Justices Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett broke from the conservative majority to join Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson in the ruling. Barrett has previously split from her fellow conservative justices in a majority opinion this term, but it is the first time Gorsuch has done so.
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A federal appeals court has rejected the Justice Department’s claim that President Donald Trump’s pardon of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol is so broad that it sweeps in convictions for illegal possession of weapons five months later.
Democrats are quiet now that nationwide injunctions are limiting Trump, but during Biden’s presidency, they introduced legislation to address it.
Democratic-backed candidate Susan Crawford has won Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, maintaining the liberal majority on the court in a key battleground state less than three months into President Donald Trump’s second term.
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Susan Crawford’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election victory over a conservative candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk cements a liberal majority on the state’s top court for at least three more years.
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Without representation, children — some of whom are victims of trafficking — are left to navigate complex immigration courts themselves, advocates say.
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that inmates serving mandatory life sentences for crimes they committed at age 18 have the right to a resentencing hearing.