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Court balloons court power

Posted by: Lyle Denniston

The Court balloons court power In a sweeping and historic new claim to judicial supremacy within the national government, a divided Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the courts – not federal agencies – have the last word on those agencies’ powers. Just because an agency’s grant of authority from Congress is ambiguous or unclear,… Read More

The Court and mass shootings

Posted by: Lyle Denniston

Mass shootings in America, continuing now nearly every day, most often involve a gunman with a grisly intent to kill as many people as rapidly as possible.  Congress is aware of that, but it has not yet found a way around the gun control lobby’s fervent protection of rapid-firing, high-volume weaponry.  On Wednesday, though, the… Read More

Lyle Denniston continues to write about the U.S. Supreme Court, although he “retired” at the end of 2019 following more than six decades on that news beat. He was there for three revolutions – civil rights, women’s rights, and gay rights – and the start of a fourth, on transgender rights. His career of following the law began at the Otoe County Courthouse in his hometown, Nebraska City, Nebraska, in the fall of 1948. His online, eight-week, college-level course – “The Supreme Court and American Politics” – is available from the University of Baltimore Law School, and it is free.

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