Lyle Denniston

Mar 1 2015

Now, the third leg of the health-care stool

A version of this post appears on scotusblog.com Five years ago, when Congress finished writing nearly a thousand pages that would become the new national health-care law, it was well aware that the finished product would be subject to strong challenges.  The Affordable Care Act was passed in both houses with not one Republican lawmaker voting for it. … Read More

Jan 20 2015

On same-sex marriage, what is settled, what is not

Reprinted from Constitution Daily, the blog of the National Constitution Center, Philadelphia By Lyle Denniston, adviser on constitutional literacy to the National Constitution Center

Jan 20 2015

Argument analysis: Running for a court seat, tin cup in hand?

Analysis
Florida used to have a tawdry reputation for corrupt judges, but one of the state’s key remedies for that may have gone too far.  That, at least, was the impression that emerged from an hour of argument Tuesday on the constitutional…

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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