Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to delay the deadline for appointing electors in several battleground states. In the filing, Paxton claims that changes to election procedures in those states due to the COVID-19 pandemic violated federal law.
The U.S. Supreme Court appears likely to leave the majority of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in place. Two conservative members of the court – Chief Justice John Roberts and Trump appointee Justice Brett Kavanaugh – made statements that suggested they’re unlikely to follow the urging of Republican attorneys to throw out the law. The […]
In 2016 the Republicans took a stand after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death, declaring that they would not approve Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. They stated that there was a “precedent” of not accepting Supreme Court nominees during election years, and they wanted to give the American people a voice in deciding […]
When we lost Ruth Bader Ginsberg on Friday night, I felt a deep, echoing sadness, the origin of which was at first hard to pinpoint. Partially, it came from a feeling of loss, since a figure I respected, no, revered, had passed away. Of course, she had lived a long life of 87 years, […]
Big Easy Magazine interviewed David Baldwin about his case which helped set precedent, Baldwin v. Dept. of Transportation.
Alabama legislatures have proposed a law that would make getting an abortion at any stage of pregnancy punishable by up to 99 years in prison.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court blocked Louisiana from enacting a law that would have shuttered abortion clinics across the state. According to many women’s groups, only a single doctor would have been allowed to legally perform abortions under the law. In the 5-4 decision, the Court stated that the restrictions must stay on hold […]
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to grant a request from the Trump administration to allow it to temporarily enforce restrictions on transgender people serving in the United States military, though they did not agree to review the legality of the new policy. Justices Ruther Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan […]
According to a statement released on Friday from the Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had two cancerous nodules removed from her left lung on Friday in a procedure known as a pulmonary lobectomy. The cancer was discovered when Ginsberg was hospitalized in November for a fall in her office where she sustained rib fractures. According […]
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