SALEM, Ore. – Oregon Governor Kate Brown has announced the appointment of Judge Adrienne Nelson to the Oregon State Supreme Court. Nelson becomes the high court’s first African American justice. She is also the second woman of color to serve ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNN) – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a California abortion law. Justices will decide if requiring pregnancy centers to post notices about publicly-funded abortion and contraception services violates free speech rights. The court ...
Washington, D.C. (NBC News) – A new Supreme Court ruling says the federal government can’t refuse to register most trademarks even if they are considered offensive. The unanimous decision–which was handed down by the high court Monday morning–is a victory ...
Washington, D.C. (CNN) — Neil Gorsuch has been sworn-in as the 101st justice of the Supreme Court. He took his official oath to become the ninth Justice in a short ceremony Monday morning, before a public ceremony later at the ...
Washington, D.C. – The Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in a mostly party-line vote Friday. Gorsuch will fill the seat left vacant after Justice Antonin Scalia passed away in February 2016. He will be sworn in Monday. ...
Washington, D.C. – Senate Republicans have triggered the so-called “nuclear option” to clear the way for the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. NBC News reports the rule change will allow the nomination to pass through ...
Olympia, Wash. (Pete Williams/NBC News) — Washington’s supreme court ruled unanimously Thursday that a Richland florist violated state law when she refused to sell flowers to a gay couple for their wedding. “Discrimination based on same-sex marriage constitutes discrimination on ...
Washington, D.C. (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said Senate Republicans should “go for it” and invoke the so-called nuclear option, preventing Democrats from using a filibuster to block his Supreme Court nominee. “If we end up with that ...
Washington D.C. (CNN) — The two judges who have been considered the top finalists to be President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court — Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman — are being brought to Washington ahead of tonight’s White ...
Portland, Ore. (CNN, Eugene Scott) — Sen. Jeff Merkley said the Senate stole a Supreme Court appointment from President Barack Obama. “One of the things I’m very concerned about is the Supreme Court seat. The appointment of this seat rightly ...