Sen. Ron Johnson deflected questions last Monday at a Milwaukee Press Club event about his association with a GOP megadonor who has ties to Clarence Thomas's ethical questions and collects Nazi memorabilia.
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1/6 chairman: Ginni Thomas reiterates false election claims
Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, stood by the false claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent during an interview Thursday with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, the panel's chairman said.
Read More »Ginni Thomas emails urged new 2020 electors in Wisconsin
The wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reached out to at least two Wisconsin state lawmakers, including the chair of the Senate elections committee, urging them to overturn President Joe Biden's 2020 election win in the tightly contested state, emails obtained Thursday by The Associated Press show.
Read More »After Supreme Court ruling, it’s open season on US gun laws
The Supreme Court ruling expanding gun rights threatens to upend firearms restrictions across the country as activists wage court battles over everything from bans on AR-15-style guns to age limits.
Read More »High court rejects COVID-19 shot mandate case from New York
The Supreme Court declined on Thursday to take up a case involving a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers in New York that does not offer an exemption for religious reasons.
Read More »Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday's outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Read More »Supreme Court expands gun rights, striking New York limits
In a major expansion of gun rights, the Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public.
Read More »High court limits suing officials over rights violations
The Supreme Court on Wednesday limited when people can sue federal officials for a violation of their rights, siding with the government in a case involving the owner of a notorious inn on the U.S.-Canada border.
Read More »It’s Chief Justice Roberts’ Court, but does he still lead?
John Roberts is heading a Supreme Court in crisis. The chief justice has already ordered an investigation of the leak this week of a draft opinion suggesting the court could be poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case legalizing abortion nationwide.
Read More »Justice Thomas and his wife’s text messages highlight missing ethics rules at the Supreme Court
Time and time again, the country’s highest court has come under fire for failing to manage possibly unethical behavior by its justices. In the past, the Supreme Court of the United States has cast aside pleas to adopt an ethics code for the justices. Now, the actions of Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Virginia – who pushed the White House to ...
Read More »Justice Thomas joins arguments remotely after hospital stay
Justice Clarence Thomas participated in arguments at the Supreme Court by telephone rather than in person on Monday following a hospital stay of nearly a week.
Read More »Abortion remarks by 9 court justices indicate how they lean
The Supreme Court heard arguments in which it was asked to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.
Read More »3 lawyers readying arguments in high court abortion case
Leading up to Wednesday's major abortion case at the Supreme Court, the justices have heard from thousands of people and organizations urging the court to either save or scrap two historic abortion decisions.
Read More »Clarence Thomas criticizes judges for veering into politics
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Thursday criticized some in the judiciary for veering into the role of legislators and politicians, saying it is not the role of judges to make policy or to base decisions on their personal feelings or religious beliefs.
Read More »Thomas spoke, Roberts ruled in unusual US Supreme Court term
Justice Clarence Thomas spoke and Chief Justice John Roberts ruled. The Supreme Court's most unusual term featured victories for undocumented immigrants, abortion rights, LGBTQ workers and religious freedoms.
Read More »Supreme Court rejects several gun rights cases for next term
The Supreme Court on Monday passed up several challenges to federal and state gun-control laws, over the dissent of two conservative justices.
Read More »He speaks: Justice Thomas asks questions in court, 1st time in 10 years
Justice Clarence Thomas broke 10 years of courtroom silence Monday and posed questions during a Supreme Court oral argument, provoking gasps from the audience.
Read More »Justice Thomas objects to court’s signal on gay marriage
The U.S. Supreme Court is inappropriately signaling it intends to clear the way for gay marriage across the nation, Justice Clarence Thomas complained earlier this week in a stinging dissent to the court's refusal to block the start of same-sex marriages in Alabama.
Read More »SCOTUS rules for company seeking to trim retiree health costs
A unanimous Supreme Court is ordering lower courts to take a new look at a dispute over a chemical company's efforts to cut costs in its health plan for retired workers.
Read More »Justice Thomas hints at court split on gay marriage review
Justice Clarence Thomas suggested Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court was divided over whether to hear the gay marriage cases the justices rejected last month.
Read More »US justices OK challenge to ban on campaign lies
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that an anti-abortion group can challenge an Ohio law that bars people from making false statements about political candidates during a campaign.
Read More »US justices reject appeal over graduations in church
The U.S. Supreme Court has left in place a court decision that said public high school graduations in a church adorned with religious symbols violated the separation of church and state.
Read More »Defense lawyers fear slippery slope after US high court’s anonymous call ruling
Criminal defense attorneys are expressing concerns about a recent decision from the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a vehicle search based on an anonymous 911 call was constitutional.
Read More »US Supreme Court town prayer ruling divides justices, bar
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing prayers to be delivered before public town meetings divided the justices in two ways: in the result and in the standard that applies in determining whether public prayers violate the Establishment Clause.
Read More »Justices revisit securities fraud class actions
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court have an opportunity to dramatically change the landscape of securities fraud class action litigation by limiting, or perhaps overruling altogether, a decision upon which plaintiffs have relied for decades.
Read More »Court rules for airline in pilot defamation claim
Ruling that airlines have broad immunity from lawsuits under a post-9/11 security law, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a $1.4 million defamation judgment awarded to a pilot who was reported by his employer as mentally unstable and potentially armed.
Read More »Justice Thomas touches on life, law
When Clarence Thomas reflects on his path from Pin Point, Ga., to the U.S. Supreme Court, he credits his college nuns with teaching him the most important word he ever learned. And that word was this:
Read More »Supreme Court halts use of key part of voting law (UPDATE)
A deeply divided Supreme Court threw out the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, a decision deplored by the White House but cheered by mostly Southern states now free from nearly 50 years of intense federal oversight of their elections.
Read More »Supreme Court nixes human gene patents
In a decision that seemed designed to carve out a middle ground in the legal battle over whether companies can hold exclusive rights in the use of biological material, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that isolated human genes are not patentable, but synthetically created genetic material may be patented.
Read More »US high court: Ex, not current wife, keeps life insurance proceeds
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a divorced Virginia woman could not be forced to surrender the proceeds of a federal employee life insurance policy that she received as her ex-husband’s named beneficiary.
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