The U.S. Supreme Court is less visible to students than either Congress or the president. The Court's rulings on cases, however, are as influential on everyday life and on the political system as any bill passed by Congress or signed into law by the president. "Brown v. Board of ...
For instance, the Government does not dispute that Congress may not criminalize Presidential conduct within the President’s “conclusive and preclusive” constitutional authority. See Tr. of Oral Arg. 133 (“[C]ore powers . . . can’t be regulated at all, like the pardon power and veto...
complex,” he wrote. “Its causes are many. So may be the public policy responses required to address it. At bottom, the question this case presents is whether the 8th Amendment grants federal judges primary responsibility for assessing those causes and d...
“The majority does not save judges from unwieldy tests or extricate them from the sphere of controversy,” they wrote. “To the contrary, it discards a known, workable and predictable standard in favor of something novel and probably far more complicated.” ...
There you have it. I’m guessing the election will be called for Trump by Wednesday morning. Bonus prediction:Republicans will pick up two to four seats to re-take the Senate. The eminent Justice Clarence Thomas will retire from the Supreme Court next year to enable Trump and the Republican...
Supreme Court, Wednesday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) "He may calculate that Roe need not be swept aside entirely to hold in Dobbs that the Constitution does not prohibit all pre-viability restrictions on abortion," he wrote. "That is, the only question before the court is whether a ...
The historic ruling from the high court said that Trump enjoys “absolute” presidential immunity for “his core constitutional powers,” but that he “enjoys no immunity for his unofficial acts, and not everything the President does if official...
A major Supreme Court ruling Friday that shifted power from the executive branch to the judiciary stands to transform how the federal government works.
On the Dobbs decision specifically, McConnell told Fox News Digital: "The Supreme Court, in effect, corrected an error when in 1973, the court simply found something in the Constitution that was not there… What this decision does is simply return this very sensitive issue to the pe...
How Does the SEC Decide Which Cases To Pursue for Enforcement Action? The SEC uses arisk-based approach to decide which cases to pursue for enforcement action. This approach involves assessing the severity and impact of the alleged misconduct, the potential harm to investors, the deterrence value...