Third, during this year, the Court itself has three times blocked lower court rulings striking down state bans — an indication that the Justices did not want same-sex marriages to occur until they had weighed in on their constitutionality. Fourth, the Court surely knew what the practical impa...
Trump pleaded not guilty and has denied any wrongdoing. The justices are sending the case back to the trial court to determine what acts alleged in Smith's indictment constitute official duties that could be protected from liability and which are not....
Q&A: How an Illinois Legal Case Can Help the Gun Cause in California Last week’s ruling in in FFL-IL v. Pritzker represented a significant victory for a 2A community that has fought hard over decades to protect one of the Constitution’s most fundamental rights. The ruling overturned the...
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The dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, correctly observes that the framers of the Constitution knew how to grant limited immunity when they wrote the Speech or Debate Clause protecting members of Congress. They did no such thing for th...
Blumenthal has previously shown greater intestinal fortitude, as when he threatened the justices that they would either rule as Democrats demanded or face “seismic” changes to their court. Jones warned the justices that “politically it’s bad” for them to rule this way. The comment captures ...
Any way that he can make trouble, or get other people to make it for him, is fine. He doesn’t care how many of us die. He hopes we do. He has yet to have someone die explicitly and unambiguously for his sake, and I expect that’s one of his remaining ambitions. ...
We’re tuning in live as the justices consider what could be one of the most consequential First Amendment rulings of the past several decades.
She also highlighted that three Trump-appointed justices sided with the former president in the ruling. Rep. Nancy Pelosi also slammed the court’s decision. “Today, the Supreme Court has gone rogue with its decision, violating the foundational American principle that no one is above the law...
… Today, the justices also sided with Starbucks in an 8-1 ruling that will make things tougher for union organizers and the National Labor Relations Board, per the NYT.… And a unanimous but fragmented court said the phrase “Trump too small” can’t be trademarked, per NBC....