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.
SF News Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Transgender Man Denied Surgery by Catholic Hospital The Supreme Court upheld the claim of a trans man who was once a legislative aide to Assemblymember Phil Ting that he was unfairly denied surgery for being transgender.
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 News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Guts Final Part of Voting Rights Act The 17-year-old fatally shot in the Tenderloin has been identified, the Supreme Court has just ruled in favor of Arizona Republicans to further gut the Voting Rights Act, and the toll to cross the Golden Gate Bridge just went up.
SF Politics Biden Tasks Special Commission With 'Studying' Potential Expansion of Supreme Court President Joseph Biden has put together a 36-member bipartisan commission, comprised mostly of academics, to "study" different potential changes to the Supreme Court including term limits and adding more justices.
Business & Tech A Man Sued Facebook For Sending Him an Unwanted Text; Supreme Court Rules Facebook Didn't Break Any Laws Facebook's sending of an automated text message regarding a suspicious login to a person who had not opted in for such messages is not the equivalent of a robocall by a telemarketer, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously today.
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 Bay Area Officials and Lawmakers React to Stunning Supreme Court Decision on LGBTQ Rights In many ways, the decision announced today by a Supreme Court with a 5-4 conservative majority marks the most significant legal milestone yet for LGTBQ people. Not everyone wants or needs to get married, but virtually everyone needs to find employment.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Supreme Court Suprises With LGBT Protections A suspect stole a construction vehicle and drove it across the Bay Bridge, Oakland police are seeking around 100 suspects in some Friday night vandalism, and SCOTUS has ruled that LGBTQ people deserve job protections under Title VII.
SF News Supreme Court May Decide If 'Google' Is A Generic Term While our search engine and email overlords down in Mountain View surely love the fact that their brand name ‘Google’ has entered our everyday vernacular as a verb for “to conduct an online
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 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 Ruth Bader Ginsberg Calls Colin Kaepernick's Anthem Protest 'Stupid' And 'Arrogant' Interviewing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on a variety of contemporary topics for Yahoo! News, Katie Couric learned that the 83-year-old justice, notoriously compassionate and cool, is rather dispassionate and even dismissive when it
SF News CA Supreme Court Rules That Loaded Guns In Fanny Packs, Backpacks Are Illegal For Most California's open firearm carry prohibitions got a boost Monday, when the state's Supreme Court ruled 7-0 that loaded guns in a backpack or fanny pack is the same thing as concealing the weapon
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 Supreme Court Won't Allow Oakland To Protect Massive Medical Pot Dispensary The City of Oakland cannot participate, as it has tried to for some years, in a suit to keep the federal government from closing a gargantuan local medical marijuana dispensary. The Chronicle reports
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 Supreme Court Rejects NRA Challenge To SF Gun Regulation The Supreme court will not hear a National Rifle Association challenge to a San Francisco law requiring that handgun owners storing their weapons at home either put them in a lockbox, disable them
SF News Giants Join Legal Brief Urging SCOTUS To Legalize Gay Marriage Well this is fun. The Giants have joined in legal brief along with the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Rays urging the Supreme Court to overturn all remaining state gay marriage
