All posts tagged "Supreme Court Justice"

Former President Donald Trump wants to take presidential immunity even further now — and use it to wipe out the civil judgments against him in the E. Jean Carroll case.

The Supreme Court's controversial decision this month found that presidents have a presumption of immunity for "official" acts but not "unofficial" ones, punting for now to lower courts to figure out which is which, while eliminating or sharply limiting the ability of prosecutors to use motive or certain types of executive branch evidence to determine whether an act is official. It doomed any chances of special counsel Jack Smith's federal election conspiracy case going to trial before the November election, and breathed fresh life into Trump's attempts to get his Manhattan criminal conviction and the election racketeering cases in Georgia eliminated.

But that's not far enough for Trump. In a footnote of his filing to try to get the Manhattan conviction dismissed, he hinted he also wants to use the Supreme Court's decision to wipe out the more than $80 million he owes in judgments in the civil cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll....

Legal experts gathered Friday to trash some of the recently released decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Slate Supreme Court reporter Dahlia Lithwick explained the unwriting of a 40-year precedent in the Chevron case, which the High Court had not made. The federal government decides a number of regulations, employing experts, scientists, doctors, chemists, and others to determine what is or isn't safe for the American people. Some examples are how long meat can be unrefrigerated during transport, how much lead is safe for drinking water, and even recommendations about cooks washing their hands after using the bathroom.

"So, Chevron is essentially shorthand for a long-standing tradition that says that if there's an ambiguous statute, the courts defer to the agency itself and their interpretation of how to read that statute. Why? Because agencies are teeming with people who know the science and understand how the climate works, who understand how health care works, and who understand how guns work," said Lithwick. ...

In a wide-ranging interview with New York's Jennifer Senior, Supreme Court Justice and conservative icon Antonin Scalia revealed much about his habits, both daily and intellectual, since coming to the court.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry admitted Sunday that he didn't know the names of all of the Supreme Court justices, who he calls "judges."

Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) told Current TV's Keith Olbermann Tuesday that a "retroactive recusal" of Justice Clarence Thomas could result in overturning the Citizens United case.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former police officer, cleared of rape charges but convicted of official misconduct, was sentenced on Monday to one year in prison for repeatedly returning to the apartment of a drunken woman while on duty.