Tag: U.S. Supreme Court
Texas officials want Supreme Court to allow its abortion law to...
WASHINGTON -- Texas state officials Oct. 21 urged the Supreme Court to leave the state's current abortion law in place, and they also advised...
Texas abortion law reinstated by U.S. appeals court, turning back Justice...
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. court of appeals again reinstated the Texas abortion law Oct. 14, refusing a request from the U.S. Department of Justice...
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev subject of U.S. Supreme Court review...
WASHINGTON -- Just two days after this year's Boston Marathon, the Supreme Court revisited the bombing at the 2013 race that killed three people...
‘Texas Heartbeat Act’ on hold with ruling from U.S. District Court...
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge Oct. 6 temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing a law that went into effect Sept. 1 banning most abortions after...
Ernest Johnson, executed in Missouri, ‘categorically ineligible for the death penalty,’...
WASHINGTON -- Following the Oct. 5 execution of Ernest Johnson at a state prison in Bonne Terre, Missouri, Catholic opponents of the death penalty...
U.S. Supreme Court term features important cases on abortion, concealed handguns,...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court's new term, starting Oct. 4, returns to its standard routine: hearing arguments in person and taking on hot-button...
Law in Texas restricting abortions after six weeks survives test in...
WASHINGTON — In a late-night decision Sept. 1, the Supreme Court ruled against blocking a Texas law banning abortions at six weeks of pregnancy.
The...
Foster parents in Philadelphia after Supreme Court victory: ‘It’s always been...
PHILADELPHIA -- Foster parents for Catholic Social Services of the Philadelphia Archdiocese said the Supreme Court's 9-0 decision June 17 on faith-based child welfare...
O. Carter Snead — Notre Dame expert on abortion law —...
From staff and wire reports
In the same week that the U.S. Supreme court decided it will hear a case out of Mississippi on a...
Those executed under Trump administration ‘deserved more’ from Supreme Court, justice...
WASHINGTON — Although the Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution of Dustin Higgs Jan. 15, two justices made their objections known loud...










