A succession of Trump policies reflected the administration’s spite and heartlessness.
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Tag Archives: Roberts, John G Jr
Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Fate of Affordable Care Act
A transformed court, with a six-justice conservative majority, will take a new look at the sprawling health care law.
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The Affordable Care Act Faces Another Supreme Court Test
Though the court’s conservative majority has been bolstered by three Trump appointees, the law’s challengers will face headwinds.
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The Supreme Court Is Now 6-3. What Does That Mean?
Will we see a cohesive conservative alliance? Or a disparate group of conservative justices?
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Has the Court Learned Nothing From Bush v. Gore?
Apparently not.
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In Voting Cases, Chief Justice Roberts Is Alone but in Control
While the chief justice’s views have not been fully endorsed by any of his colleagues, they have so far prevailed in five recent disputes, delivering victories to both Democrats and Republicans.
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Supreme Court to Let PA, NC Accept Absentee Ballots After Election Day
The pair of decisions were welcomed by Democrats. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was expected to cast a deciding vote, did not participate in either decision.
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Supreme Court Won’t Speed a Do-Over on Pennsylvania’s Ballot Deadlines
The court deadlocked last week in the same case, but Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in the second request for review.
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The Supreme Court Should Stay Out of State Election Law
Allowing federal courts to muck around with state election laws is dangerous and destabilizing.
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Amy Coney Barrett and the Republican Party’s Supreme Court
The quest to entrench political conservatism in the country’s highest court comes with a steep cost.
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What Does Amy Coney Barrett Mean for the Supreme Court?
We know who her allies are, and we know how to read what she’s written or signed.
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Deadlocked Supreme Court Allows Extra Time for Some Pennsylvania Ballots
A 4-to-4 tie let stand a ruling from Pennsylvania’s highest court that had extended the deadline for counting some mailed ballots by three days, citing the pandemic and postal delays.
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Federal Appeals Courts Emerge as Crucial for Trump in Voting Cases
Federal district courts have tended to rule for Democrats in litigation over how to run the election, but appeals courts, well stocked with the president’s nominees, are blocking them.
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New Supreme Court Term Could End Roberts’s Dominant Role
The possible addition of Judge Amy Coney Barrett could create “the Trump court,” pushing it rightward. Cases on the Affordable Care Act and religious objections to gay rights could offer early clues.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Meet Donald Trump
Over the past five days, we learned a lot about the president and his powers.
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Ginsburg Remembered as Champion of Justice as Struggle Continues Over Her Successor
Long lines of mourners waited outside the Supreme Court to pay their respects, but President Trump again made clear he would not honor her dying wish that filling her seat wait until the next president was chosen.
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An Open Supreme Court Seat Puts Obamacare on the Ballot
A Supreme Court case could eliminate the Affordable Care Act, and the president should be judged for recklessly supporting it.
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How the Religious Right Has Transformed the Supreme Court
The Roberts court has used the First Amendment to advance conservative Christian values.
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Ginsburg Expected to Lie in Repose at the Supreme Court
Plans for a commemoration and services have yet to be made final, but large crowds are expected to pay their respects for a justice who became a feminist icon and liberal hero.
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‘Without Delay,’ Trump Presses for New Supreme Court Justice
The president is likely to nominate a successor this coming week to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday, but Senate Republicans are weighing whether they have the votes to confirm his choice before the Nov. 3 election.
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Trump Presses for New Justice ‘Without Delay’ as Election-Season Battle Looms
The president is likely to nominate a successor this coming week to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday, but Senate Republicans are weighing whether they have the votes to confirm his choice before the Nov. 3 election.
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Justice Ginsburg’s Judicial Legacy of Striking Dissents
She was part of the Supreme Court’s 4-member liberal wing throughout her 27-year tenure and led it in her last decade.
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Why Trump’s Supreme Court Fantasy List Is Bad for Real Life
Listing potential justices may distort how we see the judiciary and how it behaves. Joe Biden should stick to “no names.”
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Why Only the Republicans Are Talking About Abortion
The G.O.P. convention featured an extreme anti-abortion activist. The Democrats mostly kept mum.
