The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday turned thumbs down on a lawsuit seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the Nov. 3 election. It was perhaps the last of many rejections […]
Court snubs election challenge
First COVID vaccination done
In what’s being called “the shot watched around the world,” a 90-year-old retired shop clerk from Northern Ireland was vaccinated from the coronavirus with a treatment jointly developed by Pfizer of the […]
Disney layoffs to reach 32,000
The Walt Disney Company will be laying off 32,000 workers in the first half of the 2020-21 fiscal year, the firm announced Wednesday evening. Of that number, 28,000 will come from the […]
U.S. Senate confirms Amy Barrett
UPDATE: Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the newest associate justice of the U.S Supreme Court this evening. The Senate voted 52-48 in favor of her nomination to the high court by President […]
Amy Barrett: no “personal agenda”
Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett continued to be questioned by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. According to the Associated Press, she told the panel she had no specific […]
Amy Barrett likely court nominee
The person nominated to be the next associate justice to the U.S. Supreme Court is likely to be Judge Amy Coney Barrett, multiple sources reported on Friday. CBS News, the New York […]
Trump to name court nominee
President Donald Trump said Monday that he expected to announce by the weekend his selection for an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and a liberal icon, has died at the age of 87. CNN and the Associated Press are reporting that the court announced […]
High court backs corona rules
The U.S. Supreme Court, on a 5-4 vote, upheld a lower court decision Friday rejecting a Nevada church’s challenge to state virus protection rules. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the four liberal […]
Split decision on Trump’s records
There was good news and bad news for President Donald Trump in rulings Thursday from the U.S. Supreme Court. The court ruled 7-2 in Trump v. Vance that New York City prosecutors […]
