A retired U.S. Supreme Court justice on Tuesday called for the repeal of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gives Americans the right to keep and bear firearms, days after mass protests nationwide demanding stronger gun control.
Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) looks marked for certain defeat in November, which is why he apparently made up a prediction about Justice Kennedy retiring from the Supreme Court. Politico reported on audio they obtained of Sen. Heller: Dean Heller knows he’s the most vulnerable Republican senator in the country. But he thinks Supreme Court Justice…
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided along ideological lines on Monday in a high-stakes case that could deprive unions representing police, firefighters and certain other public employees of a key source of funds — millions of dollars in fees they can collect annually from non-members.
But the fast trip to the nation’s highest judicial body was not the first time the administration took the unusual route of circumventing liberal-leaning lower courts and heading straight to the conservative-majority Supreme Court for relief from legal setbacks.
While Donald Trump, as we have heard in the infamous Planet Hollywood tape, gloats about how his wealth and power enable him to violate women sexually without consequences and while he smears those, such as Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who call him on this behavior, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts recently offered a stunning contrast…
A fiercely divided Supreme Court voted 5-4 on Friday to lift an order filed by San Francisco District Judge William Alsup requiring the Trump administration to produce documents outlining the decision to end theDeferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The documents the order sought included “emails, departmental memoranda, policy directives, meeting minutes, materials considered by…
This was already a big week for immigration law at the Supreme Court, and it could get even bigger.
Simply put, “partisan gerrymandering†is a rebrand of “race based gerrymandering.†Republicans are trying to find the magic words to suppress votes by people who are more likely to vote for Democrats.
On October 3, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could deem “partisan gerrymandering†constitutional.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday a bid by President Donald Trump to include grandparents and other relatives in his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped one of the most hotly contested gun rights disputes in years, declining to rule in a California case on whether a person’s constitutional right to keep firearms for self-defense extends outside the home.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned a state court ruling that allowed Arkansas to refuse to list both same-sex spouses on birth certificates, a decision that helps clarify the scope of protections provided by the high court’s landmark 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage.
The most damning evidence that this is, in fact, a Muslim-targeted travel ban come directly from Donald Trump’s Twitter feed.
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The Senate Democrats who successfully blocked Neil Gorsuch can hold their heads high because they refused to allow a corrupt president, and a morally bankrupt Senate Majority Leader to steal a Supreme Court seat without a fight.
Republicans are failing to get anything close to the number of Democratic votes needed to move Trump Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to a final vote.
Merkley’s decision to hold the floor over the Gorsuch nomination comes as Republicans plan to hold a vote to change the Senate rules.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told NBC’s Meet The Press that Neil Gorsuch doesn’t have the 60 votes needed to move forward, so Republicans and Trump need to pick a more mainstream Supreme Court nominee.
“Let me repeat that: only three of the current senators on the Republican side voted for either one of President Obama’s confirmed nominees. Most voted for neither.”
“And every single one of them lined up to conduct an ‘audacious’ partisan blockade of Merrick Garland,” the top Democrat reminded Republicans.
Critical cases are on the line and the civil rights of people hang in the balance for the present and long-term future of our country.
Chuck Schumer was on fire Thursday when he announced his opposition to President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, forcing 60 votes for confirmation.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) doesn’t think the Senate should proceed forward with the Supreme Court nomination hearings as if there is no Russian smoke clouding President Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
Petitioners say: “As the leaders of the free world, we cannot allow an adversary to invade our territory and subvert our republican form of government.”
It’s just the latest move in Donald Trump’s quest to turn back the clock on civil rights in America.
Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) showed President Trump that there would be consequences for his outburst against the judge who temporarily halted Trump’s ban. Schumer said that Trump’s behavior had lifted the bar even higher for confirmation of his Supreme Court nominee.
“Let’s not mince words: The nomination of Judge Gorsuch is a huge gift to the giant corporations and wealthy individuals who have stolen a Supreme Court seat.”
“Gorsuch is an ideological warrior who puts his own right-wing politics above the Constitution, the law and the rights of everyday people.”
Cruz spoke for 21 hours on the Senate floor in 2013, all so he could take health insurance away from millions of Americans.
Immediately after President Trump nominated Neal Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, Senate Democratic Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer released a statement that strongly suggested that Democrats intend to block Trump’s nominee.
Gorsuch wasn’t only the most conservative of Trump’s two remaining frontrunners; he’s also to the right of Justice Samuel Alito and late Justice Antonin Scalia
Trump botched the nomination of Neal Gorsuch by mangling the Constitution and referring to it as a “them.”
