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Stephen Colbert exposed the holes in the Supreme Court’s 14th Amendment logic with a single joke. Colbert said: .The justices claim that since different states have different standards for what would qualify as insurrection, conflicting state outcomes would lead to chaos. Yes, the Supreme Court knows you can’t just let …

The Governors’ Forum of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has publicly backed the judiciary in spite of their colleagues being sacked by courts.    Addressing the media at a meeting in Abuja on Thursday, November 23, the Governors described the  two ruling by the appellate court sacking two of their …

Hollywood actress and director, Angelina Jolie alleged the judge who oversaw her child custody case was “biased” and favored her ex-husband Brad Pitt and she is now using her experience to push legislation to check “corrupt” officers of the court. In a two-page letter dated September 29 and obtained by …

A US jury has awarded a Florida family $800,000 in a civil lawsuit against McDonald’s and one of its franchisees, after a toddler was burned by hot chicken nuggets. In May 2023, the jury found that McDonald’s and franchise owner Upchurch Foods were liable for failing to properly warn or …

Earlier today, we reported that the Supreme Court ruled affirmative action programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unconstitutional. Minutes after the decision was made public, Whoopi Goldberg had a full meltdown on her ABC talk show “The View.” Just In: the Supreme Court has rules that race …

Supreme Court rejects bid to grant state lawmakers unchecked powers over organising federal elections in their states. The United States Supreme Court declined to give politicians at the state level more power over federal elections by limiting the ability of state courts to review their actions, handing a defeat to …

WASHINGTON — In June 1992, less than two weeks before the Supreme Court reaffirmed the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy sent a colleague some “late-night musings.” “Roe was, at the least, a very close case,” Justice Kennedy wrote in the three-page memorandum, …

The Israeli Supreme Court became vulnerable to attack in part because the country does not have a constitution granting the court the power to interpret it. When Israel was founded in 1948, efforts to draft a constitution broke down. Leaders of the dominant and secular Labor Party saw little reason …

CNN  —  The US State Department said Thursday it is “disappointed” by a Chinese court’s decision to uphold the death sentence for American citizen Mark Swidan and called for his immediate release. “Today the People’s Republic of China’s Jiangmen Intermediate Court denied wrongfully detained US national Mark Swidan’s appeal, and …

   Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan says Nigerians should be responsible for selecting leaders through a democratic process and not  by the judicial system.   He made this statement on Saturday, March 18 after he cast his vote in the governorship and state assembly election. He and his wife, Patience, …