Kevin Daley

Clarence Thomas Clerks Dominate Trump’s Judicial Appointments

President Donald Trump has tapped seven of Justice Clarence Thomas’s former clerks for appeals court nominations since taking office. An…

8 years ago

Supreme Court Justices Discuss Ethics Code, Televised Cases In Rare Congressional Testimony

Chief Justice John Roberts is considering whether the Supreme Court should adopt its own ethics code. The justices in practice…

8 years ago

Masterpiece Cakeshop, Colorado Call Truce In Harassment, Discrimination Dispute

Christian baker Jack Phillips and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission (CCRC) have resolved a legal dispute that set Phillips’ religious…

8 years ago

Judiciary Chair Thinking About Impeachment, Says Trump Is Guilty Of Obstruction

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler said he believes that President Donald Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice, though…

8 years ago

Rao Nomination Exposes Fissures Within Conservative Legal Movement

The nomination of Neomi Rao to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit exposed oft-ignored fissures within the…

8 years ago

Graham Promises ‘Judges, More Judges, Then Some More Judges’ In Colorful CPAC Address

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the newly-minted chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Conservative Political Action Conference…

8 years ago

The Supreme Court Is Poised To Protect This 40-Foot Veteran’s Cross

The Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to protect a 40-foot memorial cross on public land in Bladensburg, Maryland from a…

8 years ago

The Boys Of Peace Cross

A 40-foot Celtic cross sits in the center of a roundabout in Bladensburg, Maryland. On its pedestal are inscribed the…

8 years ago

Judges Can’t Rule From The Dead, Supreme Court Rules |

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was wrong to count the vote of a deceased judge in an important…

8 years ago

Supreme Court Reins In State Power To Seize Property And Collect Fines

The Supreme Court sided with an Indiana man who lost his luxury car following his conviction on a minor drug…

8 years ago

Roberts Joins Liberals To Block Texas Execution Of Disabled Man

The Supreme Court effectively ensured a Texas inmate named Bobby James Moore will not be executed Tuesday. A majority of…

8 years ago

Justice Ginsburg Is Back At The Supreme Court, And She’s Sending A Message

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg took the bench at the Supreme Court Tuesday, the first time she has heard arguments since…

8 years ago

California Will Lead A Legal Challenge Against Trump’s Border Wall Declaration

California and a coalition of left-leaning states are expected to file a legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s national emergency…

8 years ago

Weiner Out: Disgraced Ex-Pol Leaves Jail For Halfway House

Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner was transferred from a federal detention facility in Devens, Massachusetts, to a residential re-entry…

8 years ago

Trump Was Sued Over His National Emergency Declaration In Less Than Six Hours

Public Citizen, a Washington-based consumer group, filed the first lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration concerning the southern…

8 years ago