Supreme Court ruling will force changes to ‘waters of US’ rule - Roll Call The Biden administration will be required to redefine federal authority to protect wetlands under the Clean Water Act. Roll Call · May 25, 2023
Thank Clarence Thomas for gun madness His Bruen gun rights decision is killing Americans every day Salon · May 13, 2023
Justice Scalia's Unpublished Dissent in Kelo v. City of New London Its existence was revealed when Justice John Paul Stevens' papers were made public earlier this week. Reason · May 5, 2023
What I Learned From Justice Stevens' Papers on Kelo v. City of New London There are several interesting revelations, including an unpublished dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia. Reason · May 5, 2023
These Senators Want the Federal Government To Verify Your Age Online Requiring users to verify their age to use social media will degrade their privacy and cybersecurity. Reason · May 4, 2023
Scalia Speaks about Clinton v. Jones in the JPS Papers Justice Stevens rejected most Justice Scalia's revisions. Reason · May 3, 2023
The First Scalia Oral Argument Since 1976? Will Eugene Scalia argue Murray v. UBS, after his father Antonin last argued in 1976? Reason · May 1, 2023
Justice Alito Defends The Supreme Court In Ways Chief Justice Roberts Cannot If Justice Thomas is the intellectual leader of the Supreme Court, Justice Alito is its heart. Reason · Apr 28, 2023
Just say it: Second Amendment must go Sooner or later, change will come: Younger Americans won't tolerate this constitutional delusion much longer Salon · Apr 23, 2023
Illinois should ban cruel practice of declawing cats Declawing is inhumane, a veterinarian writes, and already banned or considered unethical in most of the world. Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 15, 2023
Federal Court Halts Biden Administration's Clean Water Overreach Hopefully the Supreme Court will soon put a permanent stop to the EPA's Clean Water Act land grab. Reason · Apr 13, 2023
Federal courts tweak ethics rule for travel, meals and more WASHINGTON — Federal courts have implemented a rare tweak to their ethics rules for Supreme Court justices and federal judges following bipartisan congressional pressure. Tribune News Service · Mar 29, 2023
Federal courts tweak ethics rule for travel, meals and more - Roll Call Federal courts revised ethics rules for Supreme Court justices and federal judges after bipartisan congressional pressure. Roll Call · Mar 29, 2023
Federal Agencies Keep Failing To Legally Interpret the Clean Water Act The Biden administration is the third administration in a row to fail to issue Clean Water Act regulations that pass judicial scrutiny. Reason · Mar 28, 2023
The Guardian - US · Mar 23, 2023 Republican Ted Cruz introduces bill to block US supreme court expansion Texas senator claims court dominated 6-3 by conservatives after ruthless GOP power plays must remain ‘independent’
WEKU · Feb 20, 2023 The 'wackadoodle' foundation of Fox News' election-fraud claims A woman who put forth election-fraud claims that even she described as "pretty wackadoodle" was a source for baseless claims aired by Fox News in 2020. The network is now being sued for defamation.
Reason · Jan 10, 2023 The Supreme Court Case That Could Upend the Clean Water Act If SCOTUS finds in favor of a small-town Idaho couple in Sackett v. EPA, it could end the federal government's jurisdiction over millions of acres of land.
Reason · Jan 7, 2023 Don't Underestimate Clarence Thomas Justice Thomas' footprints are all over the Court's recently concluded term.
Chicago Tribune · Jan 3, 2023 Commentary: Antonin Scalia and the uncertain future of legal conservatism During her 2010 Senate confirmation hearings, centrist-liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan famously allowed that “we are all originalists.” In a 2015 interview at Harvard Law School honoring her then-colleague Justice Antonin Scalia, Kagan proclaimed that “we are all textualists now.”
Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 28, 2022 Supreme Court asked to stop judges from considering ‘acquitted conduct’ during sentencing Judges sometimes add prison time for crimes defendants were accused of — even if juries found them innocent. And the Supreme Court has turned down numerous appeals asking it to declare that the Constitution forbids it.
Reason · Dec 15, 2022 Ketanji Brown Jackson and the Future of Progressive Originalism The liberal justice seems ready to fight legal conservatives on their own ground.
Tribune News Service · Dec 13, 2022 Commentary: Guns and logic Ignoring the nation’s epidemic of mass shootings, in June 2022, by a 6-3 margin along ideological lines, the Supreme Court struck down a New York law that required anyone seeking a license to carry a concealed handgun outside the home to demonstrate a specific justification for the permit. Under the…
Salon · Nov 21, 2022 The New Right's heated family feud "Integralists" battle "national conservatives" over religion, capitalism and the far-right conquest of America
The Independent UK · Nov 11, 2022 Justices cheered at conservative group's anniversary dinner Four of the five Supreme Court justices who overturned the constitutional right to abortion showed up at the conservative Federalist Society’s black-tie dinner marking its 40th anniversary
Tribune News Service · Nov 7, 2022 If control of the House is close, Jan. 3 could be chaos WASHINGTON — Consider the following scenario: Following a contentious midterm election, the House gathers on the first day of the new Congress to organize itself. With an unpopular Democrat in the White House, the party appears to have lost its House majority. But something’s amiss.