JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Monday appointed appeals court Judge Ginger Gooch to the state Supreme Court, preserving women's historic majority on the high court.
Every Supreme Court justice appointed since 1970 has had some connection to a highly ranked law school. Now that the U.S. Senate has confirmed Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, she will become the first African American woman to serve as a justice on the ...
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state courtprecedentstare decisisfederal courtsIn this brief Essay, I provide a tentative argument for modest state court interpretative independence. I argue that state courts possess interpretative indepeLee J. StrangSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
law clerks to work at the Court. But he does not return that respect; his opinion in Lebamoff includes this snarky little line that seems to deny the Supreme Court's authority: "But the Twenty-first Amendment leaves these considerations to the people of Michigan, not to federal judges." ...
The decision marks the first time a court has found former President Donald Trump to be ineligible to return to the White House due to his conduct surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
An unusual 5–4 decision halts the federal effort to curb carbon dioxide emissions from power plants while the court battle continues
“as long as it does not infringe the privacy of the parties, does not violate state security, the court’s data interface should be open to the community.” Local judges, too, are writing critically about judicial statistics, with at least one comparing unfavorably China’s practices with ...
The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, June 30, 2021. The Supreme Court late Wednesday denied an emergency request to block Texas' ban on abortions performed after six weeks of pregnancy, upholding for now one of the most restrictive measures on access to the procedure that took effect earli...
The justices are considering whether to limit the authority of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions that have blocked key parts of the Trump agenda until they can be heard in court. Laura MannweilerMay 15, 2025 High Court Weighs Nationwide Injunctions Rep. Jasmine Crockett is prepar...