
Laura Finley: Supreme Court decision devastating for death row inmates
On May 23, 2022, the Supreme Court issued yet another decision that does greater injustice to the US criminal (in)justice system.

On May 23, 2022, the Supreme Court issued yet another decision that does greater injustice to the US criminal (in)justice system.

Here we are, with the U.S. Supreme Court about to overturn Roe v. Wade, and four in five Americans believe abortion should be legal in at least some circumstances. Only in our gerrymandered America.

The United States Senate voted 53-47 Thursday to confirm the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Supreme Court, a historic vote that makes Judge Brown the first African American female on the high court.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine announced Tuesday that he will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, currently a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, to the Supreme Court.

President Biden has nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, nominated to the court by Bill Clinton in 1994, announced Wednesday his plans to retire, giving President Biden his first chance at a high-court pick.

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing legal challenges brought by healthcare providers against Texas’ abortion ban to move forward, but failed to enjoin the ban while those challenges proceed through the courts.

A coalition of 24 state attorneys general has filed an amicus brief calling on the Supreme Court to prevent Texas from keeping an across-the-board ban on abortions in place.

The Trump-packing of the United States Supreme Court is paying dividends for the would-be oligarchs in the Republican Party, evidenced by the high court’s ruling in a case involving a restrictive Arizona voting law handed down on Thursday.

The United States Supreme Court today declined to hear Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board, allowing lower court decisions in support of transgender students to stand.
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