WASHINGTON (AP) — The lack of transparency at the Supreme Court begins with the heavy red drapes that frame the courtroom on all sides. The court replaced the drapes this summer, but would not reveal the name of the company that did the work. The Supreme Court’s role in a …
President Donald Trump’s lawyers took the fight over access to his tax returns to the Supreme Court on Thursday in a last-ditch bid to keep his financial records secret while simultaneously fighting Democrats over impeachment. It’s the president’s first tax-related petition to the Supreme Court in a case that revolves around a decision …
A narrow ruling would avoid the presidential immunity question but still compel Trump’s accountant to obey a subpoena. Fighting to keep his tax returns secret, President Donald Trump will soon ask the U.S. Supreme Court to grant him “temporary absolute immunity” from any criminal investigation while he’s in office. The …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s appointee Brett Kavanaugh consistently delivered during his first term as a justice for conservatives who had hoped he would move the U.S. Supreme Court further to the right while still managing to keep a low profile following his acrimonious Senate confirmation process. FILE PHOTO: …
The Supreme Court on Friday set aside two lower court rulings tossing out congressional maps in Michigan and Ohio, putting the process of redrawing district lines on hold while it prepares to rule on whether or not partisan gerrymandering is constitutional. Republicans in both Midwestern states had appealed lower-court rulings …
The Supreme Court is already considering the question of whether partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional and will rule later this year. Federal judges threw out Michigan’s congressional and state legislative maps on Thursday, calling them unconstitutional partisan gerrymanders — but the outcome of cases already pending at the Supreme Court will …
A Louisiana law restricting access is put on hold, but its future is far from certain. By a 5-4 vote Thursday night, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a Louisiana law that would have made abortion all but impossible in the state — at least until the court can hear the merits of …
Elizabeth Warren’s idea is probably constitutional, but it’s not an easy call. If I were on the U.S. Supreme Court, I would probably vote to find Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax constitutional. But given the current composition of the court, that might well put me in the minority. Warren, …
Justice Thomas seems impatient with Kavanaugh for refusing to hear a Planned Parenthood case. Justice Clarence Thomas has a message for Justice Brett Kavanaugh: Let’s roll. Kavanaugh, however, isn’t yet taking up the invitation. The newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court may eventually join a conservative majority of five to …
As the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court steps back from public life, it’s easy to see how much she’s already missed. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, rebranded late in her career as the Notorious RBG, has recently been getting all the love due to a pioneering woman Supreme …
The justices welcome Kavanaugh with rituals totally unlike his raucous confirmation. What was remarkable about Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s first day of public work at the U.S. Supreme Court was … that there was nothing remarkable about it. To see Justice Elena Kagan joking with him before Tuesday’s oral argument and to hear …
Liberals won’t forget this ugly confirmation fight. Now that it is certain that Judge Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court by the Senate, we can ask: What, if anything, will the bruising battle over his confirmation mean for his jurisprudence? There’s no objective answer to that question. It …