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Supreme Court: No Citizenship Question on the 2020 Census, Yet

By Christopher Coble, Esq. | Last updated on June 27, 2019

For the past 50 years, the U.S. government has declined to ask respondents to the census about their citizenship status, fearing that noncitizens and Hispanic...

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Supreme Court: Racial Bias in Jury Selection Leads to Another Overturned Murder Conviction

By Christopher Coble, Esq. | Last updated on June 24, 2019

The State of Mississippi has tried Curtis Flowers for the murder of four people a total of six times. The first three resulted in convictions, each of which...

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Treasury Dept. Refuses to Hand Over Trump's Tax Returns

By Christopher Coble, Esq. | Last updated on May 07, 2019

Donald Trump's former campaign finance chairperson and current Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin refused congressional Democrats' request for the president's...

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Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Block Bump Stock Ban

By Christopher Coble, Esq. | Last updated on April 09, 2019

The phrase "bump stock" went from the limited lexicon of firearm aficionados into the popular culture following the massacre of over 50 concertgoers...

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Supreme Court Won't Hear Planned Parenthood Defunding Cases

By Christopher Coble, Esq. | Last updated on March 21, 2019

Not every appeal to the Supreme Court gets heard. In fact, you need four of the nine Justices to agree to grant what is known as certiorari before a case can...

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Using Drugs During Pregnancy Isn't Child Abuse, Pennsylvania Court Rules

By Lisa M. Schaffer, Esq. | Last updated on March 21, 2019

You can't abuse a child if there is no child, according to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. In the debate over whether using drugs during pregnancy rises to the...

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