US Supreme Court allows Texas to enforce controversial immigration law
HOUSTON: The US conservative-majority Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an emergency request by the Joe Biden administration, allowing the state of Texas to temporally enforce its controversial law allowing Texas police to arrest migrants crossing the US-Mexico border illegally, reported Xinhua. As a result, the state law can take effect while litigation continues in lower […]
Trump says will go to Supreme Court to dispute election count
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed he had won the US election, despite the final results not yet being given, and said he would go to the Supreme Court to dispute the counting of votes. “We did win this election,” Trump said in an extraordinary speech from the ceremonial East Room of the White […]
US Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON: The US Senate voted to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to America’s top court Monday evening, cementing a solid 6-3 conservative Supreme Court majority, Anadolu Agency reported. The 52-48 vote saw just one Republican break ranks with the party, Susan Collins of Maine, as she joined all Democrats and Independents in opposing the election-year nominee. […]
Who will succeed Ginsburg on the US Supreme Court?
WASHINGTON: The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers US President Donald Trump an opportunity to replace the progressive Supreme Court justice with a staunch defender of conservative values — even if Democrats are girding for the political equivalent of trench warfare to oppose such a nominee. Her successor, who would be Trump’s third nomination to […]
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87
WASHINGTON: Progressive icon and doyenne of the US Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has died at the age of 87 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, the court announced Friday. Ginsburg, affectionately known as the Notorious RBG, passed away “this evening surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, DC,” the court said in […]
