Lotta decisione come down….
Trump loses MORE than he gets away with…..
EJ Carroll sexual abuse judgement….
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn a 2023 jury verdict holding him liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of writer E. Jean Carroll, dealing a final blow to the president’s effort to thwart one of the most significant legal victories against him.
Carroll’s lawsuit accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s and then describing her allegations as a “hoax” after she went public with them during the first term of his presidency.
The Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene means Trump will have to pay Carroll the $5 million judgment, plus interest, that the jury awarded her. Trump, however, is still appealing a much larger judgment — $83.3 million plus interest — awarded to Carroll after a second trial that found Trump liable for other acts of defamation….
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State’s CAN continue to count late mail-in ballots…
States are free to count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, so long as they are postmarked by then or election officials deem the ballots to have been cast on time, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The 5-4 decision is a significant loss for President Donald Trump, who has sought to crack down on mail-in voting ahead of November’s midterms. Trump has repeatedly argued without evidence that delays in tabulating votes fuel election fraud by Democrats.
Trump’s Justice Department and the Republican National Committee had urged the justices to strike down a Mississippi law that allows officials to count ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive up to five days later.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s three liberals in concluding that federal laws governing House, Senate and presidential contests are too vague to mandate that all votes be in the possession of election officials by that day….
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President CAN fire Independent agencies members..But NOT the Federal Reserve members….
The Supreme Court on Monday granted President Donald Trump sweeping power to control executive branch agencies, while effectively exempting the Federal Reserve.
The justices voted 6-3, along ideological lines, to scuttle a 91-year old precedentthat said Congress can limit the president’s ability to fire Senate-confirmed leaders to instances of “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”
But in a separate ruling, the high court voted 5-4 to send back to a lower court a lawsuit over Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook, a Fed member appointed by President Joe Biden. The decision, which allows Cook to remain in her post while litigation continues over the effort to dismiss her, is a blow to Trump’s efforts to prod the Fed to lower interest rates.
The court did not outright prevent Trump from firing Cook, but it rejected his arguments that courts had little power to review the decision.
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Police Need a warrant to access Google location info….
The Supreme Court on Monday said that police must generally obtain a warrant to gather detailed location data tracked by smartphones, in a case that brings into sharper the Constitution’s protections for Americans’ digital privacy.
In a 6-3 vote that scrambled ideological lines, the majority found that a request by police officers for Google to turn over a robbery suspect’s location history constituted a search protected by the Constitution’s guarantee to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures.
“An individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone’s location, and police intrude on that constitutionally protected interest when they demand the information — even though for only a limited time, and from a third-party tech company.” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the majority.
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Remaining cases dues tomorrow?
Birthright Citizenship
Transgender Athlete Bans
Campaign Finance
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