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A nonprofit conservative organization advocating for less government must reveal information about major donors to the state's attorney general if it wants to solicit money in the state, a judge ruled Monday as he rejected First Amendment claims. U.S. District Judge Sidney H. Stein said that states have a strong interest to ensure that charities do not serve as fronts for fraud and crime and the lawsuit by the conservative organization, Citizens United, failed to show that the requirement "lacks a substantial relation to these important governmental interests."
Former New Mexico governor, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, left, stands with his vice presidential running mate, former Massachusetts governor William Weld during a campaign rally Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, in Concord, N.H. less Former New Mexico governor, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, left, stands with his vice presidential running mate, former Massachusetts governor William Weld during a campaign rally Thursday, ... more Several hundred people stand in the rain to hear Former New Mexico governor, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson speak during a campaign rally Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, in Concord, N.H. Several hundred people stand in the rain to hear Former New Mexico governor, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson speak during a campaign rally Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, in Concord, N.H. Rain falls as former New Mexico Gov. and ... (more)
Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is a professor of constitutional and international law at Harvard University and was a clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
More than a year ago, civil rights and fair housing activists cheered when the U.S. Supreme Court allowed a lawsuit over housing segregation in Texas to go forward. ICP, a nonprofit devoted to fair housing issues, argued that the state doled out tax credits in Dallas in a way that packed minorities into poor neighborhoods and spared white neighborhoods from development of low-income housing.
Many Republicans and conservatives are supporting Trump now that he enlisted input from The Federalist Society and The Heritage Foundation to craft a list of potential Supreme Court justices. Reluctant Trump supporters take comfort knowing they can vote for him because his SCOTUS choices are not only preferable to Clinton's, but in line with the experts.
Blonde hair is a "disarming" trait for women, softening more aggressive stereotypically male characteristics that may be perceived negatively, researchers said. Blondes.
THE ISSUE: No one likes an even number on a court that makes decisions by majority vote. Yet that's just what the Supreme Court has been left with, eight justices, since the death of Antonin Scalia in February.
A condemned Ohio killer who survived a 2009 botched execution is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that a second attempt to put him to death would be unconstitutional. Lawyers for death row inmate Romell Broom argue that giving the state prisons agency a second chance would amount to cruel and unusual punishment and double jeopardy.
A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Obama administration's order that requires public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity. In a temporary injunction signed Sunday, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor ruled that the federal education law known as Title IX "is not ambiguous" about sex being defined as "the biological and anatomical differences between male and female students as determined at their birth."
This is a question that is not asked with any malice or ill will, but rather only with genuine curiosity. Imagine the following scenario occurs: After the dust clears from the Nov. 8th Senate races, the composition of the next Senate is 50 Republicans, 49 Democrats; Duke promises to vote against any liberal SCOTUS nominee Hillary brings to the table, while the Democrat promises to vote FOR any SCOTUS nominee Hillary brings to the table, no matter how liberal or corrupt.
Street Graphics and the Law, now in its fourth edition, began 45 years ago when planner Bill Ewald decided that sign ordinances for on-premise business needed a new start. He developed a new concept and Street Graphics Model Ordinance that presented innovative ideas.
A U.S. agency's plans to ban forced arbitration clauses from financial contracts faces a tough road, with early reaction pointing to a years-long battle that could take a Supreme Court test to settle. Thousands of angry consumers and business representatives have flooded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with comments on its May proposal to block companies from forcing customers to take disputes to arbitration instead of joining group lawsuits.
Courts found that up to 600,000 Texans lacked the forms of identification the state required, with minorities disproportionately affected. They noted that the state's efforts to education voters on voter ID was lackluster at best.
When folks think of the Lone Star State, they might think of Big Oil and big emissions. But here's another, equally accurate image that folks might not think of when it comes to Texas: clean energy leader.
Stopping the clock in Georgia. In 1964, Rep. Denmark Groover hung over the gallery rail to stop the clock from reaching midnight on the last day of the legislative session.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is opening an address at a gathering of the New Mexico State Bar Association with a tribute to deceased Justice Antonin Scalia. Ginsburg recalled receiving from Scalia both birthday flowers and critical reviews of her draft opinions.
Timing in politics is everything. That axiom makes the pending opening on the Supreme Court of Canada an interesting and increasingly controversial one.
Polish prosecutors have opened an investigation into the head of the country's Constitutional Tribunal to determine if he abused his power in not allowing judges appointed by the ruling party to take part in rulings. The investigation into Andrzej Rzeplinski, which opened Thursday, is the latest development in an ongoing conflict between the Polish government and the constitutional court, whose role is similar to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The founding story of sexual harassment in the American workplace was built on a lie, and Hill's mendacity over the years has hurt progress. alleged sexual harassment.