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SCOTUS Rules Unanimously NCAA Violates Antitrust Law by Limiting Athlete Education Compensation

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 21, 2021 33 Comments

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Supreme Court loves it some Obamacare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 19, 2021 50 Comments

SCOTUS has performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions on Obamacare for almost a decade, including recently in California v. Texas. Alito Dissent: "No one can fail to be impressed by the lengths to which this Court has been willing to go to defend the ACA...

Democrats Renew Push for Justice Stephen Breyer to Retire

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 17, 2021 73 Comments

Demand Justice, the progressive activist group headed by former Hillary Clinton campaign aide Brian Fallon, is renewing its calls for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire. They desperately want Joe Biden to be able to appoint a younger justice, presumably someone much further to the left.

SCOTUS Unanimously Sides With Catholic Foster Agency in Dispute Over Gay Couples

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 17, 2021 13 Comments

"CSS seeks only an accommodation that will allow it to continue serving the children of Philadelphia in a manner consistent with its religious beliefs; it does not seek to impose those beliefs on anyone else."...

SCOTUS Upholds Obamacare 7-2 With Kavanaugh, Barrett Joining the Majority

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 17, 2021 63 Comments

Breyer said the plaintiffs, including 18 states, "failed to show that they have standing to attack as unconstitutional the Act’s minimum essential coverage provision."...

Mitch McConnell Did The Nation A Great Favor By Keeping Merrick Garland Off The Supreme Court

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 16, 2021 71 Comments

If there were a scintilla of doubt that McConnell did the nation a great favor, that doubt should have been put to rest during Garland's June 15, 2021, speech on "Violent Extremism and Domestic Terrorism." The ideological purge will make Lois Lerner blush....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNPCqcsInQ

McConnell: I’ll Block Biden SCOTUS Appointment in 2024 (and Maybe 2023) If I’m Majority Leader

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2021 45 Comments

Says "it’s highly unlikely. In fact, no, I don’t think either party, if it controlled [the Senate], if it were [a] different [party] from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of an election. What was different in 2020 was we...

Supreme Court Delays Whether To Review Harvard Anti-Asian Discrimination Case, Seeks Biden Admin Position

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 14, 2021 33 Comments

"The Acting Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States"...

Biden’s SCOTUS Packing Commission Convenes First Meeting, Gets Trashed by Hillary Aide

Posted by Mike LaChance on May 21, 2021 14 Comments

Joe Biden's 'Supreme Court Commission' held its first meeting this week. Democrats and the media are selling it as a commission to study reform, but we all know this is just the Biden administration's way of testing the waters on packing the court with progressive justices.

SCOTUS Will Hear Challenge to Mississippi Abortion Law

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 17, 2021 51 Comments

The Supreme Court agreed to hear Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which asks if "all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional."

Supreme Court Agrees To Hear 2nd Amendment Case Over NY Restrictions On Concealed Carry

Posted by Cody Wisniewski on April 26, 2021 49 Comments

New York’s discretionary consideration makes it all but impossible for law-abiding Americans to receive a permit to carry a firearm concealed in New York....

Bipartisan Group Seeks to Add Constitutional Amendment to Keep Supreme Court at Nine Justices

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 25, 2021 22 Comments

Now that Democrats are actively pushing to pack the U.S. Supreme Court, there is growing opposition. One bipartisan group is even trying to add an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to permanently limit the number of judges on the court to nine.

Alan Dershowitz: Packing Supreme Court Would be a ‘Disaster’ for the Court, Due Process, Free Speech

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 18, 2021 21 Comments

Democrats are actively looking for a way to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with four additional, presumably liberal, justices. Biden has even launched a committee to study the issue. Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says this would be a disaster in many ways.

Joe Biden’s Supreme Court Commission Includes ‘Army’ of College Professors Open to Court Expansion

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 17, 2021 6 Comments

"heavily staffed by legal professors with revisionist views on the nation’s top judicial body"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HvswsAcZvc

Democrats preparing legislation to pack Supreme Court, adding four new Justices

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 14, 2021 83 Comments

"The bill would add four seats to the high court, bringing the total to 13, from the current 9"...

Supreme Court lifts California’s COVID ban on household religious gatherings

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 11, 2021 17 Comments

This February, Professor Jacobson reported that the U.S. Supreme Court issued an Order partially enjoining California’s total ban on indoor church services, but leaving in place restrictions on “singing and chanting” during services.

Progressives Going After Justice Breyer For Warning Against Packing U.S. Supreme Court

Posted by Mike LaChance on April 10, 2021 32 Comments

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has warned against the idea of packing the court and the left is not happy. Democrats and progressive activists learned a painful lesson with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and they don't want to go through that again. So now some of them are demanding that Breyer retire immediately, while Democrats control everything. This all began after Breyer gave a lecture at Harvard Law School last week.

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