Today in History: September 27, Taliban take power in Afghanistan
San Francisco Chronicle· 19 hours agoOn Sept. 27, 1996, in Afghanistan, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former ...
‘Good’ And ‘Constitutional’ Differ
The Post-Journal· 1 day agoUniversity of North Carolina. Writing for himself plus Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neal Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, Chief ...
Today in History: September 24, Dodgers play final game in Brooklyn
San Francisco Chronicle· 19 hours agoOn Sept. 24, 1957, the Los Angeles-bound Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0. In 1789, President George Washington signed a Judiciary ...
Without Feinstein on Senate Judiciary, Biden’s picks for federal judges might be stuck
The Sacramento Bee· 14 hours agoThis spring, when Democrats had suggested temporarily replacing Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee, Republicans said, “no.”
Sad Final Vote: Senator Dianne Feinstein Seen on Senate Floor with Colleagues Just Hours Before...
RadarOnline.com· 10 hours agoThe news of her death came just hours after her final public act on the Senate floor, RadarOnline.com has learned. Feinstein, the first female mayor of San Francisco and California's longest-serving ...
Supreme Court justices' ideologies don't always fit 'liberal' and 'conservative' labels
San Francisco Chronicle· 20 hours agoThere’s more to the story than who appointed those justices and the labels given in the media. The first scholar to really call attention to judges’ personal views, as measured by judicial ideology, was political scientist C. Herman Pritchett.
Dianne Feinstein’s Death Raises High-Stakes Questions
Slate· 20 hours agoCalifornia senior Sen. Dianne Feinstein has died at the age of 90. The longest serving female senator in American history, and the Senate’s oldest member, she had planned to retire at the end ...
Supreme Court will decide if state laws limiting social media violate the Constitution
FOX 13 Memphis· 19 hours agoThe Supreme Court agreed Friday, Sept. 29, to decide whether state laws that seek to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitution. The justices will ...
The Supreme Court will decide if state laws limiting social media platforms violate the Constitution
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune· 20 hours agoThe Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether state laws that seek to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitution. The justices will review laws ...
The Supreme Court will decide if state laws limiting social media platforms violate the Constitution
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 18 hours agoThe Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether state laws that seek to regulate Facebook, TikTok, X and other social media platforms violate the Constitution. The justices will review laws ...