Tag Archives: SCOTUS

This month, Civic Conversations welcomes Professor Charles Geyh, a Distinguished Professor of Law at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.  A widely recognized expert on judicial conduct, Proerfoess Geyh has served as a witness in a U.S. Senate impeachment trial, leading to dozens of media appearances on the subject. He is also the author of Who Is to Judge: Who is to Judge?: …

Purdue University engineers have created white paint that can keep surfaces up to 18 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than their surroundings but without consuming energy. According to the researchers, the paint would reduce the need for air conditioning by absorbing nearly no solar energy. The critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale has been spared, at least for now, from exposure to …

The Supreme Court is preventing the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Supreme Court blocked the citizenship question on Thursday. Officials in the Trump administration confirmed Tuesday that the question would not be on the census. The Census Bureau says they are currently printing the census forms without the question.   President Donald Trump tweeted this morning …

One week after the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill wants the Supreme Court to review and potentially reverse a lower court’s decision on Indiana abortion law. In April, the Seventh Circuit court struck down two provisions of Indiana’s House Enrolled Act 1337. The two provisions, one prohibiting abortions on a basis of the fetus’ sex, …

On October 6, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to confirm President Donald Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee to the nation’s highest court. On this episode of Voices In The Street, Isaak Gonzalez asks listeners how they feel about Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, in the wake of sexual assault and rape allegations. Voices in the Street is produced by Community Radio, …

In a statement late Friday morning, Sen. (D-IN) Joe Donnelly announced he will not vote to confirm Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The Senate is scheduled to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the country’s highest court at 1:30 p.m., Friday. The announcement comes after a second day of testimony and statements about Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual assault of three women. “I …

HEADLINES Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly met with Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, earlier today; Monroe County residents will see fewer road clean-up crews picking up trash; The Monroe County Community School Corporation’s 2019 budget is expected to be nearly five million dollars higher than this year’s budget; The Indiana Arts Commission announced yesterday that they will bestow awards to two Bloomington …

Senator (D-IN) Joe Donnelly met with Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, earlier today. Donnelly, a first-term incumbent Democrat, announced the meeting with the SCOTUS nominee yesterday afternoon. Kavanaugh is the second Supreme Court Justice nominated by President Trump, Neil Gorsuch was approved earlier this year. A press release from Donnelly’s office stated he is using the same approach he …

Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly will meet with President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick, tomorrow. In a statement issued this afternoon, the first-term incumbent Democrat announced he will meet with SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh, at noon. Kavanaugh is the second Supreme Court Justice nominated by President Trump; Neil Gorsuch was approved earlier this year. Donnelly was one of three Democratic Senators …

HEADLINES The Indiana Department of Transportation will not meet their Interstate 69 construction deadline of August 31; Sen. (D-IN) Joe Donnelly will meet with President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, tomorrow; A 240-unit student residential project, planned for East Third Street and State Road 446, divided the Plan Commission in its August 13 meeting. FEATURE WFHB News Director Wes …