Tag: Supreme Court

"If we let the world keep warming as fast as it is, and sea levels rising as fast as they are, and weather patterns keep shifting in more unexpected ways, then before long we are going to have to commit more and more and more of our economic and military resources not to growing opportunity for our people, but to adapting to the various consequences of the changing planet," Obama said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Energy and Environment

Court decisions could hurt Obama’s climate legacy

John Siciliano · January 17, 2016 5:01 am

Last fall, Bob McDonnell was convicted in federal court on 11 corruption charges. (AP Photo)Â

Supreme Court accepts former Va. governor’s corruption case

Anna Giaritelli · January 15, 2016 10:20 pm

The U.S. Supreme Court will announce whether it will be taking up an appeal by President Obama to save his 2014 executive action on immigration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Supreme Court weighs Obama’s immigration appeal

Kelly Cohen · January 15, 2016 12:47 pm

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Born In The USA: 8-of-10 kids of illegals – 4.1M – born here, making them instant citizens

Paul Bedard · January 13, 2016 5:59 pm

If Rebecca Friedrichs does win, it would be a victory for any worker, of any race, who no longer wants to pay for a union he or she doesn't want to be a part of.

Beltway Confidential

Why Democrats should root against unions in major Supreme Court case

Jason Russell · January 12, 2016 10:44 pm

Thompson was among those outside the United States Supreme Court on Monday to rally during oral arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association. (AP photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Supreme Court: Florida death penalty process unconstitutional

Kelly Cohen · January 12, 2016 6:20 pm

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis refused to issue licenses to gay couples and served jail time for defying a court order that she do so. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Washington Secrets

#SOTU: Kim Davis in one seat, Jim Obergefell in another

Paul Bedard · January 12, 2016 2:14 pm

During oral arguments Monday Scalia repeatedly expressed skeptism of the union's position, suggesting he would instead align with the court's other conservatives. (AP File Photo/Jim Mone)

Scalia’s skepticism bad news for unions

Sean Higgins · January 11, 2016 11:29 pm

"I'm confident that we will ensure that even though the Snapchat messages disappear, that they are properly recorded for posterity's sake," Earnest said. "We have been able to work this out with them." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House: Obama administration more open than Congress

Nicole Duran · January 11, 2016 9:31 pm

After harassment, teacher hopes for end of unions

Beltway Confidential

After harassment, teacher hopes for end of unions

Jason Russell · January 11, 2016 9:19 pm

The case is of major interest to labor unions, for whom the fees are a major source of revenue. (AP photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Supreme Court questions unions’ worker fees

Sean Higgins · January 11, 2016 5:55 pm

In this Dec. 8, 2014, file photo, 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.

Faith leaders ask Supreme Court to side with nuns

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 11, 2016 2:58 pm