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Alabama executed inmate Robert Melson late Thursday for killing three people during a robbery at a Popeye's restaurant in 1994. Melson was pronounced dead at 10:27 p.m. local time, following a lethal injection at Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore, according to the Associated Press .
Attorneys for a Texas death row inmate known as the "suitcase killer" have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution this week for the slaying of a Lubbock woman whose body was stuffed inside a suitcase dumped in the trash. Rosendo Rodriguez III, of San Antonio, was condemned for the 2005 killing of 29-year-old Summer Baldwin, identified in court documents as a prostitute.
Lawyers for a condemned Alabama inmate made a series of legal filings Wednesday to try to halt his upcoming execution, arguing there are questions about the sedative that will be used. Robert Melson, 46, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday for the 1994 fatal shooting at a Popeye's restaurant he was robbing in Gadsden, 60 miles northeast of Birmingham.
North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper is pushing Republican state legislators to immediately redraw General Assembly districts, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed that nearly 30 House and Senate maps are illegal racial gerrymanders. Cooper announced Wednesday he's calling a special session - to begin Thursday and run simultaneously with the current General Assembly work session - to get new maps drawn.
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused an emergency request from Harris County officials to block a lower court ruling that has allowed dozens of inmates who can't afford their bail to be freed from a Houston jail. Justice Clarence Thomas, without referring the case to the full court and without comment, rejected the county's appeal Wednesday, a day after a federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that allowed poor inmates to be released on personal bond.
With television networks setting aside regular programming to mark the moment Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey's testimony before Congress on the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election will be hard for most Americans to miss. CNN has already kept a "countdown clock" to the start of Comey's appearance before the Senate intelligence committee on its screen for days.
If you said a 10-year-old should register for the military draft, drive a car or vote for president, people would write you off as a lunatic. Yet elected leaders and law enforcement often act as if children are no different than adults when it comes to the justice system.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that church-affiliated hospital systems do not have to comply with a federal law governing employee pensions, overturning lower court decisions that could have cost the hospitals billions of dollars. The court ruled 8-0 that church-affiliated organizations are exempt from the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a 1974 law that forces private employers to follow rules aimed at protecting pension plan participants.
Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote that a judge should extinguish all politics in public comments when elevated to the Bench. Because Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg failed to heed those words, she should disqualify herself from the U.S. Supreme Court's review of President Trump's revised travel ban.
The Supreme Court is placing new limits on the government's ability to seize assets from people who are convicted of drug crimes but receive little of the illegal proceeds. The unanimous ruling on Monday comes as the Justice Department has moved to impose harsher punishments for drug trafficking and related crimes, reversing Obama-era policies.
An extraordinary stream of tweets Monday morning by President Donald Trump attacked his own Justice Department's revised travel ban as "watered down, politically correct," and pushed for expedited handling of the ban by the U.S. Supreme Court. "The courts are slow and political!" Trump wrote before 7 a.m. Eastern Time, also stating that "In any event we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the U.S. in order to help keep our country safe."
In the next few weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court could issue a decision that puts a crimp in the investigation schedule of special counsel and former FBI director Robert Mueller III. of any Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election, and former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft are defendants in a long-running suit that alleges senior government officials unlawfully detained immigrants, some of them Muslim, in the aftermath of the Sept.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a major case on privacy rights in the digital age that will determine whether police officers need warrants to access past cellphone location information kept by wireless carriers. People speaks on their cell phones near a blocked off area after a speeding vehicle struck pedestrians in in Times Square in New York City, U.S., May 18, 2017.
No word again today from the U.S. Supreme Court on the petition for it to review an Arkansas Supreme Court decision denying equal treatment to same-sex couples in the issuance of birth certificates. Heterosexual couples are presumed to be parents in birth certificate issuance.
President Donald Trump, joined by first lady Melania Trump, pauses as he speaks during the Ford's Theatre Annual Gala at the Ford's Theatre in Washington, Sunday, June 4, 2017.
Nineteen lawmakers are testing their luck at the Supreme Court, asking the justices to take up a case on whether military reservists' unfair dismissal claims can be forced into arbitration by their civilian bosses. Because the case involves veterans' rights, the legislators say they are hopeful the Supreme Court of John Roberts will temper its usual affinity for agreements waiving employees' right to sue.
Mr Comey has reportedly spoken with Special Counsel Robert Mueller - who is now overseeing the Russian Federation investigation for the Justice Department - to work out what he can publicly discuss in his testimony and thereby ensure there are no legal issues. The term " executive privilege " is not in the U.S. Constitution.
This illustration provided by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company shows the cover of a workout book co-authored by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's long-time trainer Bryant Johnson entitled: "The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong...and You Can Too!" The 112-page book, scheduled for release Oct. 3, will include illustrations of the 84-year-old Justice Ginsburg doing the exercises in her judicial robes, with purple leggings and "her trusty sneakers." Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joins other justices of the U.S. Supreme Court for an official group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington, Thursday.
There's no doubt, as a lawsuit filed against the state of Mississippi alleges, that public education creates unequal opportunities and unequal outcomes. The Southern Poverty Law Center's case, filed on behalf of four black mothers with children in public elementary schools, claims that Mississippi has for more than a century violated an 1870 federal law that allowed the state to rejoin the Union.
The 84-year-old Supreme Court justice is about to join the ranks of workout superstars with a book about her exercise routine. "The RBG Workout: How She Stays Strong ... and You Can Too!" is scheduled to be released Oct. 3, which happens to be the first week the court is in session after its summer break.