President Biden Is Set To Endorse Major Changes To Supreme Court, Including Term Limits For Justices
Biden, who is the former chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is also reportedly mulling over a constitutional amendment to eliminate broad immunity for presidents and other constitutional officeholders, which is obviously a response to the Supreme Court's recent ruling that Donald Trump has “presumptive immunity” for acts he performed while he was the sitting president,.
Ocasio-Cortez accused both justices of demonstrating a "yearslong pattern of misconduct and failure to recuse in cases bearing their clear personal and financial involvement," which she said, "represents an abuse of power and threat to our democracy, fundamentally incompatible with continued service on our nation’s highest court."
Clarence Thomas went out of his way to dissent in an 8-1 Supreme Court decision upholding a law banning domestic abusers under restraining orders from legally having guns.
Clarence Thomas wrote the Supreme Court majority opinion in a case that unregulated bump stocks, a gun device used in the Las Vegas mass shooting that makes a semiautomatic rifle fully automatic.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday (June 29) that affirmative action in college admissions is unconstitutional. As reported by WRAL, the decision came in two lawsuits challenging the admissions process at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University. UNC considered prospective students’ race and socioeconomic status among its factors into admitting […]
Mary Elizabeth Taylor has gotten a place of national prominence after being seated behind SCOTUS hopeful and Trump nominee Neil Gorsuch during his televised confirmation hearings with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas says government institutions are broken. He included the high court in his assessment.
The decision in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt means a lower court's decision to uphold the law has been reversed.
The Court failed to reach a decision on United States v. Texas, No. 15-674, likely due to the empty Supreme Court seat.
The decision was made Monday after Sue Evenwel and Edward Pfenninger argued that only eligible voters should be counted, which can harm large urban communities consisting of non-voters and children, but benefit large districts with conservative and rural voters.
Most Democrats (80 percent) back Garland, while 45 percent of the overall public have a positive outlook about his nomination.
Sri Srinivasan, Merrick Garland and Paul Watford -- who, if confirmed, would be the nation's third Black justice after Clarence Thomas and Thurgood Marshall -- were named by the source as the potential nominees, confirming the nation could know as early as Monday who the president chooses.
