AvatarC6 days agoOpinion | The Supreme Court Wants to End the Separation of Church and Stateverified_publisherPOLITICO - Opinion by Kimberly WehleJustice Alito doesn’t think society is Christian enough. Recent court decisions show how he intends to remedy that. Many legal scholars in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s radical decision to reverse Roe v. Wade have focused on the dangerous implications of the court’s centuries-old worldview on …
AvatarCAug 8What happens when the Supreme Court is this unpopular?verified_publisherVox - Ian MillhiserIf Supreme Court justices were accountable to the people they govern, much of the Court would be freaking out right now. A Gallup poll taken shortly before the Court overruled Roe v. Wade found that only a quarter of US adults have either a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the Court — …
AvatarCFBI Director: White House Guided Probe into Brett Kavanaugh's Backgroundverified_publisherEsquire - Charles P. PierceThursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was enlivened by Sen.Ted Tailgunner Cruz’s putting his boots on the committee table in a dead-on Nikita Khrushchev impression, railing at FBI Director Christopher Wray about some purported training materials that Cruz felt disrespected some of his more …
AvatarCThe Supreme Court Isn’t As Conservative As Clarence Thomasverified_publisherFiveThirtyEight - Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Michael TabbJustice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion in the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade made many observers think he wanted to overturn …
AvatarCSCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts privately tried to sway other justices' opinions in a bid to save abortion rights, only to be thwarted by the unprecedented draft leak, according to a new CNN reportverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Lauren FriasSupreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts quietly tried to sway other justices to protect abortion rights, only for his efforts to be foiled by the unprecedented draft opinion leak in May, CNN reported Tuesday. Multiple sources familiar with Roberts' conversations told CNN that the chief justice …
