SCOTUS

BURLINGTON, VT—Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to effectively deport more than 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti who fled war, political persecution, humanitarian crises, and failed economies to migrate lawfully to America through the humanitarian parole process. U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.)  released the…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) led Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) in introducing the High Court Gift Ban Act, legislation that would ban Supreme Court Justices from…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) emphasized how the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in former President Donald Trump’s immunity case endangers the United States’ constitutional system of checks and balances and Congress’ constitutional responsibility to enforce…

The three members of Vermont’s Congressional Delegation weighed in on Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution on many of the charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. U.S. Rep. Becca Balint and Vermont…