The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Justice Department overstepped in charging hundreds of Jan. 6 rioters with the crime of “obstruction of an official proceeding.” The decision could force prosecutors to reconsider some of its pending cases against rioters. In a ideologically mixed 6-3 vote, the court ruled …
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The family behind one of the most addictive substances in the world, peddled to patients by their own doctors who downplayed their harmful effects, is not shielded from liability for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Sackler …
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The Supreme Court decided on Wednesday that writing checks to politicians as thank-you payments for corrupt contracting decisions does not constitute bribery under federal law. The vote was 6 to 3, with the three liberal justices — Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan —dissenting. “State and local governments …
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging the legality of state-level bans on access to gender-affirming care for minors. The case, which will not be argued before the court until the fall, will have wide-reaching ramifications for the civil and medical freedoms of transgender individuals in the …
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This week at a resort in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, delegates at the Republican Oarty convention quietly approved a platform with a retooled “Right to Life” plank. Journalists were barred from the proceedings, but reporter Logan Finney of Idaho Reports obtained the language ahead of the event and, reading it, it’s …
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What happens when a domestic abuser has access to a firearm? Ask the family members of Diane Psaros, or Cassandra Jones, or baby Miranda Salley, all of whom were shot and killed by domestic abusers. Today, in U.S. v. Rahimi, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law prohibiting the …
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In a last-ditch effort to avoid serving a four-month prison sentence, former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon is pleading for the Supreme Court to intervene on his behalf. On Thursday, the D.C. Court of Appeals rejected Bannon’s request to be released from detention while he once again attempts to appeal …
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In the aftermath of the 2017 Harvest Festival mass shooting — in which 60 Las Vegas concertgoers were killed by a gunman armed with bump stock-equipped rifles — prominent Republican lawmakers supported efforts to ban the firearm accessory. One such legislator was South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. But after the …
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Senator Chris Murphy accused the Supreme Court of being “brazenly corrupt and brazenly political” after reporting revealed Justice Clarence Thomas‘ undisclosed lavish gifts and trips from conservative benefactors, as well as Justice Samuel Alito‘s “displaying affiliation with political causes in public.” “I think there’s a crisis on the court, in …
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Watching focus groups isn’t a good way to make yourself feel better about America, especially when their participants assert inconvenient truths. I know this first hand because for the last four years, I have acted as Senior Adviser to the Research Collaborative, which has done 25 focus groups and frequent …
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