As has been well-reported, there is a long list of apparent ethical failings by certain members of the court over the last two years — mostly Justice Thomas but also Justices Alito and Sonia Sotomayor.
The justice spoke to President-elect Donald Trump on the phone hours before Trump asked the Supreme Court to stop his sentencing.
Senate Democrats are furious that President-elect Trump has reached out to conservative Justice Samuel Alito amid a push by Trump for the high court to halt his criminal sentencing. Alito
Justice Samuel Alito sparked a flurry of quips for his quips during a Supreme Court hearing into a Texas law requiring age verification for pornography websites. During the Wednesday proceeding, the justice asked attorneys representing the Free Speech Coalition if one of their clients,
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he and Donald Trump did not discuss the request during their secret talk.
Overall, the reconstituted Supreme Court has diminished norms and transformed the law, beginning with the court’s upholding of Trump’s travel ban in 2018, then its reversal of Roe v. Wade and abortion rights in 2022, and finally its groundbreaking move to shield the president from prosecution.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, who is slated to join the U.S. Senate, called for auditing the Federal Reserve, pledged to oppose government spending, and indicated she will advocate for border security.
The Supreme Court heard a challenge from PornHub and other sites to the Texas law that requires age verification — via government-issued ID or face scan — for certain websites, including porn sites.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Maryland’s handgun licensing regime, as well as a pair of cases seeking to hold oil and gas companies responsible for damage caused by climate change.
WASHINGTON (CN) — TikTok inched closer to a ban Friday as the Supreme Court justices pinned looming nationwide restrictions on the refusal of the app’s foreign-based owner to divest from the popular social platform. “You’re wrong about the statute saying, ‘TikTok you have to go mute,’” Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Joe Biden appointee, said.
The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a new law that could force TikTok to shut down in the U.S., with conservative and liberal justices alike expressing skepticism about the legal challenge.
Donald Trump's historic sentencing draws mixed reactions as the unprecedented criminal case is expected to see appeal to the Supreme Court.