Nina Totenberg
Domestic violence with a gun is a leading cause of death for children, NPR’s Nina Totenberg reports. More than half of all mass shootings are perpetrated by people with a record of domestic violence.
Trump’s argument for immunity is broad: He contends that he cannot be prosecuted for his “official acts” as president unless he is first impeached, convicted by the Senate and removed from office.
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Missouri, Louisiana and five individuals who were either banned from social media during the pandemic or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured.
The court ruled 6-3 long ideological lines that the First Amendment bars Colorado from “forcing a website designer to create expressive designs speaking messages with which the designer disagrees.”
The decision reverses decades of precedent upheld over the years by narrow court majorities that included Republican-appointed justices.
If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, and she would be one of four women on the court, the largest number ever to serve at one time.
Durbin has been No. 2 in the Senate Democratic leadership since 2007, a job that involves knowing senators well enough to be able to count and corral votes, and knowing how to broker a deal.
Judge Jackson, 51, served for eight years as a federal trial court judge, and last June was confirmed for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Behind the scenes, Breyer pushed and prodded his fellow justices for consensus. His decision gives President Biden his first opportunity to name a new justice to the court.
The two cases are in a preliminary posture, but how the court rules will very likely signal how these issues are ultimately resolved.
The justices allowed the abortion providers’ challenges to go ahead against Texas’ licensing officials – but not against anyone else. The court also blocked the Justice Department’s challenge.
At issue is whether to reverse the court’s nearly half-century-old decision, Roe v. Wade, and subsequent decisions declaring that women have a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.
The time long awaited by gun-rights advocates has come, as the conservative court examines how far a state may go in regulating an individual’s right to carry a gun outside the home.
On Dec. 1, the court will hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The Mississippi case tests whether all state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional.
The justices, in a 6-3 opinion, narrowed the only major section of the landmark Voting Rights Act that remains in effect.
Ahead of soon-to-be former President Trump’s Senate trial, constitutional scholars disagree on whether the Founders intended for a president no longer in office to be tried by the Senate.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued four states that Joe Biden won, claiming their changes to election procedures during the pandemic violated federal law.
The Constitution says that for reallocating House seats, the census must count the “whole number of persons” in each state. But Trump wants to subtract undocumented immigrants.