#Justices

Nicholas Bagley

nicholas_bagley

It's a conventional rhetorical move to characterize Congress and the White House as the "political branches." But that implicitly suggests that the Supreme Court is not also a political branch

Tomi T Ahonen Standing With Ukraine

tomiahonen

Lets talk SCOTUS & Judges#MoscowMitch McConnell started with Merrick Garland delay, and also denied over 100 Obama district court nominees. He has altered the balance of the courts in unfair

Matthew C. Billips

Matt_Billips

@KamalaHarris I have a proposal for fixing our overworked federal judiciary. Obviously, this is something for the new administration to handle, but the Supreme Court has reported every year that

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

The number of attempts by the GOP in recent years to pack or shrink the size of state supreme courts is incredible.https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6705&context=faculty_scholarship 2016: Along a party line vo

Steven Mazie

stevenmazie

BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with Republicans to block voting accommodations in Wisconsin. The vote is 5-3. Justices Kagan, Breyer and Sotomayor dissent. Unlike recent emergency orders, the justices file 35

⚓️🚢Imani Gandy 🚢⚓️

AngryBlackLady

It is baffling to me that people think that RBG should’ve retired a decade ago when she was 76 years old and that her not doing so was somehow arrogant

Undercover Huber

JohnWHuber

A total of 61 SCOTUS justices have been nominated and confirmed to the Supreme Court since the turn of the last century (1900)70% of these (43 Justices) were confirmed in

Marty Lederman

marty_lederman

I think Lyle is exactly right here. This wasn't a decision on the merits, and we should assume that when the Court grants cert. and reaches the merits just before

Dana Aliya Levinson

DanaALevinson

THREAD: Something I think is getting lost in all this is, our institutions (just barely) did hold back an authoritarian onslaught like this country hasn’t seen in the modern era.

William Eskridge

EskridgeBill

Although voting to deny review in a case arising out of the refusal of County Clerk Kim Davis to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples five years ago, Justices Thomas

southpaw

nycsouthpaw

Supreme Court won’t lift the 11th Circuit’s stay, meaning excons who haven’t paid their court fees wont be able to vote. Three dissenting justices say it “prevents thousands of otherwise

AlmostExMerc

AlmostExMerc

@TheRickWilson The interpretive power of justices and judges is negligible relative to the inherent power of constitution conforming and otherwise well-crafted law. McConnell's legacy will be made all but moot

Rohan

RohanMadaan12

This election is so important because 2 supreme court justices are in their 80s and will likely be replaced. If trump is relected and given 2 seats to fill on

Matthew C. Billips

Matt_Billips

Our federal judiciary is overworked and understaffed. Here is my solution.Split the 9th Circuit into the 9th and 12th Circuits. Add enough appellate and District judges to bring the 9th

Trick Dacy

SadGumby

I’m so glad I quit working for @Target when I did. Anybody who works there and is aware at all already knows they’ve got a problem with racism built into

Mark Joseph Stern

mjs_DC

Ian is right—tonight’s order from the Supreme Court is terrifying. Four conservative justices supported a radical theory that would empower state legislatures to violate election laws and engage in voter