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How The Supreme Court Is Destroying Its Own Legitimacy

Justice John Roberts said in his confirmation hearing that he is like an umpire, not a batter. Justice Neil Gorsuch said that justices are not ...

Legal scholarship highlight: When lower courts don't follow Supreme ...

When dissenting judges say that lower-court majorities haven't followed Supreme Court precedent, they're throwing shade.

The Supreme Court's Overruling of Constitutional Precedent

the Court can maintain stability in the law by adhering to precedent under the doctrine of stare decisis while correcting decisions that rest on ...

Why the Supreme Court Should Decide Its Cases Unanimously

In addition, (4) unanimous decision-making is more faithful than majority voting to the original intent of the Framers, (5) it is consistent with Supreme Court ...

22-451 Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (06/28/2024)

Held: The Administrative Procedure Act requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its ...

Supreme Court Procedures | United States Courts

Most of the cases the Supreme Court hears are appeals from lower courts. Writs of Certiorari. Parties who are not satisfied with the decision of a lower court ...

The Supreme Court Political Question Doctrine - FindLaw

The political question doctrine allows courts to avoid issues better handled by Congress or the president. It maintains the separation of powers.

ArtIII.S1.7.2.2 Stare Decisis Doctrine Generally

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and ...

Evaluating the Supreme Court: Harvard Law faculty weigh in on ...

Below, faculty offer their thoughts on some of the biggest cases and point to some clear winners and losers from the Supreme Court's October 2023 term.

Statement of the Court Regarding the Code of Conduct

For the most part these rules and principles are not new: The Court has long had the equivalent of common law ethics rules, that is, a body of ...

The Supreme Court and the Sophisticated Use of DIGs

On rare occasions, the Court will dismiss a writ of certiorari as improvidently granted, or DIG the case. The DIG process has received relatively little ...

Supreme Court rules states can't kick Trump off the ballot - NBC News

The Supreme Court overturned a Colorado court ruling that Donald Trump was ineligible to run for office again because of his actions leading ...

Supreme Court Term Limits | Brennan Center for Justice

No other major democracy in the world provides life tenure for high court judges who hear constitutional cases.

“Chevron is Overruled” Supreme Court decision upends the era of ...

The US Supreme Court's ruling on the Chevron doctrine in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (Loper), will profoundly impact multiple industries regulated ...

23-939 Trump v. United States (07/01/2024) - Supreme Court

Trump moved to dismiss the indictment based on Presidential immunity, arguing that a President has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution ...

The Judicial Branch | whitehouse.gov - Obama White House

Even the number of Supreme Court Justices is left to Congress — at times there have been as few as six, while the current number (nine, with one Chief Justice ...

About Section 5 Of The Voting Rights Act - Department of Justice

The Shelby County decision. On June 25, 2013, the United States Supreme Court held that it is unconstitutional to use the coverage formula in ...

Who Can Stop The Supreme Court? | FiveThirtyEight

Congress and the president have historically reined in the justices when they've gone against public opinion.

Article III Standing – EPIC – Electronic Privacy Information Center

Article III of the US Constitution provides that federal courts have jurisdiction over “Cases” and “Controversies” arising under federal law.

Code of Conduct for United States Judges

The Code of Conduct for United States Judges includes the ethical canons that apply to federal judges and provides guidance on their performance of official ...