Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Abortion Law
A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.
A reprise of an almost identical case with a different group of Justices–and the Chief Justice switching sides.
A 7-2 decision by the highest court in the land is less decisive than the numbers suggest.
The 6-3 opinion written by Justice Gorsuch and joined by Chief Justice Roberts defies conventional wisdom.
A case that should never have made it to the Supreme Court.
A feminist icon offers some advice her allies will not want to hear.
For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court heard a significant Second Amendment case, but it is unlikely to rule on the merits of the case.
Anyone who doubts that Republicans would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020 is being incredibly naive.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent the weekend in the hospital over concerns about a possible infection.
The fight over the President’s tax returns has reached the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court took up the DACA issue today. No matter what it decides, this will likely become a big issue in the 2020 elections.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court held oral argument in a series of cases asking it to decide if existing civil rights laws cover discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
The Supreme Court returns to work today with a significant number of high-profile cases on its docket.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent three weeks of cancer treatment earlier this summer. The second such treatment in a year, and the fourth in the last twenty years.
Justice Ginsburg has some kind words for her two newest co-workers, perhaps to the surprise of many of Ginsburg’s own supporters.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t very impressed by the proposals made by several liberal politicians lately to increase the size of the Supreme Court to counterbalance the conservative tilt created by the Gorsuch and Kavanaugh confirmations.
The Supreme Court handed the President a victory last night, ruling that the Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging his funding of the border wall did not have standing to challenge his diversion of Defense Department funds. This may only be a temporary victory, though.
Just over nine years after retiring from the Supreme Court, former Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has passed away at the age of 99.
Joe Biden recently said that he’d consider nominating Merrick Garland again if there were a Supreme Court vacancy while he was President. Don’t count on it.
In a clear defeat for the Trump Administration, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the Federal Government could not ask about citizenship on the 2020 Census.
President Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment has joined the liberal bloc on several cases.
The Supreme Court has struck down a provision of the Lanham Act barring approval of “immoral” or “scandalous” trademarks as unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court ruled that a World War One memorial that had been on public grounds for 70 years can stay where it is.
The Supreme Court rejected an effort by the Virginia House of Delegates to overturn a Federal Court ruling that the state’s district lines constituted gerrymandering by race. But they didn’t rule on the merits of the appeal.
The Supreme Court has ruled to keep the long-standing “dual sovereigns” exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause in place.
As the Supreme Court enters the final weeks of its term, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hints at deep divisions and disappointment for people on the left.
Justice Clarence Thomas is seemingly putting to rest any reports that he’s considering retiring in the near future.
Starting tomorrow, we should be getting some headline-grabbing opinions from the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court sent a signal yesterday that seems to indicate how it might deal with future abortion law challenges and it doesn’t bode well for pro-lifers.
Mitch McConnell has had an unsurprising change of heart on the issue of Senate consideration of Supreme Court nominees in a Presidential election year.
The Supreme Court is likely to finish striking down restrictions on offensive trademarks.
Senate Republicans are pushing for the end of minority obstruction—and the Democrats can’t wait.
The Senate yesterday confirmed a 37-year-old to a lifetime Court of Appeals seat.
The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward letting a war memorial on public property stay in place.
The Supreme Court issued a ruling that places new limits on civil asset forfeiture by state and local government.
Supreme Court watcher Jeffrey Toobin speculates that Clarence Thomas could be the next Supreme Court Justice to step aside.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court today and appears to have fully recovered from her December surgery.
Critics on both the Left and the Right rightly see an injustice here but the US Supreme Court allowed it to happen.
Late last night, the Supreme Court blocked a Louisiana abortion law from going into effect, the first significant abortion rights ruling since Justice Kavanaugh took the bench.
Doctors have declared Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg cancer free but she is still expected to miss one more week of oral argument as she recovers from her surgery in December.
For the first time in her twenty-five years on the Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is missing oral argument this morning.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery to remove cancerous nodes from a lung, but reports seem to point to a quick recovery.
The Supreme Court appears reluctant to overturn a century of case law that established a significant exception to the Double Jeopardy Clause.
Later this week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could rewrite decades of law interpreting the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy rule.
Yesterday. the Supreme Court heard argument in a case that makes the argument that nearly half of Oklahoma is actually Native American territory.
Once again, people on the left are complaining that Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t retire when they wanted her to.
A Federal Judge is letting a North Dakota Voter ID law that clearly discriminates against Native Americans stand.
Last week, the Washington State Supreme Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional. The latest in a string of victories for opponents of capital punishment.