Johnny Depp’s defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard has started in Virginia. Depp sued Heard in March 2019, alleging a column Heard wrote in The Washington Post about domestic violence was defamatory. The actor has asked for $50 million in damages. Heard has filed a $100 million countersuit. In the past three years, viral videos and cases…

As the nation waits for the Supreme Court to rule on a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade, officials in Florida, Kentucky and Oklahoma have started restricting abortion access in their states. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill banning abortions after 15 weeks into law Thursday. The new law includes exceptions, including if the…

The Senate has voted to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court in a 53-47 vote. When sworn in this summer, Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve on the nation’s high court. All 50 Senate Democrats, including the two independents who caucus with them, voted for Jackson’s confirmation. They were…

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is on track to be confirmed in the coming days, according to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL).  Judge Jackson has enough support to be confirmed with at least 53 votes. All 50 Democrats, in addition to Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Mitt Romney (R-UT), and Susan Collins…

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) may have decided whether Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. After four days of nomination hearings with the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Manchin released a statement Friday, saying, “I have determined I intend to vote for her nomination to serve on the…

Testimony for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has concluded. The Senate Judiciary Committee will meet March 28, likely setting up an April 4 committee vote to advance her nomination as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court to the Senate Floor.  Brown Jackson testified before the committee for two days. The questions were at…

President Joe Biden’s first Supreme Court nominee is one step closer to serving on the nation’s highest bench. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Senate confirmation hearing is now underway. Miami-raised and Harvard-educated, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was a criminal defense lawyer earlier in her career. She’s been serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals since 2021.…

When President Joe Biden named Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill retiring Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat on the United States Supreme Court, he fulfilled a campaign promise. If confirmed, Jackson will become the first Black female associate justice in history.  “For too long, our government and courts haven’t looked like America,” President Joe Biden said during…

The nomination hearing for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson began with statements from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Jackson. Questioning is expected to begin Tuesday, with the nomination hearing wrapping up on Thursday. “Members of this committee, If I am confirmed, I commit to you that I will work productively to support…

In a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines, the Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Friday’s ruling came almost nine years after the bombing happened and reversed a 2020 appeals court ruling that threw out the death sentence. “On April 15, 2013, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev planted and detonated two…