Kamala Harris, the first female, Black, and Asian American vice president-elect, will be sworn in by Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court justice
Harris is the first female, Black, and Asian American vice president-elect in United States history. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images In a historic ceremony, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will be sworn in on...
Amy Coney Barrett Set To Hear Case Against Shell—Her Dad’s Employer for 29 Years
This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Amy Coney Barrett was about 6 years old when her father, Michael Coney, began his 29-year career as one...
Supreme Court to review whether or not Mnuchin failed to distribute COVID relief to Native Americans swiftly enough
American Indian and Alaska Native people have felt the burden of the COVID-19 virus disproportionately. The incidence of infection in Native populations is about 3.5 times that of white populations, and the mortality...
Grappling with governing: Sen. Mike Lee’s view of Trump from ‘unelectable’ to ‘Captain Moroni’
Editor’s note: Daily Universe reporters examined how Utah’s congressional delegation responded not only to the Capitol breach on Jan. 6 but the shift in the Republican Party over the last four years in a series of...
The Supreme Court handed Trump another loss in his efforts to overturn the election a day after his supporters stormed the Capitol
UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 3: Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and members of the House Freedom Caucus conduct a news conference to call on Attorney General William Barr to release findings of an investigation into...
NARAL President Ilyse Hogue says the organization is 'certainly preparing' for the end of Roe v. Wade
NARAL president Ilyse Hogue speaks at a protest against the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on October 22, 2020. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Care In Action NARAL Pro-Choice America...
With less than a month left in office, Trump lashes out at 'totally incompetent' Supreme Court for refusing to overturn his election loss
People participate in a "Stop the Steal" protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in support of U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, U.S., December 8, 2020. REUTERS/Erin Scott President Donald Trump on...
How Republicans could use their bruising 2020 legal defeats as a roadmap to slash voting rights
Pedestrians place ballots in an official mail-in ballot drop box outside of the L.A. County Registrar’s office ahead of Election Day on October 14, 2020 in Norwalk, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images President...
The Trump campaign is challenging Pennsylvania's voting laws at the Supreme Court more than a month after the election ended
President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump. Getty President Donald Trump has filed a direct appeal with the US Supreme Court asking it to overturn three Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions about counting...
Consumer Groups Eagerly Await Results as Mastercard faces £14bn Damages Claim after Supreme Court Ruling
Mastercard, one of the worlds largest cards and payment solutions providers, has been accused of allegedly overcharging 46 million British consumers during a 15-year period. A £14bn damages claim on behalf of these brits has now been given the green light to proceed following a landmark ruling by the UK’s highest court. The claim alleges that these 46 million people paid higher prices when paying for goods in shops than they should...
Supreme Court punts on legal challenge to Trump administration's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from census counts used to draw congressional districts
Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham holds up his mask with the words "2020 Census" as he testifies before a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on the 2020 Census on Capitol Hill,...
The GOP's 'outrageous' effort to overturn the election and its deference to Trump cements its status as 'a willing party to authoritarianism'
Donald Trump, then the Republican presidential candidate, with two of his children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, in 2016. Joe Raedle/Getty Images The Republican Party engaged in a brazen and unprecedented...
CNN's Jake Tapper thanks Trump for 'exposing' Republicans who supported Texas' 'un-democratic, un-American, mendacious joke of a lawsuit'
Jake Tapper. CNN/YouTube CNN anchor Jake Tapper didn't mince words on Sunday as he offered a blistering assessment of Texas' "insane," "clownish," and "mendacious joke" of a lawsuit...