WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court began a potentially contentious election-year term Monday in seeming general agreement that juries in state criminal trials must be unanimous to convict a defendant. The justices took up a quirk of constitutional law, a 47-year-old ruling that requires unanimity in federal, but not state trials....
Court Blocks Census Citizenship Question. Is Trump Out of Time?
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday maintained a hold on the Trump administration's effort to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, and the question's opponents say there's no time to revisit the issue before next week's scheduled start to the printing of census forms. There was no word...
Supreme Court Gives Land Owners Freedom to Sue on Federal Level
A little family cemetery in rural Pennsylvania triggered a legal earthquake that might be felt in land disputes and coastal-access battles up and down California. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that property owners can go straight to federal court to fight claims that local or state government prevented...
SCOTUS Ruling on Travel Ban Came Down to Families
Reaction to the Trump v. Hawaii decision that upheld the President’s travel ban on seven nations remains strong days after the Supreme Court decided the case. Trump’s third attempt at an executive order, after lower court rulings blocked the first two, restricted entry into the United States from citizens of...