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Supreme Court declines to hear case on corporate campaign contributions
Campaign finance: Supreme Court declines case on contributions by corporations The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case testing whether a century-long ban on political contributions to candidates from corporations violates corporations’ freedom of speech. The action came without comment by the justices. At issue in…
Obama asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ban
The Barack Obama administration on Friday formally asked the US Supreme Court to strike down a 1996 law defining marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman. The request was contained in a legal brief filed to the US high court, whose nine justices plan next month…
Original Prop 8 challengers address Supreme Court
Nearly four years after filing their challenge to California’s Proposition 8, attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies filed their case with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday. According to Buzzfeed, the legal team argued that the Constitution “does not tolerate the permanent exclusion of gay men and lesbians from the…
Antitrust advocate: ‘Long-term food monopoly’ if Supreme Court favors Monsanto
Bert Foer of the American Antitrust Institute warned Tuesday of a “long-term food monopoly” if the Supreme Court sided with agricultural giant Monsanto in a patent dispute. “If I were writing the laws I would put some limitations on the types of conditions that can be placed on an initial…
Supreme Court poised to deal serious blow to fighting racial discrimination in housing
By Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jeff Larson, ProPublica For the past four decades, federal officials and civil rights lawyers have wielded a potent legal weapon in the fight against housing discrimination. Even when they couldn’t prove that practices of landlords, lenders or governments were racially motivated, they could win cases by…
Medical marijuana legalization likely headed to Supreme Court
An appeals court refused on Tuesday to even consider reviewing evidence to reclassify marijuana due to its medical usefulness, leaving the nation’s largest medical marijuana advocacy group vowing to ask the Supreme Court for a review. In their ruling (PDF), three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington,…
Poll: Majority of Americans want Supreme Court to uphold right to abortion
Sixty-three percent of Americans would rather not see the US Supreme Court overturn its historic 1973 ruling on abortion, according to a Pew Research Center opinion poll released Wednesday. Only 29 percent want to see the Roe versus Wade decision upended, according to the poll released six days before its…
With Chavez absent, Venezuela launches new presidential term
With President Hugo Chavez ailing and absent, Venezuela’s leftist government launches a new presidential term Thursday with a display of popular support on the day he was to be inaugurated. Leaders of other leftist Latin American government also began arriving in Caracas to pay tribute to Chavez, 58, who has…
Members of Congress urge Supreme Court to protect legislative prayers
Forty-nine members of Congress this week urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of sectarian legislative prayers, saying the practice was vindicated by its “historical background” in the U.S. Congress. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled last year that Greece, New York violated the…
Supreme Court to take up Prop 8 and DOMA March 26-27
The US Supreme Court will hear arguments on March 26 and 27 on the sensitive topic of gay marriage, one of the thorniest social disputes in modern America. Same-sex marriage is currently barred by a federal law, yet legal in nine states and the capital, Washington. The court’s announcement last…
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