India Rules Sex With a Child Bride Is Always Rape in a Massive Win for Girls’ Rights

Landmark change to India’s marital rape laws. India’s top court has ruled that sex with a child is always rape, quashing a clause that allowed men to have sex with underage girls if they were married to them. The Supreme … Continue reading

Supreme Court appears likely to let Trump add citizenship question to 2020 census

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s ideological divide was on full display Tuesday, and it seemed from their questioning that the court’s conservatives were likely to defer to the Trump administration on adding a question concerning citizenship to the 2020 census … Continue reading

Sen. Collins Supports Kavanaugh: We Will Be Ill-Served If We Abandon The Presumption Of Innocence

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced Friday she would support Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The Senator argued the presumption of innocence is ingrained in the American consciousness and is relevant to advice and consent. She said now is not the … Continue reading

White House Cites Executive Privilege to Withhold 100,000 Pages of Kavanaugh Records

WASHINGTON — The Trump White House, citing executive privilege, is withholding from the Senate more than 100,000 pages of records from Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s time as a lawyer in the administration of former President George W. Bush. The decision, … Continue reading

Justice Kennedy to retire, Trump has chance to reshape Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said on Wednesday he plans to retire after three decades as a pivotal vote on the highest U.S. judicial body, giving President Donald Trump an opportunity to make the court more firmly … Continue reading