The Supreme Court’s Religious Wing Takes on Covid-19 Restrictions
I know I should be jaded by now by the persistence of the Supreme Court’s conservative justices in seeking to elevate religious interests over those...
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Split 5 to 4, Supreme Court Rejects Nevada Church’s Challenge to Shutdown Restrictions
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request from a church in Nevada to block enforcement of state restrictions on attendance at religious services. The...
A More Liberal Supreme Court? Not When It Comes to Voting Rights
For the fourth time since April, the Supreme Court this week made it harder for Americans to vote. The ruling, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in...
Why Trump’s Attacks on John Roberts Aren’t Working With Some Conservatives
LA PORTE, Ind. — Mitch Feikes is one of many conservatives who disagreed with some of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s recent decisions, including...
John Roberts’s Triumphant Supreme Court Term
For once, the conventional wisdom was right: The Supreme Court term that ended last week was a triumph for Chief Justice John Roberts. But, as...
In a Term Full of Major Cases, the Supreme Court Tacked to the Center
It was also the term in which Chief Justice Roberts emerged as the member of the court at its ideological center, his vote the crucial...
How a Conservative Supreme Court and Trump’s Appointees Declared Their Independence
WASHINGTON — At his campaign rally last month in Tulsa, Okla., President Trump ranked his Supreme Court appointments among his biggest achievements. “Two great Supreme...
A Conservative Court and Trump’s Own Appointees Declare Their Independence
WASHINGTON — At his campaign rally last month in Tulsa, Okla., President Trump ranked his Supreme Court appointments among the biggest achievements of his tenure....
Conservatives, Don’t Give Up on Your Principles or the Supreme Court
For decades, originalists — many of them conservatives — have argued that courts should interpret the Constitution and other law in keeping with its original...
In the Supreme Court’s Trump Tax Ruling, Voters Lose
In two major cases on Thursday, the Supreme Court rejected President Trump’s attempt to avoid all legal scrutiny of his financial records and reaffirmed the...