The Supreme Court ruled Monday that law enforcement’s use of a geofence warrant to obtain cellphone location data constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment, marking a significant privacy ruling while stopping short of declaring the investigative tactic unconstitutional. In a 6-3 decision written by Justice Elena Kagan, the justices vacated a lower court ruling involving Virginia […]
Congressional Republicans are redoubling their support for the SAVE America Act, a bill that has left Washington in gridlock for months, after the Supreme Court ruled states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. The 5-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee rejected a GOP-led push to end laws that permitted mailed […]
Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) returned Virginia’s state budget to the General Assembly on Monday with 14 proposed amendments ahead of the state’s fiscal cliff this week. The state’s House of Delegates and Senate will have to act on the amendments to the state’s budget and possibly send it back to Spanberger for her final signature […]
The Supreme Court is poised to drop its final batch of major opinions of its term Tuesday, in what could have major implications for the midterms and immigration.
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War Room host Steve Bannon and MAGA lawyer Mike Davis lost it on Monday as a Supreme Court ruling they say "totally screwed" them landed live on air.The 5-4 ruling in Watson v. Republican National Committee allows states to count mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day but received up to 5 days later. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion."Election Day does not mean Election Day according to Justice Amy Coney Barrett," Davis reacted. "But it seems like Justice Barrett, our esteemed law professor — I've called her other names before — just totally screwed us on what Election Day means," he added."She screwed the country, really, because there is something called the Elections Clause under the Constitution, and state and local governments get to decide election rules unless Congress comes over the top with a federal statute on time, place, and manner of elections," Davis continued.The Elections Clause is the constitutional provision that gives states authority over how elections are conducted — unless Congress passes a federal law overriding those states' authority.Barrett was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberal justices. Four conservatives dissented — Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh — though Davis reserved special scorn for Gorsuch, his former boss, as the one conservative he praised for not ruling against them."And if you look at Justice Samuel Alito's dissenting opinion today, it talks about how it was a burden for Civil War soldiers, for example, to cast their ballots for president and get them received by Election Day — but they managed to do it," Davis said."But Amy Coney Barrett, in her majority opinion, just brushes that aside and says the states didn't know better," he added."This is all about what they say on MS NOW: 'What a great win for democracy. This is about accessibility and access,'" Bannon ranted. "They essentially want enough time so they can steal it.""If you had to just show up on Election Day, they get smoked every time, Mike," he told Davis. "...what logic did she have to say it's not Election Day, but it's election month, with all the stealing and problems? And this is gonna cause massive problems in the midterms already.""It's just an asinine ruling," Davis griped, "of course, what you would expect out of a law professor, an esteemed law professor, instead of a rattled law professor with her head up her a— as I've called her before."Both men called on Senate Republicans to immediately pass the SAVE America Act — a bill that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and mandate photo ID at the polls, and which President Donald Trump has demanded be expanded to ban most mail-in ballots — before the November midterms.Davis told listeners to pick up the phones and "light up both of your home state senators right now."
President Trump on Monday responded to the Supreme Court's decision on mail-in ballots. The post President Trump Responds to Mail-In Ballot Loss at Supreme Court appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to their cellphone location data, tossing out a ruling against a man convicted in a Virginia bank robbery case. The justices held 6-3 that law enforcement’s use of a geofence warrant to identify Okello Chatrie was a search under the…
A divided US Supreme Court expanded the president’s power to fire top government officials in a blockbuster decision that puts the White House firmly in control of potentially dozens of agencies that have long operated independently. Bloomberg Law Host June Grasso explains what the decision entails. (Source: Bloomberg)