Tag: Supreme Court

Brendan Dassey was featured in the "Making a Murderer" series on Netflix. He was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 after he told detectives he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill photographer Teresa Halbach. (Dan Powers/The Post-Crescent, Pool, File)

Lawyers for man featured on ‘Making a Murder’ ask Supreme Court to hear case

Melissa Quinn · February 21, 2018 9:19 pm

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the congressional map drawn by the GOP-led General Assembly in 2011, saying it constituted a partisan gerrymander and violated the state constitution. In response, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., said, "What the court has done is truly breathtaking. They have grabbed power from the elected legislators. They did it in order to draw a partisan map of their own." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pat Toomey: Talk about impeachment of state Supreme Court judges ‘inevitable’ after they ruled against district map

Melissa Quinn · February 21, 2018 7:20 pm

Recently at the Law Library of Congress, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (pictured front, fourth to the right) said he regretted the "myth-making around the court and who we are" as justices and people, which has created a contrast between the "real world" of the Supreme Court and how it is portrayed outside the court. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

During an epic Supreme Court term, it’s hard not to mythicize the justices

Nicole Russell · February 21, 2018 6:48 pm

The justices could decide whether or not to take the DACA case on as early as their Feb. 16 conference. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Beltway Confidential

Teachers’ unions profit while kids pick up the tab

Corey DeAngelis, Ben DeGrow · February 21, 2018 6:41 pm

In the opinion for the case, Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, delivered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the justices affirmed a decision from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled against the victims of the attack and in favor of Iran. (iStock photo)

Supreme Court rules against US victims of 1997 terror attack in case involving Iranian artifacts

Melissa Quinn · February 21, 2018 4:02 pm

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear appeals from investors in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that their rights were infringed by the terms of the bailouts of the government-sponsored enterprises. (Bloomberg photos)

Supreme Court rejects hedge fund appeals regarding Fannie, Freddie bailouts

Joseph Lawler · February 20, 2018 3:35 pm

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas said in his dissent he would have allowed the high court to take up the case, and said the decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is "symptomatic of the lower courts' general failure to afford the Second Amendment the respect due an enumerated constitutional right." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Clarence Thomas rips high court’s decision not to hear case challenging California gun law: Second Amendment is ‘disfavored right’

Melissa Quinn · February 20, 2018 3:32 pm

"Hope Republicans in the Great State of Pennsylvania challenge the new 'pushed' Congressional Map, all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary," the president tweeted. "Your Original was correct! Don't let the Dems take elections away from you so that they can raise taxes & waste money!" (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Trump urges Pennsylvania GOP to challenge new congressional map up to the Supreme Court

Katelyn Caralle · February 20, 2018 2:36 pm

Although Supreme Court judges have life tenure, they may be removed by the Senate for questionable conduct. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Clarence Thomas’ impeachment debate flares again

Naomi Lim · February 19, 2018 7:42 pm

They seem to take the same view on Title IX, don't they? (AP)

Beltway Confidential

Michael Barone: Justice Ginsburg and Secretary DeVos agree

Michael Barone · February 19, 2018 1:15 pm

President Trump entered office with the most ostentatious promises, but, ironically, his tenure could end up remembered more like Silent Calvin Coolidge than Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Making presidents less great again

Washington Examiner · February 19, 2018 5:01 am

The Supreme Court is reconvening on Tuesday. Here are four major cases to watch in the upcoming days ahead. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Four cases to watch when the Supreme Court returns this week

Melissa Quinn · February 19, 2018 5:01 am