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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 26, 2019 18 Comments
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked a subpoena issued by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform to Trump's accounting firm, pending a full appeal. So while the Stay is temporary, it likely will last several months until the appeal is decided. This is part of a full-scale assault by Democrat controlled entities at the federal and state level to obtain (and then leak, of course) Trump's personal financial and tax information. There is a related petition pending regarding a grand jury subpoena to the same accounting firm from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, which presents similar but distinct legal issues.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on October 10, 2019 55 Comments
On August 13, 2019, we wrote about an extraordinary Amicus Brief filed by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) on behalf of himself and several other Democrat Senators. The Brief was extraordinary because it threatened the Justices with a potential restructuring of the Court if the Justices didn't dismiss as "moot" the first big 2nd Amendment case the Court has taken in a decade. The Brief was panned by right, left, and center as a thinly-veiled and inappropriate threat.

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 07, 2019 32 Comments
When will these people learn that their ways to voice their displeasure is the only way to push people away from their cause? Protesters blocked the street outside of the Supreme Court on Sunday to mark Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's one-year anniversary. They screamed, "Impeach the motherf*cker!" before they made their way to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's house.

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 16, 2019 35 Comments
The smears and campaign against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will not go away despite the obvious lack of evidence he ever sexually assaulted or exposed himself to anyone. The New York Times reporters Robin Pogebrin and Kate Kelly continued this obsession with their new book, determined to keep alive the case against Kavanaugh. The case against Kavanaugh centered around Christine Blasey Ford. The authors continued to use Ford's accusations against Kavanaugh despite the lack of evidence and no one could back up her story. It was not until the end the authors noted that Christine Blasey Ford's lifelong friend Leland Keyser and others did not believe Ford's story.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 15, 2019 50 Comments
Donald Trump was elected president. But it wasn't over. There immediately launched an attempt to pressure Electors to change their votes, then an FBI-Democrat collusive attempt to undermine the presidency before it began, and a slow-motion coup to prevent the administration from governing. It's still not over, as Democrats hurl themselves towards the cliff of impeachment.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on September 15, 2019 38 Comments
A new book written by two New York Times reporters, excerpted in an article at the NYTimes, about the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh purports to raise new evidence about Kavanaugh's supposed sexual misconduct while at Yale. The new accusations do not hold up to scrutiny and are self-contradictory, but that has not stopped Democrat presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro, and Robert "Beto" O'Rourke from calling for Kavanaugh's impeachment.

Posted by Jared Samilow on September 11, 2019 51 Comments
President Trump's administration won a significant victory at the Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon. The NYT's Adam Liptak reports:
The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the Trump administration to bar many Central American migrants from seeking asylum in the United States. The court said the administration may enforce new rules that generally forbid asylum applications from people who had traveled through another country on their way to the United States without being denied asylum in that country.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on September 02, 2019 38 Comments
In August 2019, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse signed and filed an Amicus Brief in the U.S. Supreme Court that threatened the Justices with future court-packing if they didn't vote his way on a 2nd Amendment case. It truly was an extraordinary move, as we explained in Dem Senators to Supreme Court: Rule our way on 2nd Amendment case, or face possible restructuring:

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 13, 2019 115 Comments
It had been almost a decade since the U.S. Supreme Court took a major 2nd Amendment case, something Justice Clarence Thomas lamented in a dissent from the Court's refusal to hear an appeal from a 9th Circuit decision upholding California's 10-day waiting period even for those who already owned guns legally and had gone through the permitting and background check.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on July 17, 2019 22 Comments
Tuesday, Justice John Paul Stevens passed away at the age of 99. Justice Stevens' retirement from the Supreme Court paved the way for Justice Keagan's appointment.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 02, 2019 114 Comments
After the recent Supreme Court decision ruling that the Commerce Department had not given a sufficient explanation for a Census citizenship question, there still was a possibility that the Trump administration could pursue a new explanation. After all, the question itself was held substantively lawful, it was the process that was the problem. We covered the possibilities for a do-over in Chief Justice Roberts shot down Census citizenship question, but it’s not dead yet.

Posted by Jared Samilow on June 30, 2019 31 Comments
On the morning of June 28, 2012, CNN and Fox News initially told viewers that the Supreme Court had struck down the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, not yet realizing that the court had saved it as a tax. Fox’s Shannon Bream declared that the mandate was “gone” and for six minutes a CNN chyron blared, “Individual Mandate Struck Down.”
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