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Will the Supreme Court steal the 2024 election from Trump if Harris wins?

October 28, 2024 | angela | Leave a Comment

Three things are true about the current Republican-controlled Supreme Court. The first is that in 2020, when outgoing President Donald Trump urged his fellow partisans on the court to overturn his defeat in that year's presidential race, Republican justices failed to do so. Despite everything this court has done before and since to undermine democracy […]

US Supreme Court Reforms: Where Do Harris and Trump Stand?

October 28, 2024 | angela | Leave a Comment

This is one in a series of reports from States Newsroom on the key policy issues in the presidential campaign. WASHINGTON — Democrats are increasingly calling for new rules for the nation's highest court, and the 2024 presidential election reflects a clear partisan divide over how Supreme Court justices should behave and whether they should […]

The entire Texas government is arguing over whether to save Robert Roberson's life

October 18, 2024 | angela | Leave a Comment

On Thursday evening, the Texas Supreme Court issued an extraordinary order that spared Robert Roberson from execution – although perhaps not for very long. Roberson was convicted of murdering his daughter in 2003, with the theory that she died of shaken baby syndrome. But due to an extraordinary turn of events, it now seems likely […]

Amendment J would repeal Colorado's defunct ban on same-sex marriage

October 16, 2024 | angela | Leave a Comment

Amendment J would protect same-sex marriages in Colorado by repealing the state constitution's now-defunct definition, which only recognizes unions between a man and a woman. Same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide in 2015 by the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. Colorado granted gay marriage licenses last year after a lower court declared the […]

Harris supports abolishing the filibuster to enforce nationwide abortion protection, angering Manchin

September 26, 2024 | angela | Leave a Comment

Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday she supports changing the Senate filibuster rules to codify women's federal right to abortion with a simple majority. “I have said it very clearly, I think we should abolish the filibuster tactic for Roe (by Wade), and bring us to the point where … “51 votes would be exactly […]

Marcellus Williams fell victim to the worst hypocrisy of the Supreme Court.

September 25, 2024 | angela | Leave a Comment

The state of Missouri executed Marcellus Williams on Tuesday. He was almost certainly innocent, and his own accusers, as well as the family of his alleged victim, had sought to spare his life. St. Louis prosecutors urged the courts not to kill Williams, arguing that his conviction was fatally undermined by a shocking lack of […]

Missouri executes death row inmate Marcellus Williams for murdering a woman in 1998

September 25, 2024 | angela | Leave a Comment

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was executed Tuesday for breaking into a woman's home and killing her, despite demands from her family and the prosecutor who put him on death row to let him spend the rest of his life in prison. Marcellus Williams, 55, was convicted of the 1998 murder of […]

Supreme Court sharply criticized after execution of Marcellus Williams

September 25, 2024 | angela | Leave a Comment

Conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court are under criticism for refusing to stop the execution of death row inmate Marcellus Williams of Missouri, who died by lethal injection on Tuesday evening. Williams was sentenced to death in 2001 for the murder of Felicia Gayle, who was found stabbed to death in her St. Louis […]