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President Donald Trump is following the playbook for speeches to Congress and packing his guest box with individuals whose personal stories the administration hopes will put a face on the proposals he planned to highlight in Tuesday night's address, namely illegal immigration. The lives of three of the eight people the White House invited to join first lady Melania Trump in a guest box high above the House floor for Trump's first address to a joint session of Congress were affected when loved ones' crossed paths with people who were living in the U.S. illegally.
At the Feb. 25 gala celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the pivotal U.S. Supreme Court decision, tribal leaders gave special recognition to the attorneys behind the landmark 1987 ruling. Pictured are Morongo Vice Chair Mary Ann Andreas, Cabazon attorney Glenn Feldman, Morongo attorney George Forman, Cabazon Chairman Doug Welmas, Cabazon Vice Chair San Juanita Callaway and Morongo Tribal Chairman Robert Martin.
The U.S. Justice Department said Monday it is abandoning its longstanding opposition to a key aspect of Texas' toughest-in-the-nation voter ID law, costing voting rights groups their most important ally and possibly encouraging other conservative states to toughen their own election rules with President Donald Trump in charge. It's a dramatic break from the agency's position under President Barack Obama, which spent years arguing that the voter ID law passed in 2011 by Texas' Republican-controlled Legislature was intended to disenfranchise poor and minority voters.
Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, will be a worthy heir to the man he would replace - Justice Antonin Scalia. His credentials for the post are impeccable.
Judge Neil Gorsuch was not on President Donald Trump's first list of potential Supreme Court nominees. Judge Gorsuch did, however, appear on a revised list just weeks after he wrote a controversial manifesto arguing that it should be easier for corporations and individuals suing federal agencies to have courts strike down regulations and overrule decisions by experts at agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.
In 2010, Lester Packingham was convicted of having a Facebook account. That's a crime in North Carolina, which bars registered sex offenders from "accessing" certain social media sites, including Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram.
President Donald J. Trump promised the American people he would nominate an unwavering supporter of the United States Constitution to the Supreme Court.
More than 3,000 people gathered at the David Douglas High School gym on Saturday in a standing-room only town hall meeting to hear the U.S. senator's thoughts on the Affordable Care Act, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch and potential ties between President Donald Trump and the Russian government. It was the last stop of Wyden's eight-day, 11 city tour before he was due back in Washington, D.C. after the 115th Congress' first recess.
In technical terms, the departments of Justice and Education this week rescinded Obama-era guidance on the interpretation of Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. In symbolic terms, the Trump administration backed away from endorsing transgender civil rights on the federal level, at least as they concern students.
The state Supreme Court says Arkansas can take the next steps toward executing inmates who had challenged protocols put in place by the Department of Correction . The U.S. Supreme Court had said Tuesday it wouldn't consider the inmates' claims that the state's execution procedures could be "intolerably painful."
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of Life Technologies in a lawsuit brought by rival Promega that alleged patent infringement. The Thermo Fisher Scientific subsidiary prevailed 7-0 in the lawsuit.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with California-based Life Technologies Corp . in a patent infringement case that limits the international reach of U.S. patent laws.
The first daughter is there as an invited guest as Justice Anthony Kennedy, whom she met at the inaugural lunch at the Capitol last month just after her father's swearing-in ceremony. Supreme Court justices often host guests for arguments, and there is a gallery above the courtroom where visitors are able to observe the judicial branch in action.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a new court hearing for a black Texas prison inmate who claims improper testimony about his race tainted his death sentence. The justices voted 6-2 in favor of inmate Duane Buck.
Trump administration rolls back transgender student restroom protections The Trump administration issued new guidance outlining which restrooms transgender students can use. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2m9Cbct In this Monday, Aug. 22, 2016 photo, transgender high school student Gavin Grimm poses in Gloucester, Va.
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The Supreme Court appears to be evenly divided about the right of Mexican parents to use American courts to sue a U.S. Border Patrol agent who fired across the U.S.-Mexican border and killed their teenage son. Justice Anthony Kennedy and other conservative justices suggested during argument Tuesday that the boy's death on the Mexican side of the border was enough to keep the matter out of U.S. courts.
WASHINGTON >> The Supreme Court is freeing Alabama to try again to execute a convicted killer who has been on death row for more than 30 years. The justices on Tuesday turned down an appeal from inmate Tommy Arthur.
NAKAMURA, C.J., and LEONARD and REIFURTH, JJ.On the briefs: Dean Mara, Petitioner-Appellant pro se. James M. Anderson, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, City and County of Honolulu, for Respondent-Appellee.