Some noted with irony that amid the House's effort to impeach Trump for obstructing Congress, many of the president's allies argued they should have pursued court battles for evidence first — yet Thursday's decision underscored that the legal process operates at a glacial pace compared to the election cycle. "[T]his delay is why impeachment could…
Washington (CNN)Grand jury material from former special counsel Robert Mueller won't be released to the Democratic-led House of Representatives at least for now, after the Supreme Court on Thursday g…
The justices on Thursday also turned away two cases out of Illinois and Pennsylvania challenging whether governments can shield areas in front of abortion clinics from protests. And the Supreme Court declined a separate Indiana lawsuit over the state's efforts to revoke a South Bend abortion clinic's license, allowing the clinic to remain open. The…
The Supreme Court said Thursday that it won’t speed a case challenging Texas’ restrictions on mail-in voting, leaving in place lower court rulings that said fear of contracting the coronavirus isn’t a valid reason under state law. The high court had previously refused to lift those lower court rulings, and now it says it won’t…
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY Published 9:46 a.m. ET July 2, 2020 | Updated 11:27 a.m. ET July 2, 2020CLOSE Special Counsel Robert Mueller makes his first public statements on the Russia investigation. USA TODAYWASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to consider blocking Congress' access to secret grand jury materials from the probe into Russian interference in the 2016…
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…