The Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch effort by lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump to forestall his sentencing for his New York criminal conviction. The five justice majority that voted to deny Trump’s application wrote that the evidentiary issues Trump has complained about “can be addressed in the ordinary course on appeal.” They also noted that
Trump had asked the justices to consider questions about presidential immunity. The Supreme Court on Jan. 9 rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s request to halt proceedings in his New York business records case, removing a potential barrier to sentencing scheduled for Jan. 10. The brief order noted that Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and
Legal experts differ about how they think the Supreme Court will rule on a federal law requiring Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell TikTok by Jan. 19 or be shut down in the United States. The court will hear TikTok Inc. v. Garland and its companion case, Firebaugh v. Garland, together on Jan. 10 in
Legal experts differ about how they think the Supreme Court will rule on a federal law requiring Chinese tech company ByteDance to sell TikTok by Jan. 19 or be shut down in the United States. The court will hear TikTok Inc. v. Garland and its companion case, Firebaugh v. Garland, together on Jan. 10 in
Trump could unilaterally rename the body of water, but other countries might not recognize the new name. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) introduced a bill on Jan. 9 to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America after President-elect Donald Trump suggested the name change earlier in the week. The bill, called the Gulf
In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half the people in the United States use for entertainment and information. TikTok could shut down the
‘The good news is: I’m a great-grandfather as of today!’ Biden said at wildfire presser Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass (D.), fresh off a plane from Ghana, dodged questions about the wildfires ravaging Southern California. Democratic California governor Gavin Newsom rejected responsibility for empty fire hydrants. President Joe Biden celebrated some personal news. That’s how