MORGANTOWN – Sen. Joe Manchin has filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, supporting Mountain Valley Pipeline’s effort to have the court to lift a pair of stays […]
Tag: US Supreme Court
What is the future of gay rights?
by Noah Feldman The Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis, in which the court created a free-speech based exemption from the civil rights laws, is intended to give […]
Supreme Court’s term contained some surprising gifts for Democrats
by Jackie Calmes Even a broken clock is right twice a day, as the saying goes. The same lopsidedly right-wing Supreme Court that since June 2022 has overturned longtime precedents […]
A declaration of non-independence — for women
by Carla Hall If men could get pregnant, the saying goes, the Declaration of Independence might well have declared that all men are endowed with the right to life, liberty, […]
303 Creative decision opens the door to discrimination
by Elizabeth Sepper On the final day of Pride Month, the Supreme Court delivered a blow to gay rights. In 303 Creative vs. Elenis, the conservative supermajority on the court […]
Thriving, not just surviving
by Steven Roberts By barring the use of race in college admissions, the Supreme Court has focused attention on a critical question: Who gets into the most elite institutions of […]
Biden’s student debt overreach
Supreme Court had no choice but to knock down loan forgiveness program On the economic merits, we support President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel more than $400 billion in student […]
A step toward true equality: Supreme Court ends affirmative action
It may not have had the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation, or the civil rights legislation of the 1960s, but last week’s ruling by the Supreme Court that affirmative action […]
Supreme Court’s wise ruling on free speech and online threats
by Erwin Chemerinsky The Supreme Court long has said that “true threats” are not protected by the First Amendment, but what is a true threat? Although the issue is not […]
Supreme Court was sensibly conservative in tribal rights case
by Noah Feldman Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion for the Supreme Court in Haaland v. Brackeen is conservative in the good, old-fashioned sense of the word. In upholding the […]
