SF Politics Supreme Court Sounds Inclined to Allow Cities to Clear Homeless Encampments, Enforce Camping Laws Somewhat predictably, the conservative-majority Supreme Court signaled during oral arguments Monday that it will rule in favor of the Oregon town whose law penalizing public camping was struck down by the Ninth Circuit.
SF News Chesa Boudin, Other Bay Area Lawyers Implore Supreme Court to Protect Civil Rights of Homeless Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, now a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, joined with a group of Bay Area lawyers in an amicus brief filed Tuesday in the Oregon case about penalizing homeless camping that the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on later this month.
SF News Pro-Choice Activists Rally at SF Federal Building for Abortion Pill Access, as Supreme Court Set to Hear Case In advance of the Supreme Court hearing arguments Tuesday on their first abortion case since overturning Roe v. Wade, a group of activists took to the SF Federal Building Sunday to defend access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Professor and Brett Kavanaugh Accuser Christine Blasey Ford Publishes Memoir Having come out the other side of the media wringer from her testimony in 2018's confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford has published a memoir titled 'One Way Back.'
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sotomayor Expresses Frustration With SCOTUS at Berkeley Event Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was in Berkeley today discussing her frustrations with the court; a Google engineer believed murdered by her husband in Santa Clara has been ID'd; and a person was stabbed near the State Capitol in Sacramento Monday morning.
SF Politics Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case on Homeless Encampment Sweeps The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear arguments in a case that will likely have broad implications for how cities, particularly on the West Coast, address the ongoing homelessness crisis.
SF Politics Supreme Court Says It Will Rule on Trump's Eligibility for Colorado and Maine Ballots The Supreme Court said Friday that it will, as predicted, take up the question of whether Donald Trump should be disqualified from running for president because of his role in the January 6th insurrection.
SF News City of San Francisco Files Brief With Supreme Court on Homeless Encampment Case Even though San Francisco's own injunction on homeless encampment-clearing is not on trial at the Supreme Court, the city has now filed a brief in another case that is sure to have implications here.
SF News SF Is Among 50 City Governments and Organizations Asking the Supreme Court to Weigh In On Homeless Camping Democrats in multiple western states are making strange bedfellows with Republicans in a push to get the conservative-majority Supreme Court to settle the legal dispute over whether homeless people should be allowed to camp on public property without penalty.
SF Politics Bohemian Grove Again Links Clarence Thomas to Likely Ethics Violation, This Time With Koch Brothers ProPublica continues hammering away at investigating Clarence Thomas, and now they've uncovered at least two donor events hosted by the Koch Brothers in recent years that Thomas attended — all while the Kochs and their advocacy group Stand Together have had cases before the Supreme Court.
Business & Tech Biden Administration Seeks Supreme Court Intervention In Case About Twitter 'Censorship' Brought By Republicans The Biden Administration has filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court Thursday regarding a ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that pertains to government officials contacting social media platforms.
SF Politics Rep. Barbara Lee Joins Chorus of People Calling for More Seats to Be Added to Supreme Court As she runs for the U.S. Senate, East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee joined a rally on Sunday calling for four more seats to be added to the Trump-heavy Supreme Court.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Hands Big Tech a Big Win In Content Moderation Cases Two separate lawsuits against tech companies Google and Twitter both went in favor of the tech titans Thursday, as the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that neither were responsible for terrorist acts that were linked to content on their platforms.
SF News Supreme Court Upholds California Bacon and Pork Regulations on Pig Confinement The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed the California law saying that pigs must have enough room to turn around and lie down for their meat to be sold here in the state, in a ruling that sliced wildly across ideological lines.
Business & Tech Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Elected Officials Can Block People On Twitter Our current, staunchly conservative and largely older Supreme Court is going to show the world how much they understand about social media next term, taking up a case about who can block whom on social media.
SF Politics Clarence Thomas's Trip to Bohemian Grove Figures Into New Report About Undisclosed Gifts From a Billionaire Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has tried to cultivate a public persona of down-home simpleness. But a new exposé by ProPublica finds that he's been accepting, and not disclosing, lavish yacht trips, vacations, and private jet flights from a conservative billionaire pal for years.
gun rights California's Assault Weapons Ban Expected to be Overturned This Week, Potentially Teeing Up Supreme Court Fight Federal judge Roger Benitez, who has a history of ruling against California's gun control measures, could strike down the ban in place since 1989, while the Supreme Court is upending gun restrictions nationwide.
SF News Supreme Court Upholds California's Flavored Tobacco Ban The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge from R.J. Reynolds on the flavored tobacco ban California voters approved last month, and the ban will go into effect in less than ten days.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Runs to Fire-Charred Woods to Make Video Response to Supreme Court's EPA Decision In just a week's time, the conservative-led Supreme Court — more the Alito Court than the Roberts Court at this point — has made itself Enemy Number One of the Democratic Party, and of women, LGBTQ people, climate activists, and liberals generally.
SF Politics Clarence Thomas Openly Admits He's Dying For the Supreme Court to Overturn Gay Marriage Decision Justice Thomas wrote a concurring opinion in the Mississippi case that overturns Roe v. Wade suggesting that other precedents concerning same-sex marriage, sodomy, and contraception also now should be "reconsidered."
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Welp, Roe v. Wade Is Dead Reactions are rolling fast after the conservative-led Supreme Court upended 50 years of precedent with Roe v. Wade, Paul Pelosi has been charged with two counts of DUI, and California was largely spared from wildfire despite 66,000 lightning strikes this week.
SF News Supreme Court Overturns Concealed-Carry Gun Laws, California Officials Vow to Keep Limiting Guns in Public Hours after the Trump-packed Supreme Court struck down states’ rights to limit the carrying of firearms in public, Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta insisted California’s concealed-carry law will remain in effect, and could even expand.
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 News California Man Arrested Near Brett Kavanaugh’s Home, Was Reportedly Armed and Making Threats In the days before we expect a Roe v. Wade ruling to come down, an unidentified armed man was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home, and he had reportedly made threats against the Supreme Court justice.
SF Politics Supreme Court Agrees to Review CA Pork Production Law That Caused Fears of Looming Bacon Shortage The Supreme Court has agreed to review a challenge to a California law that was set to take effect this year that was intended to curb animal cruelty by banning the sale of veal, pork, and eggs that were not humanely raised.
