Tag: Supreme Court
Trump-backed Diehl to take on Healey in Mass. governor race
BOSTON (AP) – Geoff Diehl, a former state representative endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has won the Republican nomination for Massachusetts governor over...
From campus to Congress, colleges urged to end legacy boost
America's elite colleges are facing growing calls to end the decades-old tradition of giving an admissions boost to the children of alumni — a...
Justice Breyer to retire; Biden to fill vacancy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring, giving President Joe Biden an opening he has pledged to fill by naming the...
Supreme Court halts COVID-19 vaccine rule for U.S. businesses, allows mandate...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nation's COVID-19 vaccination rate, a requirement...
City’s fiscal woes just got much worse
Providence’s fiscal woes got much worse on June 30, when the state’s Supreme Court sided with former city employees in a long-running dispute over...
We all must move on from 38 Studios
The state Supreme Court on Feb. 19 ensured that if there are indeed lessons still to be learned from the long-running 38 Studios investigation,...
The ERA could still do some good
Since Virginia voted to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in January, there’s been speculative talk about the future of the long-stalled constitutional amendment. The...
Google’s advertising practices draw nationwide probe by states
WASHINGTON – A group of 50 attorneys general opened a broad investigation into whether advertising practices of Alphabet Inc.’s Google violate antitrust laws.
State attorneys...
Electoral College chaos looms
A federal appeals court has held that members of the Electoral College have a constitutional right to vote for a different presidential candidate than...
What’s commercial property worth? Depends whom you ask
No one likes to pay property taxes. In Providence, fighting that annual bill has become almost routine for many large commercial property owners when...
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