The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to overrule a federal judge’s order that blocked Alabama from executing an inmate accused of murder with nitrogen gas. Jeffery Lee was set to be executed at 6 p.m. Thursday local time under Alabama’s nitrogen hypoxia protocol, but the state chose not to proceed with the execution until the […]

President Donald Trump reportedly supports the House GOP’s consideration of a resolution to void the two failed impeachments during his first term in office. The resolution would symbolically, not legally, erase Trump’s impeachment record, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The president and his allies have recently discussed the idea with Republican lawmakers. “It […]

The Kennedy Center‘s board of trustees voted on Thursday to appeal an Obama-appointed federal judge’s order that requires President Donald Trump‘s name to be removed from the performing arts building by Friday. The board vote came hours before all references to Trump in the Kennedy Center’s signage, digital materials, and branding were supposed to be […]

Justice Clarence Thomas urged his colleagues on the Supreme Court to “reexamine” a legal doctrine that prevents someone from taking a contrary position in a lawsuit from one they took in a previous lawsuit, questioning its foundation in law. Thomas took aim at judicial estoppel in a separate concurring opinion published Thursday in the case […]