The bill, known as the PRESS Act, would codify protections against federal investigators seizing reporters’ records. It is now less likely the legislation would clear the Senate before the current session ends.
Se cree que Sophia Park es la persona más joven en aprobar el examen del Colegio de Abogados de California, superando al anterior poseedor del récord: su hermano mayor, Peter.
Lawyers for the music mogul objected at a hearing to prosecutors viewing handwritten materials from their client’s cell after a sweep of the Brooklyn jail where he is being held.
Sophia Park is believed to be the youngest person to pass the California State Bar Exam, besting the previous record-holder: her older brother, Peter.
The Constitution allows the president to circumvent the Senate and put appointees in place while the chamber is in recess, a loophole created back when Capitol commutes involved long treks by horse.
The decision came after officials in at least four counties had ignored the court’s pre-election guidance not to count mail ballots that were undated or misdated.
La Constitución establece un límite de dos mandatos para los presidentes. Sin embargo, Trump ha insinuado en repetidas ocasiones que le gustaría permanecer más en la Casa Blanca.
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The Constitution sets a two-term limit for presidents. Still, Donald J. Trump has repeatedly floated the idea that he might like to stay in the White House beyond his next term.
He argued 20 cases before the Supreme Court and prepared witnesses like Marie Yovanovitch and Christine Blasey Ford for their congressional testimony.
As a Senate recount plays out, at least four counties are ignoring an order from the State Supreme Court that undated or misdated mail ballots cannot be counted.
The president-elect intends to nominate three members of his criminal defense team to senior roles, raising further concerns about politicization of the department.
One climate activist was sentenced to 18 months in prison, the other to two years. They said that they had meant to draw attention to climate change.
Texas lawmakers exceeded their power when they intervened last month to stop the execution of Robert Roberson by summoning him to testify, the court found.
Former Vice President Mike Pence described Mr. Kennedy, who does not support a federal abortion ban, as a choice unlike any in the modern era of the G.O.P.
Las designaciones del presidente electo para formar su gabinete demuestran su desprecio por un poder ejecutivo responsable.
A renowned Supreme Court litigator, he argued the Republican side in Bush v. Gore, but later championed gay rights and undocumented children.
Representative Daniel Goldman of New York plans to introduce a resolution clarifying that the Constitution’s two-term limit for presidents applies even if the terms are not consecutive.
The Supreme Court is largely to blame for the challenges it may face over the next four years.
Si los demócratas hubieran perdido de manera contundente en las elecciones de mitad de mandato, quizá Joe Biden habría sido la figura de transición que había prometido ser.
Maybe it would have been better if the red wave had crashed ashore in 2022.
Nearly eight years after the first challenges to his immigration policies, Donald Trump is returning to the White House promising a more aggressive crackdown.
The abortion rights movement won in many states — even some that voted for Donald Trump. Where does it go from here?
Readers point to Joe Biden, the economy, “hate and fear” and no-show voters. Also: How Roe v. Wade saved a woman’s life.
Los demócratas atacaron los vínculos de Donald Trump con el proyecto de derecha que busca remodelar el gobierno federal. Varios de los autores del plan trabajaron en su gobierno.
What should Trump’s opponents do next?
La elección de Trump supone una grave amenaza para el país, pero no determinará el destino a largo plazo de la democracia estadounidense.
As a lawyer for The Associated Press and other news outlets, he challenged efforts to muzzle reporters and organized lawyers to promote free expression around the world.
Democrats had attacked Donald J. Trump’s ties to the conservative policy blueprint for reshaping the federal government. Several of its authors served in his administration.
Ballot measures that passed on Tuesday will lift abortion bans in two states and expand access in others. Defeated measures in three states mean their abortion restrictions will remain in place.
Voters in red and blue states supported abortion rights, but the movement broke its winning streak.
The race was one of several that reflected the increasing politicization and influence of state supreme courts nationwide.
How American democracy can endure through a second Trump presidency.
El apoyo a la medida no alcanzó el 60 por ciento necesario para su aprobación. Habría permitido el aborto “antes de la viabilidad”, normalmente en torno a las 24 semanas de embarazo.
La medida evita a la presidenta Sheinbaum tener que elegir entre acatar el fallo que anularía la reforma o ignorarlo y alinearse con los líderes de su partido.
The defeat is a political victory for Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, who had become the face of a well-funded opposition campaign.
The move spares the country’s new president from having to choose between recognizing a court decision to strike down the overhaul or aligning with her party’s leaders and ignoring it.
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We cannot become what he wants us to be.
Voters hate inflation — Democrats should be breathing a sigh of relief to be heading into a coin-flip election.
“Se trata de un sistema único y hecho a medida que creo que nadie volvería a crear hoy en día”, dijo una experta.
“This is a very unique and bespoke system that I think nobody would create again today,” one expert said.
