The Supreme Court’s deeply divided order rejecting an emergency challenge to California’s pandemic-related restrictions on places of worship still provides a guide for lower courts balancing government rules intended to preserve public health with parishioners’ constitutional religious rights.Just before midnight Friday, the court on a 5-to-4 vote rejected a challenge from South Bay Pentecostal Church…
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court's decision that an immigrant with lawful permanent resident status cannot fight deportation due to a previous offense, even though that crime was not grounds for his removal.In a 5-4 ruling with conservative justices on one side and liberals on the other, the court ruled for the Trump…
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…