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Samuel Alito
supreme court
July 10, 2024
AOC Is Trying to Impeach Justices Thomas and Alito Both the Supreme Court justices have been mired by ethics scandals in the past year.
freak flag fly
June 11, 2024
Martha-Ann Alito Is a Real Flag Freak Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito’s wife was caught on tape plotting to fly an anti-Pride flag that reads “shame” in Italian, among other wacky ideas.
early and often
June 3, 2024
Trump Demands That Supreme Court Rescue Him From Conviction The 45th president’s imperial attitude toward his appointees is not a good look for the allegedly apolitical Court.
Alito: Seriously, This Is All My Wife’s Fault The Supreme Court justice says he won’t recuse himself over Martha-Ann Alito’s sincere love of flags.
christian nationalism
May 23, 2024
The Christian Nationalist Danger Behind the ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Justice Samuel Alito appears fond of insurrectionist symbols, and he isn’t alone.
the national interest
May 22, 2024
Alito Ethics Defense Blown Up by Second Insurrectionist Flag The previous defense was narrowly tailored to facts that are now moot.
the supreme court
May 20, 2024
The Supreme Court’s Problems Are Bigger Than Alito Partisans with lifetime appointments are dangerous.
the national interest
May 20, 2024
Alito’s Flag Excuse Is a License for Partisan Grandstanding Explaining away the issue by blaming his wife creates a loophole so big you could drive a pro-Trump billboard through it.
supreme court
May 17, 2024
Alito Home’s Flag Is Symbol of New Partisan Era at Supreme Court It’s increasingly clear this is the Alito-Thomas Court, not the Roberts Court.
The Supreme Court Sandra Day O’Connor Left Behind Is Dead, Too Her successors abandoned the principles of pragmatism and compromise she represented.
supreme court
Aug. 31, 2023
Clarence Thomas Formally Acknowledges His Lavish Lifestyle The justice’s new financial-disclosure form cops to some of the fancy trips conservative donors have funded for him.
life after roe
Apr. 25, 2023
What the Abortion-Pill Decision Reveals About the Shadow Docket The author of a new book on the Supreme Court’s backdoor-lawmaking system breaks down what it is and why Samuel Alito is so mad at its critics.
life after roe
Jan. 20, 2023
What the Supreme Court Left Out of Its Dobbs -Leak Report The investigation failed to identify the leaker of the draft opinion — and the justices got light treatment.
Samuel Alito’s Right to Privacy The justice’s wealthy neighborhood, now a site of protests, was built to keep people out.
life after roe
May 11, 2022
Supreme-Court Sources Can’t Stop Leaking About Abortion Case Conservative leakers want us to know that the Alito draft is the only draft. Also, they’re concerned that all this leaking is hurting the Court.
u.s. supreme court
Oct. 5, 2021
Supreme Court Could Go Totally Extremist This Term In at least three areas – abortion, guns, and federal regulatory powers – the Court could take a big and consequential leap to the right.
u.s. supreme court
July 2, 2021
Supreme Court Won’t Expand Right to Discriminate Against Same-Sex Couples It’s a setback for those hoping for an expanded zone of safety for religious-based objections to serving LGBTQ customers, but just for now.
u.s. supreme court
July 1, 2021
Supreme Court Smiles on Voter Suppression and Big Donors After showing caution all term, the conservative majority closed by eroding the Voting Rights Act and threatening campaign-finance-reform efforts.
transgender rights
June 28, 2021
Transgender Student Wins Bathroom-Access Case As Supreme Court Denies Appeal Seven of nine justices affirmed the decision by a lower court that transgender bathroom restrictions violated civil-rights laws and the Constitution.
supreme court
June 17, 2021
Supreme Court Keeps Its Powder Dry on Religious Liberty The ruling in favor of a Catholic foster-care agency was a setback for LGBTQ equality, but conservative justices could have gone much further.
u.s. supreme court
May 17, 2021
Is Roe v. Wade Now Doomed? We’ve been here before, when the Supreme Court surprised everyone in 1992 by upholding the right to choose. But this new challenge doesn’t look good.
Supreme Court Accepts Case That Could Overturn State Gun Laws A New York concealed-carry licensing regulation that requires demonstration of a distinctive need for self-defense outside the home could soon fall.
Why Is the Supreme Court Hesitating on Abortion? With a solidly conservative bloc on the bench, a decision on whether to hear a big case is all the more mysterious.