A three-judge panel affirmed that Sheeran’s “Thinking Out Loud” did not illegally borrow from Marvin Gaye’s song.
The lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, had previously pleaded guilty to a felony charge of conspiracy in a Georgia court.
A battle over a new rule to limit credit card late fees has spiraled into a larger skirmish about how much power litigants should have to maneuver their cases into friendly courtrooms.
The Philadelphia district attorney sued in state court to block Elon Musk’s petition drive, saying it amounted to illegally paying people to register as voters. A hearing was scheduled for Thursday.
La medida ha suscitado críticas de juristas que afirman que anularía cualquier control judicial de los asuntos constitucionales.
The bill has drawn criticism from legal scholars who say it would bulldoze any judicial oversight of constitutional matters.
The world’s richest person has waded into local election contests in Texas where his sizable contributions can make a big difference.
Plus, refunds for canceled flights.
Since throwing his support behind former President Donald J. Trump, Mr. Kennedy has sought both to be removed from and to remain on various state ballots.
G.O.P. members need to put country above party.
He was impatient with courtroom theatrics, and the Manhattan trials of the commissioner and ex-beauty queen Bess Myerson and the former Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos had plenty.
Donald Trump has softened his rhetoric, contradicted himself and nearly dropped “pro-life” from his vocabulary. Yet there is no evidence that his views on abortion have changed.
The Fifth Circuit court ruled that the 2018 post was protected speech. It also vacated an order to reinstate a pro-union Tesla worker who was fired.
Opponents of the so-called Equal Rights Amendment have cast it as a broad attempt by Democrats to grant rights to transgender athletes and migrants.
Activists on both sides say Trump could effectively ban abortion nationwide and establish fetal personhood, the longtime goal of the anti-abortion movement.
The law requires officials to count absentee ballots received by mail up to five days after Election Day. It appears unlikely that the ruling will affect the current election.
A Republican super PAC is running ads invoking the name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to help Donald Trump win voters who favor abortion rights. Her family denounced the effort as “nothing short of appalling.”
The former president’s most disturbing statements are not bluster. They are a road map to what he will do if elected again.
When a Columbia professor needed a lawyer because of her comments about the actions of former Israeli soldiers on campus, tensions over the Israel-Hamas war got in the way.
The first, Proposition 1, is designed to enshrine abortion rights in the state Constitution. The rest would make changes to New York City’s governing charter.
They hope the issue helps their candidates. But some voters may support Republican candidates as well as abortion-rights ballot measures.
In 1973, the Pierre Hotel on Fifth Avenue would not serve unaccompanied women. A legal challenge overturned that ban.
In many states, hospitals are delaying or denying standard reproductive care.
Mr. Olsen, a lawyer, has spoken to the former president multiple times in recent weeks. He’s insisted it’s important to make legal demands concerning voting-machine data before Election Day.
A new analysis shows how many women in states with bans are seeking procedures or pills from out-of-state providers.
It resists all attempts at moderation and compromise.
Journalists and scholars explore the issue at every level, from the movement that took down Roe to the human stories of women who had abortions, and those who were denied.
As Kamala Harris toiled as a junior prosecutor in Alameda County, Calif., she developed important connections among San Francisco’s financial and social elite.
The decision could rip a hole in Berlin’s budget and complicate the transition to a greener economy.
The case is the second one this term asking the justices to decide when government activity crosses the line to become coercion forbidden by the First Amendment.
A Fifth Circuit panel partly upheld restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with online platforms about their content.
After making little progress with Republican leaders at the White House on Tuesday, the president previewed two possible endgames to resolve a debt-limit standoff.
Two criminal defendants have asked the Supreme Court to decide whether remote testimony against them violated the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause.
Recent orders suggest that the justices are thinking of dismissing cases involving the “independent state legislature” theory and Title 42, an immigration measure imposed during the pandemic.
The justices, who had been set to hear arguments on March 1, acted after the Biden administration filed a brief saying that the measure would soon be moot.
The unanimous ruling was the first one summarized by a justice since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and an indication that the court is off to a slow start this term.
At issue is Title 42, a public health measure invoked by the Trump administration during the pandemic to block migrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
The justices left in place an injunction blocking the Biden administration’s authority to forgive up to $20,000 in debt per borrower.
A pair of prominent headlines highlights the reversals.
We all know what happened with summer 2020. Then 2021 was dampened by Delta. This year, any anticipated return to revelry has been hampered by … *waves hands at everything.* Is there hope for enjoying the once fun season?
School is out for the summer — but in some cases, so are the bosses.
School is out for the summer — but in some cases, so are the bosses.
Readers call for more openness and discuss judicial restraint and the justices’ religious beliefs. Also: Mask decisions; Twitter’s dark side; skipping school.