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Trump Must Turn Over Tax Returns to D.A., Judge Rules
A federal judge rejected the president’s argument that a subpoena seeking eight years of his tax returns was ‘wildly overbroad.’
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Trump Says Subpoena for His Tax Returns Is Illegal ‘Harassment’
The filing was the latest salvo in the battle between President Trump and the Manhattan district attorney, who has been investigating his business practices.
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The Supreme Court’s Religious Wing Takes on Covid-19 Restrictions
The fight over limits on church attendance divides the justices.
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Split 5 to 4, Supreme Court Rejects Nevada Church’s Challenge to Shutdown Restrictions
The church said it was subject to more severe limits than casinos and restaurants.
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A More Liberal Supreme Court? Not When It Comes to Voting Rights
In four rulings in a row, the court has refused to ease voting restrictions.
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Why Trump’s Attacks on John Roberts Aren’t Working With Some Conservatives
The Supreme Court has faded somewhat in importance as frustration with the president grows, according to Republicans in the Indiana county where the chief justice grew up.
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John Roberts’s Triumphant Supreme Court Term
Among them: Religion got a place at the public table long reserved for secular society.
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In a Term Full of Major Cases, the Supreme Court Tacked to the Center
Doling out victories to both sides, the court led by Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to strive to avoid charges of partisanship.
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A Conservative Court and Trump’s Own Appointees Declare Their Independence
The Supreme Court’s dismissal of President Trump’s claims of immunity was a reminder that institutional prerogatives still matter in Washington, even in a time of extreme partisanship.
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How a Conservative Supreme Court and Trump’s Appointees Declared Their Independence
The Supreme Court’s dismissal of President Trump’s claims of immunity was a reminder that institutional prerogatives still matter in Washington, even in a time of extreme partisanship.
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Conservatives, Don’t Give Up on Your Principles or the Supreme Court
Some are turning away from a founding idea, originalism.
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In the Supreme Court’s Trump Tax Ruling, Voters Lose
The justices reiterated that no president is above the law, but voters still won’t see his taxes before November.
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Don’t Be Fooled, Trump Is a Winner in the Supreme Court Tax Case
His taxes will probably not become public before the election. And that is what he most cares about.
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On Religion, the Supreme Court Protects the Right to Be Different
Recent decisions are about safeguarding pluralism, not taking sides in the culture wars.
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Chief Justice Roberts Was Hospitalized Last Month With a Head Injury
A court spokeswoman said the chief justice had fallen while walking for exercise and blamed dehydration.
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This Is the Real John Roberts
He is a judicial minimalist who seeks to avoid sweeping decisions with disruptive effects.
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How Chief Justice Roberts Solved His Abortion Dilemma
For the moment, the right to choose is safe. But the outlook is ominous.
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Progressives Begin New Push to Elevate Supreme Court as a Campaign Issue
The first step in the project is $2 million in ads in competitive states highlighting the consequences for the court if President Trump secures a second term.
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits on State Aid to Religious Schools
The case was the court’s latest on whether the Constitution allows the states to exclude religious groups from government programs.
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A Major Ruling on Abortion
Why the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law that required doctors performing the procedure to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
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John Roberts Was Already Chief Justice. But Now It’s His Court.
Chief Justice Roberts has replaced Justice Anthony M. Kennedy as the member of the Supreme Court at its ideological center, and his vote is now the crucial one in closely divided cases.
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How Not to Outlaw Abortion
The restiveness of abortion opponents is working against them.
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John Roberts Is No Pro-Choice Hero
The latest Supreme Court decision sets the stage for further attacks on abortion rights.
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Roberts to Trump: Don’t Take the Supreme Court for Granted
A week of decisions contained hidden and not-so-hidden messages from the court.
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Setback on Immigration Policy Goal Leaves Trump Fuming Over Makeup of Courts
The Supreme Court has given President Trump a new opening to rally his right-wing base by arguing that he needs another four years to stack the courts with conservative jurists.
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‘We Are Part of the Problem’
State supreme court judges are starting to grapple publicly with the racial injustices in the criminal justice systems they oversee.
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