Justice Stephen Breyer Retiring, Giving Biden His First Supreme Court Nomination

WASHINGTON — Justice Stephen Breyer intends to retire at the end of the US Supreme Court’s current term, NBC News reported Wednesday, giving President Joe Biden his first Supreme Court nomination and an opportunity to fulfill a campaign pledge to make history by appointing a Black woman to the court. Breyer, a justice since 1994 …

Twitter is already in a froth about Manchin, Sinema blocking Biden’s potential new Supreme Court justice—but they might be wrong

On Wednesday, news broke that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring. The internet is already mad at Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) about it. Their anger, while understandable, might be misguided. Sinema and Manchin are widely considered thorns in Democrats’ sides. Last week, they joined Republicans to retain the filibuster, which …

Not Even Trump’s Supreme Court Justices Would Stop The Jan. 6 Committee From Seeing His Documents

Getty Image For months, Donald Trump has been predictably Trumpian with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot. They’ve been asking to see hundreds of documents from the Trump-era White House, which are stored in the National Archives. He’s responded by doing what he’s always done when confronted with something that could land him …

Supreme Court Blocks Biden Vaccine Mandate for Businesses

Jan. 13, 2022 – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for large businesses but said a similar one may continue while challenges to the rules move through lower courts. The vote was 6-3 against the large business mandate and 5-4 in favor of the health care worker mandate. …

Supreme Court May Back COVID Vaccine Mandate for Health Workers

Jan. 7, 2022 — The U.S. Supreme Court appeared to agree Friday with the federal government that it is within its rights to require health care facilities that accept Medicare or Medicaid dollars to vaccinate workers against COVID-19, but justices seemed more skeptical that the government can order other large businesses that they must require …

Justice Sotomayor Rained Fire On The Supreme Court In A Blistering Dissent To The Ruling On Texas’ Insane Abortion Law

Getty Image Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued one of the most scathing dissents we’ve heard so far in response to the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on the controversial Texas abortion ban. Just to recap: Texas enacted a law that made it possible for everyday citizens to sue not only abortion providers, but anyone involved in the …

Supreme Court Revives Challenge To Texas Abortion Ban

WASHINGTON — Texas cannot escape a constitutional challenge to its six-week abortion ban, the US Supreme Court ruled Friday, reviving a fight over the strictest antiabortion law in the country months after a majority of justices refused to stop it from taking effect. A majority of justices concluded that abortion providers who had sued the …

Supreme Court Leaves Texas Abortion Law in Place

Dec. 10, 2021 — In a highly anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the controversial Texas abortion law that restricts the procedure to women pregnant for 6 weeks or less may continue to be enforced, but allowed for state and federal courts to hear challenges to whether it violates the Constitution. As …

Trump Reportedly Almost Dumped Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Nomination Because He Said ‘I Like Beer’

Getty Image Donald Trump is many things (including a terrible eater), but one thing he is not is a drunk. Indeed, he’s a teetotaler, never drinking and knowing so little about alcohol consumption that the cocktails at his Trump Tower restaurant were once described by Vanity Fair as seeming like they were “concocted by a …

Mike Lindell Is Blaming His Failure To Inform The Supreme Court About His Conspiracy Theories On, Of Course, A Conspiracy Theory

Getty Image For the last year, Mike Lindell has been like one of those end-of-the-world doomsayers, who boldly pick a date as the planet’s last then helplessly watch as the day uneventfully passes. The troubled pillow salesman has kept swearing his favorite president-turned-resort wedding speechgiver would be magically reinstated in the White House. And so …