Kagan supports ethics code but says Supreme Court divided on how to proceed
PORTLAND, Ore. — Justice Elena Kagan publicly declared her support for an ethics code for the U.S. Supreme Court but said there was no consensus among the justices on how to proceed, suggesting the high court is grappling with public concerns over its ethics practices. “It’s not a secret for المزيد
Supreme Court temporarily blocks ghost gun ruling by federal judge
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court’s decision to strike down a regulation aimed at reining in privately made firearms known as “ghost guns” that are difficult for law enforcement to trace. The action by Alito, who handles emergency matters arising from a group of المزيد
Alito says Congress lacks power to impose ethics code on Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Justice Samuel Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose a code of ethics on the Supreme Court, making him the first member of the court to take a public stand against proposals in Congress to toughen ethics rules for justices in response to increased scrutiny of their activities beyond the المزيد
Supreme Court allows work on contested natural gas pipeline to resume
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed work on a natural gas pipeline crossing federal land in Virginia to resume over the objections of environmental groups. The justices granted an emergency request filed by Mountain Valley Pipeline, meaning that final elements of the 303.5 mile pipeline running from the المزيد
Iowa Supreme Court agrees to hear appeal on GOP’s blocked abortion ban
DES MOINES, Iowa — The Iowa Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds’ appeal of a lower court order blocking the state’s ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, which Reynolds signed into law earlier this month. Republican legislators passed the bill earlier this month in المزيد
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s staff prodded colleges and libraries to buy her books
WASHINGTON — For colleges and libraries seeking a boldfaced name for a guest lecturer, few come bigger than Sonia Sotomayor, the Supreme Court justice who rose from poverty in the Bronx to the nation’s highest court. She has benefited, too — from schools’ purchases of hundreds, sometimes thousands, of the books she المزيد
Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s student loan relief plan
Biden lowers income-based loan payment cap Biden said that student loan borrowers will be required to pay a lower percentage of their income under new policies in response to the Supreme Court striking down his loan cancellations. Previously, a borrower could be required to pay up to 10% of their المزيد