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...

Four Little Words That Could Kill Obamacare

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

Right now, the U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether to hear a case that could have devastating implications for Obamacare and hundreds of thousands of people currently receiving health insurance...
Obamacare Subsidies Could Still Face Supreme Court

By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

While a federal circuit court delivered some potentially good news for Obamacare on Thursday by throwing out an earlier ruling against the administration in the case of Halbig V. Burwell, some legal...
Harry Reid’s Silly Ploy to Fight the Hobby Lobby Ruling

By Edward Morrissey

More than a week has gone by since the Supreme Court issued its 5-4 decision on Hobby Lobby et al , but the hysterical reaction to it has continued and amplified, especially on Capitol Hill. Backers...
Why Obamacare As We Know It May Not Survive

By Eric Pianin

Harvard University legal scholar Laurence Tribe warned on Tuesday of a “very high risk” that Obamacare’s government subsidies could fall victim to a major legal challenge being mounted by...
How Barack Obama Amazed His Harvard Law Professor

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice : The Roberts Court and the Constitution , says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a...

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