Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, and Lewis Powell—all appointed by Republican presidents—started out as supporters of capital punishment. Their decades-long study of capital cases made them see things differently.
The Supreme Court has upheld federal subsidies for health care under the Affordable Care Act, a decision that affects millions of Americans in 34 states.
"The trial of peaceful reformers in a terrorism court underlines the political nature of this court."
On March 9, 1964, a unanimous Supreme Court reversed a libel verdict against The New York Times in a case brought by Alabama officials who complained about a civil rights advertisement in the paper. The First Amendment, thankfully, hasn't been the same since.
Equal protection, age discrimination, and campaign finance are on the menu—and that’s just for October.
So said Senator Lindsey Graham on Fox News Sunday. The Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh “will give great deference to Roe v. Wade,” Graham predicted. “But it can be overturned, like every other decision.”
HB2 doesn’t just repeal LGBT civil-rights laws; it bars passing new ones. The Supreme Court calls that “animus.”