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The chief justice defends court's impartiality after decisions on abortion, presidential immunity and voting rights US chief justice John Roberts has insisted supreme court judges are not "political actors" amid outrage over its recent decision undermining the Voting Right Act , and other moves that have benefited Donald Trump and his allies. "I think, at a very basic level, people think we're making policy decisions, we're saying we think this is how things should be, as...
Nation Review - 19 hours 18 min agoTwo years ago, the Supreme Court, in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, ruled that the Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority. In rejecting so-called Chevron deference, the Court seemed to promise a new era of bureaucratic accountability. But that promise will prove to be a false one if agencies can resort to hijinks to avoid judicial review altogether.
Thomas' seniority means he can decide who writes an opinion if he's part of a majority that doesn't include Chief Justice John Roberts...
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that the nation's highest court doesn't feature "purely political actors," comments that come after a notable decision affecting the Voting Rights Act. "I think, at a very basic level, people think we're making policy decisions, we're saying we think this is how things should be, as opposed...
Mother Jones - 20 hours 13 min agoJust a week after the Supreme Court effectively destroyed the key remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act, Tennessee on Thursday is set to become the first Southern state to pass a new redistricting map eliminating a majority-Black district. The hastily drawn map abolishes the state's last Democratic district by splitting the city of Memphis, […]...
Republicans in the South Carolina state House voted on Wednesday to extend their legislative calendar, leaving the door open to drawing new congressional lines after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling rattled the redistricting arms race. The extension must also pass the state Senate. If it does, it could put the Palmetto State on a path...
Mother Jones - 20 hours 29 min agoNothing is new and history repeats. When the Supreme Court delivered a death blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act last month, endangering the project of multiracial democracy that flowed from the Second Reconstruction of the 1960s, it did so by using many of the same logical and illogical devices the high court deployed to help end […]...
Slate - 20 hours 33 min agoThis season investigates the most consequential vote on the most powerful Supreme Court in modern history.
Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch says his new children's book aims to combat declining civic literacy among young people across the United States.
Like much of his generation, the first Baby Boomer put on the Supreme Court has refused to let go of power.
"I think, at a very basic level, people think we're making policy decisions, we're saying we think this is how things should be."...
ABC News - 21 hours 24 min agoSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest-serving justice in history, overtaking someone who was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln...
Mother Jones - 21 hours 28 min agoMedication abortion is back at the US Supreme Court which is exactly where abortion opponents want it. Last week, in a late Friday afternoon move guaranteed to stoke maximum confusion and panic, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a Food and Drug Administration rule allowing telemedicine prescription of mifepristone, one of two drugs that make […]...
Chief Justice John Roberts says people fundamentally misunderstand the Supreme Court's role, insisting justices interpret law rather than make policy.
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