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An election worker checks voter identification at a polling place in Charlotte, N.C., in 2016. an a state ensure that its voter rolls aren't filled with non-residents and dead people who shouldn't be registered to vote? The Left doesn't think so, but the U.S. Department of Justice answered yes recently when it filed an amicus brief in Husted v.
President Donald Trump's administration has reversed the government's position on a voter roll case before the U.S. Supreme Court and is now backing Ohio's method for purging voters. Ohio's system for removing inactive voters from the rolls does not violate the National Voter Registration Act, the Justice Department said Monday.
Last week, I took to the Senate Floor to shine a light on the president's nominee to join the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, John K. Bush. This man has a clear record of promoting bigotry and discrimination that has no place in our courts, and we cannot let this nomination slip through the cracks.
Attorneys for President Donald Trump want a federal appeals court to dismiss a lawsuit by protesters that accuses him of ordering his supporters to rough them up at a campaign rally in Louisville last year. The Courier-Journal reports that Trump's lawyers have asked the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a March ruling that the suit can proceed.
A New Boston, Texas, man sentenced to two life sentences plus 20 years for child sex abuse at the end of a Bowie County jury trial last summer is getting a second shot at justice. The 6th District Court of Appeals headquartered in Texarkana tossed out the convictions and sentences assessed 61-year-old Donald Harrell Jr. last August in an opinion issued Thursday.
Employers who operate in a multi-state environment should take note of a recent case out of the Sixth Circuit Stone Surgical, LLC v. Stryker Corporation involved a departing sales representative from Stryker, a medical-device manufacturing company headquartered in Michigan.
A local religious school has lost its appeal in a legal fight against Genoa Township. Livingston Christian Schools filed suit in 2015 against the township for its refusal to grant a special use permit that would have allowed the school to relocate to the Brighton Church of the Nazarene.
Senate Republicans cleared the way Wednesday for approval of the first of President Trump 's slate of circuit court nominees, heading off Democrats' attempted filibuster of Judge Amul Thapar . Democrats had tried to block Judge Thapar from ascending to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying they were concerned that the conservative Federalist Society has backed him.
The Trump administration on Monday named 10 judges and other law professionals it plans to nominate for key posts as President Donald Trump works to place more conservatives on the nation's federal courts. White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that among the candidates are individuals previously named on Trump's list of 21 possible picks for Supreme Court justice.
Gov. Snyder issued the following statement regarding the announcement that President Donald Trump has nominated Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joan Larsen for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals: "Justice Larsen has served the people of Michigan very well as a Supreme Court Justice and is an outstanding choice for President Trump to appoint to the federal appeals court. It is disappointing that we will lose Justice Larsen on the Michigan Supreme Court because her legal expertise has been such a great asset.
Among those expected to be nominated for vacancies on an appeals court are Joan Larsen and David Stras, state supreme court judges in Michigan and Minnesota, respectively. Both Larsen and Stras were also on the list of 21 potential nominees to fill the Supreme Court seat occupied by the late Antonin Scalia, which Trump released during his campaign.
Ohio's lethal-injection process remains tied up in court, so Gov. John Kasich unsurprisingly on Monday revised the state's schedule to resume carrying out executions that have been on hold more than three years. The earliest an inmate now could be put to death is July 26, assuming the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals lifts a stay that has blocked the state from moving forward.
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio - Is unorthodox the same as cruel and unusual punishment? It's the central question of the current U.S. death penalty debate, highlighted by the latest execution involving a disputed sedative that appeared to involve discomfort to the inmate. States struggling to find lethal drugs believe they've got the answer in midazolam, a sedative that's taking the place of barbiturates and anesthetics no longer available because drug manufacturers don't want them used in executions.
It's the central question of the current U.S. death penalty debate, highlighted by the latest execution involving a disputed sedative that appeared to involve discomfort to the inmate. States struggling to find lethal drugs believe they've got the answer in midazolam, a sedative that's taking the place of barbiturates and anesthetics no longer available because drug manufacturers don't want them used in executions.
Democrats weren't able to derail Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, but they haven't abandoned the pointed questions they aimed at him, recycling those questions Wednesday for a hearing with appeals court nominee Judge Amul R. Thapar. From campaign finance reform cases to his ties to the conservative Federalist Society, Judge Thapar fended off the inquiries during his confirmation hearing, asking to be evaluated on the reputation he amassed during more than a decade on the federal bench.
An ICE representative said Maribel Trujillo Diaz is being held at a facility in LaSalle, Louisiana and she will be deported on Wednesday, April 19. Trujillo's husband has released a statement that says in part, "When Maribel's lawyer called yesterday evening to tell me that the appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court had been denied, I say that is another failure to stop the injustice that is being done to us as a family. My pain is greater because I am powerless to help her.
Advocates for the homeless are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider their challenge to Ohio's voting rules governing provisional and absentee ballots. Cleveland.com reports the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, the Columbus Coalition for the Homeless and the Ohio Democratic Party filed their petition Friday.
A federal appeals court will hear arguments Tuesday over the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection process as the state tries to start carrying out executions once again. At issue is whether a contested sedative, midazolam, is powerful enough to put inmates into a deep state of unconsciousness before two subsequent drugs paralyze them and stop their hearts.
In this November 2005 file photo, Larry Greene, public information director of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, demonstrates how a curtain is pulled between the death chamber and witness room at an Ohio prison. COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal appeals court will hear arguments Tuesday over the constitutionality of Ohio's lethal injection process as the state tries to start carrying out executions once again.
An attorney is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a cellphone ban in Saginaw County courtrooms, which could establish the way phones are treated in courthouses across the country. Attorney Philip Ellison, on behalf of Tuscola County resident Robert W. McKay, filed a petition to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld a cellphone ban in Saginaw County courtrooms.