(Headline USA) Exasperated by the apparently airtight legal maneuvers used in Texas's recent heartbeat law, blue-state Democrats are now trying desperately to derail the effort by threatening the same tactics to enact their own priorities---while potentially flouting constitutional rights in the process.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday pledged to...
(Headline USA) A federal judge has rejected motions to dismiss eight lawsuits waged against Georgia's sweeping new election reforms.
Georgia's law is one of many approved by Republican-led legislatures in the wake of unprecedented abuses and challenges to election integrity during the 2020 election.
Democrats, anti-integrity activists and other critics have...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court ruled Friday that Texas abortion providers can sue over the state’s ban on most abortions, but the justices are allowing the law to remain in effect.
The court acted more than a month after hearing arguments over the law that makes abortion illegal after cardiac...
(Headline USA) A federal appeals court ruled Thursday against an effort by former President Donald Trump to shield documents from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 uprising at the Capitol.
In a 68-page ruling, the three-judge panel---all of whom were Democrat appointees---tossed aside Trump's various arguments for blocking...
The commission appointed by President Joe Biden to study potential reforms to the Supreme Court did not take a stance on court-packing in the report it submitted to the president this week, but it did suggest support for placing term limits on the individual justices.
The Presidential Commission on the...
(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...