Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday rebuked the Kansas Supreme Court for allegedly taking the high court's precedent too far in a ruling that let a man off the hook for telling a police officer's son that his dad would end up "in a ditch."Thomas did so while dissenting from the Supreme Court's decision not to hear…
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanagh on Monday admonished their fellow justices for letting Second Amendment cases languish in the lower courts in a dissent to the tribunal's decision not to take up a gun rights case.The last major Supreme Court cases to decide gun rights issues were McDonald v. Chicago and D.C. v.…
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Thomas Lane, one of the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd, has been released from Hennepin County Jail Wednesday afternoon after posting bond, according to jail records. Lane, 37, was one of the officers — including Derek Chauvin, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng — that…
The wife of Baltimore Ravens free safety Earl Thomas III is accused of having briefly held a loaded gun to her husband's head last month after she allegedly caught him cheating on her, according to police in Texas.Nina Thomas allegedly held a loaded pistol “less than a foot” from the head of the seven-time Pro Bowler after using…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Famously quiet Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday asked questions during the court's remote oral arguments, marking just his third time speaking during the sessions in over a decade.Thomas asked the questions via audio teleconferencing in a case on whether Booking.com could…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…