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The Supreme Court’s Self-Inflicted Harms

by Marcia Coyle

The recent, leaked draft abortion opinion undoubtedly brings internal harm to the U.S. Supreme Court and external harm to its…

The Supreme Court’s Self-Inflicted Harms
Significant Supreme Court Cases Remaining in the 2021-2022 Term

by Scott Bomboy

With the Supreme Court approaching the start of summer, the justices will likely decide the court’s major remaining cases by…

Significant Supreme Court Cases Remaining in the 2021-2022 Term
The U.S. Supreme Court Cases Built on a “Rotten Foundation”

by Marcia Coyle

The U.S. Supreme Court has a number of old decisions that the justices no longer apply because time and the nation’s…

The U.S. Supreme Court Cases Built on a “Rotten Foundation”
On this day, the Missouri Compromise is approved

by NCC Staff

On March 3, 1820, Congress approved the Missouri compromise, a law that maintained a balance in the Senate between free and slave…

On this day, the Missouri Compromise is approved
On this day, the Supreme Court upholds limits on women and factory work hours

by Nicholas Mosvick

On February 24, 1908, the Supreme Court decided Muller v. Oregon, unanimously upholding an Oregon law setting a 10-hour limit on…

On this day, the Supreme Court upholds limits on women and factory work hours
On the day, Justice Noah Swayne confirmed by the Senate

by Nicholas Mosvick

On this day in 1862, Noah Swayne was confirmed by the Senate to replace Justice John McLean, one of two dissenters in the Dred…

On the day, Justice Noah Swayne confirmed by the Senate
Remembering the Supreme Court’s first dissenter

by Scott Bomboy

On December 27, 1771, future Supreme Court Justice William Johnson, Jr., was born in South Carolina. Johnson has attracted a…

Remembering the Supreme Court’s first dissenter
Battle for the Constitution: Week of December 6th, 2021 Roundup

by NCC Staff

Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of December 6th, 2021 Roundup
Channeling Justice Ginsburg in the Mississippi Abortion Fight

by Marcia Coyle

More than 130 friend-of-the-court briefs have been filed by anti-abortion and abortion rights groups in the Mississippi abortion…

Channeling Justice Ginsburg in the Mississippi Abortion Fight
Battle for the Constitution: Week of November 1st, 2021 Roundup

by NCC Staff

Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of November 1st, 2021 Roundup
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