The Supreme Court declined Monday to weigh in on several cases that challenged law enforcement’s shield from legal liability while on the job, as well as legal battles involving the Second Amendment. Justice Clarence Thomas, though, would have heard one of the qualified immunity challenges involving Alexander Baxter who was caught breaking into a house…
Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's first nominee to the Supreme Court, delivered an opinion Monday that will change how more than 7 million LGBTQ individuals will live and work in the Uni…
Supporters of gun control and firearm safety measures hold a protest rally outside the US Supreme Court as the Court hears oral arguments in State Rifle and Pistol v. City of New York, NY, in Washington, DC, December 2, 2019.Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court on Monday said it will not hear…
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY Published 11:14 a.m. ET June 15, 2020 CLOSE A DACA recipient who became an immigrant activist is now anxiously awaiting a U.S. Supreme Court decision on President Donald Trump’s attempt to end protection from deportation. Alejandra Gonzalez's family brought her to the U.S. when she was 5. (June 12) AP DomesticWASHINGTON –…
Bostock v. Clayton County, a landmark Supreme Court decision holding that federal law prohibits employment discrimination against LGBTQ workers, was a test of Justice Neil Gorsuch’s principles. He passed. Gorsuch is a vocal proponent of “textualism,” the belief that the meaning of a law turns on its words alone, not on the intentions of the…
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…