Breyer, the court’s oldest justice, has been under unprecedented pressure to retire while Democrats have narrow control of the Senate.
Author: Robert Barnes
Supreme Court takes EPA case that could narrow Clean Water Act
An Idaho couple that already won once at the high court brings the case that businesses and home builders hope will limit the EPA’s power.
Race-based university admission policies to face Supreme Court review
The court said it would examine the admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, most probably in the term that begins October.
Supreme Court will revisit dispute between Oklahoma, tribal leaders
The justices said Friday that they would consider whether to limit the court’s previous decision that expanded the Indian land in the state, a ruling that has upended criminal prosecutions there.
Supreme Court denies abortion providers’ request to return Texas case to judge who blocked state’s six-week ban
The court’s liberal justices issued fiery dissents saying it had become complicit in establishing an “unconstitutional chill on abortion care,” and calling the handling of the case “a disaster for the rule of law and a grave disservice to women in Texa…
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s request to withhold Jan. 6 materials from House committee investigating Capitol riot
Lawyers for former president Donald Trump had asked the justices to put on hold a unanimous ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which rejected his assertions of executive privilege and his request to keep secret roughly 800 page…
Sotomayor says she did not ask Gorsuch to wear a mask on the Supreme Court bench
A rare statement from the two does not address some issues but describes them as warm friends.
Supreme Court seems to think Boston erred by denying Christian group that wanted to fly flag at city hall
Officials had approved 284 requests for a ceremonial flag-raising before saying that a Christian flag would look like the city was endorsing religion.
Supreme Court to hear case of high school football coach who lost job after praying with players
The case dates to 2015, when Joseph Kennedy, an assistant football coach at Bremerton High School in Washington, offered private prayer after games and often was joined by players and coaches of both teams. An opposing coach complained, and Kennedy’s c…
Supreme Court blocks Biden’s workplace vaccine rules, allows requirement for health-care workers
The administration had argued both policies were needed to push more Americans to get vaccinated against the coronavirus but faced opposition from several Republican-led states and labor groups.