Indiana State

Columbus, OH

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

Wisconsin State

The Independent

 The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided Tuesday to consider two challenges to a 175-year-old law that conservatives maintain bans abortion without letting the cases wind through lower courts. Abortion advocates stand an excellent chance of prevailing in both cases given the high court's liberal tilt and remarks a liberal justice made on the campaign trail about how she supports abortion rights. Wisconsin lawmakers enacted statutes in 1849 that had been widely interpreted as outlawing abortion in all cases except to save the mother's life. The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion nullified the statutes, but...

Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider whether 175-year-old law bans abortion

WashingtonExaminer

The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear a case from Planned Parenthood that would enshrine the right to an abortion in the state’s Constitution. The court’s liberal majority handed down the order to hear the case. Last week, Wisconsin’s high court launched an investigation after Wisconsin Watch released the court’s decision to take up the […]

Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear case to enshrine abortion rights in state Constitution

The New Republic

Justice Amy Coney Barrett broke ranks with the conservative majority on the Supreme Court Friday, leveraging strong words against her colleagues for their interpretation of Fischer v. United States. After the court ruled 6–3 that the Justice Department overstepped in charging hundreds of January 6 rioters with obstruction, the Trump-appointed conservative judge used her dissenting opinion to tear apart the decision that would narrow all future obstruction charges, including potentially Trump’s.Noting that the court didn’t dispute the details of the case—namely that Congress’s joint session was an “official proceeding,” that the rioters delayed the proceeding, and that Joseph Fischer’s trespassing...

Amy Coney Barrett Rips Supreme Court’s Absurd January 6 Ruling

Axios

The Supreme Court is about to drop a string of blockbuster rulings, with abortion rights, gun rights and the Justice Department's case against former President Trump all hanging in the balance. The big picture: Two years after overturning Roe v. Wade — and with questions about some of the justices'...

Supreme Court gets ready to drop its bombshells

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NewSantaAna

The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that a federal law, providing that anyone who “obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so” commits a very serious federal crime, does not actually apply to everyone who obstructs, influences, or impedes an official proceeding. Worse, the...

Why the Supreme Court just ruled in favor of over 300 January 6 insurrectionists

USA TODAY

Lower courts have grappled with the issue of who can own a gun under revised standards the Supreme Court created in a landmark 2022 decision.

Supreme Court declines to decide if felons can be barred from having a gun

Kansas State

TOPEKA — A U.S. District Court judge issued a preliminary injunction directly applicable in Kansas and three other states that blocked Biden administration rules deepening anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ students and broadening the definition of sexual harassment at college and schools. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach argued the case...

Kansas judge issues injunction blocking new federal anti-discrimination rules in education

U.S. President Joe Biden participates in the June 27, 2024, CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios in Atlanta, Georgia. President Biden and former U.S. President Donald Trump are facing off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 campaign. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) From Thursday to Monday, we all saw...

What a mess: Doddering Biden, scheming Supreme Court, vacuous Kansas lawmakers implicate all of us

Georgia State

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Coffee County, GA

Douglas, GA

Daily Coffee Press

A 49-year-old woman from Douglas was recently arrested for allegedly submitting a life insurance policy for her ex-husband without his knowledge. According to a Coffee County Sheriff’s Office incident report, detectives met with a man on May 7 at the Coffee County Law Enforcement Center concerning a reported case of insurance fraud.

Georgia woman charged for allegedly filing life insurance policy application on ex-husband

Newark, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

Democratic-appointed Justice Sonia Sotomayor lamented the Supreme Court decision she accused of “dismantling” the administrative state Thursday, a possible sign of what’s to come as rulings threaten to claw back more agency powers from the executive branch. Sotomayor, who stands with only two other ideologically similar jurists on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 Republican-appointed majority high […]

Sonia Sotomayor foreshadows Supreme Court ‘dismantling’ administrative state

South Dakota State

Fulton, SD

Arlen Foster wants the federal government to reconsider its determination that this area on his Fulton-area farm, pictured in an image submitted as part of a federal lawsuit, is a wetland. A recent Supreme Court ruling could clear a path for that to happen. (Courtesy of U.S. District Court of South Dakota)

Farmer’s fight against wetland designation gets boost from U.S. Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling

Idaho State

Pocatello, ID

POCATELLO, IDAHO — In 2018, Kody Gates moved back to his hometown. But he was terrified about whether he could still access gender-affirming care. He felt relieved when he found Dr. Neil Ragan, who founded Health West ISU’s gender-affirming care clinic in Pocatello. But in response to a...

‘I’m not ready to give up:’ Idaho ban prompts clinic to halt gender-affirming care

North Carolina State

Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday vetoed a pair of bills that would have allowed certain off-road vehicles on North Carolina highways and curbed local governments’ involvement in rental disputes. Cooper signed four other bills into law, including an agriculture bill that contains tax credits for conservation efforts and new...

Cooper vetoes two bills, signs vape regulations & conservation tax credit

The Hill

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said in a Sunday interview the Supreme Court seems poised “to fundamentally rewrite” the Second Amendment and raised concerns about the high court’s decision to strike down the Trump-era ban on bump stocks. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, Murphy said he is worried the…

Senate Democrat: Supreme Court ‘readying to fundamentally rewrite’ Second Amendment

Illinois State

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Chicago, IL

Chicago Happenings

Every year, new laws that were passed the prior year go into effect on July 1. In 2024, a number of new laws will begin this Monday. Among them include higher wages for tipped employees, a gas tax increase, and driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

New Laws July 1: Driver's Licenses for Undocumented Migrants, Raises for Tipped Workers, and More

New York State

Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) said Monday he will introduce a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court ruling issued Monday, which largely shields former presidents from criminal prosecution for actions in office. “I will introduce a constitutional amendment to reverse SCOTUS’ harmful decision and ensure that no president is above the law. This amendment will…

New York Dem will introduce amendment to reverse Supreme Court immunity ruling

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John Rust petitions U.S. Supreme Court to evaluate Indiana’s party affiliation statute

John Rust, who earlier this year was denied access to Indiana’s GOP primary ballot, is appealing to the Supreme Court of the United States — seeking...

John Rust petitions U.S. Supreme Court to evaluate Indiana’s party affiliation statute

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