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Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is wasting his time and state taxpayers' money by joining 15 other Democratic attorneys general in a desperate effort to preserve Obamacare, says Columnist Dr. Roger Stark of the Washington Policy Center. Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is wasting his time and state taxpayers' money by joining 15 other Democratic attorneys general in a desperate effort to preserve Obamacare, says Columnist Dr. Roger Stark of the Washington Policy Center.
In one of its most controversial decisions, the Supreme Court in 2012 upheld the constitutionality of a provision in the Affordable Care Act mandating individuals purchase qualifying health insurance or else pay a fine, with Chief Justice John Roberts casting the deciding vote in favor of the law. However, nearly , a provision included in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed mostly along party lines in December 2017, may soon force Roberts to reevaluate his decision, potentially ending the health care law without a single vote being cast in Congress.
Two of those policies have had divergent fortunes in the courts. The Supreme Court, which just heard arguments about Trump's ban on the entry of people from several countries to the U.S., is widely expected to uphold it.
Whether it was President Trump's first state dinner, the visits of two prominent European leaders, the withdrawal of the president's nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs or a summit meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea, it was a big week in American politics and diplomacy. Here's a look back at what you might have missed.
Abbott v. Perez is a case of mind-numbing procedural complexity. It involves Texas' successful efforts to draw gerrymandered maps in 2011 - maps that were eventually found to be an illegal racial gerrymander by a federal court - and then maintain as much of these illegal maps as possible for as long as possible after the fact.
After spending nearly an hour being peppered with questions from justices about a complex case on computers and public-record laws, attorney Brian Brooks gave a smooth response when asked afterward about his latest appearance in oral arguments before the Arkansas Supreme Court. "It's about the only fun thing we do as lawyers," Brooks, a veteran appellate attorney based in Greenbrier, told a reporter.
Millions of poor Americans remain uninsured thanks to a badly reasoned Supreme Court decision. The Affordable Care Act was designed to cover all poor Americans with either an expanded Medicaid or federally subsidized insurance.
Now he just needs the money. A judge who was taunted by Trump during the presidential campaign sided on Tuesday with the president on a challenge to building the wall.
A federal judge in San Diego who was taunted by Donald Trump during the presidential campaign has sided with the president on a challen... . FILE - This undated photo provided by the U.S. District Court shows Judge Gonzalo Curiel.
WASHINGTON: Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared unsure how to resolve a dispute between Microsoft Corp and the Justice Department over whether U.S. law should allow prosecutors to compel technology companies to hand over data stored overseas. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, both conservatives, hinted at support for the Justice Department during the one-hour argument as the nine-member court wrestled with the technological complexities of email data storage.
The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee want to know how the agency overseeing the operation of federal courts is addressing sexual misconduct and harassment in the judiciary. Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, and top Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California wrote in a letter to the head of the federal courts' administrative agency that they were "deeply troubled" by news reports and allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate workplace behavior in the court system.
Tony Mauro, based in Washington, covers the U.S. Supreme Court. A lead writer for ALM's Supreme Court Brief, Tony focuses on the court's history and traditions, appellate advocacy and the SCOTUS cases that matter most to business litigators.
Former Judge Alex Kozinski won't be investigated because of his retirement late last year from the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to an order by the judicial body that was asked to evaluate sexual misconduct allegations against him. The Judicial Council of the 2nd Circuit said it has no authority to investigate Kozinski under the Judicial Conduct and Disability Act because it applies to sitting judges.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts , Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan listen to President Trump's State of the Union address. CREDIT: Win McNamee/Getty Images Republicans are taking the "unprecedented" step of asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling leading to new congressional maps.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is promising a careful evaluation of the federal judiciary's sexual misconduct policies. WASHINGTON - Chief Justice John Roberts is promising a careful evaluation of the federal judiciary's sexual misconduct policies and an effort to highlight the work of court employees following the year's destructive hurricanes.
Chief Justice John Roberts stands outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in June, 2017, following new Associate Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch investiture ceremony, a ceremony to mark his ascension to the bench. In one section of the 16-page report, he promised a careful evaluation of the judiciary's sexual misconduct policies.
U.S. Supreme Court Justices, including Chief Justice John Roberts , arrive in the House chamber prior to U.S. President Barack Obama's final State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington January 12, 2016. REUTERS/Evan Vucci/Pool WASHINGTON -- Chief Justice John Roberts used his annual report on the federal judiciary Sunday to promise a careful evaluation of its sexual misconduct policies and to highlight the work of court employees following the year's Roberts touched only briefly on the issue of workplace sexual misconduct , which has in recent months brought down men in entertainment, politics and the media.
On Monday, November 27, 2017, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC over whether inter partes review - an adversarial process used by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to analyze the validity of existing patents - violates the US Constitution.1 Although it is difficult to predict which way the Court will rule, the questions posed by each Justice in oral argument may signal the Justices' views on the issue of constitutionality of IPRs.
More than 2,000 conservatives in tuxedos and gowns recently filled Union Station's main hall for a steak dinner and the chance to cheer the man who saved the Supreme Court from liberal control. Justice Neil Gorsuch didn't disappoint them, just as he hasn't in his first seven months on the Supreme Court.
More than 2,000 conservatives in tuxedos and gowns recently filled Union Station's main hall for a steak dinner and the chance to cheer the man who saved the Supreme Court from liberal control. Justice Neil Gorsuch didn't disappoint them, just as he hasn't in his first seven months on the Supreme Court.