Tag: Supreme Court

Supreme Court to Take Up Trump-Backed Florida Social Media Censorship Appeal Next Week

The Supreme Court is scheduled next week to look at a case from Florida in which the state, 16 other states, and former President Donald Trump are urging the court to consider whether states have the power to regulate how social media companies moderate content on their platforms. The case is in the public eye because…


Supreme Court Orders Title 42 Border Rule to Remain in Effect

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Title 42, the Trump-era immigration and public health order, to remain in place for the time being. The high court voted (pdf) 5–4 to grant an emergency request from 19 Republican state attorneys general who sought to intervene in defense of the rule, putting on hold a ruling by District…


Gun Rights Group Files Emergency Request With Supreme Court

A Virginia-based Second Amendment rights group is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule a lower court and compel New York to follow the high court’s ruling in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. “We have said it before, and we will say it again, states must come into compliance with Bruen,”…


‘I’ve Never Seen It That Bad’: Texas Congressman Describes Conditions at Overcrowded Border Processing Center

Rep. Tony Gonzalez (R-Texas) on Dec. 21 said that the conditions at a processing facility on the U.S.-Mexico border were the worse he’s ever seen it. Gonzalez, in an interview with Fox News, made the remark while discussing a video he filmed at a processing center in El Paso, Texas, last week. “I’d been to…


PREMIERING NOW: What will happen when Trump-era Title 42 border policy ends | The Larry Elder Show | EP. 98

In response to the Supreme Court blocking the lifting of Title 42, which was used by the Trump administration to declare a medical emergency to prevent illegal aliens from entering the country, Larry Elder reminds America: it was the Biden administration that filed a lawsuit in order to get title 42 lifted. And during the…


Supreme Court Grants Bail to Pharma Millionaire Gigi Jordan Who Was Convicted in Death of Son

The Supreme Court took the unusual step Dec. 20 of granting bail on an emergency basis to a multimillionaire pharmaceutical executive previously convicted of manslaughter in the death of her young son. In 2014, Gigi Jordan was convicted of administering a fatal dose of drugs to Jude Mirra, her 8-year-old autistic child, in 2010 and…


Supreme Court Pauses Expiration of Title 42

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to pause the expiration of Title 42 after 19 states filed an emergency application for a stay. Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily stayed a lower court’s decision that would lift Title 42 on Wednesday. He called for an “administrative stay” that puts the order on hold while the…


Biden Expected to Sign Bill to Remove Bust of Confederate-Sympathizing Chief Justice From US Capitol

President Joe Biden is expected to sign a bill ordering that a marble bust of the late Chief Justice Roger Taney, who authored a pro-slavery Supreme Court opinion that helped to precipitate the Civil War, be removed from the U.S. Capitol building. The removal of the Taney bust is part of the push to remove…


Appeal of Alleged Hacker From Alabama to Be Heard by Supreme Court

The Supreme Court decided Dec. 13 to hear the case of an Alabama man whose trade secrets theft conviction in Florida for stealing proprietary fishing information from a Florida-based website was vacated because his trial took place in the wrong state. Having the conviction vacated was not enough for software engineer Timothy S. Smith of…


Supreme Court Will Hear Slack Technologies’ Appeal Against 9th Circuit Decision Allowing Class Action to Proceed

The Supreme Court decided Dec. 13 that it will take up the appeal of instant-messaging company Slack Technologies Inc. which is accused of making false statements in connection with public disclosures it made in 2019 when it offered corporate shares for sale. Pro-business groups say a lower court ruling against the company that allowed the…