Court Hawk

Capitol Hill has been in controversy this month as lawmakers point fingers and wonder who leaked a divisive Supreme Court draft decision that could overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision from 1973. While that case has set a judicial precedent for nearly 50 years, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito …

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Oklahoma over its current disagreement with Native American tribes. A 2020 Supreme Court ruling found that large swaths of eastern Oklahoma are legally Native American reservations, a ruling that has ruffled feathers in Oklahoma City.  The state’s government claims it has the …

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a death row inmate in Texas who argues one of the jurors in his initial trial harbors an inherent racial bias. The inmate, Kristopher Love, says he objected to one of his jurors who allegedly thinks “nonwhite races” are “more violent races.” …

The Senate confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court earlier this week, making her the first black woman to serve in the highest court in the US. She’s also likely to be the last Democratically-appointed justice for as much as a decade.  Democrats currently narrowly control the Senate, as …

A recent Supreme Court decision will make it easier for citizens to sue police and prosecutors in the event of malicious prosecution. A 6-3 decision in which Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Amy Coney Barret sided with the court’s three liberal justices, will allow citizens to …