Tag: Supreme Court

Kasich is rumored to be considering a bid in 2020 for the White House, though publicly he denies having any plans. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

John Kasich requests the Supreme Court rule against unfair gerrymandering in Wisconsin

Diana Stancy Correll · September 6, 2017 12:31 am

Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., said there are more jobs in clean energy than in fossil fuels and that the Trump administration is ignoring science. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Al Franken opposes Trump’s nominee from Minnesota for 8th Circuit

Ryan Lovelace · September 5, 2017 8:59 pm

The Supreme Court has yet to set a date for oral arguments this term in the sports gambling case, which will be closely watched as its outcome could change sports gambling rules throughout the country. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Casino lobby backs Chris Christie in Supreme Court sports betting case

Ryan Lovelace · September 5, 2017 7:27 pm

A federal appeals court gave new life to a lawsuit filed by Alabama death row inmates against the state government's lethal injection protocol. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

11th Circuit breathes new life into Alabama lethal injection challenge

Ryan Lovelace · September 5, 2017 3:02 pm

Religious liberty battles may take center stage in Supreme Court’s new term

Ryan Lovelace · September 4, 2017 4:01 am

Menendez's attorneys filed a motion on Thursday night seeking to adjourn the trial on days when the senator needed to cast votes. (Patti Sapone/NJ Advance Media via AP)

Judge denies Bob Menendez’s request to delay trial for Senate votes

Ryan Lovelace · September 1, 2017 3:32 pm

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spotted in ‘Judge’s Chambers’ at Yankee Stadium

Mandy Mayfield · September 1, 2017 2:23 am

In this courtroom drawing, Ross Ulbricht, right, appears in federal court in New York for sentencing, Friday, May 29, 2015. Ulbricht, 31, who created the underground drug-selling website Silk Road was sentenced Friday to life in prison by a judge who cited six deaths from drugs bought on his site and five people he tried to have killed. Three rows behind Ulbricht, at left rear in the brown jacket is his father, Kirk Ulbricht, and next to him, mother, Lyn Ulbricht. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Court rejects Silk Road founder’s appeal for full rehearing of conviction and life sentence

Ryan Lovelace · August 31, 2017 3:18 pm

The Left shares the determination of its revolutionary forefathers: purespeak and newspeak must be the only languages allowed in the republic. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Beltway Confidential

Free speech, social justice, and the leftist heirs to Pol Pot

Tom Rogan · August 30, 2017 7:51 pm

Lower courts have thus far ruled against Carlos Moore, the Mississippi attorney who filed suit over the flag in 2016. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Supreme Court asks Mississippi governor for defense of Confederate symbol on state flag

Ryan Lovelace · August 30, 2017 3:19 pm

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals handed former third-party presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein yet another loss this week. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Jill Stein, Gary Johnson lose in court challenge of exclusion from presidential debates

Ryan Lovelace · August 30, 2017 3:10 pm

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 asked to take up fight over mandatory union fees

Sean Higgins · August 29, 2017 10:37 pm