by Jim Heath | Dec 7, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, conspiracy, courts, Headlines
Lawyer Sidney Powell’s effort to overturn the vote in two states that Joe Biden won suffered two devastating rulings in quick succession today, slicing away at her self-touted ‘Kraken’ legal effort. She and her allies lost in Michigan just after 9am...
by Jim Heath | Oct 19, 2020 | 2020, Battlegrounds, courts, Headlines, Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today left intact an extended mail-in ballot due date in Pennsylvania, handing a major defeat to Republicans. The Hill: The court’s four more conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — would have...
by Jim Heath | Sep 9, 2020 | 2020, courts, Headlines, Supreme Court, Trump
Hoping to replicate a strategy that has long been seen as key to his appeal among conservative voters, President Trump today announced he is adding 20 names to a list of Supreme Court candidates that he’s pledged to choose from if he has future vacancies to...
by Jim Heath | May 13, 2019 | courts, Headlines
The U.S. Supreme Court today gave the go-ahead for a lawsuit by consumers accusing Apple of monopolizing the market for iPhone software applications and forcing them to overpay, rejecting the company’s bid to escape claims that its practices violate federal...
by Jim Heath | May 11, 2019 | courts, Headlines, Trump
President Trump is looking to stop lower courts from being able to issue wide-ranging injunctions in a move that could dramatically limit the authority of judges. The plan comes as groups opposed to Trump have been able to get several of his policies, including those...
by Jim Heath | May 10, 2019 | courts, Headlines
Congress and Donald Trump’s fight over his financial records is now on the fast track. Judge Amit Mehta plans next week to weigh the major legal issues raised in Trump’s challenge of a congressional subpoena for his accounting firm’s records,...
