Then-Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris did not rule out potentially packing the Supreme Court in 2019 when she sought the party’s nod to face then-President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. The now-vice president and Democratic nominee for president in 2024 reiterated several times during her previous campaign that she wasn’t opposed to...
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson told CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell during a recent interview that she was worried about the Trump immunity ruling. “I was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances, when we have a criminal justice system that had ordinarily treated everyone...
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody argued Tuesday that the execution of an inmate with Parkinson’s symptoms should not be delayed because his appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the state’s lethal injection procedures came too late. Moody said Loran Cole, 57, waited too long to raise his concerns that the drug cocktail would “very...
Former attorneys general of the United States sent a letter to ABC News honchos urging specific questions about the U.S. Supreme Court to be asked during the Disney-owned network’s upcoming presidential debate. Vice President Harris and former President Trump are set to square off on September 10 on ABC. Ex-Attorneys General William Barr, Edwin Meese,...
FIRST ON FOX: Nearly two dozen states — led by Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey — are warning that surgical gender transitions lack sufficient medical evidence to prove their safety in an amicus brief filed in the Supreme Court Monday. Surgical sex-change procedures have sparked intense debate, particularly regarding minors. While many states are enacting...
President Biden wants to establish an enforceable ethics code for Supreme Court justices, but the lame-duck president has been criticized over his own apparent conflicts of interest, including his relationship with friend and billionaire donor Joe Kiani. Following his address at the Democratic National Convention Monday, Biden and his family flew to Santa Ynez, California,...
Two major Second Amendment groups called on the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging Maryland’s stringent “Assault Weapons Ban of 2013,” after a lower court ruled the ban constitutional. The Firearms Policy Coalition filed a petition to the high bench asking them to hear Snope v. Brown – alternatively Bianchi v. Frosh – which...
In a 5-4 ruling Thursday, the Supreme Court gave a partial victory to Republicans trying to enforce proof of citizenship when voting in Arizona. The court was asked to allow enforcement of sections of Arizona law requiring documented proof of citizenship to cast a ballot in the presidential election, including when voting by mail. The...
A new nationwide survey highlighted in a Wall Street Journal opinion editorial found that most Americans don’t support sweeping changes to the Supreme Court, despite President Biden’s last-minute push for such a measure. The WSJ cited a Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy survey that found “support for the separation of powers just as many of the...
The Hanover County School Board in Virginia can’t block an 11-year-old transgender student from playing on a girls’ middle school tennis team, U.S. District Court Judge M. Hannah Lauck ruled last week. The student is currently engaged in a lawsuit against the school board for discrimination. Lauck issued a preliminary injunction on the matter Friday,...
