Donald Trump faces revised US indictment in election subversion case
Washington DC, US Reuters Donald Trump faced a revised federal indictment on Tuesday accusing him of illegally trying to overturn his 2020 election loss, with prosecutors narrowing their approach after a US Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution. US Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team obtained the superseding indictment in […]
Essay: We want a king
PAUL CLARK says events in the US this week echo a strangely similar cry in the Old Testament book of Samuel – one that didn’t go so well…
Thousands of faith leaders, union members, activists rally for poor in the US
Washington DC, US RNS Thousands of clergy, union members and activists rallied on behalf of the poor near the US Capitol on Saturday, with faith leaders calling for lawmakers to embrace a slate of policies and for low-wealth Americans to make their voices heard in November as the nation’s “largest potential swing vote.” Rev William […]
US Supreme Court finds Trump has broad immunity from prosecution
Updated: 10:15am (AEST) Washington DC, US Reuters The US Supreme Court found on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for actions that were within his constitutional powers as president in a landmark ruling recognising for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution. The justices, in a six-to-three ruling authored by Chief […]
US Supreme Court’s slow pace on immunity makes Trump trial before election unlikely
Washington DC, US Reuters Donald Trump’s bid for criminal immunity from prosecution for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss is set to be decided on Monday by the US Supreme Court. But however it rules, the court already has helped the former President in his effort to avoid trial before the 5th November election. […]
Essay: How Jefferson and Madison’s partnership – a friendship told in letters – shaped America’s separation of church and state
American legal and religious history scholar STEVEN K GREEN, in an article first published on The Conversation, says the legacy of Jefferson’s and Madison’s half-century of collaboration on behalf of religious freedom and equality should be remembered and celebrated, not discarded…
Trump supporters turn US flags upside down to protest guilty verdict
Washington DC, US Reuters Upside-down American flags emerged outside homes and on social media on Friday in support of Donald Trump after a New York jury returned a historic guilty verdict against the former Republican president. Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and country music singer Jason Aldean were among the prominent Americans to display the […]
Essay: Do homeless people have constitutional rights?
In an article first published on Religion News Service, author KEVIN NYE says that overwhelmingly, faith groups who filed briefs in the US Supreme Court case Johnson v Grants Pass did so against criminalising homelessness…
US Supreme Court lets Texas border enforcement law take effect
Washington DC, US Reuters The US Supreme Court on Tuesday let a Republican-backed Texas law take effect that allows state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, rejecting a bid to block it by President Joe Biden’s administration. The court has a six-to-three conservative majority, and its three liberal […]
Trump wins Colorado ballot disqualification case at US Supreme Court
Washington DC, US Reuters The US Supreme Court handed Donald Trump a major victory on Monday, barring states from disqualifying candidates for federal office under a constitutional provision involving insurrection and reversing Colorado’s exclusion of him from its ballot. The justices unanimously overturned a 19th December decision by Colorado’s top court to kick the former […]