Supreme Court

Supreme Court Commision Report Could Suggest Path to Packing the Court

(ConservativeStar.com) – In early April, President Joe Biden issued an executive order to form the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States. It consisted of 36 legal experts, historians, and political science scholars. Their mission was to spend the next six months analyzing the pros and cons of changing the Supreme Court in various ways. On October 14, the commission released their findings that the president will review and release in November. …

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Supreme Court Rules Against State in Religious Freedom Rights Case

(ConservativeStar.com) – The State of California, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, essentially shuttered places of worship saying they presented too much of a risk of transmitting the virus. Religious groups said it was a violation of their First Amendment rights. Now there is a preliminary decision in one of the cases. On February 5, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to the South Bay United Pentecostal (and others). …

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Mike Kelly Says Supreme Court Case “Alive and Well”

(ConservativeStar.com) – Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) filed a petition first with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who then referred it to the court as a whole as an emergency attempt to prevent his home state from certifying votes within. The court made a single sentence reply: “the application for injunctive relief… is denied.” The Supreme Court has rejected a Pennsylvania Republican congressman’s request to prevent Pennsylvania from certifying its presidential election results in favor of …

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Do Voters Deserve to Know Court-Packing Stance? Biden Says No

(ConservativeStar.com) – President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) first proposed the idea of creating more seats on the Supreme Court and filling them with people of his ideology because it was striking down too many of his New Deal initiatives. With the looming confirmation of Judge Amy Cohen Barrett, Democrats are dusting off this idea and using it as a threat if they take the White House and Senate in the upcoming elections. Since this maneuver …

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Democrats Say They “Can’t Stop the Outcome” of Barrett’s Confirmation

(ConservativeStar.com) – Senate Democrats have apparently conceded that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has the votes he needs to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court prior to the November presidential election. This may be crucial since Leftists are unlikely to accept the reelection of President Donald Trump without letting their army of lawyers loose upon the courts. I wonder what their first clue was? #Democrats resigned that #AmyConeyBarrett confirmation is inevitable: 'We …

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Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court

(ConservativeStar.com) – President Donald Trump has delivered on yet another one of his promises and has nominated a woman to fill the seat on the Supreme Court of United States (SCOTUS) left vacant by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Regardless of gender, this nomination will likely cause a steady stream of vitriolic rhetoric from Progressive Liberals. If liberals actually cared about empowering women, they’d be applauding Judge Amy Coney Barrett – a working …

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Biden Mum on Court-Packing Issue

(ConservativeStar.com) – The vacancy on the Supreme Court, caused by the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, has led to a bare-knuckled brawl between the two parties. President Donald Trump is committed to nominating a new justice within the next few days. The Liberals are in a near panic and making all sorts of threats, including the potential for “packing the court” when the opportunity comes. The Constitution of the United States established the Supreme …

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Trump Set to Release Supreme Court List

(ConservativeStar.com) – Of the handful of things important to Republican voters, the choice for Supreme Court nominees is near the top of the list. In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump made headlines when he released a list of potential justices. In 2017 and 2018, the president chose Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh from the list compiled by Conservative think tanks and legal scholars. On Tuesday morning, September 8, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said …

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