The court acted after Oklahoma’s attorney general joined Mr. Glossip in urging it to halt the execution, which had been scheduled for May 18.
Author: Adam Liptak
Release of Justice Stevens’s Private Papers Opens Window Into Supreme Court
The justice’s files on thousands of cases, including landmark decisions on abortion and the 2000 election, were made public.
Supreme Court Wary of Windfall in Seizure of Condo for Unpaid Taxes
The justices considered the constitutionality of letting states keep all the proceeds of the sale of confiscated property even when they far exceed the taxpayer’s debt.
What Scalia’s Defense of a Free Jet Trip Says About Thomas’s Travels
In a combative 2004 memo rejecting calls for his recusal, Justice Antonin Scalia discussed whether a trip on a litigant’s plane was a gift that had to be disclosed.
In Abortion Pill Ruling, the Supreme Court Trades Ambition for Prudence
The court’s order seemed to vindicate a commitment in last year’s decision in Dobbs: to leave further questions about abortion to the political process.
Biden Administration Asks Supreme Court to Restore Broad Availability of Abortion Pill
In an emergency application, lawyers for the government asked the justices to stay all of a Texas judge’s ruling suspending a commonly used abortion medication.
Jack Daniel’s-Inspired Dog Toy Provokes Supreme Court Debate
The justices differed about whether the toy, shaped like a bottle of Jack Daniel’s, violated the distiller’s trademark rights or was protected by the First Amendment.
Video Testimony in the Covid Era Faces a Constitutional Test
Two criminal defendants have asked the Supreme Court to decide whether remote testimony against them violated the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause.
Supreme Court Hints That It May Duck Two Big Cases
Recent orders suggest that the justices are thinking of dismissing cases involving the “independent state legislature” theory and Title 42, an immigration measure imposed during the pandemic.
The Curious Rise of a Supreme Court Doctrine That Threatens Biden’s Agenda
The “major questions doctrine,” promoted by conservative commentators, is of recent vintage but has enormous power and may doom student loan relief and other programs.