Barrett confirmed as Supreme Court justice in partisan vote
October 26, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court late Monday by a deeply divided Senate, Republicans overpowering Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s nominee days before the election and secure a likely conservative court majority for years to come. Trump's choice t...
Trump taps Chicago-based Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court
Nika Schoonover, Politics Editor
September 28, 2020
President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he is nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. Barrett, 48, graduated with honors from Rhodes College, a Presbyterian-affiliated school in Tennessee. She continued on to Notre Dame Law School in Indi...
Trump seeks Supreme Court approval to speed deportations
March 1, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man slipped into the U.S from Tijuana, Mexico, and made it just 25 yards from the border before he was arrested. A seven-month journey from Sri Lanka was over for Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam. Now he would be able to tell an American official why he had fled the place he had ...
Split Supreme Court appears ready to allow Trump to end DACA
Mark Sherman, Associated Press
November 12, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sharply at odds with liberal justices, the Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to abolish protections that permit 660,000 immigrants to work in the U.S., free from the threat of deportation. That outcome would "destroy lives,"...
Justices take up high-profile case over young immigrants
November 10, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking up the Trump administration's plan to end legal protections that shield 660,000 immigrants from deportation. It's a case with strong political overtones amid the 2020 presidential election campaign. All eyes will be on Chief Justice John Roberts when...
Abortion, immigrants, LGBT rights top Supreme Court’s new term
Mark Sherman, Associated Press
October 5, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights as well as protections for young immigrants and LGBT people top an election-year agenda for the Supreme Court. Its conservative majority will have ample opportunity to flex its muscle, testing Chief Justice John Roberts' attempts to keep the court clear of Washington...
GOP stands by Kavanaugh, rips NY Times
September 17, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate committee that hosted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings is ripping The New York Times for publishing "unsubstantiated" allegations. Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley on Monday said the paper's publication of a new, uninvestigated...
You be the judge: You don’t know who they are, you don’t know what they do, but you hire them
Benjamin Conboy, Editor-in-Chief
November 5, 2018
The focus in midterm elections is often on national trends, and congressional and state races. But way down the ballot are elect- ed officials who have a surprising amount of power, but who few voters actually vote for. If you are pulling a ballot in Lincoln Park, for example, there are 59 judges...
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg shares life experiences with Chicago
September 18, 2017
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University to speak at the college’s Second Annual American Dream Reconsidered Conference Monday, Sept. 11. Ginsburg was asked to kick off the conference by talking about her life and the different social justi...
The fifth anniversary of Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision
Nicholas Oviatt
January 25, 2015
This month marks five years since the Supreme Court’s controversial decision regarding Citizens United. The United States Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by a nonprofit corporation. Read More »...
