by Jim Heath | Jan 22, 2019 | Headlines, Military, Supreme Court
The conservative majority on the Supreme Court today allowed the Trump administration to go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender people while court challenges continue. The high court split 5-4 in allowing the plan to take effect, with the...
by Jim Heath | Dec 21, 2018 | Headlines, Supreme Court, Trump
The Supreme Court today denied President Trump’s request to be immediately allowed to enforce a new policy of denying asylum to those who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Lower courts had blocked Trump’s executive order that denied asylum...
by Jim Heath | Dec 21, 2018 | Headlines, Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery in New York City today to remove two cancerous nodules from her lung, which were determined to be malignant. Doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital in New York performed a lobectomy, removing one the five lobes of...
by Jim Heath | Dec 11, 2018 | Headlines, Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review whether states can block Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from their Medicaid programs, passing on a pair of cases that would have served as the first major abortion test for the court’s new conservative...
by Jim Heath | Nov 21, 2018 | Headlines, Supreme Court
Chief Justice John Roberts defended the independence and integrity of the federal judiciary today, issuing a statement rebuking President Trump’s criticism of a judge who had ruled against the administration’s asylum policy. It’s the first time the...
by Jim Heath | Nov 8, 2018 | Headlines, Supreme Court
The nation was left shaken today after it was revealed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized from a fall at the office that left her with three fractured ribs. The 85-year-old woman, nicknamed RBG, was admitted ‘for observation and...
