MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. must be held accountable for signing and implementing the 2024 and 2025 national budgets declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, House Deputy Minority Leader and ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. Antonio Tinio said Thursday.
FORMER Senate president Franklin Drilon welcomed the Supreme Court’s recognition of unprogrammed appropriations as a valid budgetary tool, but urged Congress to seek clarification on provisions he said could encroach on its constitutional authority over the national budget.
THE other day, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional certain provisions of the 2024 and 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA) due to the following reasons: a) 2024 GAA: due to a P449.5-billion congressional increase in unprogrammed appropriations, which illegally inflated the president’s total recommended appr…
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The Office of the Solicitor General notes that the 12 separate opinions accompanying the Supreme Court ruling 'reflect the complexity of the constitutional questions presented and the differing judicial perspectives on their resolution'
The court denied the Justice Department's emergency request to lift a federal judge's order blocking the Federal Bureau of Prisons from implementing the policy.
Former reality star and wellness influencer stands accused of choking and assaulting wife at Noosa in QueenslandGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFormer reality television star Sam Wood will go to the Queensland supreme court seeking release from custody, more than two weeks after he was den…
If the Supreme Court accepts Mahmoud Khalil's appeal, it will tackle one of the oldest questions in American politics — a dispute more than 200 years old.
Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To End Hormone Treatments For Transgender Federal Inmates Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The Supreme Court on Oct. 21 declined to allow the Trump administration to immediately enforce a policy that would have curtailed transgender treatments in federal prisons. The dec…
Decision stands in contrast to recent trans rights actions from court that often sides with Trump administrationThe US supreme court went against Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday, refusing to allow the immediate enforcement of sweeping restrictions on gender-affirming care for transgender individuals held …
Utah authorities are seeing to kick Kalshi out of the state, the latest legal battle to hit the prediction market giant as its co-founder Tarek Mansour says efforts to regulate his business could end up in the Supreme Court.
THE government will appeal the Supreme Court ruling declaring that unprogrammed appropriations in the 2024, 2025 and 2026 budgets unconstitutional, Malacañang said on Wednesday.
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THE decision of the Supreme Court declaring as unconstitutional some provisions of the 2024 and 2025 General Appropriations Acts (GAAs) reinforces the need for transparency and accountability in the allocation and use of public funds, Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco said on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court rebuffed the Trump administration's emergency petition to immediately revive its restrictions on transgender treatment for inmates in federal prisons.
MANILA, Philippines — Lawyers covered by Supreme Court (SC) rules must render at least 60 hours of free legal assistance to indigent Filipinos every three years, the high court said as it seeks to close the gap between access to legal remedies and the people who need them most.
Friend of accused double murderer tells supreme court that van had lemony smell and blue tarp in back before Bunnings stopGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBeau Lamarre-Condon played Taylor Swift’s song No Body, No Crime while attempting to dispose of two corpses, a court has heard.The NSW s…
A former friend of Beau Lamarre-Condon has told a Supreme Court jury about their trip to a farm south of Sydney following the deaths of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.
The Trump administration was sued over its Canadian tariffs Tuesday by the same group that successfully got the Supreme Court to overturn a large swath of the president's levies last year.
A former Supreme Court Judge says a NSW government plan to draft special laws for a Hunter Valley coalmine "obliterates" the legal process and should be independently reviewed.
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(1st UPDATE) The SC rules that in so far as the 2024 and 2025 budgets are concerned, the doctrine of operative fact applies. This recognizes the validity of an assailed act prior to the determination of its unconstitutionality.
On Tuesday morning, Lee Soon-hee, 56, broke down outside the Supreme Court after it upheld the prison sentence for Aricell CEO Park Soon-kwan over a deadly factory fire in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province. “The victims were all so young. How can they be so cold-blooded?” Lee shouted, leaning on a labor activist. “Are we …
Mahmoud Khalil petitions US Supreme Court to hear his free speech case Submitted by MEE staff on Mon, 10/19/2026 - 20:54 Should the court decide to hear it, a ruling would have far-reaching implications for many noncitizen Palestine advocates being pursued by the Trump administration Mahmoud Khalil speaks during a p…
The Supreme Court rejected notorious 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's bid to restore a controversial plea deal in 2024 that would've saved him from the death penalty.
Khalil's lawyers argue that noncitizens must be able to challenge detention allegedly intended to punish constitutionally protected speech as his deportation case reaches the Supreme Court.
A ruling against Khalil could impact the rights of immigrants to challenge their detention in federal courtAttorneys for Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University student who has become the symbol of the Trump administration’s crusade against pro-Palestinian speech, have petitioned the US supreme court to revie…
The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two alleged accomplices that sought to revive plea deals which were later revoked. Mohammed and two others charged with involvement in the 2001 September 11 attacks – Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsaw…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider whether Congress had the constitutional authority to impose a ban on distilling spirits in private homes more than 150 years ago.
Mohammed remains the most well-known inmate at the Guantanamo detention facility, which was set up in 2002 by then-US president George W. Bush to house foreign terrorism suspects following 9/11.
The minor opposition Rebuilding Korea Party on Monday unveiled a draft of a motion to impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice Jo Hee-de, while the Democratic Party has begun to gather opinions on Jo's impeachment. The Rebuilding Korea Party urged the ruling Democratic Party of Korea to join forces to propose the motion …
Security officials sharply criticized what they described as the courts' failure to impose meaningful penalties, arguing that judges were reluctant to issue punishments that could deter offenders.
LABOR groups and workers’ party-list representatives have asked the Supreme Court to stop lower courts from blocking regional minimum wage orders, arguing that judicial challenges must not undermine workers’ right to legally mandated pay increases.
Supreme Court Leaves Self-Described Antifa Member Jailed Before Trial The Supreme Court this week turned down an emergency request to let Kyle Wagner, a 37-year-old self-described Antifa member from Minneapolis, out of jail before his trial. Wagner is charged in federal court in Michigan with one count of cyberstalk…
THE Supreme Court ruling acquitting a Bacolod hotel manager accused of denying two senior citizens their 20-percent discount “must not become a workaround to the law,” Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO) Secretary Joey Salceda said.