Bypassing all lower courts, the state of Texas is moving directly in the Supreme Court with what may be the boldest constitutional challenge in the history of presidential elections: stop four other states from casting their electoral votes for Joe Biden next Monday. Texas’s aim emerged clearly in scores of pages of legal documents. It… Read More

The Supreme Court continues on Tuesday its “live” broadcasts of the audio portion of its hearings on pending cases. The first case, dealing with Facebook as a target of a robocall lawsuit, marks the second time in recent months that the Court has explored the scope of the 1991 ban on robocalling. The second case… Read More

Continuing its “live” broadcasts of the audio portion of its hearings, the Supreme Court will be spending Monday morning on two major cases with potentially major impact on United States relations with foreign nations.  The governments of Hungary and Germany are seeking to block lawsuits against them in U.S. courts, for property seizures or transfers… Read More

The Supreme Court finishes up this week’s hearings with a single, one-hour review of an important issue on the constitutional rule that juries must vote unanimously in order to convict someone of a serious crime.  The hearing’s audio portion is expected to be broadcast “live” at C-SPAN.org/supremecourt Hearing begins at 10 a.m.: Edwards v. Vannoy… Read More

Continuing with its remote hearings by telephone, with the “live” broadcasts of the audio portion, the Supreme Court on Tuesday will look into child slavery in Africa and into a federal tax dispute that has its origins back in the Civil War era.  The broadcasts are expected to be available online at C-SPAN.org/supreme court First… Read More

The Supreme Court resumes its public hearings tomorrow, opening a week of lawyers’ debates in five cases. The most important dispute is coming up first on Monday. It involves a long-running controversy over who gets counted in the census. The second hearing of the day involves legal limits on computer searches on the Internet. The… Read More

At three minutes before midnight last night, a new Supreme Court emerged: a 5-4 majority with the most conservative Justices clearly in control. For the first time, the newest Justice, Amy Coney Barrett, cast the deciding fifth vote to make a majority. In 33 pages of judicial writing, some of it quite ill-tempered, the ruling… Read More

Even though tomorrow is election day across America, the Supreme Court will be at work as usual, with the nine Justices hearing two new cases, including a case that brings up a familiar theme: how severely may states punish juveniles who commit the most serious crimes?  The audio portion of the hearings can be heard… Read More

With Justice Amy Coney Barrett now a member of the Supreme Court, the full bench of nine Justices resumes this week its “live” broadcasts of the audio portion of its hearings on pending cases.  Because of the pandemic, the hearings are remote, not in-person. No matter how new a Justice is to the bench, they… Read More

The Supreme Court is back in (remote) session on Monday, and will again allow “live” broadcasts of its hearings on pending cases.  This time, the hearings will be before nine Justices, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett taking part for the first time.  Issues of religious freedom, and Justice Barrett’s own work in the past in… Read More