After her fourth term on the bench, Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett is asserting her voice and following in the footsteps of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a pioneer of originalism on the high court and her former boss. Barrett, appointed by President Donald Trump in October 2020 to fill the seat of...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., filed articles of impeachment against Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas on Wednesday, alleging “unchecked corruption.” Ocasio-Cortez threatened to file the articles last week, raising arguments about undisclosed gifts Thomas has received from wealthy conservatives and recent controversies involving Alito’s home and personal politics. “The unchecked corruption crisis on...
Three GOP-led states are asking the Supreme Court for emergency intervention to temporarily block the implementation of President Biden’s latest effort to provide a student loan handout to millions of borrowers. The time-sensitive appeal was sent to Justice Neil Gorsuch, who could make the decision himself or ask his colleagues to weigh in. Most likely,...
A would-be carjacker was shot Friday in Washington, D.C., when he pointed a gun at a U.S. Marshal assigned to protect the homes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices near the residence of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Two Deputy U.S. Marshals were on-duty working a protective detail on the 2100 block of 11th Street NW...
After the Supreme Court ruled presidents enjoy broad immunity in official acts, President Biden gave a speech lambasting the high court in a manner many observers considered unprecedented. On Monday, Biden declared “I dissent” during an evening address responding to the court’s 6-3 decision favoring Trump and pro-immunity arguments. “This nation was founded on the...
In what some saw as anticlimactic,theSupremeCourt last Monday declined to decide whether Texas and Florida laws regulating social media moderation policies violatetheFirst Amendment. Butthebignews fromthese consolidated cases was whatthecourtdid say. Justice Elena Kagan’s majority opinion inMoody v. NetChoice(decided withNetChoice v. Paxton), made clear thattheFirst Amendment “does not go on leave when social media are involved.”...
