A wave of pro-abortion activism has questioned the safety of conservative Supreme Court justices following the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s drafted decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Protests planned outside the residences of these justices over Mother’s Day weekend led the Senate to vote in a hurry on Monday in favor of the Supreme …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sunday marks six months until November’s midterm elections, when Democrats will defend their wafer-thin majorities in the House of Representatives and Senate. And over the past week, Democratic politicians who have been running in droves in this year’s elections have been shining a light on their efforts …

By JESSICA GRESKO WASHINGTON (AP) — John Roberts leads a Supreme Court in crisis. The Chief Justice has already ordered an investigation into the leak this week of a draft opinion suggesting the court may be on the verge of overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case legalizing abortion nationwide. What comes next could further …

WASHINGTON — In May 1987, Attorney General Edwin Meese III traveled to St. Louis and spoke to a group of clergy opposed to abortion. Denouncing Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling on abortion rights, he told them he saw reason to hope that “in our lifetime” he would be thrown on “the ash …

Change may be politically expedient, but it will have serious costs. Conservatives have already learned that free markets are an engine that produces widespread prosperity – and that government interference is too often a key to the works. Picking winners and losers, and otherwise substituting the preferences of legislators and bureaucrats for the logic of …

Placeholder while loading article actions “Something has gone terribly wrong,” US Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar told the Supreme Court this week. “That’s not how our constitutional structure is supposed to work.” Prelogar opposed a federal judge’s order requiring the Biden administration to reinstate its predecessor’s “Stay in Mexico” policy. In the annals of judicial …

(NewsNation) – The clock is ticking, waiting for justice. A Green Beret master sergeant spent the day at the Pentagon pushing for answers he’s been waiting for years and running out of time to get. Purple Heart recipient Richard Stayskal helped revise a rule preventing active duty members from suing the government for medical malpractice …

This possibility was exposed in Monday’s argument in Kennedy v. Bremerton. In this case, a Washington State public high school football coach lost his job after leading public prayers on the 50-yard line after games. At issue in the case is whether the coach’s prayers amounted to an authorized exercise of the coach’s rights to …

SEATTLE (AP) — The clock ran out as the rematch ended, and spectators stormed the football field, knocking down members of the high school orchestra — all to gather around a assistant coach as he knelt in prayer, surrounded by player uniforms. Six years later, after losing his coaching job and losing several times in …

Gorsuch was previously a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, based in Denver. The Republican-appointed justice sided with the liberals in maintaining LGBTQ worker protections in 2020. Gorsuch replaced the late Associate Justice Antonin Scalia at the High Court. Associated President Donald Trump’s nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch to …

Tory justices have spoken out against Covid-19 measures since the start of the pandemic, including in January when the majority struck down a vaccine requirement for big business and last summer when it overturned a moratorium on evictions. No High Court rulings have involved a federal mask requirement, as Monday’s case did, but they echoed …

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Conservative groups plan to invest record sums this year to shape under-the-radar races in the state Supreme Court, after Republicans suffered setbacks in redistricting court battles in several key states. Among the top targets: Ohio and North Carolina, where several Supreme Court seats are on the ballot and justices have thrown …

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court gave the green light to pro-business, anti-environment Trump-era regulations. That this conservative Supreme Court ruled in this way is normal. But what was somewhat unusual about the ruling was that the court used what is known as its “shadow case” to do so. This secret, irregular and unreasoned decision …

The confirmation process for Supreme Court nominees is broken, as is, I fear, the Supreme Court itself. These mutually reinforcing developments were both highlighted this week. Not so long ago, confirming a Supreme Court nominee was not a predictable party-line affair, with a handful or fewer defectors. In 2005, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. …

The Senate is expected to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first black woman to serve on the Supreme Court on Thursday, ending a historic nomination process riddled with acrimony even for a justice who will not alter the court’s current conservative tilt. Jackson, who looks set to receive bipartisan support, will also be the …

The United States Supreme Court building is seen at dusk in Washington on October 22, 2021. J. Scott Applewhite/AP The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday eased the prosecution of police and prosecutors for malicious prosecution. But the decision still leaves in place other obstacles to such prosecutions. At the center of the decision is a …

Sotomayor is one of three liberal judges on the court. Sotomayor is the first Latina and woman of color on the court She replaced Associate Justice David Souter on the court Associated justice Sonia Sotomayor made history in 2009 by becoming the first Latina to sit on the Supreme Court. As President Barack Obama’s top …

WASHINGTON — By historical standards, the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson should have been a layup: a liberal Supreme Court pick who is unquestionably qualified, recently endorsed by the Senate to serve on a powerful circuit court and appointed under a all-Democratic government to replace an aging Liberal after a long-awaited retirement. Yet the process …

Even for experts who follow the U.S. Supreme Court closely, there was something puzzling about an emergency decision by the justices on Wednesday. In an unexpected move, the court decided to remove new districts for the Wisconsin state legislature that had been chosen by the state Supreme Court. But what was even more surprising was …

The state of Texas’ new policy of targeting loving parents of transgender children with bogus “child abuse” investigations has shocked Americans of conscience and observers around the world. But while the policy represents an extremely damaging escalation, the assault on trans rights has been well underway in Texas and other US states for years. The …

Ginni Thomas and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas arrive for the State Dinner hosted by President Trump at the White House in honor of Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on September 20, 2019. Paul Morigi/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Paul Morigi/Getty Images Ginni Thomas and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas arrive for the State …

In a recent remark, I contrasted the pragmatic consequentialism of outgoing Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer – and, more generally, of the two other members of the Court’s liberal bloc (Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan) – with the structural formalism of the conservative supermajority of six judges of the Court. I also suggested that …