Tag: Supreme Court

Justice Alito blocks Louisiana abortion law, citing need for more time

Kimberly Leonard · February 1, 2019 11:50 pm

President Trump may have endorsed the idea of short-term compromise, but he still backs the concept of the healthcare reform package that failed narrowly this summer. That bill would have given states Medicaid funding in the form of block grants. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump predicts Obamacare will be ‘terminated’ through Texas lawsuit

Kimberly Leonard · February 1, 2019 1:05 pm

Thousands of abortion opponents march in the 15th annual Walk for Life across downtown San Francisco.

Beltway Confidential

2020 is a utilitarian election

Tiana Lowe Doescher · January 30, 2019 10:32 pm

Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 in Washington. Her attorney's Debra Katz and Michael Bromwich watch.

California congresswoman nominates Kavanaugh accuser for Profile in Courage Award

Allison Elyse Gualtieri · January 30, 2019 1:40 am

Amy Hagstrom Miller, second from right, founder of Whole Woman's Health, a Texas women's health clinic that provides abortions, leaves the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2016, with Center for Reproductive Rights President Nancy Northup, far right, as the justices struck down the strict Texas anti-abortion restriction law known as HB2. The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations were a thinly veiled attempt to make it harder for women to get an abortion in the nation's second-most populous state. The case is Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt.

Supreme Court asked to halt Louisiana abortion restrictions

Kimberly Leonard · January 29, 2019 4:46 pm

Beltway Confidential

Left-wing group tries to raise money with a Supreme Court-packing fantasy

Philip Wegmann · January 23, 2019 10:09 pm

From left, Supreme Court Associate Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Elena Kagan speak in the audience before President Trump arrives for a Medal of Freedom ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018.

Washington Secrets

Trump nominates 51 judges at once, enough to fill one-third of all court vacancies

Paul Bedard · January 23, 2019 5:50 pm

FILE - This March 23, 2018 file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I., as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. A Trump administration plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census has prompted legal challenges from many Democratic-led states. But not a single Republican attorney general has sued _ not even from states with large immigrant populations.

Trump administration to ask Supreme Court to take up census case, bypassing appeals court

Melissa Quinn · January 22, 2019 9:43 pm

Nick Rondoletto, left, and Doug Thorogood, a couple from San Francisco, wave a rainbow flag and hold a sign against a proposed ban of transgendered people in the military at a protest in the Castro District, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, in San Francisco. Demonstrators flocked to a plaza named for San Francisco gay-rights icon Harvey Milk to protest President Donald Trumpâs abrupt ban on transgender troops in the military.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s military transgender ban is more reasonable than you think

Nicole Russell · January 22, 2019 8:58 pm

FILE - In this March 27, 2018 file photo, plaintiffs Cathrine Schmid, second left, and Conner Callahan, second right, listen with supporters during a news conference in front of a federal courthouse following a hearing in Seattle. Transgender-rights activists are angered at moves by President Donald Trump and his administration to undermine gains achieved before his election. Trump is seeking to ban transgender people from military service, although that effort has stalled in court.

National Security

As rights groups decry Supreme Court decision, Pentagon says not all trans troops are banned

Jamie McIntyre · January 22, 2019 4:47 pm

In this Nov. 5, 2015, file photo, former Bremerton High School assistant football coach Joe Kennedy poses on the field at Bremerton Memorial Stadium in Bremerton, Wash. The Supreme Court is rejecting an appeal from a former Seattle-area football coach who lost his job because he refused to stop praying on the field. But four conservative justices say Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, that they are interested in former Bremerton High School Coach Joe Kennedy's case and the legal issues it raises.

Supreme Court declines to hear case of football coach fired for on-field praying

Naomi Lim · January 22, 2019 4:29 pm

Supreme Court to hear challenge to New York City gun ordinance

Melissa Quinn · January 22, 2019 3:26 pm