by Jim Heath | Apr 10, 2019 | Headlines, Health
Emboldened by the new conservative majority on the Supreme Court, anti-abortion lawmakers and activists in numerous states are pushing near-total bans on the procedure in a deliberate frontal attack on Roe v. Wade. Mississippi and Kentucky have passed laws that would...
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 | Jan 8, 2019 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation
The U.S. Supreme Court declined today to side with a foreign company that sought to block a subpoena from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s federal grand jury. The company hasn’t been named in any court documents, but it is reportedly owned by a foreign...
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...
