As regular readers know, there is a case about to be argued before the Supreme Court which could have a major impact on homelessness on the west coast. At the moment, decisions issued by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals make it impossible for cities to force homeless people to move (off sidewalks or out […]
Most people approve of the Supreme Court’s decision to keep former President Donald Trump on the ballot, but they’re skeptical of his claim of absolute immunity from prosecution, which the justices will weigh this month, according to a new poll published Wednesday. Fifty-six percent of adults said they approved of the high court’s ruling last […]
Texas was back before a panel of federal judges Wednesday to defend its on-again-off-again border law, telling the court the state has marched right up to the line of what’s legal in dealing with illegal immigrants but has not crossed over it. The three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already […]
The House Judiciary Committee announced a probe Wednesday into massive bungling by Homeland Security, which failed to file summonses with the immigration courts for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, causing some 200,000 cases to be dismissed. The department has managed to refile the charges in only a quarter of the cases, according to data […]
Religious broadcasters are asking the Supreme Court to rule on whether their paying higher fees to stream music online than secular outfits like National Public Radio violates their First Amendment rights. The National Religious Broadcasters Noncommercial Music License Committee says it is required to pay 18 times what NPR pays in royalty rates, which are […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday said it will rule on whether to dissolve the political party that won the most seats in last year’s election for allegedly violating the constitution by proposing to amend a law against defaming the country’s royal family. The court said it had accepted a petition from the […]
Alsu Kurmasheva is a Prague-based Russian-American journalist with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Tatar-Bashkir Service. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is funded by the United States government. Alsu has been detained in Kazan, Russia since October 18, 2023, while she visited her mother, who was ill, on the charge of failing to register as a foreign agent. […]
A Texas appeals court has overturned a Fort Worth woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot. Crystal Mason did not know that being on probation for a previous felony conviction left her ineligible to vote in 2016, the Second District Court of Appeals in Fort Worth ruled on […]
A group of military clergy is asking the Supreme Court to uphold their First Amendment rights, which allow them to reject taking the COVID-19 vaccine despite orders from the Department of Defense. They also say they have faced retaliation such as not being promoted for their religious exemption requests. More than three dozen chaplains asked […]
The Supreme Court this week declined to take up an appeal from Nicholas Sandmann, who sued major media companies alleging they defamed him in 2019. His suit asked for more than a billion dollars in damages against The New York Times, ABC, CBS, Rolling Stone and Gannett. Mr. Sandmann was caught in a viral video […]
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