Tag: Judiciary

Pelosi: There ‘Certainly Should Be Term Limits’ for Supreme Court Justices

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday expressed support for putting an end to the lifelong terms of members of the U.S. Supreme Court. Pelosi, in an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” said U.S. Supreme Court justices should have term limits. “Here we have a body, chosen for life, never have to run for office, nominated,…


McCarthy Talks of Impeaching Garland as New Email Contradicts Attorney General

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is talking of impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland as a new email contradicts Garland’s testimony regarding the Hunter Biden investigation. U.S. Attorney David Weiss recently brought several tax charges against Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, resulting in Hunter Biden admitting guilt. But Weiss told top officials during a meeting in…


New Email Contradicts Garland on Hunter Biden Probe as Impeachment Talk Heats Up

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is talking of impeaching Attorney General Merrick Garland as a new email contradicts Garland’s testimony regarding the Hunter Biden investigation. U.S. Attorney David Weiss recently brought several tax charges against Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, resulting in Hunter Biden admitting guilt. But Weiss told top officials during a meeting in…


Supreme Court Dismisses Lawsuit Over Trump’s Former DC Hotel

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 26 dismissed an appeal over a long-running dispute between former president Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over the former Trump International Hotel in the nation’s capital. The dispute focused on documents related to the lease of the government property in downtown Washington that housed the hotel. Democrats claimed Trump…


Supreme Court Throws out Louisiana’s Appeal, Making Way for New Congressional Map

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that another congressional map may have to be redrawn amid claims that it inappropriately dilutes the influence of black voters in the state. “The writ of certiorari before judgment is dismissed as improvidently granted. The stay heretofore entered by the Court on June 28, 2022, is vacated,” the court…


ANALYSIS: Trump Still Dominating Republican Rivals After Classified Documents Indictment

Even after being indicted in two separate criminal cases, former President Donald Trump has maintained a commanding lead over his Republican rivals in national polls of registered voters. But those same polls are showing that if Trump were to run head-to-head against the presumed 2024 Democratic nominee, President Joe Biden, the two candidates would be…


ANALYSIS: Trump Still Dominating Republican Rivals in Polls After Classified Documents Indictment

Even after being indicted in two separate criminal cases, former President Donald Trump has maintained a commanding lead over his Republican rivals in national polls of registered voters. But those same polls are showing that if Trump were to run head-to-head against the presumed 2024 Democratic nominee, President Joe Biden, the two candidates would be…


ANALYSIS: Trump Still Dominates Republican Rivals in Polls After Classified Documents Indictment

Even after being indicted in two separate criminal cases, former President Donald Trump has maintained a commanding lead over his Republican rivals in national polls of registered voters. But those same polls are showing that if Trump were to run head-to-head against the presumed 2024 Democratic nominee, President Joe Biden, the two candidates would be…


Supreme Court Votes 6–3 to Uphold Murder Conviction Based on Another Defendant’s Confession

The Supreme Court upheld by 6–3 along ideological lines the conviction of Adam Samia, who was found guilty in a murder-for-hire scheme on the strength of another person’s written confession. In the June 23 ruling the six conservative justices found that Samia’s constitutional right to confront and cross-examine his co-defendant while he was being tried…


One Supreme Court Justice Dissents in Major Illegal Immigration Case

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito stood alone last week in opposing a majority ruling that Louisiana and Texas lacked standing to challenge a Biden administration immigration policy. The high court, in an 8–1 decision (pdf), ruled that the state challengers lacked standing to file a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement priorities that were unveiled…