Supreme Court Majority Opinion Supreme Court Opinion Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions What are concurring opinions and dissenting opinions? A concurring opinion is an opinion of a justice of the Supreme Court that shares in the judgment of the court, though for different legal reasons than...
at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court. The opinion released Tuesday in a dispute between states over unclaimed money is one of roughly a half
"Agenda Control, the Median Justice, and the Majority Opinion on the Supreme Court," 51 American Journal of Political Science 890-905.Bonneau, Chris, Thomas.H. Hammond, Forrest Maltzman, and PaulJ. Wahlbeck. 2007 . “Agenda Control, the Median Justice, and the Majority Opinion on the U....
While the court-packing debate has largely been about a majority conservative Supreme Court, the political spectrum could easily be flipped, with conservatives fearing the loss of their ideals. The makeup of the Supreme Court should not reflect partisan politics, but should, instead, reflect the ...
"There's no remedy, the American people have no remedy for that," said Alito, who authored the Supreme Court's majority opinion overturning Roe and appeared the most sympathetic to the doctors' theories. Justice Brett Kavanaugh sought to confirm that under federal law, doctors cannot be forced...
In the Supreme Court’s majority opinion authored by Justice Kagan (the decision was unanimous, but with two concurrences), the Court first addresses the question, “Should [Jack Daniel’s] have had to satisfy theRogersthreshold test before the case could proceed to the Lanham Act’s [the ...
"Although we agree that Colorado cannot enforce Section 3, we protest the majority's effort to use this case to define the limits of federal enforcement of that provision," they continued. Barrett, Trump's last appointee to the high court, wrote in a concurring opinion that in her judgment...
“Today, the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President,” the three justices wrote in a joint opinion. It’s unclear whether the ruling leaves open the possibility that Congress could refuse t...
This blogpost will explain why the conference summary was issued, its legal and policy basis, and why it addressed those particular issues and will leave the majority of the content of the conference summary for the experts in practice and academia. ...
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.