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April 26, 2021

Student's Snapchat profanity leads to high court speech case

Fourteen-year-old Brandi Levy was having that kind of day where she just wanted to scream. So she did, in a profanity-laced posting on Snapchat that has, improbably, ended up before the Supreme Court in the most significant case on student speech in more than 50 years.

April 24, 2021

Can Derek Chauvin get his convictions tossed on appeal?

The unique circumstances surrounding Derek Chauvin's trial in George Floyd's death could offer the former Minneapolis police officer some shot at winning a retrial on appeal, though most legal experts agree it's a long shot.

April 23, 2021

HuffPost slammed as 'propaganda,' 'stupid liars' for claiming Republicans 'engaged in court packing'

Critics slammed left-wing news site HuffPost Friday as liars, propagandists, and worse for accusing Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, of lying when he said Senate Republicans didn't engage in court-packing when they held the majority.

April 23, 2021

Ted Cruz on DC statehood, HR1 and court-packing: Dems' top priority is power 'forever'

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Friday during an appearance on 'The Faulkner Focus' that Democrats want to give Washington, D.C. statehood, pack the Supreme Court and legislate HR1 because their 'number one priority is to 'stay in power forever.'

April 23, 2021

Supreme Court ruling makes it easier to sentence minors to life in prison

A Supreme Court ruling on Thursday will make it easier to sentence minors to life in prison without parole. 

April 23, 2021

Democrats’ top priority is to change the rules to stay in power, Cruz says

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said at a press conference Thursday that the Democrat push for Washington, D.C., statehood and to pack the Supreme Court is an effort to ensure that they can never lose their grip on power.

April 22, 2021

‘Cursing cheerleader’ free speech case to be argued in Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the so-called “cursing cheerleader” lawsuit on Wednesday — a First Amendment case that could impact public schools across the country.

April 22, 2021

20 Republican AGs oppose 'alarming' court-packing efforts in letter to Biden, congressional leaders

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 19 other Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to President Biden and congressional leaders opposing efforts to alter the makeup of the Supreme Court.

April 22, 2021

GOP senators say Dems trying to 'rig' SCOTUS through court-packing, ask Biden to rein in party's 'crazies'

A group of Republican senators on Thursday spoke in front of the Supreme Court in opposition to court-packing, a response to legislation Democrats introduced at a press conference last week to do just that.

April 21, 2021

Florida AG Moody demands Biden make Supreme Court commission meetings public

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody called this week for President Biden to allow public access to meetings of a commission he formed to explore a potential expansion of the Supreme Court, among other reforms.