(Headline USA) Over and over, Amy Coney Barrett said she’d be her own judge if confirmed to the Supreme Court.
Barrett's confirmation to the Supreme Court seems inevitable, as even some Senate Democrats acknowledged in Senate hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The 48-year-old judge once again refused to indulge Democrats’ leading...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration can end census field operations early, in a blow to plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the administration’s decision to end the count.
The Census Bureau says it has counted 99.9% of households nationwide.
The ruling increased the chances of the...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to revive a lawsuit filed by members of Congress against President Donald Trump alleging that he illegally profits off the presidency.
The high court said it would not hear a case filed by Democratic members of Congress in 2017.
A federal appeals court in Washington...
(Headline USA) Democrats and their allies asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow for absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin that are received up to six days after the election to be counted.
The move is being fought by Republicans, who have opposed other attempts across the country to...
(Headline USA) Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett brushed off the coordinated efforts of Democrat members on the Senate Judiciary Committee to turn her confirmation into a political wedge on Tuesday, the second day of her congressional hearing.
Democrats peppered Barrett with overtly partisan questions, ignoring the policy established by...
(Headline USA) Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett are set to begin as a divided Senate moves ahead on President Donald Trump’s pick to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and nudge the court slightly more towards conservatism before Election Day.
Barrett, a federal appeals court judge,...
(Headline USA) A federal judge has upheld a state court agreement that extends Minnesota's deadline for counting absentee ballots by seven days, expanding opportunities for political parties and candidates who trail on Election Day to "find" new votes to make up deficits.
Republicans had asked U.S. District Judge Nancy Brasel to...
(Associated Press) A federal judge on Sunday expressed serious concerns about Georgia's new election system but declined to order the state to abandon its touchscreen voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots for the November election.
The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by voting integrity activists that challenges...
(Headline USA) A federal judge in Pennsylvania on Saturday threw out a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump's campaign.
Trump's campaign said it would appeal at least one element of the decision, with barely three weeks to go until Election Day in a state hotly contested by Trump and Democratic...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court said in a 6-2 decision on Thursday that it would for now continue to allow women to obtain an abortion pill by mail during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh joined the court's three liberals in delaying...
A transgender man filed a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit against Amazon this week, alleging that she was harassed and denied a promotion after telling her boss she was pregnant.
Shaun Simmons, a biological woman who identifies as a man, reportedly told her supervisors, Mike Menno and Tyler Houpt, about the pregnancy....
(Headline USA) The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd posted bail Wednesday and was released from jail, leading Minnesota's governor to activate the National Guard to help keep the peace in the event of protests.
According to court documents, Derek Chauvin posted a $1...