Tag: Supreme Court of the United States

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

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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 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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Friday, June 6th 2014 - 08:49 UTC

  Countdown for Argentina's decisive litigation with hedge funds; IMF concern

  

  The International Monetary Fund expressed “concern” on Thursday over the outcome of Argentina's 'vulture funds' case. The US Supreme Court is scheduled to consider on June 12 whether to hear Argentina's appeal of rulings requiring it to pay the holdout bondholders back in full.