How the Supreme Court Voted
Of the Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court, only Chief Justice John Roberts seems greatly concerned with preserving the impression that the court is apolitical. In the Dobbs case he voted with the majority in upholding a Mississippi law restricting abortion but said he would have tak...
supreme court How rare is a Supreme Court breach? Very rare ByJosh Gerstein|May 02, 2022 08:36 PM In several passages, he describes doctors and nurses who terminate pregnancies as “abortionists.” When Roberts voted with liberal jurists in 2020 to block a Louisiana law imposing heavier regul...
The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade.
This term, the most conservative Supreme Court in modern history had the opportunity to gut the last major section of the Voting Rights Act. They didn’t take it…
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The former president largely focused his criticism on President Joe Biden, but briefly addressed what transpired at the nation's high court. "In watching the Supreme Court today, I thought it was a very beautiful process," he said. "I hope that democracy in this country will ...
Until recently, it has been impossible to know how the partisan and political divisions within the group have played out because they voted in secret. But that law was changed recently, and the next time a vacancy occurs their votes will be recorded in public. ...
By a 5-4 vote, the court said in an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that wetlands can only be regulated under the Clean Water Act if they have a “continuous surface connection” to larger, regulated bodies of water. There is no such connection on the Sacketts’ prop...
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. voted with the three liberal justices while four conservatives voted to grant the GOP appeal. The outcome of the hard-fought court battle had little consequence, however, because there were only a few thousand late-arriving ballots and President Biden won the ...