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WEBBy Amy Howe on July 3 at 6:19 p.m. In handing former President Donald Trump his second victory in his ongoing legal battles, ruling on July 1 that former presidents cannot face criminal liability for their official acts, the Supreme Court closed out a term in which the conservative supermajority consolidated significant decision-making power ...
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WEBJul 3, 2024 · The morning read for Monday, July 8. By Ellena Erskine on Jul 8, 2024 at 10:14 am.
Supreme Court overturns constitutional right to abortion
WEBJun 24, 2022 · The Supreme Court on Friday eliminated the constitutional right to obtain an abortion, casting aside 49 years of precedent that began with Roe v. Wade. The decision by Justice Samuel Alito will set off a seismic shift in reproductive rights across the United States. It will allow states to ban abortion, and experts expect about half the states ...
The Supreme Court and the president’s pardon power
WEBon Jan 1, 2021 at 3:38 pm. Correction appended. The Constitution gives the president the power “to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment.”. In the days before Christmas, President Donald Trump used this power to pardon or commute the sentences of over 40 people, including Paul ...
High-speed pursuit liability and other questions ... - SCOTUSblog
WEBJul 23, 2021 · Burke. 21-10. Issues: (1) Whether a court should apply the intent-to-harm standard of liability to all police high-speed driving, as have the 8th and 9th Circuits, or instead employ an analysis which examines the facts of individual cases to decide whether there was an opportunity to deliberate and apply the standard of deliberate indifference ...
Announcement of opinions for Wednesday, June 15 (complete)
WEBon Jun 15, 2022 at 12:00 am. We live blogged as the court released opinions in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana, Golan v. Saada, Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas, American Hospital Association v. Becerra, and George v. McDonough. The court dismissed Arizona v. City and County of San Francisco as improvidently granted.
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WEBMay 30, 2024 · Announcement of opinions for Thursday, June 13 (complete) By SCOTUSblog on Jun 13, 2024 at 8:45 am. LIVE.
Biographies of the Justices - SCOTUSblog
WEBChief Justice John Glover Roberts Jr. was born on January 27, 1955. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976, and Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review, in 1979. Roberts clerked for Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and for then-Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist.
In unanimous Fourth Amendment ruling, a reminder that there is, …
WEBMay 17, 2021 · Update (May 18, 8:15 p.m.): This article has been expanded with additional analysis. On Monday, the Supreme Court released its opinion in Caniglia v. Strom, which unanimously held that a lower court’s extension of Cady v. Dombrowski’s “community caretaking” exception into the home defied the logic and holding of Cady, as well as …
Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs in college ...
WEBJun 29, 2023 · In a historic decision, the Supreme Court severely limited, if not effectively ended, the use of affirmative action in college admissions on Thursday. By a vote of 6-3, the justices ruled that the admissions programs used by the University of North Carolina and Harvard College violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause, which bars ...
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