Kevin Daley An Illinois woman will soon ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her challenge to a state law barring the non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, colloquially known as “revenge porn.” Though the Supreme Court’s First Amendment precedents are generally protective of explicit or obscene images, the justices may consider the constitutionality of…
Kevin Daley A coalition of left-wing advocacy groups sent a letter to the moderators of an upcoming presidential debate urging them to ask the Democratic hopefuls about the Supreme Court. The Monday letter laments that the high court has not featured prominently in the first three Democratic debates, since marquee liberal policy items like Medicare For…
The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could proceed with its plans to use $2.5 billion in Pentagon funding to continue with the administration’s plans to build a wall along America’s Southern border on Friday. President Trump tweeted about the SCOTUS’ decision Friday calling it a victory for both border security and the rule…
Kevin Daley Justice Brett Kavanaugh has hired a black law clerk for his new chambers at the U.S. Supreme Court, matching Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s record of African-American clerkship hiring during her tenure on the nation’s highest judicial tribunal. With his first clerkship hires, Kavanaugh also set a gender composition record, an apparent attempt to…
by Henry Rodgers A professor at Georgetown University known for making incendiary comments against supporters of President Donald Trump said white Republican men deserve “miserable deaths” for supporting Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. C. Christine Fair, an associate professor at Georgetown in the School of Foreign Service, tweeted Saturday, saying white Republican men should die and an added…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Arkansas officials vowed to keep the state’s remaining five executions on track after Monday came and went without either of the state’s two scheduled executions taking place, reports the Washington Times (WT). “There are five scheduled executions remaining with nothing preventing them from occurring, but I will continue…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck Of all the presidencies in recent memory, none have had more of an opportunity to reshape the state of the Supreme Court of the United States than the administration now led by president Donald J. Trump. With many current SCOTUS members very high in years, and…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Several media outlets published stories late Tuesday alleging Judge Neil Gorsuch borrowed material from other sources without proper citations in his 2006 book on assisted suicide and euthanasia. The allegations appear extraordinarily thin. Late Wednesday, Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner first raised questions about the integrity of two passages…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, has made many contradictory statements throughout her apparent centuries in office, but one statement about Supreme Court nominees is extremely pertinent today as Senate Democrats try to defeat a cloture vote on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the high court. The video is from…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont has signaled he may not join the effort to filibuster Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, depriving Senate Democrats of a powerful voice in the marquee political fight of the spring. Following the conclusion of Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation…