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President Donald Trump took over primetime TV on Monday night to unveil his latest Supreme Court nominee, selecting federal judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the nation’s highest court. Trump prefaced the reveal with a brief address, saying that like President Reagan before him, he was looking for “judges who apply the Constitution as written.” […]
Reuters/Eric Thayer President Donald Trump has said he’ll select his Supreme Court nominee on Monday, July 9. Trump will choose from his 25-member shortlist, and has narrowed it down to five candidates. Trump is reportedly looking for his nominee to possess three key qualities. President Donald Trump is little more than one week from deciding […]
Published time: 27 Jun, 2018 18:19 Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring from the US Supreme Court. His departure means the country’s highest court is likely to become more conservative, as President Donald Trump will get to appoint Kennedy’s replacement. Kennedy, 81, has served on the court since 1988. Though nominated by the Republican President Ronald […]
Enlarge / The Supreme Court of the United States, as seen in 2017. (credit: Phil Roeder / Flickr) Christmas came on Friday, June 22 this year—that is, if you’re a privacy and surveillance law nerd. After deliberating the decision for months, the Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Carpenter v. United States, a case […]
Enlarge / Under the Federal Circuit appeals court, patent law swung from software patent skepticism in the 1970s to extreme permissiveness in the 1990s, then started to swing back toward skepticism with stricter Supreme Court oversight. (credit: Federal Circuit Historical Society / Aurich Lawson) Forty years ago this week, in the case of Parker v. Flook, […]
National Gallery of Singapore. The only Singaporean presence at the first-ever discussions between United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was a historic tabl0, previously used by the Supreme Court of Singapore. The table was part of a suite of bespoke furniture designed in 1939 by local craftsmen for the Supreme Court. […]
Seven Supreme Court of Canada judges have agreed with the legal team of a former Alberta couple, Collet and David Stephan, that the trial judge erred in instructions to the 2016 jury who convicted the couple in the death of their toddler son.
Associated Press/Andrew Harnik The Supreme Court made two major exceptions to its rules on Wednesday to accommodate oral arguments for President Donald Trump’s travel ban. The justices allowed audio of oral arguments to be released on the same day, and granted the plaintiff’s lawyer extra time. The moves indicate how significant the case is, and […]
Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is the latest in a line of public figures under attack from the media for criticizing the survivors of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting. Thomas shared several posts on her Facebook page, including one that depicted a pile of shoes from Holocaust victims. The […]
AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has heard 60 cases in his first year as President Donald Trump’s pick for the high court. His written opinions, oral argument questions, and scant public statements reveal the kind of justice he’ll be. As the junior justice on the court, he’s also responsible for “cafeteria […]
