Delaware State

Presidents are partially immune from prosecution for actions taken while they are in office, the US Supreme Court ruled Monday. The historic decision will likely delay and defang much of the Justice Department’s Jan. 6 case against former President Donald Trump. The election subversion case is widely regarded as the most significant of Trump’s legal troubles.

US Supreme Court ruling dramatically expands presidential powers

BaytoBayNews.com

DOVER - The Delaware Senate, on Thursday, voted to remove the death penalty from state law.    House Bill 70, introduced in January 2023, would eliminate the sections of Delaware Code that  ...

Senate votes to repeal the death penalty in Delaware

Louisiana State

WASHINGTON — Legal scholars say the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest congressional redistricting decision made it harder for minorities to choose their U.S. House representative, which could impact Louisiana’s quest for two, rather than one, majority-Black districts. The 6-3 majority in a South Carolina case tries to end...

Supreme Court ruling will make it harder to create more majority-Black districts in Louisiana

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A solid majority of Americans say Supreme Court justices are more likely to be guided by their own ideology rather than serving as neutral arbiters of government authority, a new poll finds, as the high court is poised to rule on major cases involving former President Donald Trump and other divisive issues.

7 in 10 Americans think Supreme Court justices put ideology over impartiality: AP-NORC poll

In a 6-3 decision, the court said the president has “absolute immunity” from prosecution for official acts as president. They sent the case back to a lower court to determine what constitutes an official act, making it unlikely the case goes to trial ahead of the presidential election in November.

Supreme Court Rules On Trump Presidential Immunity: Live Updates

Let’s not beat around the bush. It is more likely than not that Donald Trump will return to the White House next year. Right now, polling averages show Trump with a slight popular vote lead over incumbent President Joe Biden. And, even if Biden overcomes this small deficit, the Electoral College system effectively makes Trump votes count more than Biden votes.

Justices Sotomayor and Kagan must retire now

The New Republic

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson railed Monday against the decision in Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, arguing in her dissent that the “flawed reasoning and far-reaching results” of the majority opinion “[wreak] havoc on Government agencies, businesses, and society at large.”In a 6–3 ruling along ideological lines, the court decided that the clock on a statute of limitations for complaints against an agency regulation doesn’t begin when the regulation is put in place, but when the plaintiff is injured. The majority opinion was delivered by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, with all...

Ketanji Brown Jackson Blasts Supreme Court Ruling That “Wreaks Havoc”

Georgia State

ATLANTA (AP) — An appeals court has halted the Georgia election interference case against former President Donald Trump and others while it reviews the lower court judge’s ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the case. The Georgia Court of Appeals’ order on Wednesday...

Appeals court halts Trump’s Georgia case during appeal of order allowing Willis to stay on case

Los Angeles, CA

LOS ANGELES – President Biden on Saturday night said he expects the winner of this year’s presidential election will likely have the chance to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court – a decision he warned would be “one of the scariest parts” if his Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, is successful in his bid for a second term.

Biden says the next president may get to name two Supreme Court justices

Jackson, MS

Lisa Ross, Bul Mabil's attorney, right, answers questions from the media after a court hearing about Dau Mabil's death investigation at the Hinds County Chancery Court in Jackson, Miss., on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today. With completion of the state’s autopsy of Belhaven Heights resident Dau Mabil,...

Independent autupsy next step in death probe of Jackson man

Montgomery, AL

A sign outside the Frank M. Johnson Jr. Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama seen on January 24, 2023. (Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector) Two lawyers accused of judge-shopping in a gender-affirming care lawsuit Friday apologized for potentially offending U.S. District Judge Liles C. Burke for withdrawing and refiling their original complaint.

Lawyers apologize for alleged judge-shopping in gender-affirming care case

Maui Community Correctional Center has seen a disproportionate number of suicides in recent years, and staff there have warned that improvements in mental health services are needed. (Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022) The pictures of Artrina De Lima present a puzzle. One is a glamorous-looking image of her with her daughter Kamalei,...

Another Suicide At The Maui Jail Leaves A Grieving Family To Conclude ‘Something Is Wrong’

New York City, NY

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The e-Texan

New York – As Trump anticipates his sentencing on July 11th in the New York hush money case, Florida Judge Aileen Cannon made a ruling this Monday. Despite rejecting Trump’s legal team's request to dismiss several charges in the classified documents case, she conceded on a minor point. She removed a portion of the charges that referenced an uncharged allegation, but upheld the other charges.

Legal expert says Trump should not be jailed after New York guilty verdict because he is ‘too old’

Florida State

Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers remarks on grants for infrastructure projects, the Supreme Court Chevron ruling, and President Joe Biden's debate performance at a news conference in Pensacola on July 1, 2024. (Screenshot via the governor's X livestream) Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday praised a recent Supreme Court ruling that stripped...

DeSantis: Chevron ruling stabilizes separation of powers

CNN’s Jake Tapper reads part of Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s scathing dissent in the 6-3 Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Donald Trump may claim immunity from criminal prosecution for some of the actions he took in the waning days of his presidency in a decision that will likely further delay a trial on federal election subversion charges pending against him.  

Sotomayor issues stark warning about presidential immunity ruling

Texas State

Reuters

(Reuters) -A federal judge in Texas on Friday temporarily blocked a Biden administration rule from taking effect that would extend mandatory overtime pay to 4 million salaried U.S. workers.

Texas wins court block on Biden overtime pay rule

Palestine, TX

Robert Roberson in court for the review of his 2003 conviction in the death of his two-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in Palestine on August 14, 2018. (Shelby Knowles for The Texas Tribune) Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the...

Texas sets execution date for East Texas man accused in shaken baby case

Salon

When Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, right-wing attorney John Eastman came up with a legal coping strategy: What if, he proposed, we just pretend that Trump won? That strategy hit a wall when former Vice President Mike Pence refused to play along, with Trump declaring him a coward and traitor while hundreds of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempted coup d’etat.

Legal experts: Trump's "friends on the Supreme Court" may take up his demand to intervene

Bridgeport, CT

The smoke stack from WIN Waste Innovations' waste disposal plant looms in the background of PT Barnum and playground across the street. CREDIT: SHAHRZAD RASEKH / CT MIRROR. The pepperoni and cheese pizzas, organic mango juices and plastic water bottles sat mostly unattended until dozens of people arrived by busload and formed a long line to take advantage of the complimentary Friday night dinner.

Bridgeport apartment complex residents fight for health, and a say

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-3 that Donald Trump cannot be criminally prosecuted for "official acts" he took when in office, stating that presidents enjoy "absolute immunity from criminal prosecution" and sending the case back to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to figure out which acts are official and unofficial.

"Treasonous acts": Liberal justices say SCOTUS Trump immunity ruling a "mockery" of the Constitution

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Delaware Supreme Court restores early, absentee voting

The Delaware Supreme Court restored early and absentee voting provisions for this year's elections, but it could hear the case again in the future. | SPOTLIGHT...

Delaware Supreme Court restores early, absentee voting

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