by Jim Heath | Nov 25, 2019 | Headlines, Supreme Court, Trump
The Supreme Court is shielding President Donald Trump’s financial records from House Democrats for now. The delay announced late today allows the justices to decide how to handle the House subpoena and a similar demand from the Manhattan district attorney at the same...
by Jim Heath | Nov 14, 2019 | Headlines, Supreme Court, Trump
President Trump asked the Supreme Court today to stop a prosecutor’s investigation of his personal finances, a bold assertion of presidential power that seeks a landmark decision from the nation’s highest court. The filing by the president’s private lawyers represents...
by Jim Heath | Aug 23, 2019 | Headlines, Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was seen leaning on a U.S. Marshal after leaving a New York City hospital yesterday, a day before it was confirmed she had completed radiation treatment for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas. The 86-year-old underwent three...
by Jim Heath | Jul 26, 2019 | Headlines, Supreme Court, Trump
A split Supreme Court said tonight that the Trump administration could proceed with its plan to use $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds to build part of the president’s wall project along the southern border. The court’s conservatives set aside a lower-court ruling for the...
by Jim Heath | Jun 27, 2019 | Headlines, Supreme Court
In a setback for the Trump administration, the Supreme Court today rejected its stated reason for adding a question on citizenship to the census, leaving in doubt whether the question would appear on the census forms sent to every household in the nation next year....
by Jim Heath | Jun 27, 2019 | Headlines, Supreme Court
The Supreme Court’s conservatives decided today that federal courts do not have a role to play in deciding whether partisan gerrymandering goes too far, giving a dominant political party in a state leeway to draw electoral maps that preserve or even expand its power....
