Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill in unanimous ruling
The Supreme Court unanimously rejected a petition to tighten restrictions on access to mifepristone, one of a combination of two drugs commonly used in abortions. In a 9-0 decision written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court concluded that the anti-abortion doctors who brought the case lacked standing to challenge the Food and Drug Administration’s […]
Unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Racine mobile voting van, keep polling places
Conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court say an order banning mobile voting vans in Racine County while leaving other polling places in the city, which are heavily Democratic, open is meaningless. The liberal-majority court unanimously ruled that Racine and other Wisconsin cities cannot use vans to collect ballots. A Racine County judge said the same […]
Republicans block bill requiring Supreme Court to adopt enforceable ethics code
Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican senators on Wednesday blocked a bill that would have required the Supreme Court to adopt a code of conduct and create a mechanism to enforce it, following several high-profile controversies. The bill, the Supreme Court Ethics, Challenge and […]
McConnell blasts Democrats’ attempts to undermine Supreme Court
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Democrats’ recent attempts to undermine the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have come under concentrated attack from Democrats in recent years, with such scrutiny intensifying after the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, […]
Durbin looks to force Supreme Court ethics bill vote amid Alito controversy
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) plans to try to force a vote Wednesday night on a Democratic-backed Supreme Court ethics bill amid the recent grilling of Justice Samuel Alito and renewed calls for conservative judges to recuse themselves from former President Trump’s immunity lawsuit. Durbin will lead the Judiciary Committee’s Democratic Senators Sheldon […]
Ocasio-Cortez, Raskin to introduce legislation to 'rein in a fundamentally unaccountable and rogue' Supreme Court
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said Tuesday they would introduce the bill in response to growing ethics concerns about the Supreme Court. Ocasio-Cortez and Raskin, who serve as the ranking and deputy ranking members, respectively, of the House Oversight Committee, appeared at a committee roundtable on Tuesday to discuss those […]
Democrats see Supreme Court leverage in spending bills
Senate Democratic leaders see the Supreme Court’s annual budget bill as a way to force Supreme Court Justice John Roberts into ethics reforms in the wake of the controversy surrounding conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. Specifically, some Democrats want to tie the Supreme Court’s budget to the judges’ adoption of an ethics rule […]
Supreme Court to consider Meta bid to end Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal lawsuit
The Supreme Court will consider Meta’s request to halt a class action lawsuit filed by investors against the company in connection with the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, the court announced on Monday. The lawsuit centers on investors’ allegations that Facebook’s parent company failed to disclose how Facebook users’ personal information was being misused by […]
Left-leaning Judge Susan Crawford launches Wisconsin Supreme Court bid
Liberal Judge Susan Crawford has entered the race to be on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and replace the longest-serving current justice on the state’s highest court. Crawford, who is serving as a judge at the Dane County Circuit Court, will run to replace liberal-leaning Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, who has served on Wisconsin’s high court […]
Where are the checks and balances against the Supreme Court?
There was a time when Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to care about the integrity of the U.S. Supreme Court and the trust of the American people. But that is clearly not the case anymore. Last year, ProPublica Breaking News The revelations about two judges who received favors from billionaires but failed to report them […]