The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case on college programs which a conservative group claimed chills free speech and pushes students to be fearful to express an unpopular or controversial viewpoint.
Dissenting Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said the court ultimately will need to intervene on a controversial free speech issue at universities across the country.
Income tax breaks and polarizing issues like a ban on DEI in schools and a proposed statue of controversial jurist Clarence Thomas are among the bills poised for action Thursday. But there are many other closely watched measures – like sports betting and a plan to compensate those who have been wrongfully convicted – that
The George H.W. Bush appointee said service members should be afforded the same chance at relief for government negligence as civilians.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote Monday that the Supreme Court should not let “confusion persist” regarding students’ free speech rights on university campuses. The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case questioning whether “bias response teams” on university campuses chill students’ free speech rights,
Before the latest ethics complaint against him was filed, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse led a campaign against Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas over what he asserted were ethical violations.
As Republicans are enjoying their majority in both the House and Senate, they are also pushing forth their own (questionable) agendas. The latest debate doesn’t revolve around healthcare or really anything to benefit the people. And then there’s this. Lawmakers are currently considering how to honor Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Justice Samuel Alito penned a scathing dissent to the Supreme Court's decision ending a temporary pause on foreign aid payments through the U.S. Agency for International Development.
For nearly three years, it has seemed inevitable that the Supreme Court would strike down the “buffer zones” that restrict protests near the entrances of reproductive health clinics. A majority of the court has already castigated these laws—and past precedent upholding them—as a subversion of anti-abortion protesters’ First Amendment rights.
Chief Justice Roberts issued a temporary pause. Aid organizations said in a Supreme Court filing that they "would face extraordinary and irreversible harm if the funding freeze continues."