Us supreme court
Oct 29, 2020 05:53
The state election board, citing potential US Postal Service mail delivery delays, opted to allow absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if they arrived up to nine days later. read more
Oct 27, 2020 06:04
All Democrats in the chamber voted against Barrett’s confirmation, as did Republican Susan Collins of Maine, who agreed with Democratic objections to confirming a justice so close to the Nov. 3 election. read more
Oct 14, 2020 10:23
Barrett opted not to say whether she would step aside from taking part in a major Obamacare case to be argued on Nov. 10 or in any disputes arising from the Nov. 3 election - as Democrats have requested. read more
Oct 04, 2020 06:04
The positive tests come as Senate Republicans are pushing to quickly confirm Barrett in the few weeks they have before the Nov. 3 election. read more
Sep 27, 2020 09:07
US President Donald Trump announced his nomination at a White House event calling Barrett “one of our nation’s most brilliant and gifted legal minds”. read more
Sep 20, 2020 10:41
Indian-origin judge Amul Thapar’s chances to replace late judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg now appears diminished with the US president announcing he will pick a woman. read more
Sep 19, 2020 05:44
Ginsburg died of complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer, the court said. read more
Jul 28, 2020 05:52
Lawyers filed a rewritten lawsuit in Manhattan federal court to challenge the subpoena by a state prosecutor on grounds they believe conform with how the U.S. Supreme Court said the subpoena can be contested. read more
Jul 16, 2020 17:01
On Tuesday, Daniel Lewis Lee was put to death at the facility after his eleventh hour legal bids failed. It was the first federal execution after a 17-year hiatus. read more
Jul 09, 2020 22:25
The US Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of President Donald Trump’s personal tax and financial records to New York investigators but turned down subpoenas for the same papers and information from congressional committees in a separate case. read more
Jul 02, 2020 23:41
Abortion rights proponents have said that for most women seeking an abortion, an ultrasound is not medically necessary, and that the requirement is an attempt by anti-abortion politicians to make obtaining an abortion more difficult. read more
Jun 18, 2020 21:35
President Barack Obama had issued the protection through an executive order in 2012 barring the deportation of undocumented immigrants who came here as children. read more
Jun 18, 2020 10:12
In a 6-3 decision, the court had ruled Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, saying that federal law prohibited discrimination based on sex as well as race, colour, national origin and religion, also applies to gay and trans people. read more
Jun 16, 2020 00:30
It was a 6-3 decision by the US Supreme Court with Trump appointee Justice Neil Gorsuch writing the majority opinion. read more
May 04, 2020 12:19
The nine justices kicked off a scheduled hour of arguments in the case - not in a courtroom but by participating remotely using a dial-in format to combat the spread of the pathogen. read more
