All posts tagged "Supreme Court Ruling"

Reactions were rolling in Monday after President Donald Trump and his Republican Party were dealt a serious blow in the Supreme Court's ruling on mail-in ballots.

Reporters asked Trump for his thoughts during a press conference in the Oval Office after the high court upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, rejecting the president's attacks on the voting practice.

Trump was asked what comes next for the SAVE America Act, which the president has referred to as a priority. ...

Nearly a dozen currently serving federal judges criticized the U.S. Supreme Court from behind the cloak of anonymity.

The federal judges went on background to speak with NBC News about the court's increasingly frequent habit of overturning lower court rulings involving President Donald Trump's policies with little or no explanation, and some of them called out Chief Justice John Roberts for not doing enough to defend the integrity of the court's work.

“Judges in the trenches need, and deserve, well-reasoned, bright-line guidance,” one judge said. “Too often today, sweeping rulings arrive with breathtaking speed but minimal explanation, stripped of the rigor that full briefing and argument provide.”...

A Maryland man’s conviction in connection with a 1999 homicide will get a new look from the state’s Supreme Court, The Washington Post reports.

Adnan Syed in 2000 was convicted of first-degree murder for the killing of Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old woman he once dated. Syed was 17 at the time of his arrest in 1999.

His case was featured on the “Serial” podcast and the subject of an HBO documentary. ...

As I reveled in the tears of conservatives responding to the Supreme Court's ruling on same sex marriage, I came across one particular Republican Representative clown who epitomizes the laughable hypocrisy of the right-wing.

WASHINGTON — The US Supreme Court ruled that generic drug makers can challenge big-name pharmaceutical firms in court to stop them from broadening the scope of their patent descriptions.

In this clip, commentator Bill Moyers answers a question frequently posed to him by viewers -- "How can ordinary people fight 'Citizens United'?"