Louisiana State

Scripps News

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court returned lower court rulings and stated that a former president has absolute immunity for his core constitutional powers.

Supreme Court sends Trump case back to lower court, giving former president limited immunity

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

Prosecutors overstepped in charging January 6 rioters with obstruction for trying to prevent certification of the 2020 presidential election, the US Supreme Court said Friday, throwing hundreds of cases into doubt. The matter was brought to the court through an appeal by former police officer Joseph Fischer, a supporter of former president Donald Trump who entered the Capitol in Washington with hundreds of others on January 6, 2021.

US Supreme Court rules in favor of January 6 rioters

The New Republic

Five members of the Supreme Court of the United States want to take us back to seventeenth-century absolutism. In a stunning rejection of originalist interpretation, and in defiance of the single statement carved onto the front of the majestic building where they work (“Equal justice under law”), the justices ruled Monday that the president does not have to abide by the laws of the land. They agreed that presidents might be liable for purely private acts, such as Bill Clinton lying about engaging in oral sex in the Oval Office. But in the appropriately titled Trump v. the United States,...

The Supreme Court Turns the President Into a King

Daily Mail

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that she plans on impeaching the six conservative Justices on the Supreme Court for their ruling in Donald Trump 's presidential immunity case.

AOC threatens to impeach all six conservative Supreme Court Justices

POLITICO

A POLITICO cheat sheet for what’s still pending on the high court’s docket.

Get ready for the Supreme Court to drop some bombshell decisions

Mediaite

A CNN panel burst into laughter on Wednesday after anchor Chris Wallace said the Trump campaign had vowed former President Donald Trump would be “nice” and “respectful” during his debate with President Joe Biden. During a discussion about Trump’s upcoming CNN debate with Biden on Thursday,...

CNN Panel Bursts Into Laughter After Chris Wallace Says Trump Campaign Vows Ex-President Will Be ‘Nice’ and ‘Respectful’ During Debate

Alabama State

Law & Crime

The ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of Louisiana families to challenge what it called a "blatantly unconstitutional" new state law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every classroom.
The post Louisiana governor who said ‘I can’t wait to be sued’ over Ten Commandments law gets his wish first appeared on Law & Crime.

Louisiana governor who said 'I can't wait to be sued' over Ten Commandments law gets his wish

Salon

One of Donald Trump’s attorneys is claiming that the “fake-electors” scheme qualifies as an “official act," thus exempting him from being prosecuted after the Supreme Court's immunity ruling on Monday, the Hill reported. Trump attorney Will Scharf told CNN Monday night that while some of the...

Justice Amy Coney Barrett says presidential immunity doesn't apply to Trump's fake electors scheme

The Atlantic

This opinion can’t be squared with the language of the statute—or with common sense.

The Supreme Court’s January 6 Decision Is Utterly Baffling

HuffPost

The 6-3 decision "permits punishing homeless people with no access to shelter for sleeping in public," Sotomayor said in her dissent.

Justice Sotomayor Blasts 'Unconscionable' Supreme Court Ruling Overturning Homeless Rights

Georgia State

The Associated Press

ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider the case of a Black man on death row in Georgia who says his trial was unfair because the prosecutor improperly excluded Black jurors. Warren King, 48, was convicted of murder and other crimes in the September...

High court passes on case of Georgia man on death row who says Black jurors were wrongly purged

Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Court

TheDailyBeast

The announcement of the Presidential immunity decision today in Trump versus United States was a grim affair. As a first-time audience member for the announcements of high court opinions, I was surprised by the repeated “shushing” from SCOTUS security before the court session even started to an already quiet courtroom. Only very soft subdued conversations were happening mostly between lawyers who were sitting in the section reserved for members of the Supreme Court bar and there was almost no conversation in the public section.  The “shushing,” however was delivered by security facing the public with their backs to the...

Opinion: I Saw the Grim Brutality of a Conservative Supreme Court Close Up

Washington, DC

CBS News

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a former Pennsylvania police officer who was charged with obstructing an official proceeding after he entered the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, and narrowed the Justice Department's use of a federal obstruction statute leveled against scores of people who breached the building where Congress had convened to count state electoral votes.The court ruled 6-3 in finding that to prove a violation of the obstruction law, the government must show that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity of records, documents or other objects used in an official...

Supreme Court limits scope of obstruction charge used in Jan. 6 cases

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

Texas State

In the center, from left: RJ Reed, 5, Rodrick Reed, and Sandra Reed, join hands as they pray during a rally at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 11, 2022. (Eric Lee for The Texas Tribune) Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps...

U.S. Supreme Court rejects Texas death row inmate’s petition

The Supreme Court's immunity ruling this week makes the hypothetical scenario raised during oral arguments — in which a president can't be prosecuted for murder —  well, possible.

The terrifying SEAL Team 6 scenario lurking in the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling

Newark, NJ

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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

NewsBreak

A college president here, a Supreme Court justice there: Jeff Landry is making moves

Gov. Jeff Landry is supporting Supreme Court Justice Jimmy Genovese to be the next president of Northwestern State to achieve two goals in one bold move,...

A college president here, a Supreme Court justice there: Jeff Landry is making moves

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