By Kim Chandler | The Associated Press | January 26, 2024
The execution came after a last-minute legal battle in which the condemned man'is attorneys contended the state was making him the test subject for an experimental execution method that could violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Federal courts rejected Smith's bid to block it, with the latest ruling coming Thursday night from the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Riley Brennan | January 25, 2024
The opinion held that the FBI's search and seizure of the plaintiffs' safe deposit boxes violated their Fourth Amendment rights, as the FBI didn't have a warrant to specifically search or seize the contents in the boxes.
By Mason Lawlor | January 25, 2024
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in Los Angeles is representing U.S. News, which added that the issue presents a slippery slope for free expression in journalism if the city attorney's actions are not addressed in court.
By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press | January 25, 2024
Sponsors say adopting the definition put forward by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance would help prosecutors and other officials identify hate crimes and illegal discrimination targeting Jewish people. Gov. Brian Kemp has said he will sign the legislation.
By Adolfo Pesquera | January 24, 2024
"If any principle of constitutional law ought to unite all of us as Americans, it's that the government has no business imprisoning citizens for the views they hold or the questions they ask," Circuit Judge James C. Ho wrote.
By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press | January 24, 2024
Charlene McGowan, Raffensperger's general counsel. "Giving a board of unelected bureaucrats unchecked power over the state's executive branch is a dangerous policy proposal."
By Jimmy Hoover | January 23, 2024
Counsel on each side of "Trump v. Anderson" have clerked for current or former Supreme Court justices.
By Jeff Amy | The Associated Press | January 23, 2024
What was already a fraught topic has become downright raw with the Israel-Hamas war. Some protesters chanting "Free Free Palestine!" were dragged from the Judiciary Committee room by police officers after the vote.
By Mason Lawlor | January 23, 2024
"Racial profiling communicates to members of the subject group that, 'regardless of any actual basis for criminal suspicion, they continue to be viewed as less than fully human based upon their race,"' actor Jean Elie wrote in support of the comedians. "[T]hat is precisely the message a Black person receives when he is branded with criminal stigma before a line of gawking onlookers for no justifiable, articulable reason."
By Jimmy Hoover | January 22, 2024
On a 5-4 vote, the justices accept the Biden administration's request to lift an injunction against federal action.
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