Neil Gorsuch Confirmed As 113th Justice Of The Supreme Court
After a prolonged vacancy and a bitterly partisan confirmation process, Neil Gorsuch has been confirmed to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States.
After a prolonged vacancy and a bitterly partisan confirmation process, Neil Gorsuch has been confirmed to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States.
More fireworks on the second day of the questioning of Neil Gorsuch, but his confirmation nonetheless seems assured.
The Supreme Court will now consider a case regarding whether or not a state can bar a former felon from accessing social media sites.
Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration has revoked guidelines to public schools that required accommodation of transgender students.
In the end, an effort by Democrats to block Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court does not seem like a good use of their rather limited options.
With a relatively smooth announcement, Donald Trump has named a solid and qualified conservative who will likely be confirmed to the nation’s highest court.
President Trump will name his first Supreme Court pick on his 11th day in office.
Just under a year ago, Senate Republicans took a big risk regarding the Supreme Court. Now, it’s paid off big time.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving Federal law and the rights of transgender students.
Justice Ginsburg made some recent comments about the election that have, to say the least, raised some eyebrows.
The Supreme Court seems as closely divided as ever on an issue that has divided the nation for forty years, but the implications of Justice Scalia’s death were quite apparent during oral argument in the Texas Abortion Law case.
Is President Obama planning a Checkmate move in the SCOTUS nomination fight?
A crack in the Republican wall?
It didn’t take long for the political battle over the seat held by the late Justice Antonin Scalia to become another part of the 2016 political battle.
After oral argument today in a high profile case, it appears likely that public employee unions are likely to suffer a major legal defeat later this year.
Syrian refugees have quickly become political footballs in the United States in the wake of the Paris attacks, and it’s become an exceedingly shameful display of pandering and fearmongering by a group of largely Republican politicians.
The Supreme Court has accepted a case involving a new Texas abortion law for review, the first abortion rights case it will hear in eight years.
The Supreme Court is now considering a case that deals with the problem of overly broad civil asset forfeiture laws and a Defendant’s right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment.
The Supreme Court is diving back into the debate over the PPACA’s birth control coverage mandate.
He definitely wouldn’t appreciate it, but in some sense you can thank Robert Bork for the Supreme Court’s opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges.
The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the way the death penalty is administered, dealing a serious blow to opponents of the death penalty.
SCOTUS has upheld the use of election commissions to draw Congressional district lines.
The US Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that the U.S. Constitution contains a right to same-sex marriage.
The era of legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act is over.
The Supreme Court ruled that states don’t have to grant license plates that display the Confederate flag. Their decision has the potential to seriously harm the First Amendment.
Starting tomorrow, we can expect to see the Supreme Court hand down decisions in some of its most high profile cases. Here’s a preview.
Hillary Clinton told supporters she’d require Supreme Court nominees to pledge to overturn Citizens United, a decision she completely misrepresented.
A sharply divided Court heard argument today on an issue that has sharply divided the nation.
The Supreme Court seems likely to strike down state laws that take redistricting completely out of the hands of state legislatures.
By refusing to stay the legalization of same-sex marriage in Alabama, the Supreme Court has sent the strongest signal yet that it is ready to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
The next President will have a profound ability to shape the future of the Supreme Court, but that is unlikely to be the most important issue on voters minds in 2016.
An unsurprising ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that only seems to bring closer the day when same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide.
In the space of one week, we’ve gone from 19 states that recognize same-sex marriage to 29. Soon, it will be 35.
Two more states are added to the list, with another three likely not far behind.
Chief Justice Roberts lamented recently that an increasingly partisan confirmation process could mean that Justices who have contributed much to the Court would not be confirmed today. He’s right.
A trial court judge in Tennessee is the first jurist since the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Windsor to uphold a ban on same-sex marriage
Assuming it accepts the appeal, Utah is giving the Supreme Court its high profile case for the October 2015 Term.
The Supreme Court has limited the ability of public employee unions to force people to join their ranks.
Even the most ideologically divided members of the Supreme Court agree with each other 65% of the time.
Yesterday the Supreme Court greatly expanded the circumstances under which police can rely on anonymous tips.
President Obama has gotten more federal judges confirmed at every level than his predecessor had at this point.
Another liberal legal scholar is calling on Justice Ginsburg to resign. She’s unlikely to listen to them.
Same-sex marriage remains the law of the land in one of the most conservative states in the nation, at least unless the Supreme Court says otherwise.
A victory for same-sex marriage in an unlikely place.
On the whole, a complete victory for advocates of same-sex marriage today at the Supreme Court.