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Montevideo, November 30th 2025 - 00:15 UTC

Tag: Supreme Court of the United States

  • Tuesday, November 11th 2025 - 08:54 UTC

    SCOTUS rejects challenge to same-sex marriage ruling

    The Court’s denial of the case temporarily leaves the Obergefell precedent intact

    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on Monday upheld its landmark 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide by rejecting an attempt by a former Kentucky county clerk to overturn the ruling. The justices, operating with a 6-3 conservative majority, declined to take up the controversial case, avoiding direct engagement with the issue three and a half years after overturning federal abortion rights.

  • Monday, August 15th 2022 - 09:35 UTC

    Man kills himself after firing shots in the air before SCOTUS building

    The man had a criminal history but his motive remained unclear

    A man in Washington DC Sunday drove his car outside the US Supreme Court and started firing gunshots in the air before committing suicide just before 4 am. The building at East Capitol Street NE and 2nd Street SE is also one block from Capitol Hill.

  • Saturday, July 2nd 2022 - 10:00 UTC

    First African-American woman sworn into SCOTUS

    A Harvard Law graduate, Jackson had said during her confirmation hearing that it would be inappropriate to raise gender or race issues when evaluating a case

    Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., thus becoming the first-ever African American woman to sit on the highest court of the United States.

  • Friday, June 24th 2022 - 20:27 UTC

    SCOTUS overturns Roe v. Wade after nearly half a century

    Alito had for ages longed for a chance to argue against Roe v Wade

    The iconic 1973 US Supreme Court ruling known as Roe v. Wade which cleared the way for decriminalizing abortion has been overturned Friday when deciding on a Mississippi law banning the interruption of pregnancies after 15 weeks, thus ending alleged constitutional protections that had been in place for nearly half a century.

  • Friday, January 14th 2022 - 20:07 UTC

    US: SCOTUS rules against mandatory vaccination at workplaces

    “The question before us is not how to respond to the pandemic, but who holds the power to do so,” the Court said.

    The Supreme Court of The United States Thursday ruled by 6 votes to 3 against President Joseph Biden's vaccine mandates for businesses with 100 employees or more.

  • Thursday, February 28th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

    Trump's ex lawyer ashamed of working for a conman, a cheat and a racist

    Cohen told lawmakers he was “ashamed” of his decade-long role as the president's personal lawyer and “fixer” for sensitive problems.

    Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen called the US president a conman, a cheat and a racist in explosive congressional testimony on Wednesday, saying he was ashamed of a decade of working for the real estate billionaire.

  • Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 15:31 UTC

    Lula's party expected to announce Haddad as the presidential candidate

    Lula and Haddad huddled together on Monday afternoon in his jail room and allegedly began to draw up the letter.

    Jailed former Brazilian president Lula da Silva is expected to allow his Workers Party to announce running mate Fernando Haddad as its candidate, following the latest ruling from the Supreme Court. Lula had hoped the Justices would agree to an appeal for more time to switch the head of the Workers Party (PT) ticket after Brazil’s top electoral court last week banned him from running due to a corruption conviction and gave him 10 days to remove his name.

  • Thursday, June 28th 2018 - 11:13 UTC

    Trump gets another chance to reshape the ideological composition of the Supreme Court

    The remarks came shortly after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced that he will be retiring at the end of July, calling his tenure the “highest of honors”

    President Donald Trump will likely get to appoint a second judge to the Supreme Court, and his administration has already published a list of potential candidates for the bench. Trump told reporters Wednesday that his administration “will begin our search for a new justice of the United States Supreme Court that will begin immediately.”

  • Tuesday, June 27th 2017 - 15:46 UTC

    Trump's revised travel ban scores first SCOTUS win

    Justice Neil Gorsuch, appointed to the SCOTUS by Trump, was among those for whom “national security outweighs any hardship.”

    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on Monday partially lifted an injunction on President Donald J. Trump’s travel ban and thus allowed restrictions on citizens from certain predominantly Muslim countries to go into effect.

  • Wednesday, June 25th 2014 - 06:46 UTC

    Argentina waiting for Judge Griesa's reply on the 'stay' request

    Carmine D. Boccuzzi presented the letter requesting the stay and a reasonable timeframe for these kinds of negotiations (Pic gettyimagines)

    The government of President Cristina Fernandez awaits Judge Griesa's decision after the request to issue a stay on the ruling that orders Argentina to pay all the bondholders at the same time, Argentine Cabinet Chief Jorge Capitanich said in his daily press briefing at Government House on Tuesday.

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