Tag: Supreme Court

Biden Signs Executive Order Targeting Abortion

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order that he says will allow for more abortion access, coming weeks after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “Today’s Executive Order builds on the first Executive Order that I signed last month to safeguard access to … abortion care,” he wrote on Twitter. “I…


Biden Signs Executive Order Promoting Abortion

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order that he says will allow for more abortion access, coming weeks after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “Today’s Executive Order builds on the first Executive Order that I signed last month to safeguard access to … abortion care,” he wrote on Twitter. “I…


Big Tech, Pharma, Banks Urge SCOTUS to Uphold Race-Based Discrimination in College Admissions

A large cross-section of corporate America filed briefs with the Supreme Court on Aug. 1 urging the court to allow colleges to continue using race as a factor in student admissions. The court is poised to hear challenges to these racially discriminatory policies in its new term that begins in October. The challengers say so-called…


Big Tech, Pharma, Finance Urge SCOTUS to Uphold Race-Based Discrimination in College Admissions

A large cross-section of corporate America filed briefs with the Supreme Court on Aug. 1 urging the court to allow colleges to continue using race as a factor in student admissions. The court is poised to hear challenges to these racially discriminatory policies in its new term that begins in October. The challengers say so-called…


Cancel-Culture Group Urges Supreme Court to Disbar Trump Lawyer

A cancel-culture group linked to Hillary Clinton has asked the Supreme Court to disbar attorney John C. Eastman after he represented the Trump campaign in legal challenges to the 2020 presidential election. The request to take away Eastman’s high court privileges is unusual because no other body has previously disbarred him. Normally, an effort to…


SCOTUS Justice Alito Criticizes World Leaders for Opposing Abortion Ruling, Cites ‘Hostility to Religion’

The Supreme Court Justice who drafted the decision that overturned Roe v. Wade is decrying a “growing hostility” toward religion in the West in his first public appearance after the June ruling. “The problem that looms is not just indifference to religion, it’s not just ignorance about religion,” Alito said, starting his keynote address at…


House Democrats Propose Bill to Place Term Limits on Supreme Court Justices

House Democrats on Tuesday introduced a bill to place term limits on U.S. Supreme Court justices in a bid to “restore balance” to the majority conservative bench. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), chair of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, claimed that the nation’s higher court faced a “legitimacy crisis.” “Five of the six…


Justice Kagan: ‘Dangerous’ If Supreme Court Loses Public Confidence

Associate Justice Elena Kagan is warning against the Supreme Court not taking heed of the public after the court struck down Roe v. Wade. Speaking in public on July 21 for the first time since the court’s momentous ruling in June, Kagan stressed the importance of the justices staying in their proper roles as judges…


Supreme Court Blocks Biden Admin Policy Narrowing Detainment, Deportation of Illegal Aliens

The U.S. Supreme Court gave Texas and Louisiana a temporary legal victory in the border states’ attempt to strike down a September 2021 Biden administration immigration guideline. The Supreme Court, in a ruling without explanation on Thursday, allowed a federal judge in Texas to block the Biden Administration’s immigration guideline that, according to the border…


Supreme Court Religious Freedom Wins | Counterculture

In this episode of Counterculture, Danielle celebrates and breaks down the recent Supreme Court wins in the area of religious freedom: Carson v. Makin and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. First Liberty spearheaded both of these cases before the Supreme Court, and got two big wins! Danielle interviews Michael Berry, a lawyer from First Liberty,…