Tag: Supreme Court

Artifacts from former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protests will reportedly soon be on display at the Black Lives Matter collection at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File)

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History to feature Colin Kaepernick artifacts

Ryan Lovelace · August 19, 2017 8:03 pm

The ACLU filed the suit against two psychologists who designed and implemented the CIA's interrogation program used in the war on terror. (CIA.gov)

National Security

ACLU settles torture case with CIA-contracted psychologists

Ryan Lovelace · August 17, 2017 6:28 pm

San Antonio police arrested James Bradley Jr. in July after discovering his tractor-trailer full of 39 illegal immigrants outside a Walmart store. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Truck driver indicted on smuggling illegal immigrants who died, could face death penalty

Ryan Lovelace · August 17, 2017 3:40 pm

The districts represented by Blake Farenthold and Lloyd Doggett violated federal law, a three-judge panel found. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Federal court scraps two Texas congressional districts

Ryan Lovelace · August 16, 2017 5:15 pm

Tech giants said they want the court "to ensure that the law realistically engages with Internet-based technologies and with people's expectations of privacy in their digital data." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Apple, Facebook, others urge Supreme Court to change Fourth Amendment privacy doctrines

Ryan Lovelace · August 15, 2017 6:47 pm

Former Obama attorney Neal Katyal asks the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the death penalty and whether capital punishment in Arizona, in particular, violates the Eighth Amendment. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Former Obama attorney asks Supreme Court to hear new death penalty challenge

Ryan Lovelace · August 15, 2017 3:36 pm

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is blocking the confirmation of President Trump's nominee to run the Justice Department's antitrust division, offering no explanation and refusing an offer to meet with Makan Delrahim, according to a source with knowledge of the confirmation process. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Elizabeth Warren refuses to meet Trump nominee she’s blocking for Justice antitrust division

Ryan Lovelace · August 13, 2017 4:01 am

"I don't have any expectation we will have a vacancy as I thought there would be," said Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Chuck Grassley changes tune, now doubts imminent Supreme Court vacancy

Josh Siegel · August 11, 2017 9:40 pm

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a federal court, not a state court, must hear a case about a murder on Indian land. (iStock by Getty Images)

Appeals court overturns conviction, death sentence because wrong court tried murder case

Ryan Lovelace · August 9, 2017 3:46 pm

The government charged Marlow Humbert with committing sexual assault and placed him in pretrial solitary confinement, where he spent nearly 15 months.

Court reinstates $2.3 million award to homeless man who spent year in solitary confinement before charges dropped

Ryan Lovelace · August 8, 2017 10:13 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)

Legislators with black robes

Robert Ehrlich · August 8, 2017 4:01 am

The Moore campaign is making the most of the Chuck Norris endorsement. (AP)

Beltway Confidential

Chuck Norris endorses Ten Commandments Judge Roy Moore for Senate in Alabama special election

Philip Wegmann · August 7, 2017 5:32 pm