After the Supreme Court allowed the strictest anti-abortion law in the nation to go into effect in Texas on Wednesday, abortion rights supporters around the country were bracing themselves for the reality that their states could be next. “My mental…
Read MoreSupreme Court Dismisses Challenge To Affordable Care Act
The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act in a decision that could mark the end of the line for major legal challenges to the Obama-era health care law. It was the third major challenge that…
Read MoreBiden Taps Ex-Supreme Court Nominee Garland for Attorney General
President-elect Joe Biden has picked Merrick Garland, the federal judge who never got a confirmation hearing as Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee five years ago, as his choice for attorney general, according to two people familiar with the matter. The…
Read MoreSupreme Court Spurns Partisanship in Denying Trump Election Case
In rejecting President Donald Trump’s call to overturn the U.S. election outcome, the Supreme Court sent a message about its role in the American system of government: We do law here, not partisan politics. With a brief, lawyerly order on…
Read MoreSupreme Court Rejects Texas’ Effort To Throw Out Presidential Election Results In Four Other States
The Supreme Court tossed out a suit filed by the attorney general of Texas and backed by President Donald Trump that sought to throw out the results of the election in four states that went for Joe Biden. Trump had…
Read MoreArizona GOP Chief Appeals to Supreme Court Over Biden Win
Arizona’s Republican Party chairwoman appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court as part of a long-shot effort to nullify Joe Biden’s victory there in the presidential election, according to a filing posted online by a Democratic lawyer. The filing comes as…
Read MoreSenate Begins to Clear Barrett’s Last Obstacles to Supreme Court
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set in motion the Senate’s final action on Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, as the chamber’s narrow Republican majority prepares to clear the few remaining hurdles before she replaces the liberal Justice Ruth Bader…
Read MoreSenate Witnesses Show Political Stakes of Trump’s Court Nominee
Experts called to the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday by Republicans praised Amy Coney Barrett‘s legal career and character, while Democrats’ witnesses said there were perils in rushing to confirm her to the Supreme Court before the Nov. 3 election. Speaking…
Read MoreAmy Coney Barrett Steps Into Crucible of Confirmation Hearings
Voters will get their first intensive look at Judge Amy Coney Barrett in hearings that begin Monday and are all but certain to lead to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee being placed on the high court just days before…
Read MoreHow Ginsburg Went From Equality Trailblazer to #NotoriousRBG
SHARE THIS ARTICLE When Ruth Bader Ginsburg began making the case for gender equality in the 1970s, she was anything but notorious. The page 10 New York Times story announcing her victory in the first case she argued before the…
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