(Headline USA) The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a challenge from parents in Maine who want to use a state tuition program to send their children to religious schools.
The parents argue that their exclusion from the state program violates their religious rights under the Constitution. Teacher unions and...
(Headline USA) As the Supreme Court court weighs the future of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, a resurgent anti-abortion movement is looking to press its advantage in state-by-state battles while abortion-rights supporters prepare to play defense.
Both sides seem to be operating on the assumption that a court...
(Headline USA) Nine lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump were ordered Thursday to pay Detroit and Michigan a total of $175,000 in sanctions for abusing the court system with a lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results.
The money, which must be paid within 30 days, will cover the legal costs...
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson this week, which challenges a Mississippi law that bans the majority of abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
Elizabeth Prelogar, U.S. solicitor general, disputed the law, saying that in Roe v. Wade the Supreme Court "correctly recognized that the Constitution...
(Headline USA) In the biggest challenge to abortion rights in decades, the Supreme Court’s majority signaled they would allow states to ban abortion much earlier in pregnancy and may even overturn the nationwide right that has existed for nearly 50 years.
With hundreds of demonstrators outside chanting for and against,...
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court on Tuesday directed the Justice Department to disclose certain redacted passages from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation report that relate to individuals who were investigated by prosecutors but not ultimately charged.
The ruling came in a public records complaint from the news organization...
(Headline USA) When then-California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the nation's first law requiring women on boards of publicly traded companies, he suggested it might not survive legal challenges.
Three years later, a judge will begin hearing evidence Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court that could undo the discriminatory law credited...
(Headline USA) The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned two lower court judges and upheld California’s ban on so-called high-capacity magazines---those containing more than 10 bullets---Tuesday in a split decision that may be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court.
“The statute outlaws no weapon, but only limits the size...
President Joe Biden’s tyrannical vaccine mandate has been whacked by dual serious blows, further exemplifying the gross overreach of the White House edict.
A Louisiana U.S. district judge blocked a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers Tuesday, reported The Daily Advertiser, issuing a nationwide injunction against Biden's effort...
A Democrat senator threatened this week that there will be a “revolution” if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said during a virtual event that the Supreme Court justices ought to listen to the “young people” who want abortion access to be expanded.
"I hope the...
(Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to persuade a federal appeals court to stop Congress from receiving call logs, drafts of speeches and other documents related to the Jan. 6 uprising at the U.S. Capitol.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard arguments...
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Monday blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a coronavirus vaccine mandate on thousands of health care workers in 10 states that had brought the first legal challenge against the requirement.
The court order said that the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...