In the coming weeks, the court was slated to issue decisions on the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act. The president and his allies feared the worst from the “Nine Old Men,” as the septuagenarian justices who sat on the court were often ...
Analyzes the youth-related views of George W. Bush, Al Gore, and the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices who were on the bench in 2000.
While the broad ground has been claimed, originalists are now engaged in an intense debate over how to apply originalism and textualism in practice. On the Supreme Court, as Alito noted in the same speech, there have been “erroneous elaborations of Justice [Antonin] Scalia’s theories” ...
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 “...
Justice Elena Kagan, one of the court's three liberal members, seemed to offer a path for the justices to reach consensus in a pair of exchanges with Murray. "Maybe put most boldly, I think that the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to b...
I analyze US Supreme Court justices from the following perspectives: 1, Judicial methodology. The method they use to reach a result, like the Constitution should be interpreted as their original pub…
Originalistson the current Supreme Court – that is, those justices who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted as it was by those crafting the original document – seemingly disagree. Justice Thomas, ina 2019 opinion, suggested the Sullivan ruling failed to take into account “the Co...
“We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us,” Trump tweeted, adding that the most important of those decisions has long been the selection of Supreme Court justices. ...
Perhaps most surprisingly, two of the court’s three liberals — Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — also seemed unwilling to let states make this call. “I think the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the Unite...
Supreme Court politics and 2020 election fears are heating up the debate over the future of the US and its founding creed