Supreme Court Allows South Seaside Park to Leave Berkeley and Merge with Neighbor to the North
TRENTON, N.J. — The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court ruling allowing the barrier island community of South Seaside Park to deannex from Berkeley Township and annex to…
U.S. Supreme Court lets Alabama use electoral map faulted for racial bias
By Andrew Chung -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let Alabama use a Republican-backed map of the state’s U.S. congressional districts that a lower court found likely discriminates against Black voters, handing…
Hispanic, Asian and Indigenous Women Need Not Apply as President Biden set on Black Woman for Supreme Court Pick
Imagine if a President said he was only going to choose a white woman for his Supreme Court nomination? Cries of racism would be lodged from the left, but when President Joe…
The Three Republican Senators To Watch As Another Supreme Court Confirmation Approaches
For the first time since then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell lowered the threshold to confirm a Supreme Court nominee from 60 votes to a simple majority, Democrats have a Senate majority. Despite…
White House unveils team for historic Supreme Court nomination
By Jarrett Renshaw – The White House has tapped three outside advisers who are veterans of politics and communications to help guide U.S. President Joe Biden’s eventual Supreme Court pick through the…
Biden picks former senator to shepherd U.S. Supreme Court nomination
By Jeff Mason and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden, who plans to unveil his U.S. Supreme Court pick by the end of the month, has chosen former Senator Doug Jones…
Biden says he wants Senate’s advice and consent on Supreme Court pick
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he wants his candidate to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to have courtesy, respect and a judicial philosophy of unenumerated…
U.S. Supreme Court contender Jackson backs unions in first ruling
By Daniel Wiessner – A judge seen as a leading contender to be nominated by President Joe Biden to the U.S. Supreme Court penned her first ruling as an appeals court judge…
Biden to host senators Durbin, Grassley on Supreme Court opening
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden and his White House team will start consultations this week on whom to pick as his nominee for the Supreme Court after Justice Stephen Breyer announced plans…
U.S. Supreme Court nominee will meet with Republicans, top Democrat says
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, the second-highest ranking Democrat in the Senate, is reaching out to Republicans to assure them they will have the chance to meet with…
Biden considers Judge Childs, among others, for Supreme Court nomination -White House
By Nate Raymond WASHINGTON -U.S. District Court Judge J. Michelle Childs is among those being considered by President Joe Biden for nomination to the Supreme Court, a White House spokesperson said on…
Biden taps veteran team to guide historic Supreme Court nomination
By Jeff Mason and Steve Holland WASHINGTON – U.S. President Joe Biden has tapped a team of White House advisers with lengthy Supreme Court and Senate confirmation experience as he prepares to…
Biden vows to nominate Black woman to U.S. Supreme Court by end of February
By Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley and Steve Holland WASHINGTON -President Joe Biden on Thursday said he plans by the end of February to nominate a Black woman to replace retiring U.S. Supreme…
Factbox-Historic first: Black women judges who could join the U.S. Supreme Court
– President Joe Biden has pledged to nominate a Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court following Justice Stephen Breyer’s looming retirement. No Black woman has ever served on the…
Analysis-Biden’s next Supreme Court nominee not likely to change its rightward push
By Lawrence Hurley, Andrew Chung and Jason Lange WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden can make history by appointing the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court to succeed the retiring Justice…
Democrats to use Republican playbook for fast action on U.S. Supreme Court pick
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON -Democrats who control the U.S. Senate plan to move President Joe Biden’s upcoming nomination of a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer https://www.reuters.com/world/us/liberal-us-supreme-court-justice-stephen-breyer-retire-media-reports-2022-01-26 on a quick…
Potential Biden Supreme Court pick Leondra Kruger known as moderate in California
By Andrew Chung – Before she turned to law and became one of the youngest justices ever appointed to the California Supreme Court, Leondra Kruger had journalism in her blood. Kruger, considered…
Factbox-Historic firsts on the diversifying U.S. Supreme Court
– U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s pending retirement https://www.reuters.com/world/us/liberal-us-supreme-court-justice-stephen-breyer-retire-media-reports-2022-01-26 gives President Joe Biden the opportunity to fulfill his pledge to name a Black woman to the nation’s top judicial body, which…
Democrats file brief backing EPA in U.S. Supreme Court climate case
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON – A large group of congressional Democrats filed a U.S. Supreme Court brief on Tuesday supporting the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under a…
Analysis-‘Aggressively conservative’ Supreme Court plunges into U.S. culture wars
By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear a case that could doom university policies considering race as a factor in student admissions is the…
Supreme Court Denies McCarthy’s Bid To Eliminate Proxy Voting
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy seeking to scrap proxy voting in the chamber. House Democrats adopted the rules nearly two years…
U.S. Supreme Court agrees to consider limiting wetlands regulation
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider limiting the scope of a landmark federal environmental law as it took up for the second time an Idaho…
U.S. Supreme Court takes up Taser maker’s battle with FTC
By Andrew Chung – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Axon Enterprise Inc’s bid to revive its challenge to the constitutionality of the Federal Trade Commission’s structure aimed at…
Texas Abortion Law Still In Effect As Supreme Court Sends It Back To State Court
The Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans most abortions after around six weeks of pregnancy, is still in effect after the Supreme Court rejected a request to remand the law. The justices sent…
Ohio Supreme Court Throws Out GOP-Drawn Congressional Map That Bolstered Republicans Statewide
The Ohio Supreme Court struck down the state’s Republican-drawn congressional lines Friday on the grounds that they violated a voter-approved measure intended to limit partisan gerrymandering. The 4-3 decision scraps a map…
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor falsely claims 100,000 children with COVID on ventilators
When it comes to truth and justice, Americans would think the pinnacle of these values would be the U.S. Supreme Court, but today, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely alleged that over…
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