Senate Democrats are accusing Republicans of stealing the vacant Supreme Court and are vowing to filibuster President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who blocked Obama SCOTUS nominee Merrick Garland, complained to reporters and claimed that the American people would not tolerate Democrats blocking Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
Not even an overwhelming victory by Hillary Clinton is likely to convince Republicans that they should do their job.
If you’re a domestic violence offender, the Supreme Court says you don’t have a Second Amendment right to a firearm.
Judge Merrick Garland was described in a report by the American Bar Association thusly, “Garland has no weaknesses.“ Indeed, “He may be the perfect human being.â€
92 percent of Americans support expanded background checks and 85 percent support preventing people on watch lists from buying guns; Republicans disagree.
In a day littered with bad news when it comes to gun legislation, there is one silver lining: The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear challenges to assault weapons bans enacted in Connecticut and New York.
The Scalia-less Supreme Court rejected racist Republicans’ gerrymandering and employers who think discriminating on the basis of race is constitutional.
Senate Republicans are getting hammered with a mountain of bad press from sea to shining sea for their refusal to even hold hearings for Chief Justice Merrick Garland, President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
Trump embraced an organization as bigoted and racist as he is and authorized them to stack the Court with equally bigoted justices.
These leaders came together to “guide their congregations’ prayers toward protecting a woman’s right to access an abortion.â€
The mainstream media must identify the real American government and Supreme Court “hostage takers;†the Koch brothers
The fossil fuel industry said no more regulations and the conservative justices obediently complied
Notorious Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roy Moore, has unilaterally issued a judicial order overturning a six-month old United States Supreme Court ruling.
Scalia may have surpassed charlatans like David Barton in an attempt to “establish Christianity” as the nation’s state religion
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to Texas’ abortion law, which impedes women’s access to abortion in the state.
The crux of the case against the Kochs, Bush, and Scott is that they conspired to build what appears to be “an illegally-approved pipeline”
Gallup reveals that, ironically, Republicans rate the Roberts’ court much more poorly than Democrats do.
The Pope’s bible, the rule book containing every single one of god’s utterances, plainly says to obey the government authorities, period
The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. The GOP want to shred the Constitution to revert to legal white supremacy
Larry Klayman is a perpetually angry white man upset about what his pea-brain imagines is “the growing tyranny” of the Obama Administration
Most Americans are unaware, tragically, that America is dangerously close to becoming a fully-fledged plutocracy run by the Koch brothers
The Appellate Court ruled that the ban on federal campaign contributions by individuals who contract with the government is constitutional. The takeaway from the ruling, besides putting a damper on McConnell’s political life, is that regardless the push by the Koch-Republicans and two horrendous rulings by Koch acolytes on the Supreme Court, 11 appellate judges firmly believe there is too much money in politics and that more “can be a very bad thing.”
The ruling and the assertion that a religious fanatic is treated the same as a secular person will not sit well with theocrats.
It is a sad fact of life that there are some human beings who cannot exist without expressing animosity, or worse, deep and extremely emotional dislike directed against individuals, groups or ideas. Indeed, hatred is nearly always associated with feelings of intense anger, unwarranted disgust and an unhealthy pre-disposition towards hostility and violence. It is…
Evangelical Republicans hate America with religious passion because the Founding Fathers did not create a Christian theocracy
There is hardly a bigger motivator than fear, and it is a fact not lost on Republicans who prey on Americans’ fear of all things not conservative, but especially those foreign “extremists.” Of course, some Americans are acutely aware that the biggest threat to their safety, and the nation, is from American extremists in the…
Americans should take time today to reflect on just how far the nation has drifted from the Founders’ “we the people” sentiment.
The Supreme Court refused to consider a case which would have required voters to show proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.
Join PoliticusUSA for a live chat on the Supreme Court’s big ruling that gave the people a weapon to combat Republican election rigging.
Ken Paxton issued a statement on Sunday, openly encouraging the state’s County Clerks to defy the Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage.
By ruling that Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission is constitutional, the Supreme Court of the United States kicked plutocrat-loving, election rigging, gerrymandering Republicans in the gut.
Fearing the United States would abandon its membership in the club of death-penalty countries like Iran and China, the Supreme Court ruled that death by legal injection is constitutional.
