Prop 8 Supporters’ Emergency Request to Halt Marriages Denied
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy today denied an emergency application filed by Proposition 8 sponsors asking the court to halt same-sex weddings until the justices issue a final disposition on their dismissal of a case asking them to to overturn a lower-court decision striking down… Read More »
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Supreme Court to Decide on Voting Rights
Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, is anxiously waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on a key provision of the Voting Rights Act . “At issue in the case is the heart of the law, Section 5, which… Read More »
White House Brief Foreshadows Supreme Court Arguments on Gay Marriage
The White House has asked the Supreme Court to strike down a main provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, but in the legal paper filed with the judiciary it may have signaled a wider push for same-sex marriage as a constitutional right on the… Read More »
Anonymous Hijacks Federal Website, Threatens DOJ Document Dump
Activists from the hacker collective known as Anonymous assumed control over the homepage of a federal judicial agency this morning. In a manifesto left on the defaced page, the group demanded reform to the American justice system and what the activists said are threats to… Read More »
Conservative Trailblazer Robert Bork Dies at 85
Judge Robert H. Bork, one of the chief conservative intellectuals of the law, who forever changed the nature of Supreme Court confirmation hearings, died Wednesday morning of heart disease, according to his son, Robert H. Bork Jr. Bork was 85 years old. “Robert Bork was… Read More »
Supreme Court and Guns: Justices Have Yet to ‘Clarify the Entire Field’
When the Supreme Court recognized for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms in a bitterly divided 2008 decision, gun control advocates feared the worst, but the ruling has not led to widespread overturning of gun regulations. Writing… Read More »
Record Guns Sales Cause Brief FBI Background Check Problems
Shopping malls weren’t the only places receiving an influx of shoppers on Black Friday: According to the FBI, the day after Thanksgiving saw record gun sales, with 154,873 checks conducted, a 20 percent increase from last year. And all those calls caused two brief outages… Read More »
Nebraska Right to Life Group Pushes for Ultrasound Images on State Website
The anti-abortion group Nebraska Right to Life is pushing for the passage of legislation in the state that would require that so-called 4-D ultrasound images of an unborn fetus be posted on a Nebraska state website. The state of Kansas already shows these types of… Read More »
Justice Dept, House Seek to Resolve ‘Fast and Furious’ Suit
The Justice Department said Tuesday that they will try to settle a lawsuit seeking to enforce a subpoena sought by the House Oversight and Government Reform committee to obtain documents related to the ATF’s botched gun trafficking case Operation Fast and Furious. Ian Gershengorn, the Justice… Read More »
Cyber-Monday Counterfeit Crackdown Shuts 130 Websites
During the biggest online shopping day of the year with consumers estimated to spend $1.5 billion, federal officials teamed up with European law enforcement agencies to shut down over 130 websites hawking illegal counterfeit items on the internet. Project Cyber Monday 3 marks the third… Read More »
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