Supreme Court deals major financial blow to nation’s public employee unions

A deeply divided Supreme Court dealt a major blow to the nation's public employee unions Wednesday that likely will result in a loss of money, members and political muscle. After three efforts in 2012, 2014 and 2016 fell short, the court's conservative majority ruled 5-4 that unions cannot collect fees from non-members to help defray the costs of collective bargaining.

Pregnancy center ruling a blow for abortion-rights advocates

In knocking down a California law aimed at regulating anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a blow to abortion-rights supporters who saw the law as a crucial step toward beating back the national movement against the procedure. Democratic-led California became the first state in 2016 to require the centers to provide information about access to birth control and abortion, and it came as Republican-led states ramped up their efforts to thwart abortion rights.

Supreme Court deals big setback to labor unions

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can't be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to organized labor. The justices are scrapping a 41-year-old decision that had allowed states to require that public employees pay some fees to unions that represent them, even if the workers choose not to join.

Supreme Court denunciation of ruling upholding internment bittersweet, Japanese-Americans say

For decades, Karen Korematsu has hoped and prayed that someday the U.S. Supreme Court would overturn its infamous 1944 decision upholding the mass incarceration of her father, Fred, and 120,000 others of Japanese descent during World War II. Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred Korematsu, held a publication from the Korematsu Institute that depicted her father on the cover.

Travel ban ruling stirs dismay among immigrants, advocates

Maryam Bahramipanah is torn between staying with her husband, who came to Michigan from their native Iran, and returning home to see her mother, who suffered a stroke. With the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday to uphold President Donald Trump's ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, she expects that she can't do both.

The Latest: Few visa applicants granted travel ban waivers

The Trump administration has granted waivers to less than 2 percent of visa applicants exempting them from President Donald Trump's travel ban on several mostly Muslim countries. Visitors depart the Supreme Court early Monday, June 25, 2018.

Supreme Court rejects ruling that allowed Japanese-American internment

The opportunity to revisit the ruling presented itself in a dissenting opinion by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which compared the internment of Japanese-Americans to groups affected by the Trump travel ban. Chief Justice John Roberts rejected the comparison, but said the reference to Korematsu v.

Secretary Ben Carson, Diamond and Silk, Ken Klukowski & Luke…

Happen to miss The Larry O'Connor Show today? Recap today's program by checking out Larry's interviews and topics below: The Supreme Court ruled in favor of President Trump and his immigration policy across the board in a 5-4 decision on Tuesday, holding that the permanent entry restrictions from various terror-prone nations codified in Presidential Proclamation 9645 is fully consistent with Congress's Immigration and Nationality Act as well as the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Announcing on the 10th Anniversary of D.C. v. Heller the Launch of the…

AEP Was Formed to Bring a Challenge to Heller, a Historic Legal Blunder, and Provide a Major Re-education to the Courts and Public Today, the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in D.C. v. Heller , a promising front in the battle against growing gun violence opens with the launch of the American Enlightenment Project, a new nonprofit in Washington, DC dedicated to ending the epidemic of gun proliferation and violence that arose after Heller and its sequel Chicago v.

Required notices at crisis pregnancy centers likely violate the First Amendment, Supreme Court rules

A California law requiring licensed anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to post information about the availability of state-subsidized abortions is likely unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision Monday. The Supreme Court said notice requirements for both licensed and unlicensed centers were content-based restrictions that likely violate the First Amendment.

In Big Win For White House, Supreme Court Upholds President Trump’s Travel Ban

Zainab Chaudry , Zainab Arain and Megan Fair with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, stand outside of the Supreme Court for an anti-Trump travel ban rally before oral arguments. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption Zainab Chaudry , Zainab Arain and Megan Fair with the Council on American-Islamic Relations, stand outside of the Supreme Court for an anti-Trump travel ban rally before oral arguments.