How SCOTUS Protects Bad Federal Officers
When bed-and-breakfast owner Robert Boule asked Border Patrol agents, who were questioning a guest, to leave his property, an agent pushed him to the ground.
When bed-and-breakfast owner Robert Boule asked Border Patrol agents, who were questioning a guest, to leave his property, an agent pushed him to the ground.
"It's too bad that a heckler's veto prevailed here," says Ilya Shapiro.
At her confirmation hearing for her current position on the court of appeals, KBJ testified that "race would be the kind of thing that would be inappropriate to inject in my evaluation of a case."
The Supreme Court is considering what standard should apply to prescribers accused of violating the Controlled Substances Act.
President Biden's Supreme Court nominee was counsel of record for a Cato Institute brief in a case challenging the detention of alleged enemy combatants.
Patients suffer when physicians who prescribe opioids in good faith can face decades in prison.
At today's oral argument, the justices explored Section 111 of the Clean Air Act, the major questions doctrine, justiciability and the regulation of advertising for four-foot cigars smoked through hookahs.
The SCOTUS pick has shown admirable judgment in criminal justice cases.
News reports indicate President Biden has made his choice to replace Justice Stephen Breyer
In November, the Supreme Court declined to consider an ACLU petition arguing that the public has a First Amendment right to see the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's classified decisions.
The most important environmental case of the 2021-22 term will be heard next week.
A comment made by Justice Breyer at oral argument seems to indicate how the Court will decide Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center.
ABCNews unearths an interesting interview with Ketanji Brown Jackson about Justice Clarence Thomas
Will this follow-up to the famous wedding cake case finally decide if this is mandated speech violating the First Amendment?
"Think long and hard," Breyer warns would-be court packers, "before embodying those changes in law."
Why the arguments the Supreme Court lacks jurisdiction to hear the latest climate change case likely lack merit.
This approach would avoid many of the flaws of traditional racial preferences. But it has some downsides of its own.
The Institute for Justice offers a generally pessimistic appraisal of the situation under state law, but some optimism about prospects in the Supreme Court.
Civil libertarians have reason to be wary of Judge J. Michelle Childs.
Contrary to some of the more breathless reactions, it doesn't suggest a conspiracy to help Republicans win elections by disenfranchising black voters.
The Duke law professor posts an important and insightful article on this subject.
Supreme Court confirmation votes have become increasingly partisan. Will this create a problem in a 50-50 Senate?
A former clerk to Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is accused of burnishing her Wiki bio, while sabotaging those of other contenders to replace Justice Breyer.
The Supreme Court will soon decide a case that tests the limits of expression on government property and religious toleration.
A unanimous panel rejects a Trump Administration change to rules on collective bargaining for government workers.
There are more productive things to argue about than identify politics.
The Solicitor General and NGO respondents argue that the petitioners lack appellate standing to challenge the D.C. Circuit's interpretation of the Section 111 of the Clean Air Act.
Michael and Chantell Sackett say they shouldn't have to spend years—and hundreds of thousands of dollars—just getting permission to build on their suburban lot.
More than 100 law professors agree that "academic freedom protects Shapiro's views."
Plus, Supreme Court nominations and affirmative action in schools
It is almost impossible to hold a rogue federal officer accountable. The Supreme Court may make it even harder.
“I regret my poor choice of words, which undermine my message that no one should be discriminated against for his or her gender or skin color,” Shapiro tells Reason.
The article challenges longstanding conventional wisdom. It is coauthored with political scientist Michael Dichio (University of Utah).
Breyer’s deference to law enforcement often led him to sell the Fourth Amendment short.
President Biden has promised to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. He should also consider a nominee with legal experience current justices lack.
That process takes a long time, and the result would face the same legal objection cited by the Supreme Court.
His judicial philosophy emphasized promotion of democracy, a theme in tension with his emphasis on the need for deference to expertise.
SCOTUS rejected attempt to bypass Congress with an emergency regulation.
Assuming Biden can replace him, the Court's ideological composition probably won't change much.
After more than a decade of subversion, the Supreme Court has a chance to rectify this situation.
Insofar as the Court was concerned about pretext, it may be more difficult for the EPA to reduce greenhouse gases using regulatory authority to control emissions.
The Supreme Court could decide the fate of affirmative action at public and private universities.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's support for qualified immunity is in opposition to the principles he says he stands for.
Democracy means accepting results you're not happy about.
Starbucks has decided the vaccine mandate isn't good for their business
John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, and Sonia Sotomayor have all denied Nina Totenberg's story about a SCOTUS dispute over masking.
On government curation and government speech.