US Supreme Court
-
US Supreme Court Rejects Turkish Halkbank’s Arguments in Iran Case
EghtesadOnline: The US Supreme Court has rejected a Turkish bank’s main arguments for avoiding prosecution on charges it helped Iran evade US sanctions, but the court sent the case back for additional…
-
US Top Court Refuses to Hear Bank Melli Appeal of Ruling
EghtesadOnline: The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Iranian government-owned Bank Melli’s appeal of a lower court ruling that allowed victims of militant attacks allegedly backed…
-
US Supreme Court forbids seizure of Persian artifacts
EghtesadOnline: The US Supreme Court has ruled that American citizens injured in a 1997 suicide bombing in Israeli occupied Palestinian territories cannot seize ancient Persian artifacts from…
-
Supreme Court Lets Trump Bar Refugees in Boost for Travel Ban
EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Supreme Court reinforced President Donald Trump’s travel ban, saying he can bar thousands of refugees from entering the country while the justices prepare to hear a broader…
-
Trump Takes Travel Ban Dispute to U.S. Supreme Court Again
EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump’s administration took the dispute over his temporary travel ban to the Supreme Court again, asking the justices to let the government bar entry into the…
-
US travel ban regrettable, misguided policy: Iran FM
EghtesadOnline: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says it is regrettable that the US Supreme Court has decided to partially reinstate President Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees…
-
US ignoring major perpetrators of terror acts, gives wrong address: Iran
EghtesadOnline: Iran has denounced the recent US Supreme Court ruling allowing President Donald Trump’s contentious Muslim ban to be partly reinstated, saying the United States is turning a blind…
-
Iran raps US Supreme Court decision on Trump’s travel ban
EghtesadOnline: Iranian foreign ministry has strongly condemned the ‘discriminatory’ decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to partially lift blocks on Trump’s travel ban that prevents…
-
Trump Travel Ban Loses Again as Supreme Court Showdown Looms
EghtesadOnline: A second federal appeals court upheld the block on President Donald Trump’s proposed travel ban as the U.S. Supreme Court considers whether to take up the administration’s request…
-
Rice Says No Evidence Trump Travel Ban Would Make U.S. Safer
EghtesadOnline: There’s no evidence President Donald Trump’s travel ban, struck down in the courts and awaiting Supreme Court review, would make the U.S. safer from the kinds of attacks carried…
-
In big win for Trump, Senate approves his conservative court pick
EghtesadOnline: The Republican-led Senate on Friday gave Donald Trump the biggest triumph of his young presidency, confirming his Supreme Court nominee over stout Democratic opposition and restoring…
-
‘Nuclear’ Bid to Confirm Gorsuch May Radically Change Washington
EghtesadOnline: The Senate is hurtling toward a confrontation over President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee in a week that could change how Washington works.
-
Top Senate Democrat says unlikely Trump court pick can clear procedural hurdle
EghtesadOnline: The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate said on Sunday it was unlikely that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch would be able to clear a procedural hurdle to a final vote, even as…
-
Supreme Court nominee to face confirmation vote April 7: Senate leader
EghtesadOnline: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that the Senate would have a final vote on April 7 on President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil…
-
Democratic opposition to U.S. high court nominee grows
EghtesadOnline: A third of Democratic senators have so far announced they will vote against confirming U.S. President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, adding to a chorus of opposition from…
-
Virginia Judge Tees Up Travel Ban Argument for Top Court
EghtesadOnline: A Virginia judge helped tee up an argument likely to be fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court over President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict travel to the U.S. from…
-
Top Senate Democrat promises fight to block Trump high court pick
EghtesadOnline: The top U.S. Senate Democrat on Thursday pledged to pursue a procedural hurdle to try to block the confirmation of Republican President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil…
-
Trump's high court pick vows independence, says he is no 'rubber stamp'
EghtesadOnline: U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on Tuesday pledged independence from President Donald Trump, bristled at his criticism of the judiciary and said not even the president…
-
Supreme Court reins in president's appointment powers
EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday put new restrictions on presidential powers, limiting a president's authority to staff certain top government posts in a case involving an appointment…
-
Democrats raise doubts about Trump's high court nominee Gorsuch
EghtesadOnline: Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, on Monday emphasized the need for judicial independence even as Trump castigates jurists who have ruled against…
-
Gorsuch Takes Stage as Trump Picks Conservative to Supreme Court
EghtesadOnline: President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will meet with senators Wednesday at the start of what promises to be a contentious confirmation fight as Republicans…
-
Supreme Court rejects Michigan straight-ticket voting appeal
EghtesadOnline: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid by Michigan to reinstate its Republican-backed ban on straight-ticket voting for the Nov. 8 general election.