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Significant Supreme Court Cases Remaining in the 2021-2022 Term
With the Supreme Court approaching the start of summer, the justices will likely decide the court’s major remaining cases by…
Justice Alito’s ‘Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day’
In three major U.S. Supreme Court decisions on Thursday, Justice Samuel Alito Jr. found himself with losing arguments and he wrote…
Battle for the Constitution: Week of May 17th, 2021 Roundup
Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution, a special project on the constitutional debates in American…
What would RBG think?
It would be difficult for at least some U.S. Supreme Court justices not to think about the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when…
Battle for the Constitution: Week of June 22nd, 2020 Roundup
Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American…
On this day, Justice Frank Murphy was sworn in
On this day, Justice Frank Murphy was sworn in by the clerk of the Court, Charles Elmore Cropley. When the ceremony finished on…
Cross-border shooting case returns to the Supreme Court
A case involving the fatal shooting of a Mexican national by a United States Border Patrol Agent is back at the Supreme Court a…
Hugo Black, unabashed partisan for the Constitution
On August 12, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated then-Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the Supreme Court.
Recalling the Supreme Court’s historic statement on contraception and privacy
It was on this day in 1965 that the Supreme Court ruled in a landmark case about contraception use by married couples that laid…
Major rulings on gay and transgender rights coming
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to settle the meaning of a 1964 civil rights law that bans discrimination in the workplace…
