A federal appeals court shot down a Kansas policy that required voters who registered under the federal motor-voter law to prove they were citizens before being allowed to vote, saying Wednesday that it shut tens of thousands of voters out of the process. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the secretary of state’s…
On Monday, Washington lawyer Lisa S. Blatt will pull out her favorite suit, put on her lucky, understated jewelry and stride to the lectern to address the justices of the United States Supreme Court.In her dining room. On the telephone.“I’m going to replicate the process as much as possible,” said Blatt, although the only people…
(CNN)A federal appeals court on Wednesday affirmed a lower court's decision that a Kansas voting law, crafted by conservative hardliner and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, is unconstitutional and violates the National Voter Registration Act. Th…
Federal appellate judges grilled the Trump administration on Tuesday in its dispute with the House over former White House counsel Don McGahn's refusal to comply with a congressional subpoena for his testimony.In perhaps the most high-profile court hearing since the coronavirus pandemic forced the judiciary to hold virtual proceedings, the Trump administration and the House…
A bicyclist passes the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, April 16, 2020.Al Drago | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the government has to pay a $12 billion debt owed to insurance companies that participated in a program that existed in the first years of the Affordable…
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…