by Jackie Calmes On this, Donald Trump didn’t lie. As a presidential candidate in 2016, he said he’d name as many as three anti-abortion justices to the Supreme Court, tipping its fragile balance for upholding Roe v. Wade to favor overturning it. “That’s what will ...
by Noah Feldman A day after the Constitution-flouting Texas anti-abortion law went into effect, a divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that it won’t block the law before it can grapple with a concrete case that tests it in practice. The five most conservative justices agreed ...
by Harry Litman The new Supreme Court conservative supermajority has already radically changed notions of law in some pockets of America. For proof, look no further than the brief that the state of Mississippi filed last week in the most closely watched abortion case in a generation, ...
by Robin Abcarian I was not expecting Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be the voice of reason on the federal government’s continuing and inane classification of cannabis as a dangerous drug with no currently accepted medical use. But there he was late last month, the ...
by Cal Thomas Is there anyone who can say what is always right and always wrong and present an unchanging standard by which all behavior can be judged? I raise the question in light of last week’s non-ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined for a second time to hear an ...
by Paul M. Collins Jr. and Artemus Ward Pressure on Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to step down will likely grow now that the court’s session has ended. Breyer, 82, joined the court in 1994. His retirement would allow President Joe Biden to nominate his successor and give ...