SF News California Man Charged With Trying to Kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh Was Convinced to Call 911 On Himself By Sister The Southern California man who was charged last week with attempting to murder or kidnap Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his Maryland home, was convinced to call 911 after texting his sister about his intentions.
SF Politics Abortion Rights Activists Plan Rally at SF Federal Building Tuesday Multiple groups are organizing a rally for abortion rights today in San Francisco, as part of a nationwide response to the leaked, draft, possibly majority opinion coming out of the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
SF News Supreme Court Provides Late-Term Victory for LGBTQ Civil Rights In Flower Shop Case The Supreme Court on Friday announced that it would let stand a lower court's ruling in favor of a gay couple in Washington State who were refused service by their local flower shop when they sought arrangements for their wedding.
SF Politics Editorial: Senate Shouldn't Confirm Any Supreme Court Justice Whose Beliefs Include Righteous Discrimination Judge Amy Coney Barrett served on the board of a school group that systematically discriminated against LGBTQ+ teachers and parents. How can the Senate let this nomination slide through knowing she supported this?
SF Politics Meet Amy Coney Barrett, the Scalia Acolyte Trump Intends to Nominate to Replace RBG ACB doesn't really have the same ring to it as RBG. But it looks like the Senate will be grilling Amy Coney Barrett any week now.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Romney's No Hero A vegetation fire prompted evacuations in Belmont yesterday, Trump is still saying the coronavirus "affects virtually nobody," and Facebook is ready to lock down communication amid post-election violence and unrest.
SF Politics Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Dead. We're All Doomed. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at the age of 87 of complications from the recurrence of metastatic pancreatic cancer that she first revealed in July.
SF News As Gorsuch Confirmation Hearing Begins, Feinstein Calls Him 'An Extremist' President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, begins his confirmation hearing today at the Senate Judiciary Committee where California Senator Dianne Feinstein is the highest ranking Democrat. She began today's
SF News Should Sex Offenders Be Permitted On Facebook? Supreme Court To Decide A case stemming from an innocent 2010 Facebook post about a victory in traffic court has made its way to the Supreme Court because it involves a convicted sex offender and a North
SF News Video: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Would Change The Electoral College If She Could Admiration for Ruth Bader Ginsburg transcends even her role as Supreme Court Justice, her symbolic notoriety and vast life experience leading many on the left to seek out the 83-year-old jurist as a
SF News President Obama Uses SF Fundraiser To Hammer Back At Republicans Ignoring His SCOTUS Nominee Security is tight in Pac Heights for @POTUS visit. Obama on way to Getty house for a dinner. #abc7now #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/smOk5C41WT— ElissaABC7 (@ElissaABC7) April 9, 2016 If you were anywhere
SF News Day Around The Bay: SCOTUS Allows CA Affordable Housing Requirement Rules To Stand In declining to hear a case challenging San Jose's recent ordinance (upheld by a California court last year), which still hasn't taken effect but is similar to San Francisco's, requiring developers of large
SF News As Soon As It's Floated, Kamala Harris Squashes Supreme Court Nomination Talk Quickly putting to rest any notion that she would be President Obama's nominee to replace deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, California's Attorney General and current candidate for Senate Kamala Harris publicly stated
SF News San Francisco, Donald Trump, And Twitter React To The Death Of Justice Antonin Scalia Saturday afternoon, the country ground to a halt as news broke of the death of senior Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Scalia had flown Friday to a luxury hunting resort in the
SF News According To Justice Thomas, SCOTUS Just Admitted They're Ruling In Favor Of Federal Same-Sex Marriage We're still likely months away from a final ruling from the Supreme Court on same-sex marriage nationwide only two short years after the landmark decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act in
SF News Day Around The Bay: World AIDS Day Today is World AIDS Day, and the Chronicle has some columns from the epidemic and the first day of remembrance in 1988. [Chronicle] A man died in an SF county jail on October
SF News Supreme Court Takes Case Of SFPD Shooting Of Mentally Disabled Woman The U.S. Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear San Francisco vs. Sheehan, 13-1412, a case that could set precedents for police treatment of the disabled and mentally disabled. According to the AP,
SF News Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Upholds Same-Sex Marriage Bans, Setting Stage For Another SCOTUS Decision Bucking the trend of every other federal appeals court in the country thus far, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a much-anticipated decision upholding gay marriage bans in the four states
SF News Ninth Circuit Court Strikes Down Gay Marriage Bans In Idaho and Nevada As predicted yesterday following the Supreme Court's decision not to hear any of the same-sex marriage challenges before them, two more states have seen their same-sex marriage bans fall at the hands of
SF News Prop 8 Folk File New Suit On Behalf Of San Diego Clerk Refusing to accept that courts or the attorney general have any say in the matter or that the momentum of support for gay marriage is going to win out in the end over
SF News Oakland Pot Advocates Take Case to Supreme Court Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the medical marijuana advocacy group based in Oakland, has filed an appeal with the Supreme Court to get pot reclassified as a non-dangerous drug. The group previously brought
SF News Judge Vaughn Walker Reacts To Prop 8 Decision Retired federal court Judge Vaughn Walker, who penned the 2010 decision declaring Prop 8 unconstitutional under the California state constitution, spoke to ABC 7 yesterday following the landmark decisions by the Supreme Court,
SF News Scalia Contradicts Himself On Respect For Congress In DOMA Dissent Though not reportedly as angry as he was delivering his dissent from the bench ten years ago in Lawrence v. Kansas, the case that struck down all extant anti-sodomy laws in the country,
SF News Video: President Obama Phones Gay Plaintiffs In Prop 8 Case Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The gay couples from L.A. and Berkeley who were the named parties in the Prop 8 case against the
