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The double-edge sword of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority

by Marcia Coyle

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday began a new and potentially controversial term under the shadow of justices’ concerns about the…

The double-edge sword of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority
Fascinating facts about Supreme Court justices

by Olivia Gross and Alexandra “Mac” Taylor

The Supreme Court is an institution long revered for its integrity, legal prowess, and robust constitutional scholarship and…

Fascinating facts about Supreme Court justices
How the Supreme Court created agency deference

by Nicholas Mosvick

On this day in 1984, the Supreme Court decided Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council, which created the doctrine that…

How the Supreme Court created agency deference
Battle for the Constitution: Week of June 14th, 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 American…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of June 14th, 2021 Roundup
On this day: Supreme Court rejects race-based marriage laws

by NCC Staff

On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court issued its Loving v. Virginia decision, which struck down laws that banned marriages between…

On this day: Supreme Court rejects race-based marriage laws
Battle for the Constitution: Week of April 26th, 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 American…

 Battle for the Constitution: Week of April 26th, 2021 Roundup
In the U.S. Supreme Court, one more fight to change a losing battle

by Marcia Coyle

Some issues return in cases to the U.S. Supreme Court year after year in hopes that the timing is right for review by the…

In the U.S. Supreme Court, one more fight to change a losing battle
The 11th Amendment: Correcting the Supreme Court in action

by NCC Staff

The Constitution’s first amendment after the Bill of Rights represented the first use of congressional power to contradict a…

The 11th Amendment: Correcting the Supreme Court in action
What Will Justice Breyer Do?

by Marcia Coyle

By the end of the current U.S. Supreme Court term or shortly afterward, a justice will retire, predict some court scholars and…

What Will Justice Breyer Do?
Why Texas’s election suit failed to reach first base in the Supreme Court

by Marcia Coyle

The Constitution gives the U.S. Supreme Court a special type of jurisdiction over cases “in which a State shall be Party.” So…

Why Texas’s election suit failed to reach first base in the Supreme Court
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