by Jim Heath | Apr 26, 2021 | Guns, Headlines, Supreme Court
The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a challenge to restrictions on carrying firearms outside the home, teeing up a potentially landmark dispute over the scope of the Second Amendment. In an unsigned order, the justices took up a bid by two gun owners and a New York...
by Jim Heath | Apr 9, 2021 | Headlines, Supreme Court
President Biden has ordered a 180-day study of adding seats to the Supreme Court, making good on a campaign-year promise to establish a bipartisan commission to examine the potentially explosive subjects of expanding the court or setting term limits for justices....
by Jim Heath | Mar 31, 2021 | Headlines, NCAA
Justices across the ideological spectrum teamed up during Supreme Court oral arguments today to voice skepticism about the N.C.A.A.’s position that it could bar relatively modest payments to student-athletes in the name of amateurism despite the antitrust laws. But...
by Jim Heath | Mar 2, 2021 | Headlines
The U.S. Supreme Court denied requests to review far-right attorney Sidney Powell’s post-election cases in Arizona and Wisconsin yesterday, the last of her cases to be rejected by the high court as the lawyer has continued to push conspiracy theories about election...
by Jim Heath | Feb 22, 2021 | Headlines, Supreme Court, Trump
The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear cases related to last year’s presidential election and Donald Trump’s challenges to its outcome. The justices declined to take up a case brought by Republicans challenging a Pennsylvania state court decision...
