SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. Texas , a capital defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. On remand, the Texas court ruled that the inadequate counsel had not prejudiced Andrus.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court granted review on a case raising the question whether Andy Warhol paintings made using a copyrighted photograph were so “transformative” as to be a non-infringing “fair use.” Case in point: Texas v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 7, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court’s sprint to the end of the term continues. The court granted last week ’s one new relist, Wilkins v. This week’s conference marks the second of the court’s last four scheduled conferences.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Cochran , the justices will decide whether federal district courts have the power to consider claims challenging the constitutionality of the commission’s administrative law proceedings. That’s all for this week.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

A common misconception, perpetuated by popular television shows and movies, as well as the Sixth Amendment, is that everyone gets their day in court. The courts are not for landless laborers. Photo by Karen Neoh via Flickr. Plea bargaining coincided with overt classism in the legal system. DC: The law exists to protect capital.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On January 21, 2023, he hanged himself on death row at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas. Andrus’ decision to end his own life rather than allow the State of Texas to take it came roughly six months after the U.S. One man, 34-year-old Terence Andrus, decided not to wait for Jesus to forgive those who wanted his execution.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The statement seemed directed at Sotomayor’s three new colleagues and the effort to use the new court composition to seek the reduction or overturning of Roe v. Here is the column: In Wednesday’s Supreme Court oral argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to the Mississippi abortion law.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

On Meet the Press, Vice President Kamala Harris denounced the conservatives on the Supreme Court as “activists” due to their decision to overturn Roe v. This week, I had the honor of speaking at the annual judicial conference for the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. I think this is an activist court.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Supreme Court will consider one question: “Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective abortions are unconstitutional.” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and her team are urging the court to reverse Roe and return this issue to legislatures, the proper realm for policymaking.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Numerous groups attack the viability standard that the court adopted in Roe v. Trinity Legal Center and Catholic Medical Association, National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA, Idaho Chooses Life and Texas Alliance for Life make similar arguments. Against stare decisis. Amicus briefs supporting Mississippi.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Outside the Supreme Court building, crowds of demonstrators have gathered for today’s major argument in Dobbs v. More law clerks file in as the argument nears, filling almost every designated space, as the court is still requiring some degree of social distancing. Nowhere else does this court recognize a right to end a human life.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement from the Supreme Court at the end of this term will mark the end of an era. Both he and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — who untimely passed early in the 2020-21 term — shared similar ideological perspectives, approaches to judicial review, and paths to the Supreme Court. Like Blackmun in Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

The new balance of power on the court was on display before the term officially began, when the justices rejected a request to block enforcement of S.B. 8, a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state. The court’s third liberal, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, also dissented, though she did not join Roberts’ opinion.).

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Share When he ran for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump promised to nominate Supreme Court justices who would vote to end the constitutional right to an abortion. If the court were to overturn Roe and Casey , access to abortion in America would shrink dramatically and immediately. Katie Barlow).

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the Court’s most watched case this term on abortion rights. The oral argument is scheduled for December 1st, the same week that the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will hear an expedited appeal over the even more stringent Texas abortion law.

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Above The Law

MAY 16, 2025

Clayton County , the 2020 Supreme Court case ruling that it was illegal to discriminate against gay or trans people in the workplace under Title VII. Judge Kacsmaryk didn’t say he was overturning Bostock , which would be a weird thing for a district court judge to do. Stare decisis FTW. State of Texas v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

Share Justice Stephen Breyer, a devoted pragmatist and the senior member of the Supreme Court’s liberal wing, will retire from the court at the end of the 2021-22 term, NBC News reported on Wednesday. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit. appeals court judge named Ruth Bader Ginsburg to fill White’s seat.

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