New Mexico tribal casino to launch sports betting
The sportsbook at Santa Ana Star Casino is scheduled to open Tuesday. The program will be managed by Nevada-based operator USBookmaking.
Category Archives: US Supreme Court
Court filing: Steve Bannon urged Census citizenship question
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he now remembers speaking with former senior White House adviser Steve Bannon in spring 2017 about adding a censorship question to the 2020 U.S. census. The new information comes as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether Ross must answer questions from lawyers challenging whether the citizenship question legally can be included.
Our Opinion: ‘Design flaws’ not the problem
The ugly, brutal battle to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh - now Justice Kavanaugh - to the U.S. Supreme Court will leave exposed wounds in our political system that won't soon heal.
When Police Misuse Their Power to Control News Coverage, They…
Journalists face increasingly hostile conditions covering public protests, presidential rallies, corruption, and police brutality in the course of work as watchdogs over government power. A case before the U.S. Supreme Court threatens press freedoms even further by potentially giving the government freer rein to arrest media people in retaliation for publishing stories or gathering news the government doesn't like.
Supreme Court wrestles with case on detention of immigrants
The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with a case about the government's ability to detain certain immigrants after they've served sentences for committing crimes in the United States. Several justices expressed concerns with the government's reading of immigration law.
Congrats, Brett Kavanaugh! A Great Day For America
This hasn't been the greatest week of my life, yet witnessing Kavanaugh overcome seedy liberal machinations to become SCOTUS has put a smile upon my face. This smile only widens when noting subsuquent leftist meltdowns across social media -Those beautiful, schadenfreude-laced meltdowns from the real sack of deplorables.
For Brett Kavanaugh: Beer and Sympathy
Now that you're a confirmed Supreme Court justice, it must be a huge relief to realize that whatever you did or did not do to Christine Blasey Ford never really mattered. believe Christine Blasey Ford.
Hell Hath No Fury
Brett Kavanaugh, the most controversial and unpopular U.S. Supreme Court nominee in recent history, was confirmed by a narrow Republican Senate majority for a lifetime appointment to the court. This display of raw political power is unprecedented in our democracy and has left most Americans wondering how such a blatant manipulation of longstanding judicial confirmation processes could happen.
Trump says Brett Kavanaugh was ‘proven innocent’ in confirmation battle during swearing-in ceremony
President Donald Trump used a ceremonial swearing of Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Monday to apologize for the "pain and suffering" the president said his family had endured during his Senate confirmation. Without directly mentioning the allegations of sexual assault that stalled Kavanaugh's confirmation for weeks, Trump said he thought his second nominee to the Supreme Court deserved better than the "campaign of political and personal" attacks the president said he faced.
McConnell now open to Supreme Court nomination in election year
The Senate's majority leader, insisting his chamber won't be irreparably damaged by the bitter fight over new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, is signaling he's willing to take up another high court nomination in the 2020 presidential election season should another vacancy arise. Heading into pivotal midterm elections, McConnell tried to distinguish between President Donald Trump's nomination of Kavanaugh this year and his own decision not to have the GOP-run Senate consider President Barack Obama's high court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016.
GOP response to Murkowski shows why most Alaska voters are independent
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski forgot to ask Tuckerman Babcock, the head of the Republican Party, for his instructions on how she should vote on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump and McConnell are a political odd couple who share one important goal
The ultimately successful, if extremely messy, Senate confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court is the unlikely and intriguing outcome of two disparate men invisibly working together, though they could hardly be more different - President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell was born in Alabama, raised in Kentucky and thanks to the demanding therapy of his mother, overcame the crippling physical restrictions of childhood polio so well he became a formidable baseball player.
SB54 opponents ask US Supreme Court to hear appeal
The Utah Republican Party petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling that upheld the state's controversial law dealing with how political parties nominate candidates. The 2014 law, known as SB54, was upheld earlier this year by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
Buffington: The nation’s in a hell hole
As I write this column, we don't yet know the ultimate outcome of Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. This week, the FBI is conducting a further investigation into allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a woman when both were in high school 36 years ago.
SB54 opponents ask U.S. Supreme Court to hear appeal
The Utah Republican Party petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling that upheld the state's controversial law dealing with how political parties nominate candidates. The 2014 law, known as SB54, was upheld earlier this year by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
Court Mood is Jovial as Kavanaugh Takes His Place on Bench
Brett Kavanaugh took the bench with his new Supreme Court colleagues for the first time Tuesday in a jovial atmosphere that was strikingly at odds with the tension and rancor surrounding his high court confirmation. The new justice dived into his new job, asking a handful of questions in the first arguments of the day following a traditional welcome from Chief Justice John Roberts, who wishing Kavanaugh "a long and happy career in our common calling."
Fox News draws a big audience for final Kavanaugh vote
The Senate's vote confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sent viewers flocking to Fox News Channel, which recorded its biggest Saturday audience in more than a decade. Fox's daytime audience was bigger than any for the network since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, while its Saturday prime-time lineup eclipsed anything since the Iraq War in 2003, the Nielsen company said.
Why is Anthony Kennedy smiling? He kept quiet on Kavanaugh, but can’t plead not guilty
He was standing right there, to one side of new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and slightly behind the left shoulder of President Donald Trump. Anthony Kennedy was right in the thick of it.
Dozens in Kavanaugh protest
About three dozen people gathered Monday at the Allen County Courthouse to protest the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Indiana Senate candidates take part in first debate
Senator Joe Donnelly faced off with Republican challenger Mike Braun and Libertarian candidate Lucy Brenton at Purdue University Northwest in Westville. The debate immediately got heated with Donnelly and Braun trading attacks.