14-year prison term on robbery and guns charges. Supreme Court to decide if political groups can lie in advertising. This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Republican lawyers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that they have a First Amendment right to lie during political campaigns. The case concerns a challenge by a national anti-abortion group, Susan B. Anthony List (SBA), which tried to put up a billboard in 2010 attacking Rep. Steven Driehaus, D-Ohio, saying that he was pro-abortion because he supported Obamacare. The Democratic incumbent stopped the billboard by threatening to sue SBA’s ad agency. Oliver: SCOTUS Created Hole in Voting Rights Act in the Shape of Roberts' Middle Finger. Moyers & Company: 'The One Percent Court' Free Speech Scores A Hat Trick. The Court And The Future Of Everything You Hold Dear: The Most Important Reason To Vote For Obama. IN EVERY PRESIDENTIAL campaign since Roe v.
Wade, the Democratic nominee has ominously intoned that the Supreme Court hangs in the balance. “We must win to save the Supreme Court of the United States,” Walter Mondale declared in 1984. “This election is about the Supreme Court,” Al Gore warned 24 hours before the polls closed in 2000. (As it turned out, he was right.) This year, however, the future of the Court has barely received an obligatory nod from Barack Obama. To put his stamp on the Court, Romney would need a vacancy—and in the course of four or eight years, he would almost certainly have at least one.
There’s no reason to doubt that a President Romney would replace Ginsburg with a conservative. I Get To Determine Whether Gay People Can Marry. SCOTUS Declines To Protect The Great Vampire Squid From Claims. Supreme Court On Gay Marriage: 'Sure, Who Cares' WASHINGTON—Ten minutes into oral arguments over whether or not homosexuals should be allowed to marry one another, a visibly confounded Supreme Court stopped legal proceedings Tuesday and ruled that gay marriage was “perfectly fine” and that the court could “care less who marries whom.”
“Yeah, of course gay men and women can get married. Who gives a shit?” Said Chief Justice John Roberts, who interrupted attorney Charles Cooper’s opening statement defending Proposition 8, which rescinded same-sex couples’ right to marry in California. Supreme Court's Sidekick Kid Justice Killed By Mad Genius Dr. Contempto. Justices Limit Use of Drug-Sniffing Dogs. Judge Dismisses Most Claims In Libor Lawsuits, Ruling In Favor Of Big Banks. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Friday dismissed a "substantial portion" of claims facing a number of banks in a barrage of lawsuits accusing them of interest-rate rigging. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan ruled for the banks, which include Bank of America Corp. McQuiggin v. Perkins decision: The Supreme Court carves out an exception to protect the innocent.
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DICKERSON V. UNITED STATES. CHARLES THOMAS DICKERSON, PETITIONER v. UNITED STATES. Samuel Alito Rolls Eyes While Ruth Bader Ginsburg Reads Dissent. Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito Suddenly Realize They Will Be Villains In Oscar-Winning Movie One Day. Supreme Court Takes No Action On Pending Gay Marriage Cases. Lonesome Alito Declares Marriage Only Between A Man And The Sea. WASHINGTON—Reaffirming a deeply traditionalist definition of the institution of matrimony, Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito issued a statement Monday declaring that marriage can only strictly exist between a man and the tempestuous sea.
“It is my opinion that the only constitutionally sanctionable union is composed of a seafaring man and the solitary life of fickle winds and brine-crested breakers,” said Alito, adding that any current law that fails to narrowly delineate marriage as a compact involving a man, the churning waves, and the sea-song of gulls in the early dawn is invalid according to the highest law of the land. “The principle of equal protection enshrined in the Constitution emphatically does not entitle the federal government or any state body to redefine this sacred maritime institution. Ruth Bader Ginsburg eviscerates same-sex marriage opponents in court. Supreme Court’s grand ruse ends: Finally, Americans see the justices for the political hacks they are.
The Supreme Court Could Transfer A Lot Of Political Power Away From Cities. Supreme Court justices stop playing nice. It's Justice Kennedy's World, and We're All Just Living in It. Supreme Court rejects death row appeal over racist juror who said execution is ‘what that n****r deserved’ Supreme Court Justices Get More Liberal As They Get Older. Sotomayor Says Supreme Court Has 'Shoot First, Think Later' Approach To Cop Violence.
The Stealth Corporate Takeover of the Supreme Court. President Obama's Supreme Court shortlist has leaked. Here are the 6 contenders. R44484. Supreme Court Sides With R.J. Reynolds in RICO Case. Supreme Court Strikes Down Abortion Restrictions In Texas. ‘Could’ve Been Me,’ Grumbles Merrick Garland Watching Gorsuch Hearings At Bar With Fellow Highway Maintenance Workers. Rookie Justice Gorsuch Assigned To Supreme Court Overnight Shift. 'Oh, come on': Supreme Court justices incredulous at Justice Department immigration argument. Supreme Court rules the government can't refuse to register trademarks considered offensive. Supreme Court makes citizenship stripping tougher. High Court reinstates Trump travel ban, will hear arguments. Ruth Bader Ginsburg publicly smacks down Gorsuch after he tries to mansplain the Constitution.
Supreme Court Justices Gather In Chambers To Receive Latest Mission From Large Talking Head Of Justice John Marshall. Politics.theonion. Supreme Court Upholds Individual Rights In 2 Key Criminal Justice Cases. Politics.theonion. Supreme Court Decision Delivers Blow To Workers' Rights. Politics.theonion. Supreme Court Paves The Way For Immediate Dark Money Disclosure. Timeline Of The U.S. Supreme Court. Knowhere. Supreme Court rejects Trump plea to enforce asylum ban. NPR Choice page. Neil Gorsuch Just Made Death Worse.
What the Supreme Court Said About the 2020 Census Citizenship Question. Supreme Court rules iPhone users can sue Apple over App Store prices. Clarence Thomas Shows How Supreme Court Would Overturn Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court Just Threw the Concept of Precedent Down on the Floor and Danced on It. Two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl - Lawyers, Guns & Money. Andrew Napolitano: Brett Kavanaugh ‘disappointed’ his anti-abortion buddies by allowing Mike Pence’s law to die. SCOTUS Has Bad News For Paul Manafort In 'Double Jeopardy' Case. Ex-DOJ official explains why Trump’s latest Supreme Court defeat was a ‘remarkable’ loss for the president – Raw Story. The Supreme Court Might Have Three Swing Justices Now. Supreme Court Abortion: Roe v. Wade faces an existential threat.
Neil Gorsuch Could Be Swing Vote In SCOTUS LGBQT Discrimination Case. Supreme Court halts subpoena to Deutsche Bank for Trump records. The Supreme Court has already given Trump a huge win in his fight against investigators. Full. Supreme Court allows Trump administration to move forward with 'public charge' rule. Supreme Court Allows Public Charge Clause That Kept Nazi-era Refugees From The US. Elena Kagan Worried She’s A Fraud After Being Only Female Justice Not Called Out By Trump.