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LAKEWOOD, Colo. - Five years ago, in a decision that has led to a Supreme Court showdown, Jack Phillips refused to use his baking skills to make a wedding cake to celebrate a same-sex marriage, saying it would violate his Christian faith and hijack his right to express himself.
Kansas is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse rulings by the state's highest court that they say prevent the state from prosecuting immigrants in the U.S. illegally for identity theft. Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in a news release Friday three rulings last week by the Kansas Supreme Court said federal immigration law superseded Kansas law in those types of cases.
With U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in the state redistricting case set for October 3, the Wisconsin Department of Justice formally responded to claims the Assembly and Senate district maps drawn by Republicans in 2011 are unconstitutional. In a 34-page brief filed Friday, DOJ attorneys claim the court's nine justices should conclude they have no jurisdiction over statewide gerrymandering claims, like the ones being presented in Gill v.
An Arizona lawmaker says Phoenix police are violating provisions of a contentious 2010 law known as SB 1070 that requires police to inquire about the immigration status of people they suspect are in the country illegally. Republican Sen. John Kavanagh said Friday that policy changes the department adopted in July illegally restrict when officers can inquire about a person's immigration status.
Cake baking is an art. Or, so says a group of professional wedding cake bakers who have filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in what promises to be the blockbuster case of the upcoming term, Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v.
Ohio is set to execute a man who murdered two people on Wednesday, its second execution in 2017 after a three-year hiatus because of legal challenges and difficulties obtaining lethal injection drugs. Gary Otte, 45, was found guilty of murder of two home-invasion murders at a suburban Cleveland apartment complex in 1992.
Edith Windsor, a widow who brought a landmark Supreme Court case that struck down parts of a federal anti-gay marriage law and paved a path toward legalizing same-sex nuptials nationwide, died Tuesday. She was 88. Windsor died in New York, said her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan.
Amid the laudable moral support for the DACA recipients after President Donald Trump's revocation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, liberals should keep in mind an important constitutional principle: Immigration is supposed to be the province of Congress, not the executive. The belief that the president has ultimate immigration power can lead to terrible results -- like Trump's travel ban against six majority-Muslim countries, also powered by the mistaken idea that immigration policy should be set by executive order.
A Christian baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding has a major backer as his case heads to the US Supreme Court this fall: the Trump administration. The Department of Justice has sided with Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips, arguing that governments "may not truncate the First Amendment by compelling a person to create a piece of artwork - particularly one that violates the artist's conscience."
Agudath Israel of America filed an amicus curiae brief with the US Supreme Court in a significant religious liberty case, Yeshiva World News reported Sunday. The Orthodox organization asked to be allowed to assist in the case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v.
Attorney General Mark Brnovich led a coalition of 20 attorneys general in filing an Amicus Brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in opposition to the law enforcement gag order issued in the David Daleiden and Center for Medical Progress v. National Abortion Federation case.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit to block President Donald Trump's plan to end a program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation. Here's a look at the legal arguments and prospects for success: The lawsuit filed Wednesday says the Trump administration's decision to rescind the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was motivated by anti-Mexican bias.
A judge ordered 39-year-old Ricardo Cruz eligible for parole following a resentencing hearing on Tuesday in Lancaster. Cruz was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole in the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Debbie Rivera in 1992.
Jim Obergefell sat in the Supreme Court on a June morning more than two years ago and listened as Justice Anthony Kennedy read an opinion that would re-shape the lives of LGBT Americans by clearing the way for same-sex marriage nationwide. "They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.
The United Federation of Teachers is drafting plans to dramatically slash its $182 million budget - anticipating a Supreme Court ruling that would bar mandatory "union dues" from government workers' paychecks to support union activities, The Post has learned. If the Supreme Court rules against government-employee unions, membership and dues revenues would likely plummet by 20 percent to 30 percent, labor sources said.
Fifty years ago, Thurgood Marshall, the grandson of an enslaved man who had become one of the country's most famous litigators, was about to be sworn in as the first African-American justice on the Supreme Court. And Marshall wanted to take the constitutional oath of office from Hugo Black, a white associate justice who had once been a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Today, two individuals and two Second Amendment civil rights advocacy groups filed a petition for certiorari in the case of Silvester, et al. v. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra asking the United States Supreme Court to review and overturn a wrongly-decided Ninth Circuit decision about the State of California's 10-day waiting period laws, noted The Calguns Foundation, one of the petitioners.
The Republican leading in the runoff race in Alabama's Senate primary appears to have no idea what one of the biggest political issues of the moment even is. In a July 11 interview with "The Dale Jackson Show" on local radio WVNN , and uncovered Friday by Washington Examiner columnist Philip Wegmann , Judge Roy Moore appears totally stumped on what the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is -- you know, the one that's been a rallying cry on the right for liberal overreach for years, and the one President Trump has said he'll decide about over the weekend, and the one some Republicans in Congress are paradoxically encouraging him to keep.