Although Congress has the right to decide how many judges are on the Supreme Court, it can’t change the powers given to the Court by the Constitution. The Judiciary Act of 1789 established the Court with one chief justice and five associate justices. Between 1789 and 1869, the number of ...
Harris has backed many of Biden’s tax proposals, which amount to almost $5 trillion in tax increases for wealthy Americans and corporations, while promising to keep some Trump-era cuts, which are slated to expire in 2025, to ensure no one making less than $400,000 a year wo...
The case, known asTrump v. Anderson, landed before the justices after Colorado's highest court issued a landmark decision in December concluding thatTrump is disqualifiedfrom holding the presidency under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. With its divided ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court became th...
The non-delegation requirement has only been applied “when Congress has delegated power directly to the President—never when Congress has delegated power to agency officials.”[238]Although some Justices have signaled this may change, that reception has only been in dissents and co...
How many of you have taken algebra 2 and needed those skills to succeed in college? That question is at the heart of a huge debate about what high school math skills are needed for admission to the University of California and California State Un...
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The historic nature of this nomination is abundantly clear. If Barrett is confirmed, the Supreme Court could bethe most conservative it’s been in 70 years. But what does that mean for the way the justices rule going forward? It’s hard to predict how any given nominee will rule once ser...
likely. Many within the law-enforcement community cite prohibitive costs as a reason not to mandate solutions like these and maintain that the problem of false confessions is not as big as critics suggest. Still, most of us see one false confession that leads to conviction as one too many. ...
“There is also a bit of an art in figuring out how to translate someone’s test results into a statement about real world functioning (i.e., whether a person is fit to drive, live independently, do a demanding job, etc.),” Ranganath wrote in an email. “Many times, the recommendat...
Already, those seeking top posts have been working the phones in an attempt to form alliances with others who are also hoping to secure a spot in the Trump administration. Several even booked flights to Florida to ensure face time with Trump in the coming days, when many of the decisions ...