Supreme Court of Canada Justice Russell Brown, seen in a file photo from Oct. 6, 2015, was one of three justices who dissented from the court's decision on March 25, 2021, that the federal government's carbon tax is Constitutional. The court voted 6-3 on the matter. Photo by Adri...
State supreme court justices are perhaps the most important and least written about group within the judicial system in this country.'Obviously much has been written about individual decisions of these justices and their courts, but far less has been written about them as aWefing, John B...
"I know we need Supreme Court justices who understand what it takes to keep communities safe, who are impartial and fair, who will use common sense, and who won't politicize the constitution to undermine our most basic rights," Crawford said. Crawford's campaign announcement also took a swi...
Some Democrats are still considering whether to run for president, some made it official and some never even entered the fray. But the 2020 parlor game is well underway. Here's the U.S. News analysis of the initial field, separated into three tiers, based on public polling data and eval...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman who called 911 to report a possible rape behind her home will be resentenced later this month on a lesser charge, after the Minnesota Supreme Court threw out his murder co
This was a failure that, the justices unanimously seem to agree, is no big deal and represents no reason to change the “voluntary” ethics guidelines they now operate under — and which are clearly not working. Which boggles the mind. This is not a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conse...
It’s possible, of course, that the justices’ individual worldviews are simply influenced by the same forces that shape broader public opinion. But history has shown that there are practical reasons for the court to avoid bucking mainstream sentiment. In the past, Congress, the president and st...
If these job qualifications are accurate - if they aren't just spin - they suggest strongly that the President will look beyond the lower federal courts for his first selection. Right now, each of the eight remaining justices served as federal appeals court judges before they were tapped for ...
But the question of where this was all leading clearly perturbed the liberal justices. They said the proper way to think of the trade-off is that religious groups can't object to behavior that other people are engaging in. "If we are not asking you to do anything except identify yourself...
Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter died at 85 04:34 CNN — Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a Republican appointee who retired from the high court in 2009 after voting consistently with its