All posts tagged "Chief Justice John Roberts"

Chief Justice John Roberts went so far out of his way to throw Donald Trump a "lifeline" that he ended up ignoring the plain language of a law, a former prosecutor said.

Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor who frequently appears on MSNBC as a legal expert, called out Roberts for a recent decision in which Kirschner says the Supreme Court made legal issues easier for the former president and those who attacked the Capitol on his behalf in 2021.

"The Supreme Court just threw Donald Trump and some of his fellow insurrectionists, his foot soldiers, a lifeline," Kirschner said on his "Justice Matters" broadcast. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. cable TV network and a senior Republican senator asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to allow its first live broadcast when it hears arguments in the legal dispute over President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul law.

The Supreme Court has ruled that teenagers may not be locked up for life without chance of parole if they haven't killed anyone.