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Boston Herald - 1 hour 20 min agoAlabama wants to put to death a man found by courts to be intellectually disabled.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett announces he will not seek re-election after the Supreme Court upheld Republican redistricting maps that threatened his Texas seat.
The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday will consider an Alabama case about how states decide if a death penalty candidate is intellectually disabled.
Joseph Clifton Smith, 55, has been on death row roughly half his life...
The House will take its first votes on the must-pass Defense funding bill on Wednesday, after the Rules Committee advanced the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) late Tuesday. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday is expected to cut interest rates, its final decision of 2025, as President Trump looks to chart a new course for the...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday will grapple with where the line should be drawn on intellectual disability in imposing a death sentence in a case that could make it harder for convicted killers to evade execution if their IQ falls short of certain standards. The justices are set to clarify how multiple IQ scores should be evaluated in cases like Joseph Clifton Smith's. Smith was...
Two decades ago, the Supreme Court barred the execution of people with mental disabilities as a violation of the Constitution's Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment. But the court's composition has changed since then.
Supreme Court will hear challenges to Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship, but the Constitution and 140 years of precedent support automatic citizenship.
ABC News - 14 hours 31 min agoThe Supreme Court is taking up an appeal from Alabama, which wants to put to death a man who lower federal courts found is intellectually disabled and shielded from execution...
Conservative Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared to back a Republican-led drive that would erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president and overturn a quarter-century-old decision. A day after the justices indicated they would reverse a 90-year-old precedent limiting the...
The Supreme Court's conservatives signaled they are likely to rule for Republicans and President Trump by throwing out a Watergate-era limit on campaign funding by political parties. Such a ruling could allow parties to support their candidate's campaigns with help from wealthy donors.
Slate - 21 hours 21 min agoThree babies born in the last several months don't know it yet, but they are on their way to making history.
Buzz Feed - 21 hours 31 min agoThe president was apparently up late on Monday night posting on his Truth Social platform. View Entire Post ›...
Slate - 21 hours 42 min agoWe'll find out soon enough if a majority is willing to weaponize recent precedent against the literal lives of schoolchildren.
"Our tinkering causes more harm than it does good," Justice Sotomayor said of the court's interference over the past 20 years.
Mother Jones - 22 hours 24 min agoThe Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that could unravel the final remaining limits on the ultra-rich writing unlimited checks to their preferred federal candidates, opening the door even wider to political corruption. The liberal justices were clearly opposed to further weakening campaign finance rules, a path long-favored by the court's […]...
Conservative Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett were uncharacteristically quiet during arguments in a blockbuster case revolving around Vice President JD Vance that could upend campaign finance in the midterms.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a lawsuit regarding the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's executive order to restrict the right to birthright citizenship . If the Supreme Court rules in Trump's favor, then children born in the US would be denied citizenship if their parents are undocumented or residing in the country under temporary legal status. Let's not mince words here: Trump's executive order is cruel and xenophobic. Children born of undocumented immigrants...
In 2010, in the landmark case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court struck down legal limits on independent political spending by corporations and unions.
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