The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the precedent surrounding abortion law in the United States that guaranteed women access to abortions through a constitutional right to privacy. Both the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 and the Planned Parenthood v. Casey case of 1992 were overturned. The court ruled 6-3 to uphold a law banning...
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Maine’s ban on using state money to pay for scholarships at religious schools. The decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, rules that if states institute publicly funded scholarship programs, they cannot exclude religious schools from the list of available options that parents have simply because they...
UPDATED on Thursday, April 7. The U.S. Senate voted, 53-47, to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, to the U.S. Supreme Court. She becomes the court’s 116th justice and the first Black woman to serve on the bench. The confirmation came after a 15-minute delay of waiting for Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, to appear in...
On Tuesday morning, day two gets underway of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, to the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, she would replace the retiring Justice Stephen Breyer who has served on the Supreme Court since 1994. She would also be the first black woman to serve...
The Democratic frontrunner in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race and a sitting state Supreme Court justice both appear on a high-profile shortlist of candidates to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. CNN also includes one of them, Justice Anita Earls, on its list of eight potential replacements. Breyer, 83, is expected to announce soon...
Gov. Roy Cooper has vetoed a measure that would keep charitable donors’ personal information private. “This legislation is unnecessary and may limit transparency with political contributions,” Cooper said in a statement as the reason he rejected the privacy measure on Friday. The text of Senate Bill 636 would have prevented governments from compelling nonprofits to...
The U.S. Supreme Court backed donor privacy in a decision released Thursday, July 1. The closely watched ruling was based on a case from California in which the state’s then-Attorney General Kamala Harris tried to require nonprofit organizations to disclose the identities of donors by requiring them to file an unredacted “Schedule B” with their...
An 8-1 free-speech ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court today rejected arguments N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein offered in a friend-of-the-court brief. Justices ruled in favor of Brandi Levy, who was a 14-year-old high school freshman in Pennsylvania when she ran afoul of local school officials. Levy took to Snapchat to share disappointment over not...
We tend to think of U.S. Supreme Court justices as ideological, their views and actions mapping neatly onto the conventional liberal-to-conservative continuum of American politics. Their decisions are thought to conform to the party of the president who nominated them. The current conservative bloc is Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil...
Critics are likely to blur the lines between the concept of photo identification for voters and the law implementing voter ID.
A divided U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding Ohio’s method of removing inactive voters from election registration rolls shouldn’t affect North Carolina’s maintenance of voting records too much, a spokesman for the state elections board says. The justices ruled 5-4 Monday, June 11, that Ohio complied with the National Voter Registration Act, often called the “motor...
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