The Supreme Court’s recent ruling by a 6-3 vote to limit the authority of the EPA has not gone down well with President Biden who views the decision as retrogressive. “The Supreme Court’s ruling in West Virginia vs. EPA is another devastating decision that aims to take our country backwards,” said the President. He added that “While this decision risks […]
WASHINGTON/JACKSON, MISS. — Hundreds of protesters descended on the U.S. Supreme Court Saturday to denounce the justice’s decision to overturn the half-century-old Roe v. Wade precedent that recognized women’s constitutional right to abortion. The sweeping ruling by the court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, was set to vastly change American life, with nearly half the states considered certain or likely to […]
U.S. President Joe Biden said the appointment of the first black female, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to the U.S. Supreme Court “is going to let so much shine — sun shine on so many young women, so many young Black women — so many minorities, that it’s real. It’s real.” “We’re going to look back — nothing to do with me […]
Photo credit: Wikicago “Over these past few weeks, you’ve heard a lot from me and about me, so I hope to use this time primarily to do something that I have not had sufficient time to do, which is to extend my heartfelt thanks to the many, many people who have helped me as part of this incredible journey,” she […]
The Affordable Care Act, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and colloquially known as Obamacare, has taken flak from the Republican Party since the federal statute was enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Reportedly, there have been at least 70 Republican-led attempts to […]
After the July 27, 2017, vote on the Health Care Freedom Act, Newsweek “found at least 70 Republican-led attempts to repeal, modify or otherwise curb the Affordable Care Act since its inception as law on March 23, 2010.” The latest attempt was made by Texas and 17 other Republican-governed states to have the law struck down by the U.S. Supreme […]
The Supreme Court, in a recent ruling, has barred restrictions on religious services in New York that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had put in place to arrest the spread of the coronavirus. The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the court’s three liberal members in dissent. The order was the first in which […]
President Trump kept to his promise of nominating a woman to the U.S. Supreme Court to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The President selected Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative federal appeals court judge. Calling it a “very proud moment indeed,” Trump called Barrett a woman of “towering intellect” and “unyielding loyalty to the Constitution” who would rule “based […]
President Trump has said he thinks the results of the 2020 election will end up at the Supreme Court. Following remarks about ballot fraud, Trump was asked if that’s why he wanted to appoint a Supreme Court before the election. “I think this will end up in the Supreme Court. And I think it’s important we have nine justices,” Trump […]
President Trump credited himself for getting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh confirmed, claiming that after he mocked accuser Christine Blasey Ford at a campaign-like rally “it started to sail through.” “Well, there were a lot of things happening that weren’t correct, they weren’t true and there were a lot of things that were left unsaid,” Trump said in a Fox […]
