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Stories by Kelsey Reichmann
Posted May 23, 2022, 9:58 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
The Supreme Court ruled against two Arizona men on death row, stating that federal courts, when considering ineffective-assistance claims, cannot consider evidence beyond what the inmates presented when they first brought their challenges in state courts.... Read more»
Posted May 3, 2022, 5:59 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority will overturn the landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade according to a leaked draft of the majority opinion, which Politico released Monday night. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 27, 2022, 2:19 pm
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
Red states challenging the president’s authority over immigration policy made little headway at the Supreme Court in nearly two hours of oral arguments Tuesday on the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 22, 2022, 1:11 pm
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
Next Tuesday, in a contentious battle that could have big implications for administrative law, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Migrant Protection Protocols — better known as Remain in Mexico - aimed at preventing an influx of migrants.... Read more»
Posted Apr 20, 2022, 5:31 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
A 45-year-old fight for disability benefits landed on the Supreme Court steps Tuesday as a veteran asked the justices to enforce a safety-valve provision to save what he says was a wrongly denied claim. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 7, 2022, 8:37 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
Chief Justice Roberts joined the Supreme Court’s liberal wing in a dissent criticizing the court reinstating a Trump administration policy that shores up energy projects capable of polluting waterways - as well as the majority’s use of the emergency docket. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 6, 2022, 12:14 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
Digging an even deeper partisan hole for the Supreme Court appointment process, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Monday that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would not have received a hearing if Republicans controlled the Judiciary Committee. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 25, 2022, 8:47 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
President Joe Biden nominated D.C. Circuit Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday to fill the vacancy that will be created with Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement at the end of the term. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 24, 2022, 5:53 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
No one was safe from the ire of the justices during oral arguments on Wednesday morning as they peppered Republican-led states and the Biden administration over the rescission of a controversial Trump-era immigration rule and the ensuing challenge to revive it. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 21, 2022, 7:00 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
President Joe Biden persuaded the Supreme Court to consider his move to unravel a federal policy launched in January 2019 with the Trump administration that forces people seeking U.S. asylum to wait out their determinations in Mexico. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 2, 2022, 3:16 pm
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
The Supreme Court refused to take a single case during a between 2004 and 2018 before lower courts ruled on them. The justice have agreed to hear 14 since Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court in 2019.... Read more»
Posted Jan 27, 2022, 4:40 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
President Joe Biden will get a shot at a coveted executive duty - appointing a Supreme Court justice after Justice Stephen Breyer announced he would be stepping down from the bench - and his choice could be historic if he nominates the court’s first Black female justice. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 26, 2022, 1:30 pm
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
Justice Stephen Breyer will be retiring from the Supreme Court at the end of the term, according to Wednesday morning reporting from NBC. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 20, 2022, 6:45 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
The Supreme Court on Wednesday night denied a last-ditch attempt from former President Donald Trump as he sought to keep his White House records out of the hands of the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 19, 2022, 10:02 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
As the Omicron variant surges and hospitals are pushed to capacity, the Biden administration announced a new program Wednesday to give 400 million nonsurgical N95 masks to Americans free of charge to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 13, 2022, 1:05 pm
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
The Supreme Court gutted the Biden administration's pandemic-response strategy Thursday in a split decision - granting a stay of the vaccine-or-test mandate from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration - that puts a vaccine-or-test mandate for large businesses on ice. ... Read more»