Montana’s Supreme Court Justices are elected by the people, rather than appointed by the executive branch. This includes the Chief Justice, who is popularly elected rather than being selected from among the sitting justices. Supreme Court races in Montana are supposed to be non-partisan, and ca...
The Iowa Supreme Court has made it easier for lawmakers to limit or outlaw abortion in the state, reversing a decision by the court just four years ago that guaranteed the right to abortion under the Iowa Constitution.
hosted by theMontanaFarmers Union, the four nonpartisan candidates for the open seats on the Montana Supreme Court successfully conveyed that their races are far from boring.
Here, Chief Justice Roberts writes the opinion for the court. Justice Kagan wrote the dissent. Chief Justice Roberts said that when it comes to major questions, there's to be clear direction from Congress in terms of the agency's authority. It says major questions that are about key issues...
Chief Justice John Roberts joined the U.S. Supreme Court onSeptember 29, 2005, replacing Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Roberts was born in New York on January 27, 1955, but his family moved to Indiana in 1965. He graduated first in his class from a Catholic boarding school in Indiana ...
In a 5-4 ruling the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that taxpayers must fund religious schools, stating that excluding faith-based education is unconstitutional. The case isEspinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue. Chief Justice John Roberts aga...
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v. Montana Eighth Judicial Dist. Court, 592 U. S. ___, ___ (2021) (GORSUCH, J., concurring in judgment) (slip op., at 7). Corporations chartered in one State sought the right to send their sales agents and products freely into other States. At the same time, when confronted ...
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The Supreme Court’s ruling inEspinoza v. Montana Department of Revenueis nothing short of a disaster. Not only did the court turn its back on our history, it also trashed decades of church-state precedent in one swoop. In a 1947 case calledEverson v. ...