Supreme Court:... in terms of intellectual ability, [Fred M. Vinson] paled in comparison to his contemporarieson the bench -- Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, Robert H. Jackson orWiley Rutledge. He is remembered primarily as a crony of Harry Truman, and he along with...
Supreme Court oral arguments are exercises in multitasking: The justices are talking to advocates as they’re talking to each other. Chief Justice John Roberts hasdescribedthe lawyers as “backboards” — justices’ questions rebound off the lawyers and back to the other justices. Through their qu...
Court where your case was held and the justice that presided. The errors you are bringing to light and want to be corrected. Usually, there is a fee when you file the notice of appeal; this fee varies by state. Sometimes you are responsible for making sure all other parties receive a ...
The Supreme Court is keeping a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. The justices returned the cases to lower courts.
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in his new book that law in America has swallowed up ordinary people.
Washington—Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuchin "Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law" throws the book at the law, telling the story of what he sees as a nation at risk from an explosion of new laws. Gorsuch, who was nominated for the high court ...
Should Supreme Court Justices continue to serve for life? He is a powerful man made even more powerful by his status as spouse of a Supreme Court justice. The company you keep On Friday, Ginsburg, a career-long pioneer for same-sex marriage, immigrant, and reproductive rights, met in a ...
But there is an uneasy coexistence of political equality and economic inequality. Near to a century ago, Justice Louis Brandies of the United States Supreme Court warned, dramatically: “We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have bot...
Death by Adjective: The Supreme Court’s Attack on Legislative Regulations of Violence, or, How Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia Stopped Worrying about Symbolic Violence by Employing Aesthetic Claims to Limit Legislative Restrictions on Violence PreviewView full textDownload full...
Ever since the SEC was formed, high expectations have fallen on the shoulders of the SEC's staff. Future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt about those he needed to find to fill out the new agency: “You need administrators … who have stami...