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Washington DC, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Friday to uphold a new law that could result in a nationwide ban on TikTok, the immensely popular social media platform, as early as Sunday. The decision has left millions of American users uncertain about the app’s future.
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The Chinese government is reportedly considering a proposal for Elon Musk to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations, potentially averting a looming ban on the popular social media platform. According to Bloomberg News, the plan is among several options being explored as the U.S. Supreme Court deliberates on whether to enforce a law mandating the divestment of TikTok’s U.S. business by January 19, 2025.
Continue reading China Weighs Elon Musk Acquisition of TikTok U.S. Operations Amid Legal Battle
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Hackensack NJ, in the wake of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned the “Chevron Doctrine,” Hackensack Meridian Health wasted no time in taking legal action against federal regulators. The health network, which operates 18 hospitals across New Jersey, has filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), claiming that faulty reimbursement calculations have cost three of its hospitals nearly $600,000.
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Ridgewood NJ, when famously asked by Tucker Carlson ,“By what authority did you nullify the Bill of Rights in issuing this order? How do you have the power to do that? Phil Murphy responded , “That’s above my pay grade, Tucker, so I wasn’t thinking of the Bill of Rights when I did this.”
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Washington DC, Conservative Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and others contend state officials had no right under the Pennsylvania Constitution to expand mail-in voting in 2019, and the state Supreme Court was wrong to uphold that statute. The group called it “an unconstitutional, no-excuse absentee voting scheme.”
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Washington DC, the Senate began its confirmation hearings this morning for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee for Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
June 13,2018
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Washington DC , The U.S. Supreme Court sided with the state of Ohio Monday upholding its practice of purging people from registration rolls if they fail to vote. In a 5-4 decision, in a case know as Husted v. A. Philip Randolph the court ruled Ohio could continue to remove individuals from voter rolls if they had not voted in two federal elections and have not responded to a confirmation notice or updated their registration.
The plaintiffs in the case, Husted v A. Philip Randolph Institute, argued the Ohio law violated the National Voter Registration Act – that “just as you have a right to vote, you have a right not to vote” – claiming the state’s purges risk disenfranchising eligible voters.
Voter rolls have been a point of contention for years .Many critics claim inactive voter rolls create opportunity for voter fraud .
February 23,2018
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Washington DC, The Supreme Court is scheduled to return to Washington next week after nearly a month off. The justices will hear a number of important oral arguments, including a case involving free speech, and public employee unions.
Next Monday February 26th , the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in one of the most anticipated cases of the year, the case of Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31.
This case could have an enormous impact on big union states like New Jersey and may impact many unions political influence like the NJEA.
The case focuses on Mark Janus who is not a public sector union member but has to pay fees ie inion dues anyway. Janus argues these fees “violate his free speech and free association rights.”
This case involves forcing public employees who opt out of union membership to pay a fee for the “fair share” of costs associated with collective bargaining. Mark Janus, an Illinois state employee, argues that forcing him to subsidize the union he has declined to join violates his free speech and free association rights.
The court will look at whether to overturn its 1977 decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, which held that public employees could be forced to pay an agency fee.
This very issue was before the court in 2016 when Justice Antonin Scalia died. The court deadlocked 4-4 in Friedrichs v. California Teachers’ Association, thereby upholding the lower court ruling in favor of the California Teachers Association.
JOHN MOONEY | MARCH 27, 2017
State already answers to higher legal standard, but federal ruling should re-emphasize that minimum progress is not enough for special-needs students
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-0 last week in favor of raising standards for special education nationwide, the decision was widely applauded by parent and children advocates.
But when it comes to how much the ruling will directly impact New Jersey, the answer is a bit more complicated.
In a decisive victory for special-needs children, the court ruled in a case that originated in Colorado that schools are compelled to teach students with disabilities at a level comparable to other students and above the standard of minimum progress.
April 27,2016
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U.S. Supreme Court: Religious rights trump birth control rule
WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that some companies with religious objections can avoid the contraceptives requirement in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, the first time the high court has declared that businesses can hold religious views under federal law. (Sherman/The Bergen Record)
U.S. Supreme Court decisions: Booker v. Bell
TRENTON – In two separate but similarly controversial decisions released earlier today, the U.S. Supreme voted definitively on issues of religious rights for corporations and union dues requirements for part-time state workers. Both rulings, unsurprisingly, have legislators and political onlookers in New Jersey and across the country riled. (Brush/PolitickerNJ)
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