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June 16, 2020

Supreme Court halts Texas execution over religious-rights concerns after clergy barred from death chamber

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a reprieve Tuesday to a Texas inmate scheduled to die for fatally stabbing an 85-year-old woman more than two decades ago, continuing a more than four-month delay of executions in the nation's busiest death penalty state during the coronavirus pandemic.

June 16, 2020

Rob Lowe stuns Conan O’Brien by revealing friendship with this Supreme Court Justice: ‘Wait, you know him?’

Rob Lowe sent Conan O’Brien into a frenzy when he openly admitted that he just so happens to be relatively tight with one conservative Supreme Court Justice.

June 16, 2020

House Dem claims religious liberty is a 'bogus term,' 'pretext for discrimination'

Rep. Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., accused conservatives on Monday of using the "bogus" term "religious liberty" in order to hide their desire to discriminate.

June 16, 2020

John Yoo: Supreme Court's LGBTQ ruling – a look at the big picture

The American system of constitutional federalism reserves to state governments and private civil society certain fundamental decisions.

June 16, 2020

Joy Behar shames Justice Thomas over dissent in LGBT ruling: He's 'married to a Caucasian woman'

"The View" co-host Joy Behar attempted to shame Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday, arguing that he shouldn't have dissented in a recent Court decision because of his race.

June 16, 2020

Shannon Bream breaks down Supreme Court's big LGBT rights decision: 'This is going to be a big change'

"Fox News @ Night" anchor and Fox News chief legal correspondent Shannon Bream joined the "Fox News Rundown" podcast Tuesday to discuss the Supreme Court's ruling that employers who fire workers for being gay or transgender violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

June 15, 2020

Ex-DC detective Ted Williams explains why successful prosecution unlikely in Rayshard Brooks case

Fox News contributor Ted Williams, a former Washington D.C. police detective, told "Bill Hemmer Reports" that he is dubious about the chances that there will be a successful prosecution in the police shooting that led to the death of Rayshard Brooks.

June 15, 2020

Dems use Kavanaugh dissent in gay rights case to renew criticism of Sen. Collins

Critics of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, renewed their attacks Monday on the perpetual swing-vote senator after Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh -- whom she helped confirm -- dissented on a decision that effectively incorporated gay and transgender people into a protected class under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

June 15, 2020

Thomas, Kavanaugh lament 'decade-long failure to protect the Second Amendment'

Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanagh on Monday admonished their fellow justices for letting Second Amendment cases languish in the lower courts in a dissent to the tribunal's decision not to take up a gun rights case.

June 15, 2020

Thomas says he 'doubts' qualified immunity precedent that protects police from lawsuits

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday said he disagreed with a decision by other justices to ignore a case about "qualified immunity," the Supreme Court doctrine that often gives police officers accused of egregious misconduct a legal way to avoid personal accountability.