Tag: Supreme Court

Texas Supreme Court rules salon owner jailed for violating lockdown order be released

Dominick Mastrangelo · May 7, 2020 4:42 pm

Traffic moves across the George Washington Bridge, in Fort Lee, N.J. A top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is linked through emails and text messages to a seemingly deliberate plan to create traffic gridlock in a town at the base of the bridge after its mayor refused to endorse Christie for re-election. "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee," Christie aide Bridget Anne Kelly wrote in an Aug. 13 email to David Wildstein, a top political appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the George Washington Bridge connecting New Jersey and New York City. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Supreme Court overturns convictions for Chris Christie allies steeped in ‘Bridgegate’ scandal

Spencer Neale · May 7, 2020 3:47 pm

In this Oct. 3, 2019 photo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg claps after listening to students sing opera at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the winner of this year's $1 million Berggruen Prize for philosophy and culture. The award announced Wednesday by the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute honors Ginsburg for her pioneering legal work for gender equality and her support for the rule of law. The institute says Ginsburg will direct the money to charity.

Ginsburg discharged from hospital after treatment for gallbladder condition

Zach Halaschak · May 7, 2020 12:32 am

Supreme Court declines to lift Pennsylvania stay-at-home order

Anthony Leonardi · May 6, 2020 9:05 pm

"There are so many things that might have been decisive," Ginsburg said. "But that was a major, major factor." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg hears cases from hospital in Day Three of Supreme Court phone arguments

Anthony Leonardi · May 6, 2020 6:50 pm

The Supreme Court is shown, Monday, April 6, 2020 in Washington. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from the Catholic church in Washington, DC, that sought to place religious-themed ads on public buses.

Toilet flush heard during Supreme Court phone arguments

Caitlin Yilek · May 6, 2020 5:20 pm

Lead cousel Mark Rienzi, far right, and legal team member Emily Hardman, second from left, both representing Little Sisters of the Poor, walk with members of the Catholic religious institute after attending a hearing in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Denver, Colo., in 2014.

Little Sisters of the Poor tell Supreme Court there is ‘nothing they can do’ to comply with contraception mandate

Nicholas Rowan · May 6, 2020 5:08 pm

Sister Loraine Marie Maguire, of Little Sisters of the Poor, speaks to members of the media after attending a hearing in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Denver, Colo., Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. In the latest religious challenge to the federal health care law, faith-based organizations that object to covering birth control in their employee health plans argued in federal appeals court that the government hasn't gone far enough to ensure they don't have to violate their beliefs.

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Supreme Court must finally protect Little Sisters of the Poor from anti-religious attacks

Nicole Russell · May 6, 2020 4:00 am

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized at Johns Hopkins with gallbladder infection

Spencer Neale · May 6, 2020 12:53 am

The sun flares in the camera lens as it rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court building.

Clarence Thomas speaks and Sonia Sotomayor has technical difficulties in Day Two of Supreme Court phone arguments

Anthony Leonardi · May 5, 2020 7:19 pm

Federal judge asks Chief Justice Roberts to order investigation into whether McConnell pressured a judge to retire

Madison Dibble · May 5, 2020 12:07 am

In this Feb. 15, 2018 photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits as he is introduced during an event at the Library of Congress in Washington.

Clarence Thomas breaks yearlong silence, asking question in Supreme Court’s first telephonic arguments

Caitlin Yilek · May 4, 2020 6:53 pm