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Jul 11, 20241 min read
Ocasio-Cortez Seeks To Impeach Justices Alito, Thomas
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) filed articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito over...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 28, 20243 min read
Cities May Ban Public Sleeping By The Homeless, High Court Rules
A public sleeping ban in Grants Pass, Oregon, did not unconstitutionally criminalize homelessness, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 28, 20241 min read
Supreme Court Makes It Harder To Charge Jan. 6 Rioters With Obstruction
On Friday, The Supreme Court made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction — a charge that also has been brought...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 27, 20242 min read
Justices Avoid Idaho Abortion Issue In First Test Of Post-Roe State Law
The Supreme Court on Thursday ducked a major abortion issue, sending a controversial Idaho law back to a lower court. For now, while the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 21, 20241 min read
Supreme Court Backs Defendants’ Rights to Jury Decisions
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with criminal defendants saying juries, not judges, must decide certain facts about whether a person is a...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 21, 20243 min read
SCOTUS: Domestic Violence Orders Can Block Possession of Firearms
In a major win for legal restrictions on guns, the Supreme Court on Friday overwhelmingly upheld a federal law that blocks people people...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 20, 20241 min read
Conviction Of Woman Who Challenged Expert Witness Testimony Upheld By Supreme Court
On Thursday, the United States Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a California woman who said she did not know about a stash of...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 14, 20243 min read
Divided High Court: Law Doesn't Permit Ban On 'Bump Stocks'
The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a federal ban on "bump stocks," which can allow semiautomatic weapons to fire rapidly, like...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 14, 20242 min read
Opinion: Justices Should Learn From Ginsburg's 'Historic Mistake' and Retire Now
In a provocative opinion piece entitled, “Justices Sotomayor and Kagan must retire now,” Ian Millhiser, a senior correspondent at Vox...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 10, 20242 min read
Democrats Divided Over Roberts Subpoena To Discuss Ethics Reform
Chief Justice John Roberts appears to have the upper hand in the fight over judicial ethics reform, with Senate Democrats unwilling to...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 7, 20242 min read
SCOTUS Justices Received Gifts Totaling $3M, Watchdog Finds
A report released on Thursday pointed to the Supreme Court’s ethics scandals, revealing that the justices have received over 300 gifts...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 5, 20242 min read
Can State Supreme Courts Expand Rights Of Criminal Defendants?
With a conservative legal majority on the United States Supreme Court, advocates are increasingly looking to state Supreme Courts to...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 3, 20241 min read
Justices Will Hear Organized Crime Figure's Appeal On Gun Charge
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear an appeal from Salvatore Delligatti, a Genovese crime family associate who is challenging a 2018...
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Crime and Justice News
May 31, 20241 min read
Chief Justice Roberts Declines Invitation from Senate Democrats
Chief Justice John Roberts has declined an invitation to meet with top Senate Democrats over judicial ethics, citing “separation of...
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Crime and Justice News
May 29, 20242 min read
In Dissent, Gorsuch Scolds Court For Not Addressing 6-Member Juries
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch admonished his colleagues on Tuesday for turning down an opportunity to revoke the use of six-member...
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Crime and Justice News
May 23, 20241 min read
Court Majority Sides With U.S. In Dispute Over Drug Sentences
The Supreme Court sided with the federal government in a case about which laws judges should look at when determining whether to apply a...
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Crime and Justice News
May 17, 20242 min read
Days After Storming of U.S. Capitol, Justice Alito Flew Upside-Down Flag Outside His Home
An upside-down American flag, a symbol associated with former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud, was displayed...
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Crime and Justice News
May 14, 20242 min read
Hard-Line Alito Shows Empathy For Some Criminal Defendants
Conservative Justice Samuel Alito, a former U.S. Attorney with a long history of voting in favor of prosecutors, has shown signs of...
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Crime and Justice News
May 13, 20242 min read
Supreme Court Should Hear More Cases, Justice Kavanaugh Says
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh believes the court’s caseload is too light, about 60 arguments a year in recent years rather than...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 26, 20241 min read
Supreme Court's Trump Immunity Argument: 6 Key Points
It appears likely that the Supreme Court will offer former President Trump some protections from criminal prosecution, The Hill reports,...
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