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6 days ago · SCOTUS NEWS Court to hear case on second majority-Black district in Louisiana. By Amy Howe on Nov. 4 at 11:27 a.m.. The justices announced that they will hear arguments in the latest iteration of a dispute over whether Louisiana’s redistricting plan, which created a second majority-Black district earlier this year, is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and illegally sorted voters ...
Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal ...
Jun 28, 2024 · Friday’s ruling came in one of three cases during the 2023-24 term seeking to curtail the power of federal agencies – a conservative effort sometimes dubbed the “war on the administrative state.”. In October, the court heard arguments in a challenge to the constitutionality of the mechanism used to fund the consumer watchdog Consumer ...
Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard ...
Oct 31, 2022 · This case is no longer consolidated with No. 21-707, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of NC, et al., and one hour is allotted for oral argument. Justice Jackson took no part in the consideration of this order. Jul 25 2022. Brief of respondent President and Fellows of Harvard College filed.
The certiorari process: Seeking Supreme Court review
This election explainer was written by Amy Howe.It is part of SCOTUSblog’s 2020 Election Litigation Tracker, a joint project with Election Law at Ohio State.. When the losing side in a case decided by a federal court of appeals (or a state’s highest court) wants the Supreme Court to weigh in, it files a brief (known as a “petition for certiorari” or a “cert petition”) asking the ...
The Supreme Court and the president’s pardon power
on Jan 1, 2021 at 3:38 pm. Correction appended. The Constitution gives the president the power “to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of impeachment.”. In the days before Christmas, President Donald Trump used this power to pardon or commute the sentences of over 40 people, including Paul ...
Obergefell v. Hodges - SCOTUSblog
Apr 28, 2015 · Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs, in support of either party or of neither party, received from counsel for respondents Hodges, et al., in No. 14-556. VIDED. Feb 27 2015. Joint appendix for No. 14-556, 14-562 & 14-574 filed (2 volumes). VIDED. Feb 27 2015. Brief of petitioners James Obergefell, et al. filed.
Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs in college ...
Jun 29, 2023 · In a historic decision, the Supreme Court severely limited, if not effectively ended, the use of affirmative action in college admissions on Thursday. By a vote of 6-3, the justices ruled that the admissions programs used by the University of North Carolina and Harvard College violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause, which bars ...
Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo - SCOTUSblog
Jan 17, 2024 · Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including February 16, 2023. Brief of respondents Gina Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. in opposition filed. DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/24/2023. Reply of petitioners Loper Bright Enterprises, et al. filed.
Smith v. Arizona - SCOTUSblog
Jan 10, 2024 · Smith v. Arizona. Holding: When an expert conveys an absent lab analyst’s statements in support of the expert’s opinion, and the statements provide that support only if true, then the statements come into evidence for their truth, and thus implicate the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause. Judgment: Vacated and remanded, 9-0, in an ...
Biographies of the Justices - SCOTUSblog
Chief Justice John Glover Roberts Jr. was born on January 27, 1955. He graduated from Harvard College in 1976, and Harvard Law School, where he was managing editor of the Harvard Law Review, in 1979. Roberts clerked for Judge Henry Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and for then-Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist.