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Supreme Court cautious during arguments on internet liability law - Roll Call

The Supreme Court appeared reluctant Tuesday to get ahead of Congress on a 1996 law on immunity for internet companies.

Roll Call · Feb 21, 2023

The Supreme Court at the 2023 State of the Union

President Biden goes off script on abortion.

Reason · Feb 8, 2023

Editorial: A North Carolina case imperils the US electoral process. The Supreme Court can’t let that happen

Perhaps the first time you heard the phrase “checks and balances” was in middle school civics class. Not surprising, since it’s a cornerstone of American democracy. The executive, legislative and judicial branches of government act as counterweights to each other, so that no single branch dominates.

Chicago Tribune · Jan 31, 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 Tribune · Jan 3, 2023

Five ways the US Supreme Court reshaped policy in 2022

The court’s new conservative majority issued rulings over the past year on abortion, gun rights, religion and more.

Al Jazeera · Dec 30, 2022

Should Justices Sotomayor and Kagan Retire?

A progressive makes the case the two justices should step down within the next two years so that President Biden may appoint their successors with a Democratic Senate.

Reason · Dec 21, 2022

Supreme Court upholds California ban on sale of flavored tobacco products

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a last-minute plea from the tobacco industry and cleared the way for California to enforce a statewide ban on the sale of most flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 12, 2022

Alito "jokes" of Black kids in KKK hoods

Alito later joked about Ashley Madison, a dating site that helps people have affairs

Salon · Dec 6, 2022

Noah Feldman: The Supreme Court’s other conservative revolution

The conservative revolution at the U.S. Supreme Court has two prongs. One grabs headlines as the justices overturn long-established precedent on big-ticket issues like abortion, affirmative action and voting rights. The second is a less-noticed yet enormously ambitious transformation of the judiciary’s job. Put simply, the justices are placing themselves…

Tribune News Service · Dec 6, 2022

Justice Samuel Alito under fire for KKK joke during Supreme Court oral arguments: ‘You can’t make this up’

Observers called his comments ‘really upsetting’

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022