Trump was convicted of all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payment to an adult film star, becoming the first president in US history to be convicted of a crime. His sentencing was postponed from July 11 to September 18, weeks before the November elections.
Trump for months had denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he had immunity from prosecution from three 'politically-motivated' cases intended to keep him from a second White House term. The landmark verdict means that Trump is unlikely to face any trial before the November re-match with Joe Biden.
The pro-life plaintiffs sought a restriction on the abortion pill mifepristone, which has been banned from use in 14 states since the overturning of the 1973 Roe v Wade precedent. The Supreme Court ruling is a brief victory for Joe Biden's administration, but future lawsuits are likely to follow.
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the law, known as Senate Bill 4, that allows police to arrest people suspected of entering the US illegally. Critics of the legislation say that it violates federal authority as immigration usually comes under the ambit of the federal government.
The new rule was issued last year and changed the definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun so that they can be tracked more easily.
Notably, the White House efforts to forgive loans were an attempt to keep a Biden promise stretching back to his 2020 campaign to wipe out student loan debt — an idea that was especially popular with young voters and progressives.
The court finds itself immersed in a new fight involving abortion less than a year after conservative justices reversed Roe v. Wade and allowed more than a dozen states to effectively ban abortion outright.
The White House said it will also convene volunteer lawyers to provide women and providers with pro bono legal assistance to help them navigate new state restrictions after the Supreme Court ruling.
The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.
President Joe Biden said in a statement he was “deeply disappointed” by the Supreme Court ruling, which he said "contradicts both common sense and the Constitution, and should deeply trouble us all”.
In Jackson, Biden delivers on a campaign promise to make the historic appointment and to further diversify a court that was made up entirely of white men for almost two centuries.
The day before the march, the Biden administration urged a federal judge to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law, which has banned most abortions in Texas since early September.
The ruling is widely seen as a death blow to Trump's efforts to reverse his Democrat rival and President-elect Joe Biden's projected Electoral College victory.
Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, with Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to come.
President Donald Trump is likely to nominate a female candidate to the US Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
The ruling was set to go into effect on Wednesday. The subpoena from the House Oversight and Reform Committee will be unenforceable while the Supreme Court decides whether to take up the case, Xinhua news agency reported.
The Senate voted 58-40 in favour of Kavanaugh, who was under scanner for a long time over sexual misconduct allegations dating back to the 1980s.
Trump picked Justice Kavanaugh from his original list of 25 judges. The nomination comes after a selection process marked by a historic degree of transparency.
Kennedy, who is considerate a moderate conservative, has cast the deciding vote in several important cases before the high court
Washington: The US Supreme Court today unanimously agreed that prisons cannot stop Muslim inmates from wearing beard according to their religious belief. The issue was brought to the apex court's notice by an inmate in
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