Recent Updates
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Texas Supreme Court halts execution of man in shaken baby case
U.S. Supreme Court News 10/18/2024The Texas Supreme Court halted Thursday night’s scheduled execution of a man who would have become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.The late-night ruling to spare for ...
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Supreme Court grapples with governor’s 400-year veto, calling it ‘crazy’
U.S. Supreme Court News 10/12/2024Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday that Gov. Tony Evers’ creative use of his expansive veto power in an attempt to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years appeared to be “extreme” and “crazy” ...
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After just a few hours, U.S. election bets put on hold by appeals court ruling
U.S. Supreme Court News 09/14/2024Just hours after it began, legal betting on the outcome of U.S. Congressional elections has been put on hold by a federal appeals court.The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued an order Thursday night temporarily freezing the ...
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Supreme Court rebuffs plea to restore multibllliou-dollar student debt plan
U.S. Supreme Court News 08/31/2024The Supreme Court on Wednesday kept on hold the latest multibillion-dollar plan from the Biden administration that would have lowered payments for millions of borrowers, while lawsuits make their way through lower courts.The justices rejected an admi...
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Former Rep. George Santos pleads guilty in federal fraud case
U.S. Supreme Court News 08/20/2024George Santos, the former New York congressman who spun lies into a brief political career, pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, acknowledging that he allowed his ambitions to cloud his judgment.Santos, 36, is likely to ...
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Hearing in Karen Read case expected to focus on jury deliberations
U.S. Supreme Court News 08/09/2024Defense attorneys for Karen Read are expected to argue Friday that two charges in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend be dismissed, focusing on the jury deliberations that led to a mistrial.Read is accused of ramming into John O’Ke...
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Iowa law banning most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy to take effect Monday
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/26/2024An Iowa judge has ruled the state’s strict abortion law will take effect Monday, preventing most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from be...
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Giuliani Disbarred in N.Y. for Wrongdoing During Trump’s 2020 Campaign
U.S. Supreme Court News 07/07/2024Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.The Manhattan app...
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Court upholds a gun control law intended to protect domestic violence victims
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/22/2024The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal gun control law that is intended to protect victims of domestic violence.In their first Second Amendment case since they expanded gun rights in 2022, the justices ruled 8-1 in favor of a 1994 ban on firear...
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Unanimous Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion medication
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/13/2024The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two ...
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Justice Alito questions possibility of political compromise in secret recording
U.S. Supreme Court News 06/11/2024Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is heard questioning whether compromise between the left and right is possible in a conversation posted on social media. The conservative justice is also heard agreeing with a woman who says the United States should...
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Retrial of Harvey Weinstein unlikely to occur soon, if ever, experts say
U.S. Supreme Court News 05/01/2024A retrial in New York of disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein won’t be coming to a courtroom anytime soon, if ever, legal experts said on a day when one of two women considered crucial to his rape trial said she wasn’t sure she w...