South Carolina executes death row inmate despite pleas from jurors and a judge to spare his life
South Carolina carried out the execution of Richard Moore on Friday evening, according to the state, a day after the US Supreme Court declined the Black inmate’s request to halt his lethal injection over his claim prosecutors unjustly excluded Black people from the all-White jury that convicted him.
Supreme Court turns away January 6 defendant who challenged ‘picketing’ law under First Amendment
The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an appeal from John Nassif, a January 6 defendant who challenged a law that bans “parading, picketing, and demonstrating” at the US Capitol as a violation of the First Amendment.
Supreme Court signals it may uphold Biden’s regulations on ‘ghost gun’ kits
The Supreme Court on Tuesday signaled a willingness to uphold a Biden administration regulation on “ghost guns,” mail-order kits that allow people to build untraceable weapons at home and that are turning up at crime scenes with greater frequency.
Supreme Court declines to hear First Amendment challenges in gun display and Confederate statue protest cases
The Supreme Court declined to hear several First Amendment appeals on Monday, ditching a case that dealt with a requirement that gun dealers in Maryland display suicide prevention literature and another case regarding anti-Confederate war monument protesters who were arrested for blocking a street.
Supreme Court boots Elon Musk’s fight with Jack Smith over Trump’s Twitter records
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Elon Musk’s X Corp. claiming special counsel Jack Smith violated the First Amendment when he obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s messages on Twitter and then barred the company from disclosing it.
Supreme Court rejects R. Kelly’s appeal of federal sex crimes conviction
The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal from R. Kelly, who is currently serving a prison sentence for federal sex crime convictions.
Supreme Court boots Elon Musk’s fight with Jack Smith over Trump’s Twitter records
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from Elon Musk’s X Corp. claiming special counsel Jack Smith violated the First Amendment when he obtained a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s messages on Twitter and then barred the company from disclosing it.
Supreme Court allows enforcement of Biden methane and mercury rules in rare win for the EPA
The Supreme Court on Friday let stand Biden administration rules that would cut emissions of the planet-warming gas methane as well as mercury in a rare win for an environmental regulation pending before the conservative high court.
Justice Jackson signals support for Supreme Court code of ethics in CBS interview
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson indicated in an interview Sunday that she supports a binding code of ethics for the Supreme Court, adding that such requirements are “pretty standard” for the federal judiciary.
Wide swath of America remains opposed to Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, poll finds
The Supreme Court’s two-year-old decision to overturn Roe v. Wade remains unpopular with a wide majority of Americans, according to a poll Friday that landed as Vice President Kamala Harris hammers on reproductive rights as a centerpiece of her campaign for the White House.
Supreme Court overturns 1984 Chevron precedent, curbing power of federal government
The Supreme Court on Friday significantly weakened the power of federal agencies to approve regulations in a major decision that could have sweeping implications for the environment, public health and the workplace.
Homeless people can be ticketed for sleeping outside, Supreme Court rules
The Supreme Court ruled Friday in favor of an Oregon city that ticketed homeless people for sleeping outside, rejecting arguments that such “anti-camping” ordinances violate the Constitution’s ban on “cruel and unusual” punishment.
Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone, allowing drug to stay on the market
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s approach to regulating the abortion pill mifepristone with a ruling that will continue to allow the pills to be mailed to patients without an in-person doctor’s visit.
Alito’s former neighbor says justice is ‘at best mistaken’ in flap over upside-down US flag
A former neighbor of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday disputed his account of a neighborhood spat that led to the hoisting of an upside-down US flag on his property in Virginia, saying that his timeline of what happened is wrong.
Doctors challenging mifepristone face scrutiny over their limited experience with abortion drug
The blockbuster case at the Supreme Court that could make it harder for millions of Americans to access the abortion pill mifepristone has turned almost entirely on 11 anti-abortion doctors and advocates who say their work has been upended by patients experiencing complications from the drug.
Supreme Court temporarily freezes implementation of Texas immigration law
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily froze enforcement of Texas’ controversial immigration law that allows state law enforcement to arrest and detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally.
Supreme Court keeps Trump on Colorado ballot, rejecting 14th Amendment push
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump should appear on the ballot in Colorado in a decision that follows months of debate over whether the frontrunner for the GOP nomination violated the “insurrectionist clause” included in the 14th Amendment.
Supreme Court may announce at least one opinion Monday as US waits for word on Trump ballot case
The Supreme Court may hand down at least one opinion on Monday, according to a new post on the court’s website. The announcement is certain to drive speculation that the justices are prepared to decide whether former President Donald Trump is eligible to appear on Colorado’s presidential ballot.
Supreme Court to decide Trump immunity claim, further delaying election subversion trial
The Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether Donald Trump may claim immunity in special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case, adding another explosive appeal from the former president to its docket and further delaying his federal trial.
Supreme Court questions Florida and Texas social media laws on First Amendment grounds
The Supreme Court on Monday appeared to have deep concerns of state laws enacted in Florida and Texas that would prohibit social media platforms from throttling certain political viewpoints.
Supreme Court signals skepticism over Biden ‘good neighbor’ smog plan
The Supreme Court’s conservatives expressed skepticism over the Biden administration’s efforts to reduce smog and air pollution wafting across state lines during arguments Wednesday in the most significant environmental dispute at the high court this year.
