Supreme Court

Supreme Court Hands Trump a Historic Win in Immunity Case

By Yuval Rosenberg

Welcome to July! It’s only the first of the month, but we’ve already got fireworks going off in the nation’s capital, where the Supreme Court handed down a landmark 6-3 ruling , decided along...
Why Big Banks Could Still Pay a Big Price for the Housing Crisis

By Rob Garver

In a piece of moderately good news for cities where the bursting of the housing bubble of the last decade devastated local real estate values and the municipal tax base, the Supreme Court has opened...
The Threatened Gorsuch Filibuster Will Backfire on Democrats for a Long Time

By Liz Peek

The Donnybrook over the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court makes it clear: the Extreme Left has hijacked the Democratic Party. That’s a tragedy for Democrats, and for the country.
McConnell Prepared to Invoke ‘Nuclear Option’ to Confirm Gorsuch

By Eric Pianin

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) vowed on Sunday that – one way or another – the Senate will confirm President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court by the end of...
The Gorsuch Vote Will Show the Democrats Can’t Govern, Either

By Edward Morrissey

Senate Democrats had come under severe pressure from progressive activist groups to find a reason to block Gorsuch’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, part of a strategy of “resistance” to the Trump...

Appeals Court Rules Against Trump on Travel Ban

By Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post

A federal appeals court has maintained the freeze on President Trump’s controversial immigration order, meaning previously barred refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries can...
Pence Does Damage Control After Trump’s Embarrassing Judicial Setbacks

By Eric Pianin

The administration on Sunday attempted to put a positive face on a weekend of embarrassing judicial setbacks that at least temporarily put President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban on...
Trump May Be the First Test Case for His Own Supreme Court Nominee

By Rob Garver

It cannot have been an easy weekend for Judge Neil Gorsuch. At a time that ought to be one of the high points of his life, one wonders if the Colorado jurist tapped by President Trump to fill the...
Republicans Exhale With Trump’s Supreme Court Choice of Gorsuch

By Edward Morrissey

“Think of the Supreme Court,” the Republican Party repeatedly urged skeptics of Donald Trump during the general election in 2016. Conservatives who found themselves lost at sea in a cycle dominated...
Trump’s SCOTUS Nomination: One Way or the Other, This Ends Badly

By Rob Garver

No matter how it turns out, the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court will end with one of the two major parties claiming that they have been grossly mistreated, and insisting that...

Conservative Support Grows to Block Clinton SCOTUS Nominees

By Rob Garver

As it becomes all but crystal clear that Hillary Clinton will be the next president and have the opportunity to fill multiple seats on the Supreme Court, which would cement a liberal majority on the...
Illegal Immigration: High Court Ruling Likely Won’t Affect Deportation Rate

By Rob Garver

In an election year when enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws has been a topic of constant controversy, advocates of harsher enforcement will surely be cheered by the announcement today that...
Ginsburg’s Fury Shows Just How Much Trump Has Changed Politics

By Ciro Scotti

There was a time when military officers would rather be water-boarded than talk publicly about politics. And there was a time when sitting justices of the United States Supreme Court would no more...
It Just Got a Little Easier to Be a Crooked Politician

By Ciro Scotti

The unanimous Supreme Court decision Monday overturning the federal corruption conviction of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell may have far-reaching repercussions for the pay-to-play culture of...
The Long-term Menace of a Hillary Win: Decades of a Liberal Supreme Court

By Liz Peek

Any day now the Supreme Court will rule on President Obama’s go-it-alone executive action protecting millions of undocumented persons against deportation. However it comes down, the decision will...

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