Us supreme court
Facebook fails in bid to derail $15 bn privacy suit
The nation's top court issued an order denying a request by the leading social network to review a California federal court's decision to allow the litigation...
Trump, 74, has been waging a protracted legal battle to prevent his tax records from being handed over to New York prosecutors probing hush payments to women and possible fraud.
The high court opened arguments in the long-brewing case over the constitutionality of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, under which then-president Barack Obama's government sought to extend health insurance to people who could not afford it.
Joe Biden’s victory presents an opportunity to reset the White House agenda and put it on a different course.
By law, the Republican-led Senate has to approve the nomination to the country's highest court, where conservatives currently occupy five of the nine seats.
Ginsburg's flag-draped casket was carried up the Capitol east steps and brought to Statuary Hall, where the justice's relatives, US lawmakers, and dignitaries including Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, were in attendance.
Democratic opponents, led by presidential candidate Joe Biden, however, are demanding that the process wait until after the 3 November election, when it will be known whether Trump is getting a second term.
US President Donald Trump confirmed he will announce his pick for the Supreme Court seat left open by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday.
Ginsburg was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore early Tuesday after first going to her regular Washington hospital with fever and chills.
Four federal executions were scheduled but a district court judge had suspended them to allow for legal challenges to the lethal injection that was to be used.
In a 7-2 ruling, the court said the president does not have absolute immunity from criminal investigation.
The conservative-leaning court split 5-4 in the decision overruling a state law that requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights activists, as well as Democratic politicians and several major businesses, had been demanding that the court spell out that the community was protected by the law.
At issue is a state law in Louisiana which requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
A sharply divided US Supreme Court heard arguments on whether employers can fire workers because they are gay or transgender.
The momentum has picked up since Republican President Donald Trump appointed two justices to the nine-member Supreme Court in the past two years.
'If the partisan Dems ever tried to impeach, I would first head to the US Supreme Court,' Donald Trump wrote on Twitter.
The rules championed by Democratic former President Barack Obama, intended to safeguard equal access to content on the internet, were opposed by President Donald Trump, a Republican.
Some Democrats in the House of Representatives have indicated Kavanaugh could face investigations or even potential impeachment if they win majorities in the US legislature.