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Following the US Supreme Court decision which allows parts of President Trump's travel ban to go into effect, Amnesty International USA has filed a Freedom of Information Act request, to discover how key federal agencies intend to implement the ban. The ban is often referred to as a 'Muslim ban' because it targets people travelling from countries with majority Muslim populations.
Sig Sauer Academy says it's taking steps to improve the safety of its shooting ranges next to Route 101 after a state police investigation found bullets from the popular training facility were... California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has issued a decree banning state employees from traveling to Texas because Becerra has determined the state's ... (more)
How is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a spirited fighter all her life, going to react to the letter from 58 House Republicans who called for her recusal on the forthcoming travel ban case because of her public disparagement of President Trump during the campaign? Normally, all three branches of the federal government jealously protect their powers from encroachments by the other two. And Supreme Court justices are exempt from the rules of judicial conduct that would force a lesser judge in Ginsburg's position to recuse herself.
A Chicago-based veterans advocacy group's seven-year struggle to strike down Indiana's ban on political robocalls has ended after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lower-court ruling upholding the law. The Supreme Court on Monday denied Patriotic Veterans Inc.'s bid for review of the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' January ruling upholding the law that prohibits sending pre-recorded message calls to telephones without prior consent.
A group that won court rulings against Texas and Louisiana abortion laws is suing now to overturn other Louisiana laws that it says have led to more than a thousand regulations designed to restrict abortions. The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights filed a federal lawsuit in Baton Rouge on Monday, the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down a Texas requirement that abortion providers have hospital admitting privileges.
People visit the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 26, 2017, as justices issued their final rulings for the term, in Washington. The Supreme Court began its term nine months ago with Merrick Garland nominated to the bench, Hillary Clinton favored to be the next president, and the court poised to be controlled by Democratic appointees for the first time in 50 years.
On June 26, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court entered an order that narrowed, but declined to stay, two preliminary injunctions prohibiting enforcement of various provisions of President Trump's March 6, 2017 Executive Order entitled " Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States " . Nationals of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen can continue to enter the U.S. to visit family, attend school, or work, but are probably banned for at least 90 days from entering the U.S. solely for tourism, unless they obtained the necessary visas before the 26th of July.
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The Missouri Department of Natural Resources violated the rights of a Lutheran church school when it denied a grant for the church to install a rubber playground surface at the school, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a 7-2 decision. In 2012, the Trinity Lutheran Church Child Learning Center in Columbia, Mo., applied to the DNR for a grant to replace pea gravel playground surfacing at the school with a pour-in-place rubber surface, under Missouri's Scrap Tire Program.
An attorney says a U.S. Supreme Court decision about aid to a church preschool could have an impact on a Michigan lawsuit. Opponents are challenging a $2.5 million appropriation to private schools for fire drills, inspections and other state requirements.
The US Supreme Court on Monday partially reinstated Donald Trump's controversial travel ban targeting citizens from six predominantly Muslim countries, prompting the president to claim a victory for national security. The nine justices, who will hear arguments in the case in October, said the ban could now be enforced for travelers from the targeted countries "who lack any bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States."
The SCOTUS decision on the President's Travel Ban is getting the most attention this week, but more consequential will be the decisive 7-2 opinion in the Trinity Lutheran case , overturning the so-called " Blaine amendment " in the Missouri state constitution. Blaine provisions of the 1870s and 1880s were aimed at denying religious schools any form of government assistance, but specifically allowed help for private secular schools.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had stern words for his colleagues when the Court declined to hear a case challenging California's handgun laws, saying that the jurists do not understand the importance of self-defense. The case, supported by the National Rifle Association, involves San Diego resident Edward Peruta, who challenged his county's refusal to grant him permission to carry a concealed firearm outside of his home.
Washington, June 26: The Supreme Court announced today that it would decide whether President Trump's revised travel ban was lawful, setting the stage for a major decision on the scope of presidential power. Trump's revised executive order, issued in March, limited travel from six mostly Muslim countries for 90 days and suspended the nation's refugee programme for 120 days.
If anyone's under the influence of the media and questioning President Trump's results after six months, look no further than the U.S. Supreme Court and Justice Neil Gorsuch. This morning, after waiting through a string of Monday court announcements, Americans concerned about the relentless assault on religious freedom finally got the word they'd been waiting for -- justices have agreed to hear the case of Christian baker Jack Phillips.
The sun flares in the camera lens as it rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington on Sunday. The court announced their decision Monday on whether the Trump administration can enforce its travel ban.
The Supreme Court will soon look at gerrymandering, a bakery refusing to serve gay couples and Trump's travel ban The Supreme Court is preparing for a historic session, given the one case it's already ruled upon and several others that it has agreed to discuss. The Supreme Court will hear Trump's travel ban case but allow the new rules to go into effect except for foreigners who have a "bona fide relationship" with the United States In addition to agreeing to hear the case involving President Donald Trump's travel ban, the Supreme Court has notably ruled that it can currently be implemented for any foreigners who lack the ability to "credibly claim" a relationship with someone who lives in the United States.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by narrowing the scope of lower court rulings that blocked his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries and agreeing to hear his appeals in the cases. The court said it would hear arguments on the legality of one of Trump's signature policies in his first months as president in the court's next term, which starts in October.
The Supreme Court Building is seen, Thursday, March 5, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Today, two years after the Supreme Court made history when it legalized the right to marry by same-sex couples, the nation's highest court announced that it will hear a case on President Trump's travel ban this fall.
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether Denver's Masterpiece Cakeshop discriminated against a gay couple , Charlie Craig and David Mullins, by refusing to make them a wedding cake just over a year after the case was rejected by the Colorado Supreme Court . Attorneys for Masterpiece owner Jack Phillips argue that a Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruling in favor of Craig and Mullins violated his rights as an artist not to create works that violate his personal beliefs, and they may find a find that Neil Gorsuch , a Coloradan who ruled in favor of religious freedom in an important case prior to being appointed to the Supreme Court, has sympathy for this view.