A little over two years ago, after Democrat Barack Obama soundly defeated Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal admonished fellow Republicans to “stop being the stupid party”. Jindal’s comments were not only directed at Mitt Romney’s politically tone deaf presidential campaign, but also at insensitive GOP Senate candidates like Todd…
Conservative opponents of the Constitution see no contradiction in attacking the Marriage Equality ruling as a violation of the Constitution
Shortly after the Supreme Court’s historic ruling in favor of the right for same-sex couples to marry, conservatives rushed to condemn the ruling by invoking the slippery slope logical fallacy that permitting gay couples to marry opens the door to legalizing polygamy too. Conservative commentator Bill Kristol tweeted “Polygamy here we come”. Fox News host Martha…
That idea of compassion, or humanity for other human beings has become anathema to Republicans and conservatives over the past six years
So George Takei, one of gay rights’ wittiest defenders, and just a very funny, engaging fellow, has drawn the ire of the intoxicated-with-himself Rush Limbaugh, because Takei isn’t forced to abide by Rush’s bigoted beliefs.
The Supreme Court made an historic ruling recognizing that same sex couples have a right to marry under the 14th Amendment on the anniversary of the Windsor case.
“Send the hornets!” ought to be the “battle prayer of every patriot saint.” Oh sweet little baby Jesus and his AR-15. You mean you’re all saints now?
Republicans think the court ruling in favor of providing affordable health care for Americans is judicial tyranny.
Millions of Americans will breathe a sigh of relief now that the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act. By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court looked beyond the one sentence the plaintiffs hoped would kick fellow Virginians and millions nationwide off their health insurance. The Chief Justice wrote the ruling. Alito, Scalia and Thomas dissented.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down warrantless searches of hotel registries in a 5-4 decision on Monday.
There is no other reason for Republicans to try defunding Title X than denying family planning services and contraception from women.
A PPP poll finds that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is America’s favorite Supreme Court Justice and Clarence Thomas is the nation’s least favorite.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear North Carolina’s appeal to restore a law that would force a woman to view a sonogram of her fetus.
A Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that 55 percent of Americans want the Supreme Court to preserve federal Obamacare subsidies.
The state’s that would be most affected by ending Obamacare subsidies, also states the GOP needs to win, to keep control of the Senate.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could fundamentally alter the way districts are drawn in the United States.
Ireland joins the nearly 20 nations that have legalized gay marriage. Will the Supreme Court help the United States be the next?
At a meeting with financial supporters on Thursday, Hillary Clinton vowed to put forth Supreme Court nominees that were committed to overturning the 2010 Citizens United ruling. Hillary Clinton’s decision to make opposing the Citizens United ruling a litmus test for Supreme Court nominees follows a similar pledge made by her Democratic primary opponent Bernie…
GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson believes if he becomes president, that he can ignore Supreme Court decisions he does not agree with.
It is very seldom, if ever, that any Republican purposely admits in public that their raison d’etre is solely to serve the interests of corporations and the very richest Americans, and it is doubtful they expected the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to expose their badly-kept secret, but he did; albeit inadvertently.
Some religious leaders are demanding that liberal justices Ginsburg and Kagan recuse themselves from an upcoming gay marriage case,
The Supreme Court dealt vote suppressors in North Carolina a blow when it vacated the State Supreme Court’s decision to uphold The Republicans’ 2011 electoral maps.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Alabama Legislative Black Caucus v. Alabama was a huge victory for voting rights and voting equality.
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a Wisconsin photo identification law passed in 2011.
Millions of Americans have gained health insurance coverage, since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed into law on March 23, 2010.
The legal battle to destroy the ACA (Obamacare) has taken a bizarre turn.
A Hart Research Associates Poll released on March 2, finds that by a solid 63-29 majority, American voters want to keep Obamacare intact.
This week Republican lawyers will be busy arguing two important cases before the Supreme Court.
In a case of fashion vs. religious discrimination, Abercrombie & Fitch wants to convince the Supreme Court that, under its dress code, a headscarf is a cap.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Irin Carmon, aired on The Rachel Maddow Show, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg discussed Roe v. Wade and why she believes it will be upheld and the state of race relations.
When the Supreme Court of the United States declined to stay a Federal Injunction allowing same sex marriages in Alabama on Monday it was a given that Clarence Thomas (joined by Justice Alito) would raise his objections in a dissenting opinion.
Next month, the Supreme Court of the United States will consider King v. Burwell, in which millions of people will be affected.
Enter Wolf PAC. A grassroots effort spawned by the enormously popular Young Turk Network, Wolf’s mission is boldly simple. Per the group’s website, “We must reverse Citizens United, Restore our Democracy, and Save the Republic.”
The conservative majority court has been spoiling for a fight over the 1968 Fair Housing Act (FHA) for quite a while. Not so much the law, but the related application of an argument called disparate impact.
Republican Attorneys General from Nebraska and Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado for its law legalizing marijuana.
It’s past time for the issue of gay marriage to be decided at the national, not just the local, level. The progress witnessed by the number of states that have approved same-sex marriage in recent years has been encouraging, but this should never have been a state’s rights sort of issue.