Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed attorney Cory Cox to temporarily serve on the state Supreme Court for Justice Barbara Webb, who is recovering from a head injury sustained during a fall. Webb has been absent from the court since May, when she injured her head in a fall, and has been recuperating in Houston. Chief […]
Interruptions and insults flew across the stage of Rhode Island College’s Sapinsley Hall auditorium Tuesday night as two Democratic gubernatorial candidates attempted to school the other in the third and final debate before the primary, hosted by WPRI-TV 12. Fresh off another round of public polling that shows him 20 points behind challenger Helena Buonanno […]
Three votes now separate Republican Paula Copenhaver from state Sen. Spencer Deery, but a dispute over six rejected ballots could reverse the outcome of their Indiana Senate primary for a second time. Deery’s attorneys on Monday asked the Indiana Supreme Court to take the recount case and the Court of Appeals to suspend the result […]
Every three days, Kathleen Sullivan Kelley hauls water from the town of Meeker to fill a 500-gallon tank at her ranch in Rio Blanco County. Kelley’s horses used to drink from ponds on the property, but there’s no longer any surface water, and she and her husband, Reed, sold the last of the 200 cows […]
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson has joined 24 Democratic-led states in suing the Trump administration over the latest round of sweeping tariffs. The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated Trump’s first round of tariffs in February, ruling that the executive branch doesn’t have the power to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Trump […]
In 1999, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Olmstead v. L.C., holding that unjustified segregation of people with disabilities can violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. People should receive services in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs. That principle is right. It should be enforced. But moving people out of large institutions does not […]
Roughly 1,100 people are currently serving life without parole for second degree murder. Now that the stay on the Supreme Court’s decision is lifted, they have an open door to challenge their sentences.
The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled that a woman does not have the right to file a delayed appeal for damages as the victim of a crime, despite the fact that there was legal and legislative confusion over her right to compensation. In a recent decision, the state’s highest court upheld an appellate court decision […]
A judge this month awarded North Dakota landowners attorney fees in a lawsuit against the state over a property rights law found to be unconstitutional. The ruling means the state could owe nearly $975,000 in legal costs to the landowners and groups behind three related court challenges filed since 2019. “We are grateful that the […]
Americans’ trust in the judiciary and the justice system is eroding at every level. From the U.S. Supreme Court to state courts across the country, polls show sharply declining public confidence in courts as trustworthy institutions. The response from many special interest groups and politicians has been to try to politicize these institutions further, and […]
