Paul Weiss, one of the two major law firms targeted by president Donald Trump, capitulated with a meaningless agreement rather than fight the blatantly unconstitutional executive order in court.
Trump targeted a second major US law firm Friday, two days after a federal judge put on hold an executive order intended to destroy the firm that represented Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election campaign.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that a lower court can compel the Trump administration to pay bills for services already performed by USAID contractors.
Dozens of lawsuits have been filed in response to Trump’s provocative executive orders. In a case to enjoin Trump’s freezing of federal funding, the trial judge determined that Trump violated his order but has not attempted to sanction Trump or any members of his administration.
Based on Wednesday’s oral arguments, the reactionary majority on the United States Supreme Court appears poised to uphold Tennessee’s ban on transgender medical care for adolescents, calling into question equal protection more broadly.
Last Tuesday, a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, awarded $42 million in damages against US military contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc., for its role in the torture of three Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison during the US imperialist occupation.
The right-wing Supreme Court supermajority intervened to allow the continuation of a Republican-backed program to summarily disqualify voters as suspected non-citizens.
The scandal-ridden US Supreme Court has begun its new term facing public hostility not seen since the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision of 1857.
As expected, the extreme right-wing Supreme Court majority on Friday overturned a Ninth-Circuit ruling that prohibited local governments from fining or arresting homeless people for sleeping in public when no public shelters were available.
The Supreme Court posted and then removed a draft order that would reinstate emergency medical abortions in Idaho.
The Supreme Court ruled that a US citizen does not have a constitutional right to challenge the State Department summary denial of a visa for her husband, one of several cases decided over the last two days as the current term approaches its end, with more than a dozen major decisions, including Trump’s broad immunity claim, remaining.
The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone and struck down a federal regulation prohibiting bump stocks on assault rifles, among other rulings, as the current term approached its conclusion before the July 4 holiday.
Last week’s oral arguments before the US Supreme Court on Donald Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for any actions he took while president, including his attempted coup of January 6, 2021, brought out divisions among the nine justices over criminality in the White House.
Republican-controlled state governments in Florida and Texas adopted the laws after Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube blocked President Trump for inciting the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled against Donald Trump's assertion of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for seeking to overthrow the 2020 election.
By a narrow 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the US Border Patrol can cut through razor wire installed by Texas on the banks of the Rio Grande.
At oral arguments Wednesday, the extreme right-wing Supreme Court supermajority signaled that it will abandon 40 years of precedent to undermine the power of federal regulatory agencies.
The US Supreme Court is poised to gut the power of federal regulatory agencies such as the Security and Exchange Commission to hold hearings and impose penalties for financial swindling.
On Thursday, the corrupt far-right majority on the US Supreme Court issued a decision effectively abolishing racial preferences in university admissions.
On loan from the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare focuses on 1947, the year that eight writers, one producer and a director were hauled before the House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC).
