
The Hill - 31 min 17 sec ago
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the victim of a "swatting" call Wednesday night at her Virginia home, according to local police. Police radio traffic shows law enforcement received a call for "suspicious noise of gunshots" at Barrett's suburban Virginia address. The dispatcher warned responding officers shortly afterward that a "high priority resident of the county" lived there and the report may not be authentic. When reached for comment, Fairfax County....

TMZ - 1 hour 2 min ago
Mackenzie Shirilla's taking her conviction to the highest court in Ohio ... asking the state's supreme court to take another look at her double murder rap. Shirilla's lawyers filed the appeal paperwork back in April, according to reports ...…...

Slate - 1 hour 18 min ago
The Supreme Court issued a surprisingly good decision in a racial jury-selection case on Thursday.

NBC News - 2 hours 19 min ago
An apparent "swatting" incident targeted the residence of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday night, Fairfax County Police said Thursday.

Fox News - 2 hours 37 min ago
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was targeted in a swatting incident at her Falls Church, Virginia, home Wednesday evening, police confirmed.

Daily Signal - 3 hours 39 min ago
The Fairfax County Police Department in northern Virginia is investigating a swatting call at the residence of Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett Wednesday night. “Yesterday evening at approximately 9:02 p.m., officers responded to a swatting call at the residence of U.S. Supreme Court Justice in Fairfax County,” the department’s public information officer told...

New York Times - 3 hours 59 min ago
The Supreme Court decision means that Mr. Pitchford, 40, who has served death row for more than 20 years, is entitled to a new trial.

UPI - 4 hours 3 min ago
The Supreme Court agreed with a lower court's ruling that a Mississippi man's conviction and death penalty must be overturned for racial bias.

New York Times - 5 hours 53 min ago
A court building in Amsterdam. The North Dakota Supreme Court this month barred Greenpeace International from making claims against Energy Transfer in a Dutch countersuit.

Twitchy - 6 hours 7 min ago
Another swatting incident targets Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, raising domestic terrorism concerns.

The Guardian - 7 hours 24 min ago
Terry Pitchford, on death row for a murder conviction, argued that Black jurors were excluded from his trial Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The US supreme court on Thursday ruled in favor of Terry Pitchford, a Black man convicted of capital murder and on death row in Mississippi , who claimed that his conviction was due to the jury having racial bias. The justices sided with Pitchford in a 5-4 vote. Continue reading...

NBC News - 7 hours 43 min ago
In a case that raised questions about racial bias in the criminal justice system, the Supreme Court threw out the murder conviction of a Black death row inmate in Mississippi.

The Independent - 8 hours 4 min ago
Pitchford was tried for capital murder and sentenced to death...

ABC News - 8 hours 11 min ago
The Supreme Court has ruled for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him...

Advocate - 8 hours 41 min ago
On a spring weekend in West Virginia , as classmates and families gathered for the state track and field championships, Becky Pepper-Jackson stepped into the throwing circle carrying a burden far larger than a shot put.

The Guardian - 12 hours 2 min ago
We need rules for the Democratic primaries that will lift up the voices of talented Democrats In democracy, the rules matter. Six months before the midterms, the US supreme court's Callais decision dramatically changed the rules of US elections by gutting the Voting Rights Act and capsizing the 15th amendment. As the Maga party races to restore Jim Crow politics with voter suppression and all-white congressional delegations in the south, Democrats must act shrewdly to advance party rules of...

Newser - 13 hours 4 min ago
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who claims there was racial bias in the makeup of the jury that convicted him. By a 5-4 vote, the justices sided with Terry Pitchford, who was sentenced to death for his role in the killing...

Slate - 13 hours 17 min ago
This week's Executive Dysfunction.

NBC News - 15 hours 2 min ago
Today is a decision day at the Supreme Court, which has yet to issue rulings on consequential cases like Trump v. Barbara on birthright citizenship or Trump v. Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve official.

Newser - 15 hours 2 min ago
A Texas death row inmate's fate hinges on a witness who was put under hypnosis and a woman who once made a devastating mistake is now asking the Supreme Court to step in. In a Washington Post opinion piece, Jennifer Thompson recounts how her own confident but mistaken eyewitness ID...

AdExchanger - 18 hours 2 min ago
State wiretapping laws written in the 1960s are now taking aim at targeting pixels used for standard ad measurement. In a recent lawsuit that's currently being heard by the Washington Supreme Court, Baker v. Seattle Children's Hospital, the plaintiffs argue that the hospital's use of the Meta Pixel for marketing purposes turned patients' clicks and […] The post Pixels On Trial: Why The IAB Says A Recent Lawsuit Is A Threat To All Ad-Supported Media appeared first on AdExchanger...

NY Post - 20 hours 37 min ago
Becky Pepper-Jackson, a 15-year-old sophomore at Bridgeport High School, is the only known openly transgender sports competitor in West Virginia.

The Hill - 22 hours 49 min ago
A federal appeals court judge on Tuesday allowed pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil to remain free as he takes his case against the Trump administration to the Supreme Court. Judge Thomas Hardiman of the 3rd Circuit, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, put the circuit court's prior ruling that Khalil's case needed to pass...

NY Post - 23 hours 38 min ago
The brute who savagely beat a 60-year-old disabled woman with his cane over 50 times in a Manhattan subway station has been sentenced to 3 years jailtime by a Manhattan Supreme Court Judge.