Tag: Supreme Court

Ralph Erickson, President Trump's nominee to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, sailed through the Senate Judiciary Committee by a 20-0 vote Thursday. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Trump appeals court nominee easily advances through committee

Ryan Lovelace · September 14, 2017 2:32 pm

When examining Moore's past decisions in the Alabama Supreme Court, it becomes increasingly clear he sympathizes with his trial lawyer friends. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Roy Moore and how trial lawyers are infiltrating the Republican Party

Sherman Joyce · September 14, 2017 4:01 am

In 2013, Kasich barred publicly funded hospitals from entering into "transfer agreements" with abortion clinics, which forced many to either shut down because they didn't have one or get creative and find a privately funded hospital that would do so. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

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Pro-lifers might be on the verge of huge progress against abortion in Ohio

Nicole Russell · September 13, 2017 4:30 pm

The right-leaning group targets the Minnesota senator for seeking to block David Stras, President Trump's nominee to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Judicial Crisis Network in new ad attacks ‘petty’ Al Franken for opposing Trump judicial nominee

Ryan Lovelace · September 13, 2017 3:43 pm

A stay in the case determined two Texas congressional districts were racially discriminatory and therefore must be redrawn. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court puts Texas redistricting on hold

Diana Stancy Correll · September 13, 2017 1:56 am

In an order Wednesday, the court stayed part of a district court decision "with respect to refugees covered by a formal assurance." (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Supreme Court sides with Trump on travel ban on refugees

Ryan Lovelace · September 12, 2017 10:45 pm

Windsor served as the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law prohibiting same-sex couples from being recognized as spouses by the federal government and denying same-sex couples federal benefits available to married heterosexual couples. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Gay rights activist Edith Windsor dies at 88

Melissa Quinn · September 12, 2017 8:34 pm

Hawaii's attorneys are asking the Supreme Court to not get involved in a federal appeals court ruling against President Trump's modified travel ban.

Hawaii asks Supreme Court to reject Trump administration’s request on travel ban

Ryan Lovelace · September 12, 2017 3:28 pm

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg acknowledges the crowd's applause before participating in a conversation with Judge Ann Claire Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at Roosevelt University Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: ‘There will be enough women on the Supreme Court when there are nine’

Ryan Lovelace · September 12, 2017 2:32 pm

Messer said Monday if Donnelly does not condemn Feinstein and Durbin, "it will serve as more evidence he is out of step with Hoosiers and wedded to the liberal special interests that fund his campaigns. Amy Coney Barrett is highly qualified and she shouldn't be ridiculed for her Catholic beliefs." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP Senate candidate: Joe Donnelly must return Dianne Feinstein, Dick Durbin donations after ‘anti Catholic’ remarks

Ryan Lovelace · September 12, 2017 1:59 am

Kennedy's administrative stay temporarily halts the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision last week that ruled against the Trump administration's interpretation of the controversial travel ban. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Anthony Kennedy keeps Trump’s travel ban in place with temporary Supreme Court order

Ryan Lovelace · September 12, 2017 1:40 am

"If I had won, she might have enjoyed a nice retirement. Now I hoped she'd stay on the bench for as long as humanly possible," Clinton writes. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

In new book, Hillary Clinton says Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg might have retired if she had won the 2016 race

Ryan Lovelace · September 11, 2017 9:33 pm