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Editorial Roundup: Florida

Sep. 20, 2023 07:15 AM EDT

Orlando Sentinel. September 13, 2023. Editorial: Florida Supreme Court justices parrot fiction on 15-week abortion ban When lawyers opposing Florida’s 15-week limit on safe, legal abortions arrived at the majestic state Supreme Court building Friday, they knew they...

Christine Blasey Ford, who testified against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, will release a memoir in 2024

Sep. 13, 2023 08:06 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The California professor who testified that then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh had assaulted her while they were in high school has written a memoir. Christine Blasey's Ford's “One Way Back” is scheduled for publication next March. According to St....

Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh predicts 'concrete steps soon' to address ethics concerns

Sep. 07, 2023 16:23 PM EDT

CLEVELAND (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh told a judicial conference on Thursday he hopes there will be “concrete steps soon” to address recent ethics concerns surrounding the court, but he stopped short of addressing calls for justices to institute an official code of conduct. ...

Rising political threats take US into uncharted territory as 2024 election looms

Aug. 13, 2023 18:24 PM EDT

DENVER (AP) — This week’s confrontation that ended with FBI agents fatally shooting a 74-year-old Utah man who threatened to assassinate President Joe Biden was just the latest example of how violent rhetoric has created a more perilous political environment across the U.S. Six...

Supreme Court reinstates regulation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers

Aug. 08, 2023 18:57 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is reinstating a regulation aimed at reining in the proliferation of ghost guns, firearms without serial numbers that have been turning up at crime scenes across the nation in increasing numbers. The court on Tuesday voted 5-4 to put on hold a...

Supreme Court won't block a ruling favoring a Native American man cited for speeding in Tulsa

Aug. 04, 2023 16:08 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday left in place a lower court ruling that invalidated a speeding ticket against a Native American man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, because the city is located within the boundaries of an Indian reservation. The justices rejected an emergency...

Justice Kavanaugh seeks to dispel the notion that the Supreme Court is partisan

Jul. 13, 2023 17:07 PM EDT

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Justice Brett Kavanaugh pointed to the mixed U.S. Supreme Court decisions this term as he sought Thursday to dispel notions that it is partisan, even after conservatives brought about the end of affirmative action in college admissions and struck down President Joe...

Today in History: July 9, Trump chooses Kavanaugh for Supreme Court

Jul. 09, 2023 00:01 AM EDT

Today in History Today is Sunday, July 9, the 190th day of 2023. There are 175 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On July 9, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in New York. ...

The Supreme Court just issued its biggest rulings of the year. Here's what you need to know.

Jul. 01, 2023 00:37 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court just finished issuing its biggest decisions of the term, killing President Joe Biden's $400 billion plan to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts, ending affirmative action in higher education and issuing a major decision that impacts gay rights. The...

Editorial Roundup: United States

Jun. 28, 2023 08:59 AM EDT

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: June 27 Washington Post on retired U.S. military officers working for foreign governments A bipartisan bill introduced by Sens. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)...