Supreme Court grapples with use of confession in joint trial
The Supreme Court on Wednesday grappled with whether a man serving a life sentence for his role on an international โkill teamโ should get a new trial. The justices heard 90 minutes of lively arguments about a situation that sometimes arises in criminal trials with more than one defendant, when one person's confession might also implicate someone else on trial. Adam Samia, who was convicted of a killing a real estate broker in the Philippines, was tried with two other men who carried out the attack on the orders of Paul LeRoux, a South African who led an international crime organization and cooperated with federal authorities after his arrest in 2012.
news.yahoo.comJustice Thomas wrote of 'crushing weight' of student loans
The Supreme Court won't have far to look if it wants a personal take on the โcrushing weightโ of student debt that underlies the Biden administrationโs college loan forgiveness plan. Justice Clarence Thomas was in his mid-40s and in his third year on the nation's highest court when he paid off the last of his debt from his time at Yale Law School. Thomas, the court's longest-serving justice and staunchest conservative, has been skeptical of other Biden administration initiatives.
news.yahoo.comSupreme Court wrestles with lawsuit shield for social media
In its first case about the federal law that is credited with helping create the modern internet, the Supreme Court seems unlikely to side with a family wanting to hold Google liable for the death of their daughter who was killed in a terrorist attack.
High court rules against Arizona GOP leader in records fight
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol to get phone records belonging to the leader of the Arizona Republican Party. The high court on Monday rejected GOP state chair Kelli Ward's request to halt the turnover of records while a lawsuit proceeds. The court lifted a temporary order that had been put in place by Justice Elena Kagan that had paused anything from happening while Ward's appeal was at the Supreme Court.
news.yahoo.comArizona GOP leader asks high court to halt record turnover
The leader of the Arizona Republican party on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to step in and halt a lower court decision requiring her phone records to be turned over to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. State party chair Kelli Ward has said her First Amendment rights would be chilled if investigators were able to learn whom she spoke with while trying to challenge former President Donald Trumpโs 2020 election defeat. A federal appeals court panel ruled 2-1 against Ward over the weekend and said the committee should get records of calls Ward made and received from just before the November 2020 election to Jan. 31, 2021.
news.yahoo.comSupreme Court justices spar over court legitimacy comments
Supreme Court justices tend to wipe the slate clean at the start of a new term, the bruised feelings occasioned by tough cases eased by a summer break. The latest comments came Tuesday night from conservative Justice Samuel Alito, the author of the June decision that took away womenโs constitutional protections for abortion. On Tuesday, Alito was answering a question at a forum at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington when he said that โsomeone also crosses an important line" when saying "that the court is acting in a way that is illegitimate.โ
news.yahoo.comJustice Kagan: 'Time will tell' if court finds common ground
Justice Elena Kagan says โtime will tellโ whether the Supreme Court can get back to โfinding common groundโ after a term in which the courtโs six conservatives and three liberals split over major issues including abortion and gun rights.
Loud and clear: New Justice Jackson speaks volumes at bench
Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the Supreme Court and its newest justice, said before the term began that she was โready to work.โ For now, Jackson's approach seems less like Justice Clarence Thomas, who once went 10 years without asking a question, and more like Justice Neil Gorsuch, who in his first year was one of the more active questioners. โI canโt think of a time where youโve seen a junior justice take hold of the argumentsโ to the same extent, Feldman said using the courtโs shorthand title for the newest justice.
news.yahoo.comRepublican power grab in the judiciary warps midterm election dynamic
Jen Psaki, former Biden White House press secretary and new member of the MSNBC family, talks with Alex Wagner about how Republicans overreach through courts stacked by Donald Trump has made them the target of midterm voters who might otherwise be focused on President Biden and congressional Democrats.
news.yahoo.comJustice Kagan cautions Supreme Court can forfeit legitimacy
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Monday cautioned that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to. Speaking less than three months after a five-justice conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade's constitutional guarantee of abortion access, Kagan said the public's view of the court can be damaged especially when changes in its membership lead to big changes in the law. โJudges create legitimacy problems for themselves ... when they instead stray into places where it looks like theyโre an extension of the political process or when theyโre imposing their own personal preferences,โ Kagan said at Temple Emanu-El in New York.
news.yahoo.comSupreme Court limits EPAโs power to combat climate change
Placeholder while article actions loadThe Supreme Court on Thursday sharply cut back the Environmental Protection Agencyโs ability to reduce the carbon output of existing power plants, a blow to President Bidenโs commitment to battle climate change. AdvertisementThe court was considering the powers granted by the Clean Air Act, which was written decades ago, before climate change was widely recognized as a worldwide crisis. The Supreme Court in 2016 stopped the Obama administrationโs plan to drastically reduce power plantsโ carbon output. For that reason, the administration and environmentalists were stunned when the Supreme Court took the case. Apple, Tesla and other major tech and retail firms investing in renewable energy, meanwhile, told the court that โstable, nationwide rulesโ are needed to avert climate disaster.
washingtonpost.comSupreme Court justices' past abortion views, in their own words and votes
More than a month ago, a stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicated that the Supreme Court was prepared to take the momentous step of overruling the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 and stripping away women's constitutional protections for abortion.
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