Posts Tagged ‘justices’

Conservative Supreme Court Justices Appear to Support Religious Rights in Phila. Foster Agency Case

WASHINGTON — The conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to support the religious rights of faith-based foster and adoption agencies on Wednesday as the nation’s highest court heard oral argument surrounding a Catholic agency that lost its child placement relationship with the City of Philadelphia because of its protocol not to place children […]

Four Ala. Supreme Court Justices Call for Roe v. Wade to Be Overturned

Photo Credit: Jonathan Borba MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Four Alabama Supreme Court justices have used a ruling in an abortion case as an opportunity to call the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the 1973 decision of Roe v. Wade and the 1992 opinion of Planned Parenthood v. Casey — precedents that have perpetuated the shedding of […]

Joe Biden: No Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices, Maybe Move Them to Another Court

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that he did not support term limits for Supreme Court justices — but would consider moving them to “another court,” which amounts to the same thing. For months, Biden has dodged questions about whether he would “pack” the Court — i.e. expand the number of seats on the […]

Two SCOTUS justices put same-sex marriage on notice with scorching criticism

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Justices Thomas, Alito Slam Obergefell Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Decision as Supreme Court Denies Kim Davis Case

(Fox News) — Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said Monday that Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court case that mandated all states recognize same-sex marriages, is “found nowhere in the text” of the Constitution and threatens “the religious liberty of the many Americans who believe that marriage is a sacred institution between one man […]

Fmr AG Holder: ‘Additional Justices’ Needed on Supreme Court if Trump Appointment Confirmed

Saturday, during an appearance on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation,” former Attorney General Eric Holder told host Al Sharpton if Republicans succeeded in confirming a replacement for Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appointed by President Donald Trump, a future Democrat Senate majority along with Joe Biden, if he is elected president, should consider “court reform.” According to Holder, […]

Venezuela’s Supreme Court Justices, found themselves innocent, now limited Attorney General’s powers to prosecute

nsnbc : Justices at Venezuela’s Supreme Court, who earlier “found themselves innocent” in serious charges including crimes against the republic, brought against them by […]

The Supreme Court’s Liberal Justices Slam Lack Of Review In Police Shooting

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during an appearance at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del., Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. (AP/Patrick Semansky) The Supreme Court’s decision Monday not to hear an excessive-force case drew a fiery dissent from two left-leaning justices, who say the lower courts should have let a jury decide instead […]

UK Parliament Rules That US Allies Fund ISIS

The UK Parliament have released a report on Tuesday that concludes that there is ample evidence of various US allies funding and supporting ISIS.  The report, released by the Ministry of Defence, shows that ISIS received funding from within Arab Gulf states: “[There] is historical evidence of financial donations to Daesh [IS] from within Gulf states. […]

Blizzard to swing through central U.S. for the first week of Spring

     A dramatic swing in temperatures will bring both a taste of late spring and then a blizzard to the central United States for the first week of spring. The upswing in temperatures will cause record highs to be challenged during the first half of the new week, while the return of colder air will […]

Open Letter to Israeli Supreme Court Justices RE: Ongoing Injustices against Mordechai Vanunu

by Eileen Fleming   Today, the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected Mordechai Vanunu’s petition to cancel the injunction forbidding him from leaving Israel. I responded via the postal service and the World Wide Web: TO: Justices Eliezer Rivlin, Elyakim Rubinstein and Hanan Metzer The Supreme Court Jerusalem, Israel October 6, 2011 Dear Justices Eliezer […]

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