Two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of presidential immunity, the latest Fox News national survey finds voters disapprove not only of that decision, but also think the court is too conservative, and that partisanship plays a role in decisions. In addition, a new low 38% approve of the job the Supreme Court...
President Biden is reportedly planning to endorse major changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, as growing outrage continues following a series of controversial decisions. The Washington Post first reported the changes, citing two people briefed on the plans. Biden...
Usha Vance, the wife of Ohio Sen. JD Vance was thrust into the national spotlight after former President Donald Trump chose her husband as his running mate Monday. Usha Vance, née Chilukuri, born in 1986, was raised in San Diego, California, and attended Yale Law School, where she met the future Ohio senator, according to...
A top Senate appropriator is considering fencing off operational funding for the Supreme Court in the fiscal year 2025 spending bill and forcing the court to enforce an ethics code in order to access it following controversies over Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito’s wives’ political behavior and gifts the justices have been given by...
FIRST ON FOX — In the wake of the Supreme Court decision that stripped authority from federal agencies in legal battles, Senate Republicans are launching a new “major” effort to curb even more the power of the “administrative state.” Last month, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of East Coast fishermen who...
Does the president of the United States have the power to throw you in prison? That is the test, says Michael Cohen, of the petition submitted to the Supreme Court on Wednesday. “The Constitution is the bedrock of our democratic republic and is what makes America the beacon of the world,”Cohen says. “To have a...
The Supreme Court this term took a hammer to decades-old legal doctrine that largely saved executive branch agencies in legal disputes. Now, experts say Congress and the next president will have no choice but to work more closely together and stop relying on the “faceless leviathan” of federal agencies. In a David vs. Goliath dispute,...
Officials from West Virginia and Idaho filed appeals with the U.S. Supreme Court in efforts to enforce laws that would prevent transgender athletes from competing in girls and women’s sports. Each state filed its own petition Thursday in hopes the court would overturn rulings that blocked those laws from taking effect. A ruling is not...
After her fourth term on the bench, Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett is asserting her voice and following in the footsteps of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a pioneer of originalism on the high court and her former boss. Barrett, appointed by President Donald Trump in October 2020 to fill the seat of...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., filed articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas on Wednesday, alleging “unchecked corruption.” Ocasio-Cortez threatened to file the articles last week, raising arguments about undisclosed gifts Thomas has received from wealthy conservatives and recent controversies involving Alito’s home and personal politics. “The unchecked corruption crisis on...
