HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court gave the Democratic Party a series of victories Thursday, including one allowing repairs to glitches and gray areas in the battleground state’s fledgling mail-in voting law and another that kicked the Green Party’s presidential candidate off the November ballot. The state Supreme Court, which has a 5-2 Democratic…
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Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the co-chair of Facebook’s “Supreme Court,” has warned that an aggressive approach to regulating the company could infringe upon freedom of speech. Her comments stand in stark contrast to the company’s purge of conservatives and plan to blacklist legal comment that might cause “regulatory impacts.” CNBC reports that in a recent interview the…
Washington (AFP) – The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump must hand over his tax returns to prosecutors in New York but temporarily blocked Congress from accessing his financial records. The rulings were a setback for Trump’s claim to absolute immunity from criminal investigation but may allow him at the same time…
Win McNamee/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Thursday in Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP that the House of Representatives cannot demand that the president hand over his tax returns — the opposite of the result it reached in Trump v. Vance, a separate decision on the same day, in which it said New York…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday the Little Sisters of the Poor Catholic religious order is exempt from Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate. In a 7-2 decision in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, the Court ended the long legal struggle the nuns, who care for the elderly poor and sick, have endured. The decision also…
Larry Downing-Pool/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states may punish “faithless electors” — those members of the Electoral College who refuse to cast their ballots for the candidate whom the majority of voters in the state have chosen. As Breitbart News recounted in May, the issue arose in earnest after the…
President Donald Trump, the incumbent Republican seeking re-election, or presumptive Democrat nominee former Vice President Joe Biden could appoint as many as four Supreme Court Justices in the next four years, making the issue yet again a major deciding factor as voters determine which one to back ahead of November’s electoral contest. Rumors swirled this…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to end legal protections for 650,000 young immigrants, a stunning rebuke to the president in the midst of his reelection campaign. For now, those immigrants retain their protection from deportation and their authorization to work in the United States. The outcome seems…
The Supreme Court has passed up several challenges to state and federal gun control laws, over the dissent of two conservative justices Supreme Court rejects several gun rights cases for next termThe Associated PressWASHINGTON WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday passed up several challenges to federal and state gun control laws, over the…
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that had far-reaching consequences – consequences that were missed entirely by the mainstream media. In Kansas v. Garcia, the Court held by a 5-4 vote that federal law did not prevent Kansas from criminally prosecuting illegal aliens for identity theft. The Kansas law had been used…