The Least Productive Supreme Court Ever?
The justices hear fewer cases and decide fewer questions than they used to.
The justices hear fewer cases and decide fewer questions than they used to.
Former prosecutors Markus Funk and Andrew S. Boutros, and Judge Virginia Kendall, delve further into this fascinating question.
Can a web designer be compelled under the First Amendment to host wedding pictures?
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"I look forward to teaching and engaging in a host of activities relating to constitutional education," said Shapiro.
We will get opinions on Monday, but the Court will have to average more than two opinions per day to finish before July 4.
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With thirty-three opinions in argued cases yet to issue, the Supreme Court is well behind the usual pace.
The lawsuit over Timpa's deadly prone restraint, initially blocked by qualified immunity, was revived by the 5th Circuit.
Newly confirmed Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has a good track record on cases involving qualified immunity.
Two federal appeals courts recently concluded that such age restrictions are unconstitutional.
Without opinion the justices rejected Louisiana's application to vacate a lower court stay.
An assessment of claims that Justice Alito's draft opinion rests on historical error, provides no meaningful basis for distinguishing abortion from other unenumerated rights, and forecloses constitutional protection of the mother's life.
The former Associate Justice joins those condemning the leak of a draft opinion.
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A revealing interview on the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Roberts, climate change, and Tribe's tweeting habits.
In response to the Buffalo massacre, Gov. Kathy Hochul invoked a hoary analogy to justify censorship.
A prominent progressive law professor challenges some of the prevailing orthodoxy on Roe, Dobbs, and Supreme Court precedent.
Xiulu Ruan, a pain specialist, was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for prescribing opioid analgesics "outside the usual course of professional medical practice."
When did the K-9 arrive? And what was the probable cause for the search?
Anti-abortion interstate travel bans would have multiple constitutional defects.
The Court makes other people follow the text and history, but at least when it comes to certiorari, the justices lose their religion.
Without citing any constitutional authority to dictate state abortion policies, the bill would have overridden regulations that have been upheld or have yet to be tested.
Liberal states don't want to treat abortion as a personal, private choice either. Instead, blue state policy makers want to spend tax dollars subsidizing and promoting it.
The last 50 years have been marked by a remarkably stable social consensus balancing the rights of women and fetuses. Let's not throw that away.
Olmstead isn't just a wiretapping case; it's where the Court took the power to preselect questions.
Americans cannot be neatly divided into two sides, and they do not necessarily understand the implications of Roe v. Wade.
The abortion precedent has faced withering criticism, including damning appraisals by pro-choice legal scholars, for half a century.
No matter how the case got there, the Court had to decide the whole thing.
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The constitutional scholar on abortion, Sam Alito, and the future of federalism
Understanding state regulatory powers at the time of the founding.
The justice overlooks the long American tradition of pharmacological freedom and the dubious constitutional basis for federal bans.
That fact doesn't necessarily justify overruling Roe. Depending on how it's viewed, the history of such reversals may even counsel against further such moves.
Does returning decisions about abortion to the states increase liberty or shrink it?
Although recent polls show a majority thinks the abortion precedent should be preserved, some respondents seem confused about what that would mean.
Abortion is likely to remain legal in most states, and workarounds will mitigate the effects of bans.
If the leaker's identity is ever revealed, he or she will face serious professional and reputational sanctions. There's no need to wish for criminal punishments too.
Gorsuch just penned an important pro-LGBT decision two years ago. Americans are largely not interested in relitigating this issue.
The Constitution protects many more rights than it mentions.
But the leaked opinion is not “the final position of any member on the issues in the case.”
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The justices unanimously agree that the city was not endorsing the flags, and that therefore it couldn’t exclude religious organizations.
The president’s COVID-19 adviser embodies the arrogance of technocrats who are sure they know what’s best for us.
Forcing private companies to host speech violates the First Amendment.