The Supreme Court approved Trump’s ban against entry of foreign nationals from countries with high instances of terrorism for a 90-day period, but exempted anyone that has a ‘relationship’ with refugees already in the US. [...]
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in favour and against Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry into the United States of passport holders from Libya, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.
The highest court in the US found that prior decisions by lower courts pausing the ban were not in order and that until October when the Supreme Court will hear arguments, the majority of points from the executive order including the banning entry into the US of all individuals without travel documents, including self-proclaimed refugees, can be enforced.
Miles Treakle, left, of Seattle, holds a sign that reads “Refugees Welcome Ban Trump,” as he protests against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, May 15, 2017, outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren)
WASHINGTON — Most Americans say federal courts are acting properly in blocking President Donald Trump’s travel ban, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller is among the officials the nation’s high court has said cannot be sued for his role in the unconstitutional detention of a group of non-U.S. citizens swept up in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (AP/Charles Dharapak)
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that former George W. Bush officials cannot be held liable for the abuse and detention of a group of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Appeal Court of the Ninth Circuit has refused the US government’s request for a lifting of the stay of President Trump’s two ‘travel ban’ Executive Orders.
The Judgment of the Appeal Court of the Ninth Circuit can be read here.
The Amgen headquarters in Thousand Oaks, Calif. (AP/Mark J. Terrill)
The Supreme Court dealt a blow to big pharma on Monday, ruling that companies making generic “biosimilars” to brand-name drugs don’t have to wait an extra six months after gaining federal approval before selling their drugs.
The ruling, written by Justice Clarence Thomas for the unanimous court, is expected to speed up how quickly generic drugs become available to consumers.
Miles Treakle, left, of Seattle, holds a sign that reads “Refugees Welcome Ban Trump,” as he protests against President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, May 15, 2017, outside a federal courthouse in Seattle. (AP/Ted S. Warren)
Antonin Scalia once wrote that "Political gerrymanders are not new to the American scene" and noted there were allegations that Patrick Henry attempted, unsuccessfully, to gerrymander James Madison out of the First Congress.
There is an anti-immigration theory that immigrants will weaken American political institutions by not supporting them as much as Americans whose ancestors have been here for many generations. Here are four studies that prove the opposite.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., lambasted eight judges for aiding and abetting Venezuela’s democratically-elected President Nicolas Maduro for supposedly “murdering” protesters amid weeks of opposition-spurred violent demonstrations.. (AP/Paul Sancya)
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions on eight current or former members of the Venezuela’s Supreme Court Thursday, in its ongoing attacks on the Bolivarian nation.
