Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, will head into hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, where members on the panel will ultimately decide whether to send her nomination off to a full vote in the Senate.
The Biden administration said Friday it would resume plans for oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters after an appeals court ruled to allow the use of an approximately fivefold higher “social cost of carbon” value in evaluating permits, according to reports.
"Texas law does not grant the state-agency executives named as defendants in this case any authority to enforce the Act’s requirements," Justice Jeffrey Boyd wrote.
The U.S. Supreme Court has said, by its decision not to take up the argument, that it's fine for police departments to mount multiple cameras to spy on a private citizens for more than a year – without a warrant.
Madam Speaker, Madam Vice President, our First Lady and Second Gentleman. Members of Congress and the Cabinet. Justices of the Supreme Court. My fellow Americans.
The United States Supreme Court will be looking into the years-long battle between Jack Phillips and the state of Colorado stemming from his refusal to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
The fight over masking Virginia’s school children will go on for at least a while longer. On Friday a judge in Virginia sided with pro-mask mandate school boards, and halted temporarily an executive order issued by new Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that makes masks optional in schools.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a circuit court’s January 13 decision “that held that [Wisconsin Election Commission’s] guidance on absentee ballot drop boxes [deployed statewide in the 2020 election] violates state law, and/or should have been adopted through the rulemaking process.”
Joe Biden has pledged to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court, but he seems to have forgotten about the time he filibustered a black woman judge’s nomination to America’s second-highest court for two years.
