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 | Oct 13, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court let President Trump’s administration end the census count more than two weeks early, dealing a blow to civil rights groups that said minorities will be undercounted as a result. The justices, without explanation, blocked a federal trial court...
by Jim Heath | Oct 12, 2020 | 2020, GOP, Headlines, Supreme Court
Senate Democrats used the first hours of Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings today to torch the GOP’s decision to ‘rush’ through the process amid a pandemic just week’s before the election – and called it an effort to...
by Jim Heath | Oct 5, 2020 | Headlines, Supreme Court
With another right-wing conservative about to join the Supreme Court, gay activists are alarmed after two current justices said today they’d like to overturn same sex marriage. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito issued a broadside against...
by Jim Heath | Sep 26, 2020 | 2020, Headlines, Supreme Court
President Donald Trump officially nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the United States Supreme Court during a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House Saturday. ‘Today it is my honor to nominate one of our nation’s most brilliant and gifted legal...
by Jim Heath | Sep 24, 2020 | Headlines, Supreme Court, Trump
President Trump was jeered by protesters this morning as he paid his respects to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, standing silently by her coffin at the top of the Supreme Court steps as a vigorous chant of “Vote him out!” erupted on the street below. Wearing a face mask...
