AM Prep-Today in History
On May 27, 1941, the British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood with the loss of more than 1,400 lives.
Category Archives: US Supreme Court
Hatch steadfast in holding up Supreme Court confirmation after meeting with Garland
After meeting with President Barack Obama's U.S. Supreme Court choice Thursday, Sen. Orrin Hatch remained steadfast that the Senate should wait until after the November election to consider a nominee. The Utah Republican said he sat down with Merrick Garland as a friend and out of respect for his position as a distinguished federal judge.
Glass: November election is crucial for women
Young, college-aged, women, are you feeling the Bern? If so, this one's for you. I'm voting for Hillary Clinton.
Ann Coulter: Will Obama Try To Backstab Hillary To Save His “Legacy”?
His senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett , also hates Hillary , so, if by some accident, Obama wakes up one day not hating Hillary, Jarrett is there to say, Oh yes you do! Obama must be having withdrawal symptoms as his second term draws to a close. If he were Reagan , he'd just want to go home and chop wood.
What Would a President Trump Do?by Ben ShapiroIn 2008, then-senator…
Obama campaigned on supposed practicality and ad hoc politicking. This left his most cynical detractors shadowboxing at the leftist positions they knew that he actually held, even as the media and his supporters Donald Trump may despise President Obama enough to question his origin of birth .
Wednesday, June 1
On June 1, 1916, Louis Brandeis took his seat as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first Jewish American to serve on the nation's highest bench. In 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt.
The Little Sisters of the Poor and the Fight for Freedom
God bless the Little Sisters of the Poor. They just put our overzealous federal government back in its constitutional place.
Former Republican candidate Santorum endorses Trump for president
Former U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Tuesday endorsed Donald Trump for president, saying he was swayed by Trump's list of possible Supreme Court nominees. Santorum, who dropped out of the presidential race in February and threw his support to Senator Marco Rubio, told Fox News: "The most important issue is preserving the Constitution of this country and a liberal Supreme Court will destroy it."
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Supreme Court Rejects Blagojevich Appeal Tuesday, May 24
The U.S. Supreme Court has determined it won't reconsider its March decision to reject former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's appeal of his corruption convictions.
NCJW Applauds US Supreme Court Decision in Foster v. Chatman
May 23, 2016, Washington, DC - The National Council of Jewish Women today applauded the decision by the US Supreme Court in Foster v. Chatman, which overturned the murder conviction of a black defendant in Georgia because there was clear evidence of racial bias in the jury selection process.
Supreme Court throws out death sentence from all-white jury
In this undated photo made available by the Georgia Department of Corrections, shows Timothy Tyrone Foster. The Supreme Court has thrown out a death sentence handed to Foster because prosecutors improperly kept African-Americans off the jury that convicted Foster of killing a white woman.
SCOTUS sides with death row inmate in discrimination case
The Supreme Court ruled Monday morning in favor of a death row inmate in a case concerning race discrimination in jury selection. Timothy Tyrone Foster, an African-American, is on death row in Georgia for the 1987 murder of an elderly white woman, Queen Madge White.
AP’s Coverage of Supreme Court’s HHS Mandate Move Waits…
On Tuesday, 2015 Noel Sheppard Blogger of the Year recipient Mollie Hemingway at TheFederalist.com pointed to several outrageous examples of poor press coverage of the Supreme Court's unanimous move to send Obamacare's HHS contraception mandate case back to the lower courts. Hemingway's core observation was that usually plaintiff-sympathetic establishment press outlets "suddenly have trouble even naming the Little Sisters of the Poor" until their stories' very late paragraphs.
Sonia Sotomayor Tells Grads To Embrace The Awful ‘Uh-Oh’ Moments
Between the moments you'll always remember and the ones you'd rather soon forget, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told University of Rhode Island graduates not to underestimate the cringe-worthy ones. "The 'ah-ha' moment is the first time you gained an insight about yourself or the world around you," she said, delivering the URI commencement speech Sunday.
Sessions: Clinton is the most anti-Second Amendment candidate ever
With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Sessions said the court is now 4-to-4 in its support of the decision. "She gets in, she will appoint somebody who changes it and what that means is, it's no longer a personal right to have a gun, but every city county and state can completely ban firearms in America," he said on "Fox News Sunday."
US Supreme Court appeal expected in candidacy case
After Friday's Missouri Supreme Court ruling said Rachel Johns doesn't qualify to run for state representative, her attorney told the News Tribune: "We do not consider this fight to be over, and we anticipate asking the U.S. Supreme Court to address this case." Dave Roland, of the Freedom Center of Missouri, represents Johns, of St. Louis, who filed last spring as a Democratic candidate for state House District 76 in north St. Louis City.
Vetoed Oklahoma abortion bill follows other failed attempts
The Oklahoma abortion bill vetoed Friday by the governor followed at least seven other attempts by state lawmakers to restrict abortions. All of them were shot down by the courts over the last five years.
Oklahoma moves to criminalize abortion
Oklahoma lawmakers have moved to effectively ban abortion in their state by making it a felony for doctors to perform the procedure, an effort the bill's sponsor said Thursday is aimed at ultimately overturning the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide. The bill , which abortion rights group Center for Reproductive Rights says is the first of its kind in the nation, also would restrict any physician who performs an abortion from obtaining or renewing a license to practice medicine in Oklahoma.
Oklahoma lawmakers pass bill criminalizing performing abortion
Oklahoma lawmakers have moved to effectively ban abortion in their state by making it a felony for doctors to perform the procedure, an effort the bill's sponsor said Thursday is aimed at ultimately overturning the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide. The bill , which abortion rights group Center for Reproductive Rights says is the first of its kind in the nation, also would restrict any physician who performs an abortion from obtaining or renewing a license to practice medicine in Oklahoma.