Can Biden and Democrats Protect Abortion Rights From Trump’s Judges? The worst was averted when Trump lost and Democrats won control of the Senate. But an anti-abortion majority on the Supreme Court could strike soon.
vision 2020
Dec. 11, 2020
Supreme Court Drop-Kicks Texas Lawsuit to Overturn the Election for Trump A legal effort to keep Trump in power attracted huge Republican support. But the president’s favorite justices wouldn’t even hear it.
contested election
Dec. 7, 2020
Tuesday’s ‘Safe Harbor’ Deadline Should End Trump’s Failed Coup Nearly every state has certified its results and electors, which — after December 8 — should cut off further challenges.
Trump’s Only Credible Legal Strategy Won’t Be Enough It’s possible the Supreme Court will accept Republican efforts to disallow late mail ballots in Pennsylvania. But there aren’t enough votes to matter.
What Donald Trump Wants the Supreme Court to Do to Help Him Win Trump may ask the Supreme Court’s conservative majority to kill ballots postmarked by Election Day but received later.
supreme court
Sept. 21, 2020
How a New Conservative Justice Could Affect the Supreme Court A conservative Court would move to the right even more than arithmetic suggests on key issues like abortion as Roberts abandons his balancing role.
supreme court
July 17, 2020
RBG Health Scare a Reminder of Republican Plans to Ram Through Nominee This Year Flipping a liberal Supreme Court seat could happen as late as a post-election lame-duck session of the Senate.
vision 2020
July 13, 2020
Can Trump Make the Supreme Court a Campaign Issue Again? Trump-appointed justices didn’t give conservatives everything they hoped for. That only raises the stakes in November.
supreme court
July 8, 2020
Supreme Court Allows Trump Restrictions on Obamacare Contraception Coverage Up to 126,000 women could lose no-cost contraception coverage. The Court also expanded the “ministerial exception” to employee protections.
supreme court
July 1, 2020
Trump Wants Another Supreme Court Nomination Fight Before November Trump thinks a confirmation battle could excite his base, but it would work both ways, particularly among Democrats who remember Merrick Garland.
supreme court
June 30, 2020
Roberts Rejoins Supreme Court Conservatives to Boost Religious Schools It was a relatively narrow decision but it showed where a future Supreme Court committed to expanding religious privileges might go.
supreme court
June 29, 2020
Supreme Court Rejects Louisiana Abortion Restrictions In the end, Chief Justice Roberts couldn’t go along with a quick reversal of a recent precedent.
lgbtq rights
June 15, 2020
Supreme Court: LGBTQ Workers Protected by Anti-Discrimination Laws The 6-3 decision is a big win for equality, and a big loss for the Trump administration and the Christian right.
supreme court
June 26, 2019
Gorsuch Gives SCOTUS Liberals a Win in Two Criminal-Law Cases His application of Scalia’s strict principles of statutory interpretation, and perhaps a libertarian streak, distinguish Gorsuch from Kavanaugh.
church-state separation
June 20, 2019
SCOTUS Splits on Church-State Separation in Peace Cross Case While in the minority in the “Peace Cross” decision, Ruth Bader Ginsburg offered an eloquent testimonial for the “wall of separation.”
presidential pardons
June 17, 2019
Supreme Court Won’t Stop States From Prosecuting Federal Defendants By leaving an exception to double-jeopardy rules in place, the Court did not make it easier for Trump to keep people out of jail via pardons.
Supreme Court Topples Precedent to Hobble Public Unions In a major blow to labor, public-sector unions will have to represent nonmembers without compensation.
The Supreme Court Continues to Chip Away at Protections for Minority Voters The conservative majority seems very comfortable being aggressive on this issue, as its decision on racial gerrymandering shows.
The Supreme Court Just Put a Ding in the Surveillance State Chief Justice Roberts broke from his fellow conservatives to make cell-phone location data less accessible to cops.
Supreme Court Opens Door to More Red-State Voter Purges In a 5-4 decision, SCOTUS finds a rationale for policing voting rolls in ways that disproportionately affect minorities.
Trump Is the Most Substantively Anti-Abortion President Ever Other Republican presidents have talked a good game against abortion. But Trump has delivered.
Clarence Thomas Angry That SCOTUS Doesn’t Love Guns Thomas can’t seem to get three other conservative justices to get aggressive in defending gun rights. So he’s drawing attention to the problem.
the supremes
June 19, 2017
The First Amendment Won Big at the Supreme Court Today The court handed down rulings that could make the Washington Redskins and anyone blocked on Twitter by Donald Trump very happy.
fashion gets serious
Feb. 25, 2015
united we sit
Jan. 25, 2011
Justice Samuel Alito Will Be in Hawaii Tonight As far away from the State of the Union as he can get.
the supremes
Feb. 17, 2010
America Shakes Its Head at Samuel Alito Everyone hates his recent campaign-finance opinion.
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