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Scalia’s legacy lives on in Supreme Court’s abortion, gun cases

WASHINGTON — The seeds of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings on guns and abortion lie in the legal theories of a justice who died six years ago.

Tribune News Service · Aug 7, 2022

Bloodied but unbowed: liberal justices wield dissents as weapon of resistance

The three justices may be in the minority, but their opinions are sounding an alarm that equal rights are under threat by the new rightwing supermajority of the supreme court

The Guardian - US · Aug 2, 2022

Supreme Court move allows Jackson to take part in race case

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2022

What is originalism? Did it underpin the Supreme Court's ruling on abortion and guns? Debunking the myths

Recent Supreme Court decisions overturning Roe v. Wade and expanding gun rights in the U.S. have led some legal experts to declare the “triumph of originalism.”

The Conversation · Jul 8, 2022

Jay Ambrose: Supreme Court strengthens democratic republic

“Ruling on Final Day of Court’s Term Solidifies a Lurch to the Right,” says a New York Times front-page headline assuming editorializing is equivalent to news reporting. The truth is that the court has been solidifying a return to a democratic republic. We’re talking about the Supreme Court, of course,…

Tribune News Service · Jul 6, 2022

Liam Denning: The Supreme Court prefers climate policy to be expensive

If it feels as if the Supreme Court is hellbent on dividing us further, last week's ruling on the Environmental Protection Agency’s powers raised that feeling to whole new level.

Tribune News Service · Jul 2, 2022

SCOTUS applies major questions doctrine to limit agency authority

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2022, invoked the major questions doctrine in a decision that limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could limit the efforts of other federal agencies to engage in…

Ballotpedia · Jul 1, 2022

With SCOTUS EPA Decision, Texas Coal Plants Live to Cook the Climate Another Day

Regardless of the federal ruling, local efforts to shut down the most polluting power plants and switch on clean energy continue.

Texas Observer · Jul 1, 2022

Justice Kagan Throws Down the Gauntlet: We Are Not "All Textualists Now"

In her forceful West Virginia v. EPA dissent, Justice Kagan challenges the majority's commitment to textualism.

Reason · Jul 1, 2022

Editorial: The Supreme Court just made it harder to save the planet

At a moment when the world should be racing to prevent the worst effects of global warming, the Supreme Court just made it harder for the U.S. to cut carbon emissions from power plants quickly and cost-effectively.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 1, 2022