Supreme Court's June 28, 2012 ruling on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Most observers expected either a 5-4 vote striking down the ACA's so-called "individual mandate" as an overbroad attempt to regulate interstate commerce, or a 5-4 or 6-...
Wade landmark case that legalized abortion nationwide, which will likely leading to many states enacting restrictive laws or full abortion bans. Protesters had gathered outside the Supreme Court in anticipation of the 6-3 ruling. The court went down ideological lines, with Chief Justice Roberts ...
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...
In a 5-4 decision, the court held that same-sex couples have the right to marry. Those in favor of the ruling included justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Those dissenting included Chief Justice John Roberts and Antonin Scalia, Claren...
By now there is (probably) not a single person in the country who remains unaware of the impending, but also already incredibly intense, showdown over President Obama’s nomination of a new Supreme Court Justice to replace Antonin Scalia, who died last month. (Facts: here. Conspiracy theories...
Some of the uneasiness stems from what feels like a contradictory message from the court, Rim says. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., said the ruling shouldn't be construed "as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his ...
Some of the uneasiness stems from what feels like a contradictory message from the court, Rim says. In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., said the ruling shouldn't be construed "as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his ...
Migrants have been denied rights to seek asylum under U.S. and international law 2.5 million times since March 2020 on grounds of preventing COVID-19 under a public-health rule that was scheduled to expire Wednesday until U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts ordered atemporary hold....
decision, the Supreme Court restored him from censured analyst to whistle-blower in a major corporate fraud. Sam Roberts – The New York Times Raymond L. Dirks, a maverick Wall Street analyst who was accused of insider trading by securities regulators but then vindicated by the U.S. Supreme...
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...