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Dec 14 2020
News
Supreme Court Undoes Statute of Limitations for Rape in the Military
The Supreme Court unanimously restored the convictions of three male U.S. Air Force members for rape under military law after an appeals court threw out the verdicts because they took place after a supposed statute of limitations had expired under military law.
The 8–0 ruling on Dec. 10 was a victory for the Trump administration.
Eight justices, instead of the usual nine, heard
The Epoch TimesOct 10 2023
News
State and federal leaders join community rally in Albany for Israel
ALBANY, NY (Erie News Now)-- Following a bombing of Israel by Hamas, a political and militant group that rules the Palestinian Gaza strip, people gathered in Albany to stand in solidarity with Israel. Some in tears. “You can imagine that in Israel a country that size, everybody knows someone affected. I know people affected, I have cousins who are sitting poised to be on the front lines,” said
Erie News Now WICU/WSEESep 23 2020
Fact Check
How Long Has Donald Trump Been Calling on Biden to Name His Supreme Court List?
In a speech in Philadelphia on Sunday, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden claimed that the Trump campaign only began demanding he release a list of potential Supreme Court nominees after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday.
“They’re now saying, after Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away, they said, ‘Biden should release his list [of potential Supreme Court nominees],’” said
The DispatchSep 21 2020
News
Trump Says He’ll Announce Supreme Court Nominee Friday Or Saturday
President Donald Trump said on Monday he is looking at four or five jurists to replace the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court and he will announce his nominee on Friday or Saturday.
Trump pushed ahead with plans for his third U.S. Supreme Court nomination, which would cement a 6-3 conservative majority, as some Republicans wavered on whether to support the move weeks
HuffPostOct 14 2020
Fact Check
Did Amy Coney Barrett Say “Being Called the N-Word Does Not Constitute a Hostile Work Environment”?
In October 2020, as the U.S. Senate began confirmation hearings for U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court opening created after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, social media users began circulating a bit of text purportedly reproducing a quotation from Barrett in which she declared that “Being called the N-word does not
SnopesSep 23 2020
News
How the Supreme Court nomination can navigate troubled political waters
Unlike 2016, Republicans want to fill a Supreme Court vacancy ASAP, and Democrats insist on waiting until after inauguration — as usual, both sides seem like hypocrites, and everybody’s playing politics.
The Left says Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish was for the new president to choose her replacement. With all due respect, that doesn’t matter one iota. The only thing that matters is
Washington ExaminerOct 25 2023
Opinion
As House speaker, Mike Johnson is as dangerous as Jim Jordan
If you are feeling any sense of relief that Jim Jordan won’t be the next House speaker, stop and worry again.
The new speaker, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), might be more dangerous than the firebrand Ohio Republican. For Jordan’s shirt sleeves demeanor and wrestler’s pugnacity, substitute a bespectacled, low-key presentation, a law degree and an unswerving commitment to conservative dogma
Ruth MarcusSep 22 2020
Analysis
CBS Wants Viewers to Be Terrified of SCOTUS 'Dominated By Conservatives'
The theme of Monday’s CBS Evening News was ‘be afraid, be afraid of conservatives on the Supreme Court.’ And they weren’t subtle about it. It was the common thread throughout their four back-to-back segments about the battle to fill the vacant seat once held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In fact, stoking fear of conservatives was how anchor Norah O’Donnell kicked off the program in
NewsBustersJun 28 2012
News
Supreme Court Health Care Decision: Individual Mandate Survives
The individual health insurance mandate is constitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday, upholding the central provision of President Barack Obama's signature Affordable Care Act.
The controlling opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld the mandate as a tax, although concluded it was not valid as an exercise of Congress' commerce clause power. Justices Ruth Bader
HuffPostMar 24 2022
Opinion
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden's Supreme Court pick, reveals a lot with questions she won't answer
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats incessantly remind us that the historic milestone marked by Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination is that she would become the Supreme Court’s first Black woman.
Yet, how historically significant can it be if she can’t say what a woman is?
For all her appeal – and in 12 grueling hours of testimony on Tuesday, Judge Jackson’s intellect and
Andrew C. McCarthy