A crucial part of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s draft majority opinion dismantling the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe decision came at the back end, with a 31-page appendix detailing myriad state abortion bans in effect at the time the court ruled, including…
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Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson, first Black female Supreme Court justice
Senators forged a new milestone for America on Thursday, voting to elevate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the first Black woman to sit on the Supreme Court. Senate Democrats were joined by three Republicans in backing the judge, who won approval…
Art of the recusal: Supreme Court justices face calls not to hear certain cases
To sit or not to sit — that is the question Supreme Court justices are suddenly facing. Democrats are demanding Justice Clarence Thomas recuse himself from any cases dealing with the fallout from the 2020 election, including battles over the even…
Democrats confident of Jackson confirmation, accuse GOP of ‘conspiracy theories’ in hearings
Two days of headlines about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s sentencing decisions for child pornography offenders don’t appear to have derailed her path to the Supreme Court, according to Democrats who control her fate. “You will become …