The court's most influential conservative, Scalia was nominated in 1986 under President Ronald Reagan, who named him as associate justice. A lawyer by trade, Scalia entered public service in the 1970s as general counsel for President Richard Nixon and as the assistant attorney general. RELATED...
FOX 2 - The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to the longstanding decision of Roe vs. Wade. It is the court's first major attempt to reconsider abortion rights since Justice Amy Coney Barrett replaced the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died ...
His early career progression reflects what I wrote 30 years ago, that “graduates from law schools assigned to the Court as clerks are generally required to work for two years in a basic level and in an intermediate court to give them experience “at the grassroots level,” while their posit...
President Joe Biden has been blasting his likely opponent, former President Donald Trump, for appointing the Supreme Court justices who swayed the Roe v. Wade decision. Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Florida on Wednesday to decry the six-week ban passed in...
The majority opinion was written by Justice, Harry Blackmun, who had been put on the Supreme Court by President Richard Nixon. Planned Parenthood v. Casey was five to four, but all five justices in the majority, who reaffirmed Roe, had been appointed by Republican presidents, Harry Blackmun...
Several of the NPCSC delegates are former SPC Justices, including Jiang Bixin and Jing Hanchao (also deputy secretary general of the Central Political Legal Committee). Some of theircommentsincluded the following: there are many judicial reforms, with some conflicts between them so research is neede...
The assault charge was based on the wounding of a person in the living room who was hit by a bullet that came through the wall. [Footnote 2] The state appellate court held that the jury had been improperly instructed on criminal intent. It appears from the record in this case that the...
Sean Eldridge, president of Stand Up America, a progressive advocacy group, pointed to anational poll in Marchin which 64% of voters surveyed supported bills in Congress to set an 18-year limit for Supreme Court justices; 24% said they opposed the idea. ...
No president who won reelection has been denied this opportunity. In contrast, President Donald Trump was able to appoint three justices in a single term. This inconsistency is one of the reasons why President Joe Biden’s call for Supreme Court reform, which Vice President Harris supports, ...
Under the ethic regulations which guide Supreme Court justices, it is not clear that Thomas had to report any of this (Thomas says the guidance he received affirmed he did not need to report any of the gifts as his angel, Crow, had no business before the Court and the trips were “...