Which political party is worse? That’s the question voters will be grappling with this fall as they decide whether Democrats should continue to run Congress, or they’ve blown their chance and it’s time to give Republicans another shot. President Biden and the Democrats who have thin majorities in Congress have to explain 8.6% inflation, gas prices of nearly $5 per gallon, the “defund the police” fiasco and intraparty bickering that’s the equivalent of separate marital bedrooms. The… Source link
Read More »Georgetown Law professor who said Biden was picking a ‘lesser Black woman’ for Supreme Court resigns after 4 months
Ilya Shapiro.Screenshot/C-Span Ilya Shapiro tweeted that Biden would pick a “lesser Black woman” as Supreme Court justice in January. Georgetown Law reinstated his role on June 2 after an investigation and monthslong suspension. But he resigned on Monday, saying Georgetown Law “doesn’t value free speech.” A Georgetown University Law Center professor who tweeted that President Joe Biden would pick a “lesser Black woman” for the Supreme Court resigned on Monday after four months in his job. Ilya… Source link
Read More »Confidence in Supreme Court has collapsed since conservatives took control
A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that Americans’ confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court has collapsed over the last 20 months — a period that began with former President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans installing a 6-3 conservative majority ahead of the 2020 election and culminated last week with the leak of a draft opinion signaling that five GOP-appointed justices plan to overturn Roe v. Wade. The last time Yahoo News/YouGov asked about confidence in the court was in September 2020,… Source link
Read More »Biden on leaked Supreme Court abortion opinion: ‘A radical decision’
President Biden said Tuesday that if a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade holds, it would represent a “radical” and “fundamental” shift in the rule of law. “It concerns me a great deal that we’re going to, after 50 years, decide a woman does not have the right to choose,” Biden told reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. “But equally as profound is the rationale used.” On Monday night, Politico published… Source link
Read More »Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas admitted to hospital with infection
WASHINGTON – Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized for the past two days and is being treated for an infection, court officials said Sunday. Thomas, the most senior associate justice on the high court, is being treated with intravenous antibiotics, the court said, and his symptoms are improving. The Supreme Court said Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Friday after experiencing flu-like symptoms. Court officials said Thomas… Source link
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court spurns Google bid to avoid shareholder lawsuit
WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) attempt to nix a lawsuit by shareholders accusing the Google parent company of fraudulently concealing a security glitch that left private user data exposed. The justices left in place a lower court’s ruling that revived the lawsuit brought over the 2018 incident that the company was slow to disclose, turning away Alphabet’s appeal. The lawsuit, led by the state of Rhode Island, was filed… Source link
Read More »55% of Americans say nominating a Black woman to the Supreme Court is not ‘important’
With President Biden set to announce a nominee to replace the retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer by the end of February, most Americans now say they’re lukewarm about his promise to pick a Black woman for the first time in U.S. history, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — while also saying the top three Black women on Biden’s shortlist are “qualified” to sit on the court. The survey of 1,628 U.S. adults, which was conducted from Feb. 3 to 7, found that a clear… Source link
Read More »What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants in the next Supreme Court nominee
In the days since Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, much of the focus on his replacement has centered around the race and gender of his replacement. President Joe Biden has repeatedly promised that his nominee “will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court.” But in a new interview for Influencers with Andy Serwer, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described identity as “just the starting step when we are discussing a… Source link
Read More »What Supreme Court Justice Breyer’s retirement means for business
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement at the end of the court’s current term has court watchers wondering if a more liberal successor could make the court more united along ideological lines, a change that could benefit certain business interests. Constitutional law scholars say the court’s persuasions under a yet-to-be-named and confirmed nominee are difficult to predict. Under one theory, his replacement could deepen the court’s 6-3 conservative-liberal divide, if… Source link
Read More »Supreme Court blocks vaccine mandate for large businesses, allows it for health care workers
The U.S. Supreme Court issued two highly anticipated rulings on Thursday, temporarily blocking a Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large employers but allowing a separate rule applying only to health care workers at facilities receiving federal funding. The high court settled the matter concerning large employers in a 6-3 decision to block the rule that would have been issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, with the three liberal justices dissenting…. Source link
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